Hey Squad Members!
New Number Ones is back! Did you miss us? We missed you. After a too long hiatus this regular column returns to your feed. Comics has continued without this weekly primer on the new debut issues, but we want to share the new comics with our readers and point out the cool stuff coming out each week.
Each week we bring you the list of new series and special editions coming this Wednesday. We are highlighting what you need to put in your cart at the comic shop or digital marketplace.
This week, there is not a huge list, but it is filled with interesting book after interesting book.
We have an alphabetical list with cover art and the official solicitation text from the publishers of some of the cool new comics that are coming out this week. Check below for our PCS NOTES to find out what we just have to tell you about the new comics in question.
We have books on this week’s list from: Marvel Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Dynamite Entertainment, Fantagraphics Books, Titan Comics, and Image Comics.
We will bring you reviews of these debut issues as they come out, and don’t forget to use the comments section to let us know what you think of this list.
New Series
New One-Shots and Special Editions
New Series This Week
Concrete: Stars Over Sand #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Paul Chadwick
Art by Chadwick
Cover Art by Chadwick
The Eisner, Harvey and Reuben Award-winning Concrete is back with a 5-part story of amnesia, wilderness, and suspense.
Concrete has entered the desert and not come back. Larry and Maureen are frantic. Reports come that he is wandering the nearby arid mountains, covered with blood, attacking people. Concrete, lightning-struck, confused, roams a frightening world he can’t understand. Roars tear across the sky. A strange globe rises. His body is sheathed in stone. He thinks he is being hunted. People are a threat.
His journey back to life, and his friends’ dire search against a looming deadline, is as strange and tense as any Concrete story ever told.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: What an amazing gift to have in the return of this column. New Concrete comics is a massive event in the medium. We are so excited to see what this comic has to offer new and old fans.
Gun Honey: Doubles Down #1
Titan Comics
Written by Charles Ardai
Art by Ang Hor Kheng & Asifur Rahman
Letters by David Leach
Cover Art by Stanley Lau
When a botched attack on the dictator of Russia sends three identical-looking men fleeing Moscow for Siberia, Finland, and the Black Sea, Gun Honey Joanna Tan is offered $10 million to separate the real target from his doubles — and make sure the right man dies.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: This property has always been entertaining. That is because of the subversion of Charles Ardai imbedding smart crime stories in the trappings of an eye-candy comic book. We look forward to more.
Hellboy in Love: Obsidian #1
Dark Horse Comics
Written by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden
Art by Alex Nieto
Letters by Clem Robbins
Cover Art by Nieto
Anastasia is called to Crete when an excavation team unearths a tomb with striking similarities to the engraved skull stolen from her by a witch in India. The trail for proof of the mysterious Suaren Artea society may not have gone as cold as she thought, but danger still lurks behind every turn.
Release Date: June 17, 2026
PCS NOTES: Another classic creator-owned character returns this week with a new story. The Hellboy in Love comics have been a lot of fun and this looks like more of the same. Continue reading “New Number Ones: New Comics Series and Specials Coming for the Week of 6/17/2026”
I’ve been enjoying Titan’s new Conan comics more than I ever expected to. For me, it all started with speaking to Jim Zub at the SDCC a couple of years ago. His enthusiasm for the project was palpable. The monthly series is brilliant. It has just enough nostalgia to reel readers in, and then blows your mind with stories exploring topics like “Does Conan believe in God?”
There’s a few hidden gems in here including :
EC gets all the credit and all the love. All those creepy titles, spectacular artists and reprint upon reprint. I know, I get it. I love ‘em all and have read so many of my favorite stories in so many formats over the years. Earlier this year, I snagged a copy of The Spawn of Venus, another wonderful hardcover (also published by Fantagraphics) that reprints more Wally Wood EC work.
Want to get the gears rolling with younger readers? Girl Rebels is an inspirational collection of five short comic stories about amazing young women. You might know Greta Thunberg, the young environmental activist. This book includes four more courageous stories in a similar vein.
Word Balloon Podcast is the long-running comics conversation show. John Siuntres books the most interesting pop culture professionals and engages them in meaty conversations. This one is the unofficial podcast of my commute. Look for Word Balloon Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.
It’s hard to buy manga for manga lovers. What do they already have? What have they read already? Welcome to Ghost Mansion just started. I’m not an expert in this genre, but the first two volumes look pretty cool.
Goblin Den is a ribald (as we used to say) adventure from a Brazilian erotic creator called Sabu. I really like his loose, cartoony style. A fun gift for an adult fantasy reader (18+). And I find that every book from this publisher, Korero, is impressive. Goblin Den is billed as a limited edition portfolio.
Christmas in the Batcave is a delightful children’s (all ages?) book with the extended Bat-Family (including Batgirl, Damian, Red Hood, Dick – the whole gang in current comics continuity) that’s an awful lot of fun. I can’t wait to read to a granddaughter or two.
Ever since I was gifted part of the William G. Martin collection, I’ve been really into the comic strip Nancy. (Exhibit A is 
This new Fantagraphics Books edition is smart and sassy. It’s not oversized and somehow that feels just right. I would even say there is a subtle rhythm to presenting this collection that the editor nailed. Most of the book consists of three strips to a page, but every now-and-again: Bam! A four panel strip is taking up a whole page. These make you pause and smirk all the harder.
This is the type of book that I’ll be eager to share with my cool, hip friends. But at the same time, I can’t wait to read it to my soon-to-be-visiting granddaughter, Lula. She’s only five, but she’s subversive and sneaky, so I think she’ll instantly “get Nancy”. Maybe better than I do.
Rian Hughes is brilliant in many ways: as a designer, as an entrepreneur, and increasingly as the guy who turns us all onto cool new things! A couple of years ago he wowed us all with his Rayguns & Rocketships book – celebrating the early days of UK Science Fiction illustration. I raved about that one 
