RACHEL'S PICK OF THE WEEK:

Avengers #1

IN THE WAKE OF ARMAGEDDON, A NEW TEAM ASSEMBLES... Superstar team Chip Zdarsky & Marco Checchetto reunite for a trailblazing new era of AVENGERS! With the world order completely rewritten after AVENGERS: ARMAGEDDON, there comes a day, a day unlike any other, when a new group of Earth's mightiest heroes find themselves united to avenge the Marvel Universe: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, Luke Cage and Miracleman! The Avengers take center stage once again in the Marvel Universe, and it all starts here. Don't miss it!

LEGACY #808

Infernal Hulk vs. Spider-Man #1

THE MARCH TO HULK WAR CONTINUES AS INFERNAL HULK CORRUPTS ALL IN HIS PATH!

The FANTASTIC FOUR and the BAXTER BUILDING have fallen to INFERNAL HULK, and NEW YORK is under siege! When the RICHARDS KIDS are taken too, SPIDER-MAN disobeys orders and goes on a suicide mission to save them at all costs... and to get the AVENGERS the weapon they need to stop Infernal Hulk and prevent the AGE OF MONSTERS. Hulk's inevitable INFERNAL AVENGERS come one step closer to fruition in this unmissable penultimate issue!

DAN'S PICK OF THE WEEK:

Spider-Woman #1

CARNAGE NEVER LOOKED SO GOOD!

Spider-Woman's 50th Anniversary celebration continues in this new series. Old foes back from the dead! Mysteries around every corner! And a bloodthirsty Carnage just barely kept contained! It's a recipe for Spider-Woman's darkest adventure yet. Don't miss this electrifying first issue!

Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman #1

In this can't-miss follow-up to the first EXQUISITE CORPSES series, Laura and her fellow survivors, Xavi and Jason, have attempted to carve out an existence with her winnings, far away from the evil machinations of the 13 Families. But, two years after the unfathomable events unleashed in their hometown and Laura's game-winning performance as the Last Gunman, all that they did to survive still haunts them. Now, the legacy of the golden mask refuses to stay silent... and their lives are in danger once again.

Uncover the history of the Lone Gunmen and find out what’s next for EXQUISITE CORPSES from breakout star PORNSAK PICHETSHOTE (Absolute Green Arrow), and acclaimed creators ALBERTO PONTICELLI (Unknown Soldier), JORDIE BELLAIRE (Absolute Wonder Woman), and BECCA CAREY (RADIANT BLACK)!

Friendly Neighborhood Mary Jane #1

YOU'RE NOW INVITED TO THE GRAND OPENING OF WATSON PRODUCTIONS!

Spinning out of storylines from MARY JANE: FACE IT, TIGER and QUEEN IN BLACK comes an all-new adventure for one of the most beloved characters in Spider-Man's world. Mary Jane Watson — model, actress, hero — is taking on a new role: PRODUCER! But when CHAMELEON sets his sights on sabotage, Mary Jane will need to use every tool in her arsenal — including a TOP-SECRET gift from Venom — to come out on top. Rising star Ashley Allen (MAGIK, MAGIK & COLOSSUS) and superstar artist Phil Noto kick off a brand-new chapter you won't want to miss!

Gangs of Gotham #1

CHRISTOPHER CANTWELL AND MIKE HENDERSON TAKE ON GOTHAM CITY IN THE AFTERMATH OF BATMAN: BAD SEEDS!

Anarky rules! Anarky has been given an ultimatum by the Torus: Unify the 100 low-level street gangs not currently under Torus control—or die. If Lonnie Machin succeeds, he'll get a seat at the table. But if he fails, it's lights out for Anarky.

Punisher Showdowns: Wolverine #1

LOGAN CROSSES PATHS AND CLAWS WITH FRANK CASTLE!

WOLVERINE digs into the criminal underground of New York City as the Yakuza unleash a deadly and violence-inducing drug on the streets! But the PUNISHER already has his sights set on these death-peddling scum! What follows, you'll have to read to believe!

The Punisher's one-man war on the guilty crosses paths with other denizens of the Marvel Universe with explosive and unexpected results in THE PUNISHER SHOWDOWNS!

Challenges of Doom: Doctor Strange #1

SORCERER VS. SORCERER!

Two of history's most skilled practitioners of magic: DOCTOR DOOM faces DOCTOR STRANGE in a battle metaphysical, physical, current, future, past... encompassing the enormous realms of their intellect and ability! These incredible foes will go to the limits of their powers and beyond to determine who is truly the greatest sorcerer — but what else will be revealed in the process?!

Dungeons & Dragons #1

A draconic apocalypse approaches the Forgotten Realms, and it has one name on its lips: MORDENKAINEN. Now, stripped of his magic but never out of the fight, the most powerful wizard in all reality will need the help of Faerûn’s most legendary heroes to restore the balance.

Creative hivemind Jackson Lanzing & Collin Kelly team with artist Ibraim Roberson for a brand-new ongoing epic that will shake the world(s) of Dungeons & Dragons!

MEG'S PICK OF THE WEEK:

Ghost Rider: Kushala #1

CELEBRATE INDIGENOUS HERITAGE MONTH WITH KUSHALA, GHOST RIDER OF THE PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE!

The Black Eyed Peas' Taboo & B. Earl team up with artists Guillermo Sanna & Vanesa R. Del Rey for a wild ride through the past, present and future of the Marvel Universe! Kushala is the Sorcerer Supreme of the 1800s and a Ghost Rider known as the Spirit Rider — the only one who has managed to tame her Spirit of Vengeance. But when Kushala's ancestral line is targeted, all hell breaks loose! This supersized one-shot honoring Indigenous Heritage Month collects the episodes of the hit GHOST RIDER: KUSHALA Infinity Comic!

Archie in Hell #1

TO BE SAVED... HE MUST BE DAMNED! In the bloodstained tradition of AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE, something wicked this way comes to Riverdale in an infernal new ongoing series from multiple Eisner Award winner Patrick Horvath (Beneath the Trees Where Nobody Sees) and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook (Out of Alcatraz, Harrow County)!

They say that every small town has a secret. Well, in the case of Riverdale, it’s one heck of a humdinger: An ancient order of cultists has infiltrated its townspeople, bent on using human sacrifice to usher a demon lord into our mortal plane. And they’ve finally identified the final target they need to bring a century’s worth of planning to fruition: hometown football champion and all-around good guy Archie Andrews. But this secret cabal never dreamed that actual witches walk Riverdale’s streets... and when cult and coven clash in the final stages of Archie’s secret-ritual sacrifice, the consequences will be cosmic... and young Archie Andrews will find himself damned to something far worse than Hell’s inner circle.

Unstuck from time and space. Bound to a terrible curse. Late for school. Things are about to go from bad to downright diabolical as Horvath and Crook unleash the most malevolently merciless Archie Comics tale ever told... and, truly, you’ll never, ever expect what happens next.

Mad Science Division #1

It’s no secret Archimedes Anderson is a nepo hire. Assigned chief-coordinator of R&D at the American arm of genetic engineering and bioweapons development company Miyashi-Smith, everyone knows he’s here for one purpose: to slash the budget and trim the fat. If he can cut 30% from the unaffectionately nicknamed “Mad Science Division” budget, he’ll earn a cushy, high-level job at HQ.

He goes in with a move-fast-and-break-stuff attitude, knowing absolutely nothing about the dangerous genetic experiments taking place in the division. When he upsets the delicate equilibrium of the department factions and removes guard rails which protect the workers and the public, he winds up exposing them to terrible, evil experiments.

From the twisted minds of Dan Watters (Nightwing; TMNT: Shredder) and Brian Level (Venom: Black, White & Blood) comes a comedic, sci-fi horror series that asks, “What if DOGE dismantled the SCP Foundation?”

RACHEL'S PICK OF THE WEEK:

Marvel Meow / Strange Scales #1

UNLIKELY ANIMAL FRIENDS UNITE!

The cats of the Marvel Universe meet Doctor Strange's snakes in a brand-new short story — and definitely, absolutely, positively nothing goes wrong!

Plus: MARVEL MEOW #19-24 and STRANGE SCALES #1-6 see print for the first time!

No One Escapes The Dialectic #1

THE WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COMIC BOOK MAGAZINE!

From Pulitzer Prize and National Magazine Award-winning reporter Spencer Ackerman (Waller Vs. WildStorm, Iron Man) comes the next generation of political radicalism in vigilante comics — unafraid to strike back at the deportation machine that threatens the foundations of American freedom!

When agents of the fearsome Special Naturalization Operations (SNO) become themselves hunted by a masked vigilante, a power struggle breaks out inside SNO between the Deep-State old guard and its death-squad vanguard, Gladio Unit!

Who is the masked vigilante calling themselves The Dialectic, posturing as a Marxist force of history? What is their relationship to their community’s liberation — and its violent suppression by SNO?

With powerful art by Italian superstar Antonio Fuso (House of Slaughter, G.I. Joe), No One Escapes the Dialectic is an unapologetic, provocative, and boundary-shattering new ongoing comic series for the age of permanent crisis.

Halloween: The Game Comic #1

Much like the upcoming game, the comic begins on the night before Halloween 1978, where Michael Myers orchestrates a brutal escape from Smith’s Grove Sanitarium, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. As Dr. Loomis realizes pure evil is loose, Michael begins his relentless journey home toward Haddonfield, slaughtering anyone unfortunate enough to cross his path.

Penthouse Comics #1

The best-selling Penthouse Comics returns for a bold new volume, bringing readers a new collection of comics, photoshoots, and unexpected surprises. In Miss October, the mystery deepens as a serial killer continues targeting women and moving ever closer to Penthouse’s own Miss October. With Lieutenant Clegg’s investigation at a standstill, Viktor is forced to take a dangerous leap of faith to find the answers they need before time runs out. This new volume also introduces two striking fantasy epics. Conquests plunges readers into a brutal ancient world where the Scythians, Sarmatians, and Atlantean sorcerers unite as the Horde of the Living, an unlikely alliance forged to challenge the arrogance and violence of a Hittite king. In Layla, a fallen kingdom is pulled into chaos by a woman of impossible beauty and terrifying power. Grenoye, a young man known as Frog, is obsessed with finding the mysterious Layla after a chance encounter in the Scarlet Marshes. But he is not the only one drawn to her. King Ragnar Falx also seeks Layla, and the red Carbuncle stone she wears, a source of power that could bring assassinations, betrayals, war, and ruin to the kingdom. Dark, seductive, violent, and fantastical, Penthouse Comics Year Two expands the world of Penthouse Comics with new stories of obsession, power, desire, and danger.

Red Sonja / Barbarella #1

Two legendary heroines. Two impossible worlds. One mystery that should never have crossed between them.

Barbarella is sent after an Obsidian Mirror tied to her mysterious past - an object that may hold the key to a life she barely remembers. Far away, under a blood-red sky, Red Sonja rides into danger to rescue an Oracle whose fate seems already written in violence and prophecy.

Neither woman knows the other exists. Neither understands the force pulling them closer. But when science fiction collides with sword-and-sorcery, Barbarella and Red Sonja are drawn toward a strange new threat where memory, destiny, desire, and survival all carry a price. Science fiction meets savage fantasy in a new adventure where everything has a price... and some debts are paid in blood.

One Zero Zero One Saves the World #1

Confused and alone, a genetic experiment that quickly adapts to any threat or environment wakes up hundreds of years into Earth’s post-apocalyptic future — only to discover he is being hunted by a pack of vicious creatures. Can his adaptations keep pace with their fury?

Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus – Die With Honor #1

Alura shows the Kalanthia traitor, who is head of the Cheshire bootleg Replicant program, photos of Stix and Mead, realising they are still alive, he panics and demands she kill them. Alura refuses until Uldren makes good on his promise of delivering bootleg Replicants as promised. Later, she summons Stix and introduces him to the 'Borealis Team' — a three-Cheshire Replicant team who are all clones of the original Aurora Team who served with Stix on Kalanthia. He is ordered to lead them on a mission to hunt down and kill Madame Nomura.

Meanwhile, Mead, still believing that Stix is the killer of Sayo — Nomura's daughter, steals his Cheshire ID card and breaks into Cheshire HQ in search of evidence and witnesses the brutal mass assassination of the Yakuza sub-bosses by a second Cheshire Replicant kill team led by Lerna, who is linked to Alura via one of the two surviving Aurora Yokes.

Rip Kirby #1

CHRISTOPHER SEBELA & TANGO REMAKE A CRIME FICTION LEGEND! War hero. Star athlete. Brilliant scientist. Savvy private investigator. Rip Kirby's reputation is long-secured, and these days he's enjoying the post-war boom of New York City. With gorgeous and quick-witted Honey Dorian at his side and reformed criminal valet Desmond running the show, it's a perfect life, and perfectly balanced. It's been perfect for what seems like forever... But Rip's world is about to get complicated, and his unflappably decent ways newly tested. Up against a world that seems to be growing too fast, can an upstanding man of morals and fair play like Rip remain himself or, he will be swallowed up by the ugliness?

In 1946, co-creators Alex Raymond and Ward Greene introduced a new, sophisticated kind of detective, Rip Kirby, a detective who stood apart from the hard-boiled heroes of the era. Solving cases through intelligence, scientific reasoning, and careful observation rather than brute force, Kirby helped redefine crime fiction and left an enduring mark on newspaper strips for generations to come. Now, two-time Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Dead Letters) and rising star artist Tango (Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Archie Horror) bring Rip Kirby to a contemporary audience with a mystery series as charming as it is thrilling.

Circuits Seduction Revenge #1

An all-new quarterly ongoing series! In 2050 A.D., Earth has survived the AI singularity and settled into a strange new equilibrium: futuristic metropolises under mandatory logdowns, cities reserved for sentient survivors of a deactivated AI consciousness, and breakaway communities living like it’s still 1985. This new cyberpunk saga merges the worlds of the previous Circuits: Seduction-Revenge one-shot and The Encoded, as a mysterious rogue pleasure android wreaks havoc on the trillionaire class, forcing them to turn to an equally dangerous artificial life-form to stop her.

Immortal Coil #1

Immortal Coil is a dark fantasy comic series that reimagines Norse mythology through the lens of eldritch horror. In a modern world where Ragnarok was a lie, Loki returns to expose the gods' greatest deception and awaken an ancient cosmic terror that will bring about the second coming of Ragnarok. Ancient gods, forgotten heirs, and unimaginable cosmic forces collide in a battle for reality itself. Rich with gothic atmosphere, brutal action, and mythological intrigue, this series from Third Contact Comics delivers a fresh take on the Norse apocalypse for fans of THE SANDMAN, HELLBLAZER, and LUCIFER.

Savage Sasquanaut #1

The legendary Bigfoot carves a path of chaos across the galaxy in this rocket-fueled sci-fi action-adventure from Antarctic Press! Captured by aliens, he organizes a prison break, then hijacks a starship from the intergalactic Aurellian Empire. Can the cosmos-cruising cryptid escape the clutches of a maniacal Empress and find a way back to Earth?

Exclave #1

The event begins.

The Rippaverse’s first major crossover officially kicks off with Exclave #1 — the opening chapter of a limited series that dramatizes the crossover from the inside. The Devling King has emerged from the Underearth. Florespark is ground zero. And the heroes of the Rippaverse are about to be forced together for the first time.

This is the story fans have been waiting for. Everything that has been building — every tease, every moving piece, every hint of what was coming — it all converges here. The invasion from below has begun, and nothing in the Rippaverse will be the same when it ends.

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