New Comic Book Day: This Week’s Must-Have Indie New Releases (10/12)

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

NVRLND #3

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!

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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)

AFTERSHOCK COMICS

AMERICAN GOTHIC PRESS

Lost in Space #5

Writer: Carey Wilber
Art: Patrick McEvoy
Cover: Patrick McEvoy

Cover Price: $3.99

BOOM! STUDIOS

Southern Bastards meets Dune in mid-21st century America. After the New Confederacy is crushed in a second Civil War, only Kentucky holds out, not recognizing U.S. sovereignty. This leads to a particularly brutal crackdown in a small mountain town called Red Rock, where a mechanic and reluctant folk hero named Kade Mercer rises up to become the first feudal warlord of Appalachia. Features 28 pages of story content.

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DARK HORSE

Briggs Land #3

Writer: Brian Wood
Art: Mack Chater
Cover: Tula Lotay

Cover Price: $3.99

DYNAMITE ENTERTAINMENT

Dirk Gently: Salmon of Doubt #1

Writer: Arvind Ethan David
Art: Ilias Kyriazis
Cover: Ilias Kyriazis

Cover Price: $3.99

Dirk Gently, created by Douglas Adams and shortly to be the star of his own television series from BBC America, returns to comics in The Salmon of Doubt, brought to you by executive producers of the show Arvind Ethan David and Max Landis. Plagued by nightmares about a childhood he never had, Dirk returns to Cambridge University to seek the advice of his former tutor, the time-traveling Professor Reg Chronotis. There he discovers that a holistic detective can have more than one past, and his adventures have only just begun… Featuring fan-favorite characters from the original books as well as the cast from the TV series, including Elijah Wood.

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Duck Avenger #1

Writer: Alessandro Sisti
Art: Claudio Sciarrone
Cover: Claudio Sciarrone

Cover Price: $5.99

‘When Blow the Winds of Time?’ Supervillain Red Raider hits Duckburg with a crime spree-just as crook newsman Angus Fangus aims to ruin Duck Avenger’s rep! Will Donald’s superhero life crash and burn? Not if the mysterious Lila Lee has anything to say… At last! IDW brings you the new-to-USA Disney thrillride that fans have requested most-the famous ‘Duck Avenger New Adventures’ (known in Europe as ‘PKNA’)! Adapted for our readers by fan favorite Jonathan Gray (Sonic the Hedgehog)! 72 pages of action for just $5.99!

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Electric Sublime #1

Writer: W. Maxwell Price
Art: Martin Morazzo
Cover: Martin Morazzo

Cover Price: $3.99

‘Art is anything you can get away with… destroy it all.’ Welcome to THE ELECTRIC SUBLIME-where art history, madness, and expression meet in a Pollock-splatter of thrilling crime adventure! When a mysterious change in the composition of a famous painting begins poisoning the minds of its spectators, Margot Breslin-director of the Bureau of Artistic Integrity-must pull famed ‘art detective’ Arthur Brut out of a mental institution and back into the insanity that sent him there in the first place. Featuring a treasure trove of classical works, under-the-radar art, and a seven-foot talking mannequin, this is comics, imitating art, imitating life. From the writer of Judas: The Last Days (IDW) and the artist of Great Pacific and Snowfall (Image)! The X-Files meets Alice in Wonderland, by way of The Da Vinci Code!

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Revolution #3

Writer: Cullen Bunn
Art: Fico Ossio
Cover: Tradd Moore

Cover Price: $3.99

Black Light District: 6 Issues (one-shot)

Writer: Jesse Blaze Snider
Art: Chris Burnham
Cover: Chris Burnham

Cover Price: $3.99

AN ALL-NEW ONE-SHOT COMIC BOOK / MUSIC EXPERIENCE! JESSE BLAZE SNIDER’s groundbreaking online comic book / music anthology ‘BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT: 6 ISSUES’ comes to Image Comics! Featuring six epic illustrated stories set to the music of the geek culture inspired ‘Black Light District ‘EP! ‘JESSE SNIDER’s BLACK LIGHT DISTRICT is a storytelling revelation! Each song married to the comic images create one-of-a-kind sound and visual dramas never seen before in the comics medium.’ – John Siuntres, Word Balloon

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Black Monday Murders #3

Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Art: Tomm Coker
Cover: Tomm Coker

Cover Price: $4.99

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SCOUT COMICS

Solarman #2

Writer: Joseph Illidge
Art: N. Steven Harris
Cover: Andrew Dalhouse

Cover Price: $3.99

TITAN COMICS

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VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT

Britannia #2

Writer: Peter Milligan
Art: Juan Jose Ryp
Cover: Cary Nord

Cover Price: $3.99

Duty has led to darkness… Dispatched to the remote outpost of Britannia by Rome’s highest power, the ancient world’s first detective – veteran legionnaire Antonius Axia – has found himself on a horrifying journey that will challenge everything he knows about death, destiny, and the limits of reality itself. But in this wild and pagan land, far removed from Nero’s control and influence, how will he grapple with the witches, demons and deities that lurk just out of sight? These are aberrations beyond the comprehension of a citizen of history’s most civilized empire?and, as Axia searches for the truth behind their making, he must first ask himself: Are these monsters truly creatures of myth…or creations of his own mind? The answers will be found as comics legend Peter Milligan (Shade, the Changing Man) and incendiary artist Juan Jose Ryp (NINJAK, Clone) lead a phantasmagorical expedition in the lands between darkness, desire, and destruction in the pages of Valiant’s latest prestige-format masterwork!

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ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT