| Here are all of the exciting new #1s coming out this week! |
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| ARIA HEAVENLY CREATURES ONE SHOT Lady Kildare, expatriate princess of Faerie, is living a life of aristocratic decadence among Victorian London’s social elite. One night, while slumming among the city’s notorious underbelly, Kildare and her companions come across an illicit underground sideshow boasting “Creation’s Most Wondrous and Perverse Curiosities.” The centerpiece of this bizarre menagerie? A genuine angel held in captivity! This sets the stage for an unlikely alliance and the beginning of an unforgettable tale of mystery, adventure, and retribution. |
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| BLACK COTTON #1 Set in an alternate reality where the social order of “white” and “black” is reversed, an elitist family, the Cottons, are rocked by a tragic shooting that begins to unravel long standing family secrets that could not only destroy the family but also divide the fragile social climate of the world. |
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| BLACK FRIDAY #1 Black Caravan Imprint! Black Friday is the biggest shopping day of the year. Millions of Americans pack the aisles of retail outlets all over the country battling for the best bargains. While an unlucky clean-up crew deals with the aftermath of the latest Black Friday frenzy, they discover that years of pent-up negative energy has released something very evil and dark into their superstore, which is just the way corporate wanted it. |
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| HOLLOW HEART #1 EL used to be human. Now he’s a jumble of organs in a bio-suit. EL is also in tremendous pain and has been for a very long time. Hope arrives in the form of Mateo, a mechanice brought in to work on EL’s suit. Mateo sees LK in a way no one ever has. And what’s more: Mateo offers EL an escape. Hollow Heart reunites Tet creators Paul Allor and Paul Tucker for a queer monster love story about the choices we make between giving our loved one what they want and what we think they need. |
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| SAVAGE #1 From the mad minds of international superstar Max Bemis and powerhouse artist Nathan Stockman comes the craziest action book of 2021. Teenage heartthrob. Feral social icon. Dinosaur hunter? Born and raised on an uncharted island full of prehistoric dangers, Kevin Sauvage has a taste of home when a mutant dino threat invades England! |
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| SHADOW DOCTOR #1 Years in the making, this is the true story of writer Peter Calloway’s grandfather, Nathaniel Calloway, a Black man who graduated from medical school in the early 1930’s. Unable to get work at any Chicago hospitals because he was Black, and unable to secure a loan from a bank to start his own practice because he was Black, he turned to another source of money in Prohibition-era Chicago: the Mafia, run by none other than Al Capone. As Calloway himself says, “On the one hand, his story represents the promise of Ameri-ca. On the other hand, it shows the worst of it.” |
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| STEAMBOUND #1 Pandora. It is easy to get lost on the streets of megacities, like our protagonists, Hound, Yaeger, and Alice have. Raised together and linked by friendship and spider addiction, Hound is a knight of the order’s restricted council, while Yaeger, genetically modified, works for the city’s criminal cartels. Alice’s request for help will force the group to join again. |
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| WHITE LILY #1 Lilya Litvak is destined to become the greatest female fighter pilot of all time, flying for the Russian Army in World War II against the Germans who conquered who home in Poland. But first she’s got to survive harsh commanders, sexist trainers and bad equipment before she’ll get the chance to face German planes and bullets. |
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| YOUNG HELLBOY: THE HIDDEN LAND #1 Stranded on a strange island after a mishap on their way to a South American dig site, Hellboy and Professor Bruttenholm are confronted by all manner of monsters! But even when the stranger who rescues them turns out to be one of Hellboy’s heroes, they aren’t as safe as they think they are! Join Hellboy creator Mike Mignola as he teams with writer Tom Sniegoski, artist Craig Rousseau, and colorist Dave Stewart to bring you a tale of Hellboy’s childhood! |
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| TRUTH & JUSTICE #1 The DC Universe is synonymous with two words: Truth and Justice, and in the first issue of this new anthology series, Vixen takes center stage. Mari McCabe is many things: superhero, model, activist, but can she add godkiller to the list? Vixen teams up with Dr. Mist and Impala of the Global Guardians to face down an ancient deity that’s taken over the body of a scientist investigating powerful magical artifacts. Vixen will need to dig deep and use all the abilities in the animal kingdom to face down this powerful primeval threat! |
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| IMMORTAL HULK FLATLINE ONE SHOT ONE CREATOR. ONE HULK. ONE SUPERSTAR STORY! Declan Shalvey writes and draws an IMMORTAL HULK tale that gets to the heart of gamma! Every morning, Bruce Banner wakes up in a new place. The Hulk is trying to tell him something – but Bruce has had enough of his green-veined alters. When a new gamma-powered villain shows up in a small New Mexico town, Bruce is forced to confront the source of his anger… and it’s not what you expect. Don’t miss an extraordinary tale from one of the industry’s top talents! |
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| X-MEN LEGENDS #1 ALL-NEW TALES STARRING YOUR FAVORITE X-MEN, SPANNING CLASSIC ERAS! Break out the yellows and blues, fire up the Danger Room and snap on your pouches as legendary X-writers return to classic eras of the mutant super heroes in ALL-NEW, in-continuity stories set during their fan-favorite runs! Fabian Nicieza kicks off the series with a special saga of CYCLOPS and HAVOK, as the SHI’AR return to Earth in search of the FORSAKEN ONE! But what secret will the Summers brothers uncover, and how will its revelation change what you thought you knew about the X-Men? Get ready for a story decades in the making! And come back each month as we dive deeper to expand the X-MEN mythos! Welcome back, legends: Hope you survive the experience. |
| ALL OTHER COMICS ON OUR SHELVES THIS WEEK: |
| INDIE COMICS ABBOTT 1973 #2 AMERICAN RONIN #5 ARIA HEAVENLY CREATURES ONE SHOT BARBALIEN RED PLANET #4 BLACK COTTON #1 BLACK FRIDAY #1 DIE!NAMITE #5 EXPANSE #3 HAHA #2 HOLLOW HEART #1 MAD MAGAZINE #18 ONCE AND FUTURE #16 PENULTIMAN #5 PICTURE OF EVERYTHING ELSE #2 POWER RANGERS #4 RECOUNT #2 SABRINA SOMETHING WICKED #5 SACRED SIX #7 SAVAGE #1 SECOND COMING ONLY BEGOTTEN SON #2 SHADOW DOCTOR #1 STEAMBOUND #1 STILLWATER #6 VAMPIRELLA DARK POWERS #3 WALKING DEAD #9 WHITE LILY #1 YOUNG HELLBOY: THE HIDDEN LANDS #1 DC COMICS BATMAN CATWOMAN #3 FUTURE STATE CATWOMAN #2 FUTURE STATE IMMORTAL WONDER WOMAN #2 FUTURE STATE NIGHTWING #2 FUTURE STATE SHAZAM #2 FUTURE STATE SUPERMAN WORLDS OF WAR #2 FUTURE STATE THE NEXT BATMAN #4 TRUTH & JUSTICE #1 MARVEL COMICS BLACK WIDOW #5 CABLE #8 CAPTIN AMERICA #27 CHAMPIONS #4 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #11 IMMORTAL HULK FLATLINE #1 IRON FIST HEART OF A DRAGON #2 IRON MAN #6 KING IN BLACK #4 KING IN BLACK: PLANET OF THE SYMBIOTES #2 MARAUDERS #18 MARVEL #5 MILES MORALES SPIDER-MAN #23 MODOK HEAD GAMES #3 SAVAGE AVENGERS #18 SPIDER-WOMAN #9 X-MEN LEGENDS #1 |
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