As new comic day quickly approaches it can be sometimes difficult to decide which of the new comics hitting the shelves at your local comic shop to grab. Do not worry, we are here to help. This week we preview four titles that standout from the crowd including Coffin Girls #1, You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive #1, and more!
While we are not the official voice of your decision, we want to help guide you in the right direction for comics releasing October 14, 2026.
Coffin Girls #1
Writer: Joseph Schmalke, Megan Hutchison
Artist: Joseph Schmalke, Megan Hutchison
Publisher: Midnight Factory Press
New Orleans, 1732. Three women arrive against their will. The city has no idea what it has brought in.
Coffin Girls is a paranormal Gothic series set in colonial New Orleans — a world built on stolen labor, on the bodies of women, on flesh bought and sold. Three women bound by circumstance and a reawakened ancient evil, are about to unleash a nightmare the likes of which the city has never seen.
Presented as a stunning flipbook in black, white, and pink. Side A is written and illustrated by Joseph Schmalke (Seven Years In Darkness, We Don’t Kill Spiders, Murder Hobo). Side B is written and illustrated by Megan Hutchison (Hello Darkness, Rockstars, Archie Comics: Judgement Day).
You’ll Never Leave This Place Alive #1
Writer: Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly
Artist: Heather Vaughan
Publisher: IDW Publishing / IDW Dark
Five friends. Four houses. One perfect life.
Phoebe Joplin has never questioned the world her parents built: a secluded community where she and her friends were raised to be smarter, stronger, and better than anyone else. No distractions. No dangers. No secrets.
Until the night of their graduation.
When one of them dies under impossible circumstances, Phee starts to pull at the edges of her perfect life — and finds something far more terrifying than she ever imagined.
Because this place isn’t a sanctuary.
It’s a cage.
And no one who discovers the truth ever leaves it alive.
From Eisner-nominated writers Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly and rising horror artist Heather Vaughan, this paranoia-laced, socially conscious horror mystery will leave you questioning reality… and reveal that this crafted world is more of a nightmare than the idealistic dream its residents were expecting.
Hammer Head #1
Writer: Ed Brisson
Artist: Damian Couceiro
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
For 20 years, Jules has been hiding from her past. As the only survivor of the Hammer Head killing-spree, she carries the guilt and trauma of having watched as everyone she loved was brutally murdered. Every couple of years, Hammer Head rises from the dead to continue his reign of terror anew, and with each repeated massacre, Jules falls deeper into the warm embrace of her own dark coping mechanisms. When she’s thrown into prison with no trial and no hope, Jules finds herself part of a dark ritual built to force her back into the past that she’s spent her life trying to escape.
Co-creators, writer Ed Brisson (Predator, Old Man Logan, Ghost Rider) and artist Damian Couceiro (Wolverine & Kitty Pryde, X-Force, Old Man Logan) team up once again to bring you the ultimate horror throwback.
Venom #1
Writer: Charles Soule
Artist: Tommaso Bianchi
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Eddie Brock and Venom are reunited — and it feels so good! After years apart, once again THEY ARE VENOM, and Eddie is not going to let this opportunity go to waste. He is determined to be the ultimate host for the symbiote and be the hero he knows he can be… and he’s not going to let any other super heroes say otherwise! Writer Charles Soule (Daredevil, Star Wars) and artist Tommaso Bianchi (Daredevil/Punisher: The Devil’s Trigger, Thunderbolts) bond together to bring us this story of two becoming one!
