We went through the 1,000+ June catalog items to pick out the potentially best and brightest comics. Take a look below to see what is on tap:
New Series
ESCAPE #1 – SHOT DOWN. HUNTED. OUT OF TIME. THE NEW ONGOING TWO-FISTED WAR EPIC FROM REMENDER & ACUÑA STARTS HERE. From the creative team of New York Times bestselling author RICK REMENDER (DEADLY CLASS, Uncanny X-Force) and powerhouse DANIEL ACUÑA (Captain America, Black Panther)—the duo behind Marvel’s Uncanny Avengers comes a savage, full-throttle wartime thriller where survival isn’t given…it’s taken. Milton Shaw is a battle-hardened bomber pilot, flying missions over a war-torn world ruled by a ruthless empire. But when his plane is shot out of the sky, Milton wakes up behind enemy lines—in the smoldering ruins of a city he helped burn. And in less than 24 hours, his own side is dropping the big one to finish the job. Now, injured, unarmed, and being hunted through enemy streets, Milton’s only shot at escape comes from the unlikeliest place: a grieving father and his son—civilians shattered by the same fascist regime that rules this land with an iron claw. Enemies by blood. Allies by circumstance. Together, they’ll have to fight their way out before the bomb drops and erases everything…and everyone. Set in a brutal, fully painted world of anthropomorphic animals—think Inglourious Basterds meets Blacksad—ESCAPE is a gritty, bullet-riddled journey through war’s scorched aftermath. It’s about the violence we inflict, the souls we try to save, and the courage it takes to crawl out of fire.
BLINK AND YOU’LL MISS IT #1 – Melody Nelson and Jesse Harmon fell in love long ago in the tiny town of Perennial Harbor, but since they parted ways, that place has grown stranger and stranger… Everything is just as it was decades ago, and the strained smiles of its residents mask a bizarre secret. When Melody‚Äôs life begins to unravel and she finds herself slipping backward in time, she must uncover the truth behind this mystery before it destroys her‚Ķ And the only one she‚Äôs ever cared for. A mind-bending new fairy tale begins
CHEETAH AND CHESHIRE ROB THE JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 – SUPERSTAR CREATORS GREG RUCKA AND NICOLA SCOTT TEAM UP FOR THE HEIST OF A LIFETIME! A daring heist aboard the most secure facility in the DCU! Cheetah and Cheshire assemble a team of misfits and oddballs to pull off the impossible–robbing the Justice League Watchtower…and getting away with it. All that stands between them and pulling off the most daring heist in history are a few tiny complications, such as the most sophisticated orbital platform ever constructed, its AI-driven security system, and one other thing…the smartest and most powerful heroes in the DCU. Eisner Award winners Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott bring you a slick, stylish heist that guarantees fun, laughs, and more than a few twists and turns.
CUL DE SAC #1 – a nightmarish new vision for the horror genre. What lurking evil lies hidden at the end of the cul-de-sac? Nestled in a tucked-away corner of sleepy suburbia, the Kingsley, Herriman and Ortega families seemed like any other close-knit neighbors. So nothing seems amiss when Mrs. Kingsley piles all the neighborhood kids into the family RV for their annual summer camp-out. But in the dark of the woods, she unleashes a grisly, bloodcurdling display, revealing their families’ shocking secret—their parents are vampires and they’re eager to pass on their legacy. Now the children must choose—to join them and revel in their awesome dark powers or live out their lives as mortals. But when they return home, they confront a gruesome scene—their parents dead on the floor, brutally murdered by an elite squad of vampire hunters. And the hunters? They’re looking to finish the job. Now the kids are on the run, chased by vampire hunters, the police, and even a shadowy cabal of their fellow vampires as they search for answers to unlock the secret of what they really are before their fates are sealed forever.
EAT YOUR YOUNG #1 – What happens when a 2,000-year-old Immortal Warlord decides he’s done? In EAT YOUR YOUNG, EDMUND IRONS names his six-year-old daughter, ELSA, as the next Alpha of his immortal clan. But every hundred years, during a brutal 27-day window known as The Centurium, his children have one chance to rip out his heart and claim the throne — or lose their immortality forever. Now, Edmund’s thirty offspring — an iconic cast of genre archetypes like The Cold War Spy, The Serial Killer, The Vigilante, The Punk Rocker, and The Billionaire Futurist — turn on their father and each other in a zero-sum battle for eternal life.
EVENT HORIZON: DARK DESCENT #1 РMiniseries premiere! An all-new cosmic horror story set in the universe of the terrifying cult-classic film!The Event Horizon was a revolutionary spaceship designed for one mission: faster-than-light travel with a top secret and experimental gravity drive. But upon activating the device, the ship journeyed across the borders of HELL ITSELF. In a nightmarish realm of torments beyond imagining, Captain Kilpack and the first crew of the Event Horizon must resist all manner of demonic forces including Paimon, the eyeless King of Hell, and their own descents into madness and bloodlust, if they’ve any chance of escaping back to their own world.Abandon all hope and board the Event Horizon with multiple Eisner Award–winner Christian Ward (writer of Batman: City of Madness, Two-Face) and powerhouse sci-fi artist Tristan Jones (Aliens: Defiance, Tales of the TMNT), in this unbelievable story of the true and final fate of the original Event Horizon crew. This original five-issue miniseries serves as an official prequel to the film!
HERO TRADE PROJECT CHIMERA #1 – writer Matt Kindt (BRZRKR) joins forces with world-renowned artist David Lapham (STRAY BULLETS) once more to bring you this thrilling 64-page issue, the first in a two-part action-packed epic, PROJECT CHIMERA, the biggest HERO TRADE story yet. As lead agents at Project Chimera, Hank and Ingrid are tasked with a vital mission: keep Trey and Trina, twin teenagers with world-destroying powers, in check. Under Hank and Ingrid’s watchful eye, the teens remain locked away in a tightly-secure black site, conditioned to believe they cannot survive the outside world and unleashed only when lethal force is required. Hank and Ingrid have always kept to the mission and followed orders. Until now. Trey is beginning to unravel, becoming a bloodthirsty berserker when he’s let off the leash, leaving Hank and Ingrid shaken. And Trina, once the model asset, is starting to question everything. With whispers of a mole embedded deep within the organization threatening to bring the entire operation down, Hank and Ingrid find themselves tangled between duty, deception, and a forbidden affair that could just cost them their lives.
MARVEL RIVALS: HELLFIRE GALA #1 – INTERDIMENSIONAL PARTY CRASHERS?! When the Krakoa of the timestream-entangled world of Marvel Rivals throws a Hellfire Gala, the heroes of the Multiverse assemble in the finery to wine and dine the night away. But who invited Ultron? Answer: No one – but he’s not observing decorum! The living machine has set his sights on Cerebro, the device holding the archive of all mutant DNA and the key to their resurrection protocol! Can the heroes hold back his waves of drones and save the most precious relic of mutantkind? Can the heroes decide on the best course of action? And will Squirrel Girl, Jeff, Rocket and the Thing make it to the battle or just hang out at their private beach party on the Krakoan shores? All will be revealed within!
NOCTURNALS: THE SINISTER PATH #1 – I love the Nocturnals. Previous series were really cool and have great Dan Brereton art. While the town sleeps, evil rises. A war is fought for soul of Pacific City by monsters, human and supernatural. But some of the monsters are on our side. The Nocturnals, led by Doc Horror, his daughter Evening, and their band of misfit vigilantes, are all that stand against an eldritch criminal underworld.The death of the mysterious Judge Hemlock opens a macabre power vacuum in the eldritch underworld of Pacific City. When The Nocturnals—Doc Horror, Evening, and armed revenant, the Gunwitch—investigate the occult-enshrouded Hemlock house, what they find will lead them down a twisted and deadly sinister path. • 31st Anniversary of Dan Brereton’s Masterpiece, the Nocturnals. The All Hallows Eve Anniversary!• New covers by Dan Brereton.
PUNISHER: RED BAND #1 – FRANK IS BACK! Reread and reload, True Believers – Frank Castle is BACK. With no memories, a full clip and a thirst for wrathful vengeance, his violent search for answers could only be chronicled in a Red Band series! Bullets will fly, blood will flow, and the citizens and criminals of New York City alike will fear the name THE PUNISHER! From the superstar HELLVERINE creative team of Benjamin Percy and Julius Ohta, don’t miss a single pulse-pounding page of this explosive new series!
ROMANIS MAGICAE #1 – In the slums and gutters of ancient Rome a broken ex legionary named Marcus wanders in a drunken stupor, haunted by the shame of loss and failure of duty. Suddenly, he stumbles across a young girl being chased by strange, hooded demons, and in his attempt to help he is plunged into a deadly conspiracy that threatens to destroy the Empire. Step into a vision of ancient Rome that moves away from the temples of marble and clean white togas and into the dirty underbelly of one of history’s greatest empires. Combining magic, myth, violence, and intrigue into a story that is equal parts HELLBOY, BPRD, and a little bit of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.
TAMA #1 – THE VIRTUAL PET THAT WANTS TO KILL ‘EM ALL! PANICK ENTERTAINMENT unleashes its debut title T.A.M.A.. We all had ‘em—virtual pets like Tamagotchis, NeoPets, and Digimon. But what if, after years of neglect, one returned… for revenge? When a grieving, lonely teen stumbles upon an old virtual pet system, he finds comfort. But when gruesome deaths begin to follow, he wonders—could his digital companion be responsible? T.A.M.A. mixes the nostalgia of virtual pets with the generational phenomenon of Pokémon
ULTIMATE HAWKEYE #1 – ULTIMATE HAWKEYE STARS IN THEIR OWN SOLO ADVENTURE! Spinning out of THE ULTIMATES, breakout hit character HAWKEYE goes on a covert solo op that will have a massive impact on the future of the Ultimate Universe!
X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE ALPHA #1 – THE X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE CRASH INTO THE MAIN MARVEL UNIVERSE! A dystopian future created when Charles Xavier was killed, AGE OF APOCALYPSE is home to a war-torn group of X-Men led by Magneto. In order to free their Earth from Apocalypse’s cruel reign, they were willing to sacrifice their very existence-or so they thought! The main timeline was restored, Apocalypse was defeated, but their world lived on! Taking place in the direct aftermath of the original crossover’s explosive finale, X-MEN OF APOCALYPSE reignites the mission of this iconic reality’s X-Men as they journey here to ensure their universe’s survival. This desperate mission will take them into the main Marvel Universe, where they will come into conflict with their classic counterparts, forever impacting both team’s destinies!
For the Cover
BLACK CAT #1 has some bangers of new covers, including this BLACK CAT #1 Adam Hughes cover, the Jee Hyung Lee one, I also like the Derrick Chew cover
BIRDS OF PREY #24 CVR C KYUYONG EOM CARD STOCK – I have been a fan of Kyuyong Eom for a while, love that he is getting more and more mainstream cover work.
JEFF THE LAND SHARK #3 LUCIANO VECCHIO VARIANT – Sweet homage to the classic Jim Lee cover.
One and Done
KILL OR BE KILLED (ONE SHOT) – Your phone buzzes. A message awaits. Someone you love – your spouse, your parents, your child – is in danger. And the only way to save them is to kill. Not only that, but you need to livestream it so everyone can see what you’ve done. He’s known as the Friendship Killer and this is his twisted game. But when one of his victims decides to fight back and expose the killer, it leads him into the dark underbelly of the tech industry and social media in this near-future illustrated prose thriller
Notable Reprints
ACTION COMICS #23 FACSIMILE EDITION – THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF LEX LUTHOR! Art by Joe Shuster, Fred Guardineer, Sheldon Moldoff and Bernard Baily See the first appearance of the man whose diabolical genius turns nations against one another and whose technological wizardry defeats even the most indomitable minds! The man whose unparalleled intellect is matched only by his insatiable hunger for power! The man destined to become the greatest enemy the Man of Steel has ever known! The man called…Luthor!
BATMAN HARLEY QUINN #1 FACSIMILE EDITION CVR A ALEX ROSS – THE COMIC BOOK DEBUT OF HARLEY QUINN! You loved her on-screen antics in Batman: The Animated Series! You thrilled as she careened her criminal capers into comics with The Batman Adventures! Now get a front-row seat for Harley Quinn’s calamitous core continuity debut–and see why Gotham City has never been the same!
ARCHIE FACSIMILE #7 SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #1 – MILESTONE FIRST ISSUE OF SABRINA’S FIRST-EVER COMIC SERIES! Re-live the magic when everyone’s favorite teenage witch got her very own comic series! Experience history (and even more pages than ever!) in SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #1, faithfully reprinted in a full-facsimile edition!
DETECTIVE COMICS #880 FACSIMILE EDITION – This one made Jock a legend!
FANTASTIC FOUR #9 FACSIMILE EDITION – Continuing a facsimile collection of the foundational adventures of Marvel’s First Family! Disaster strikes as the FF are declared bankrupt, faced with having to sell their skyscraper home and all Reed Richards’ remarkable inventions. But salvation arrives in the form of a one-million- dollar offer to head to Hollywood and make a Fantastic Four movie! Who could be the wealthy studio mogul financing the flick? Why, it’s their old sparring partner Namor! But has Subby really set his sights on silver-screen success? Or is this all part of some scheme to get revenge on the FF – and to win the heart of his leading lady, Susan Storm? It’s one of the all-time great Marvel comic books, boldly re-presented in its original form, ads and all! Reprinting FANTASTIC FOUR (1961) #9. Marvel is reprinting the first twelve issues of FANTASTIC FOUR as they originally appeared!
X-MEN #138 FACSIMILE EDITION – Cyclops quits the X-Men
New Characters
MILES MORALES: SPIDER-MAN #37 – first appearance of INARI and WHITE CAT
PSYLOCKE #10 – A mysterious assassin has appeared in Japan, stalking members of the Hand: the Lady in White. But what sort of powers does a being that can prey on Psylocke’s former masters have? And why does she have Kwannon’s face?
ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #8 – WOLVERINE VS. ULTIMATE ANGEL! The Opposition infiltrates a facility holding a group of high-powered mutants! And Winter Soldier’s handler has a sinister plot to destroy the Opposition once and for all.
ULTIMATES #15 – Ultimate Shang Chi makes his first appearance.
Ones to Watch
GODZILLA DESTROYS THE MARVEL UNIVERSE #2 – THE LETHAL PROTECTOR BECOMES THE DEADLY DESTRUCTOR AS GODZILLA BONDS WITH A SYMBIOTE! As the KING OF THE MONSTERS sets about making mincemeat out of Manhattan, EARTH’S MIGHTIEST HEROES find reinforcements in the most unlikely of places – the villainous patrons of the BAR WITH NO NAME! Will their combined efforts be enough to slow GODZILLA down – or are they merely adding fuel to the fire as the VENOM SYMBIOTE discovers an even more enticing apex predator to latch onto? Plus, BLACK PANTHER makes a shocking discovery about the nature of VIBRANIUM and what is driving Godzilla’s rampage! But will it be enough to make a difference in the wake of the disappearance of MR. FANTASTIC, THE INVISIBLE WOMAN and THE ENTIRE BAXTER BUILDING?!