New comic book day is quickly approaching and with a number of titles being released it can be hard to pick out which comics you should grab. This week in our featured comic book releases we include Barfly #1, Kill All Immortals #1, Kid Venom #1 and more.
While we are not the official voice of this decision, we want to help guide you in the right direction for comics releasing July 10, 2024.
From the World of Minor Threats: Barfly #1
Writer: Kyle Starks, Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum
Artist: Ryan Browne
Publisher: Dark Horse
Spinning out of the world of the hit Minor Threats superhero series by Patton Oswalt, Jordan Blum, and Scott Hepburn comes a new tale of costumed underdogs-featuring a low-level henchman without a leader to serve.
The Lower Lair bar is home to all sorts of supervillains, lowlifes, and scumbags… but only one of them has to puke digestive fluids onto his food to eat. $#!%eater, the humanoid mutant fly is a loser, a lifelong minion who lives to serve his criminal master. But what happens to a henchman when he no longer has anyone left to hench for?
Comic book legends Kyle Starks and Ryan Browne present the heartwarming, feel good, coming-of-age story about an insect monster-man searching for his identity amongst the criminal underworld of Twilight City.
Kill All Immortals #1
Writer: Zack Kaplan
Artist: Fico Ossio
Publisher: Dark Horse
Succession meets John Wick…with immortal Vikings.
A thousand years ago, Viking explorer Erik the Red and his four adult children discovered a mysterious source of immortality. Now, in our modern world, they are an enigmatic billionaire family with a powerful banking empire. But when Erik’s only daughter, Frey Asvald, seeks to finally be free from her family’s influence, she must be prepared to reveal their supernatural secrets and confront her well-trained siblings in a deadly and epic struggle for power. Get ready for a bloodthirsty immortal fight like no other!
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 40th Anniversary Celebration #1
Writer: Various
Artist: Various
Publisher: IDW Publishing
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles turn 40! Revisit some of their greatest eras with stories told by some of the many creators of the page and screen who made each iteration of the Turtles so special! This all-new anthology takes a look all the way back to the start, celebrating that initial spark of creativity from Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird, and then works its way through the next four decades, highlighting fan-favorite touchstones from comic books and beyond.
Eastman leads a host of incredible talent who are contributing new stories and pinups from a gaggle of legendary TMNT contributors, including Jim Lawson, Tristan Jones and Paul Harmon, Sophie Campbell and Pablo Tunica, Tom Waltz and Michael Dialynus, Ciro Nieli, Lloyd Goldfine with Khary Randolph and Emilio Lopez, Andy Suriano, and many more, all hearkening back to the era of TMNT they are best known for, ranging from the initial Mirage series through the 1990s and up until now, as well as the Tales of TMNT and Rise of the TMNT.
Featuring a host of covers designed to celebrate individual decades, including new pieces by Eastman, Campbell, Randolph, the Escorza Brothers, Michael Dooney, Ben Bishop, Vincenzo Federici, Michael Dialynas, and the mighty Simon Bisley! Plus a special “Golden Age” cover by Michael Cho!
The Domain #1
Writer: Chip Zdarsky
Artist: Rachael Stott
Publisher: Image Comics
When three best friends discover a crashed UFO, they also discover technology that gives them incredible abilities! But there’s a catch: only one of them can use the powers at a time! Can their friendship survive the power’s temptation? In the pages of Image’s Eisner-winning series, Public Domain, Syd Dallas and the team at Dallas Comics reimagine their classic character The Domain for a new audience, and… this is that comic!
This special series, written by Chip Zdarsky (Batman, Newburn) with amazing art by Rachael Stott (Fantastic Four, Doctor Who) and Eren Angiolini (Justice League: Last Ride) is a classic superhero story for those coming in fresh, and a fun meta story for readers of Public Domain!
Kid Venom #1
Writer: Taigami
Artist: Taigami
Publisher: Marvel
Embrace your inner Venom! Japan, 977. Kid Venom has made his presence known to the evil symbiotes taking people and creatures hostage…but who else has their eye on Kintaro and his symbiote? The world of Kid Venom expands as new characters and dangers are revealed! Breakout manga creator Taigami continues his vision of Kid Venom in this brand-new series!
Star Wars: Ahsoka #1
Writer: Rodney Barnes
Artist: Steven Cummings
Publisher: Marvel
After the fall of The Empire, Ahsoka Tano stalks the galaxy for Grand Admiral Thrawn! A valuable prisoner escapes New Republic custody; a search for answers reunites two old friends. The villainous Morgan Elsbeth returns along with two new mysterious Force users, Baylan Skoll and his apprentice, Shin Hati. Will the Rebels be able to track down their lost comrade, Ezra Bridger?
ThunderCats: Cheetara #1
Writer: Soo Lee
Artist: Domenico Carbone
Publisher: Dynamite
Rocketing out of the best-selling ThunderCats comic! Superstar Soo Lee (Disney Villains: Maleficent, Carmilla: The First Vampire) presents Cheetara in her own series, for the very first time!
Cheetara’s a fierce warrior, famous for her lightning-fast speed. But before Third Earth, before the destruction of Thundera, she was a young woman with secrets. Wrapped in a life of Thunderian nobility, she seeks to find her place in an unsure universe, and to understand why she’s seeing alarming visions of the ancient past, and the near future…
X-Men #1
Writer: Jed MacKay
Artist: Ryan Stegman
Publisher: Marvel
From the ashes! Krakoa is gone, Orchis has fallen…but the X-Men remain, always. Cyclops leads, because that is what he does. Beast builds, because that is what he does. And from their new home in Alaska, the X-Men raise a flag of defiance. Mutant business is their business. Join Cyclops, Beast, Magneto, Psylocke, Kid Omega, Temper, Magik and Juggernaut as new forces in the world move into position, battling for the destiny and philosophy of the mutant species.
Canary TP
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Dan Panosian
Publisher: Dark Horse
In 1891 a mine collapsed into itself. What was the dark substance found 666 feet underground? During the final days of the Gold Rush, one mining company in Colorado pulled up radioactive uranium, and then the mine then collapsed in on itself. Legends sprung up about the mine being cursed or even haunted. Now the Frontier is closed, the gold and silver mines have dried up. The country is becoming “civilized,” and yet, in one stretch of the Rocky Mountains, a terrifying, new kind of violence is suddenly emerging.
Random killings. People going mad and murdering neighbors, classmates without real cause. When a schoolboy kills his teacher with a hatchet, a famous federal marshal named Azrael William Holt is called in to investigate the killings. What he-and a brilliant young geologist-uncover is stranger and more horrifying than anything they could have ever imagined.
Blending modern horror, historical fact and Western lore, two-time Eisner Award winning author Scott Snyder and veteran illustrator Dan Panosian have created a uniquely terrifying graphic novel thriller with Canary.
Canto Volume 2: The Hollow Men HC
Writer: David M. Booher
Artist: Drew Zucker
Publisher: Dark Horse
Once Upon a Time a little tin slave with a clock for a heart broke all the rules-he found love, took a name, and escaped his masters, embarking on an epic journey to save his beloved. Though his adventure didn’t turn out as planned, he returned to his people and led them to freedom.
The freedom Canto won is in danger when he discovers his people’s clocks will stop unless they return to captivity. He and his friends Falco, Rikta, and Veratta embark on a new, perilous adventure to save the lives of all their people. On their quest, they’ll encounter old friends, relentless monsters, and the village of the mysterious Hollow Men. Canto and his friends must lift the curse and save their people before their time runs out.
Eisner and GLAAD Media Award nominated writer David M. Booher and singular artist Drew Zucker team up with accomplished storyteller and artist Phillip Sevy to tell Canto’s tale in this high-quality hardcover reprint of the second Canto series with a brand new cover.
Subgenre HC
Writer: Matt Kindt
Artist: Wilfredo Torres
Publisher: Dark Horse
From the New York Times-bestselling creators of BANG! comes a mind-bending, multi-dimensional murder mystery presented in a pulp magazine-sized format! A man is living two lives. He is a private detective in a dystopian cyberpunk future trying to solve a triple murder. But when he falls asleep-he wakes up as a wandering adventurer in a barbaric fantasy world where magic exists. Is he two separate people? Or is he a third person that has undergone a psychotic split? He jumps back and forth from sword-wielding barbarian to jaded private eye trying to solve the brutal crime. But the bigger question is, can he merge these realities without losing himself?
Kill Your Darlings TP
Writer: Ethan S. Parker, Griffin Sheridan
Artist: Bob Quinn, John J. Hill
Publisher: Image Comics
Rose loves nothing more than to play pretend in a magical land of her own creation. To her, that world is as real as our own-from her fluffy friends to the terrible evil that lurks at the center of it all. In one night, the line between fantasy and reality will disappear, an ancient hunger will feed again, and Rose will be pulled into a gruesome saga that began centuries before her birth.
Debut writers Ethan S. Parker & Griffin Sheridan and master artists Bob Quinn (Knights of X, Black Cat Social Club) and John J. Hill (Vanish, Crossover) are proud to present a fantastic nightmare years in the making.
The Devil That Wears My Face TP
Writer: David Pepose
Artist: Alex Cormack
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Equal parts Face/Off and The Exorcist, Ringo Award-winning writer David Pepose (Moon Knight: City of the Dead, Savage Avengers) and Bram Stoker Award-nominated artist Alex Cormack (Sea of Sorrows, The Crimson Cage) conjure a harrowing tale of terror, action, and body-swap intrigue that will leave comic readers at the edge of their seats.
The year is 1740, and the Vatican is in turmoil. Grappling with a profound crisis of faith, outcast exorcist Father Franco Vieri is dispatched on a mission of grave importance – to rescue a Spanish nobleman from the clutches of the sadistic demon known as Legion. But when the exorcism goes tragically wrong, Vieri finds himself trapped in a stranger’s body… and learns what horrors lie ahead when the Devil wears his face.
