It’s New Comic Book Day! PopCultHQ has compiled a list of new releases from indie publishers that we think are must reads and ones to watch. Check out our top picks, read up on each one’s synopsis, and if you click on any cover photo, you’ll be able to purchase them before your LCS opens! Plus they also carry many of the variant covers for some of these issues (even the retailer incentives!).
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451 MEDIA GROUP
Writer: Dylan Mulick & Stephanie Salyers
Art: Leila Leiz
Cover: Leila Leiz
Cover Price: $3.99
Is this party over before it started? Never say never in NVRLND. With Wendy thrown off the roof, Peter unconscious on the back of Tink’s motorcycle, and a whole gang of blood-thirsty pirates barreling down Mulholland Drive, it’s hard to imagine this scene getting any worse. However, now that Hook has Peter’s shadow, all bets are off. Meanwhile, Wendy’s Police Chief father is hot on the trail of whoever has been producing the lethal batch of pixie dust. A meeting with The Savages will open a door to worlds unimagined, even by the likes of tinsel town!
ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
Super Human Resources, Vol. 2 TPB
Writer: Ken Marcus
Art: Armando Zanker
Cover: Armando Zanker
Collects Super Human Resources (2016) #1-4.
Welcome back to the HR department of the world’s greatest super team. Tim from Finance soon discovers that Super Crises International has been infiltrated by sinister forces. And stupidity. Lots of stupidity. Collecting all four issues of the sequel to the sold-out, smash indie hit. Softcover, 128 pages, full color. NOTE: “Super Human Resources weaves the outsized antics of the super-powered and the travails of the ordinary with endless cleverness and invention.” – JAVIER GRILLO-MARXUACH (The Middleman)
ACTION LAB: DANGER ZONE
Writer: Tim Seeley
Art: Romina Moranelli
Cover: Romina Moranelli
Cover Price: $3.99.
Marshall Stone and his crew must save their past archenemy’s daughter from the clutches of a crazed bounty hunters obsessed with an apocalyptic version of their future!
Art: Daniel Jay Loga
Cover: Daniel Jay Logan
Cover Price: $3.99
Halloween night, 1989. An unknown creature steps out of a long forgotten cave beneath the Bodega Bay Inn. While their master sleeps, the Puppets fight back to protect her from this mysterious intruder. Join us as the Puppets dive headfirst into another beloved subgenre: the creature feature! Variant and variant sketch covers limited to 1,500 copies each.
AFTERSHOCK COMICS
Art: Szymon Kudranski
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
AMERICAN GOTHIC PRESS
Lost in Space #5
Writer: Carey Wilber
Art: Patrick McEvoy
Cover: Patrick McEvoy
Cover Price: $3.99
‘Malice in Wonderland’ continues! After Willoughby ESQs them to a strange dimension populated by Lewis Carroll characters, Smith, Penny, Will, and the Robot attempt to find a way out while the angry Queen of Hearts tries to chop off their heads! It’s space with a psychadelic twist in this adaptation of the late Carey Wilber’s teleplays.
BOOM! STUDIOS
Writer: Phillip Kennedy Johnson
Art: Jonas Scharf
Cover: Massimo Carnevale
Cover Price: $3.99
DARK HORSE
Writer: Brian Wood
Art: Mack Chater
Cover: Tula Lotay
Cover Price: $3.99
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On a quiet highway in the predawn light, Grace encounters a true test of her empathy and her strength when she comes face to face with the worst aspects of the community she’s struggling to take back.
DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Andy Diggle
Art: Luca Casalanguida
Cover: Francesco Francavilla
Cover Price: $3.99
IDW PUBLISHING
Writer: Arvind Ethan David
Art: Ilias Kyriazis
Cover: Ilias Kyriazis
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Alessandro Sisti
Art: Claudio Sciarrone
Cover: Claudio Sciarrone
Cover Price: $5.99
Writer: W. Maxwell Price
Art: Martin Morazzo
Cover: Martin Morazzo
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Art: Fico Ossio
Cover: Tradd Moore
Cover Price: $3.99
THEY CAME FROM MICROSPACE! What terror reaches through the tendrils of entropy into our universe-and why does ROM want to kill it? Meanwhile, M.A.S.K.’s MATT TRAKKER makes a startling discovery about the TRANSFORMERS-but will G.I. JOE’s SCARLETT believe him?
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Writer: Tom Waltz
Art: Dave Wachter
Cover: Dave Wachter
Cover Price: $3.99
‘Chasing Phantoms’ Part 3! With an ally in danger, the Turtles look for a new way to defeat the Street Phantoms. Will the Turtles be able to do what it takes to save the Foot Clan? A dangerous turning point!
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IMAGE COMICS
Writer: Jesse Blaze Snider
Art: Chris Burnham
Cover: Chris Burnham
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Tomm Coker
Cover: Tomm Coker
Cover Price: $4.99
‘A FULL CONFESSION’ Solve one murder, uncover thousands.
Writer: Jim Zub
Art: Djibril Morissette-Phan
Cover: Djibril Morissette-Phan
Cover Price: $3.99
Death, denial, and the darkness within. What’s got into Farrah?
Writer: Ed Brubaker
Art: Sean Phillips
Cover: Sean Phillips
Cover Price: $3.99
As our hero is drawn deeper into the shadows, his secret vigilante life begins to put everything he cares about in danger. Brubaker and Phillips biggest hit yet continues, and every issue includes fantastic back page extras and articles!
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Writer: Mark Millar
Art: Greg Capullo
Cover: Greg Capullo
Cover Price: $3.99
MARK MILLAR & GREG CAPULLO join forces to create the smash hit sci-fi / fantasy story of the year: REBORN. Where do you go when you die? Not heaven or hell; somewhere else. Somewhere you have to fight to survive. Somewhere the people from the past are waiting for you-the good and the bad.
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ONI PRESS
Writer: Charles Soule
Art: Alise Gluskova
Cover: Alise Gluskova
Cover Price: $3.99
SCOUT COMICS
Writer: Joseph Illidge
Art: N. Steven Harris
Cover: Andrew Dalhouse
Cover Price: $3.99
Originally published by Marvel Comics and written by Stan Lee, Solarman returns for this pulse-pounding second issue of the 21st-century reboot! Teen hacker Ben Tucker is on the run after being infected by an alien virus and gaining incredible powers as a result. The cops want answers, a secret government organization wants his DNA, and an evil alien cyborg wants blood.
TITAN COMICS
Writer: Serge Lehman
Art: Gess
Cover: John McCrea
Cover Price: $3.99
Is the time for morality lessons truly over? The year is 1938, and a new generation of super-humans – born as a side effect of secret chemical weapons – have taken control of the capital cities of Europe. The Age of Super-Science has arrived! A stunning period cross between The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Planetary and B.P.R.D.! Beliefs can be as powerful as super-science… and just as deadly!
Writer: Christa Faust
Art: Gary Phillips
Cover: Fay Dalton
Cover Price: $3.99
Writer: George Mann
Art: Tazio Bettin
Cover: Tazio Bettin
Cover Price: $3.99
VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT
Writer: Peter Milligan
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Cover: Cary Nord
Cover Price: $3.99
Wrath of the Eternal Warrior #12
Writer: Robert Venditti
Art: Robert Gill
Cover: Juan Jose Ryp
Cover Price: $3.99
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT
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Writer: Ralph Tedesco
Art: Marc Rosete
Cover: Edgar Salazar
Cover Price: $3.99
Death Force and Talon have their final battle and Death watches on with great interest ready to claim the loser’s soul. Will Rick Murphy take the final step into darkness and be consumed by the Death Force power? Or can he fight the urge for vengeance that consumes him and somehow save his immortal soul?
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Writer: Ralph Tedesco
Art: Various
Cover: Richard Ortiz
Cover Price: $5.99
It’s that time of the year again when everyone dresses up as their favorite monster and people gather together to frighten each other with scary stories. And your favorite heroes from Grimm Fairy Tales love to enjoy Halloween as much as anyone else. Join, Robyn, Avril, Brittany and Liesel as they gather together to see who can tell the scariest tale.
Writer: Joe Brusha
Art: David Lorenzo Riveiro
Cover: Sami Kivela
Cover Price: $3.99
When bodies start to stack like cordwood in morgues throughout New York City, Robyn is forced to call on Angelica Blackstone to help unearth the murderous culprit. But nothing could have prepared them for what they find lurking in the deep shadows of the city. Can Robyn and Hellchild survive a foe whose singular purpose is terror? Or will the battle bleed them dry?