New comic day is only a few days away and with a number of titles releasing it can be difficult to decide which comics you should pickup. So we are here to help. This week we preview They Choose Violence #1, Benjamin #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 June 18, 2025.
They Choose Violence #1
Writer: Sheldon Allen
Artist: Mauricio Campetella
Publisher: AWA Studios
Laneka, Deidre and Karen, three HBCU besties turned professional career women, enraged by the systemic injustice plaguing their community, band together to form a vigilante squad that targets White Supremacists deemed to have circumvented the justice system and gotten away with protected murder. Serving up grisly justice in increasingly creative ways, the vigilante posse becomes front-page news while always staying one step ahead of the law. It’s liberating, it’s addictive and it’s kinda fun – until a copycat killer emerges whose signature contains a special message to them. “They Choose Violence” asks what happens when you go down the dark, unforgiving road of revenge? What happens when the only path forward is escalation? There’s no turning back now – for anyone.
Benjamin #1
Writer: Ben H. Winters
Artist: Leomacs
Publisher: Oni Press
In one L.A. motel room, a cosmic quest is about begin… Edgar Award nominee and Philip K. Dick Award-winner Ben H. Winters (EC’s Cruel Universe, The Last Policeman Trilogy) and rising star Leomacs (EC’s Epitaphs from the Abyss, Refrigerator Full of Heads) unravel a three-part, prestige format series exploring the hallucinatory second life of a brilliant author who imagined our desperate future but never imagined he’d become part of it…
More than just a writer, more than just a science-fiction icon, Benjamin J. Carp was a cultural revolutionary. Across 44 novels and hundreds of short stories-including the counterculture classic The Man They Couldn’t Erase-Carp pushed the boundaries of literary respectability for the sci-fi genre and his readers’ perception of reality itself…until decades of amphetamine abuse and Southern California excess finally ended a mind-bending career that always just escaped mainstream success. He died in 1982.
Until 2025 . . . when Benjamin J. Carp awakens, alive, in a burned-out motel on the fringes of Los Angeles. He remembers dying. He knows he shouldn’t exist. Is he a dream? A robot? A ghost? A clone? A simulation? In his own time, Carp pondered all of these scenarios intensely through his fiction-and, now, as he treks from Studio City to Venice Beach and onward into the paranoid sprawl of 21st-century Los Angeles, he will be called to investigate his greatest mystery yet: himself.
In the tradition of Philip K. Dick’s A Scanner Darkly and Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice comes a uniquely fascinating and hilariously deranged excursion into the metatextual nexus where existence and oblivion, past and future, genius and madness, and glitter and grim reality all meet just beyond Hollywood Boulevard…
Bloodletter #1
Writer: Joseph P. Illidge, Tim Seeley
Artist: Christian Rosado
Publisher: Image Comics
Tasha Thornwall is The Bloodletter, mystical mercenary of the world’s secret underground. A former CIA operative forced to live in the shadows after being outed by Al Simmons 10 years ago, Tasha is now out for revenge when she learns Al Simmons is alive as Spawn. The mission to hunt down and kill Spawn begins in this debut miniseries by Joseph P. Illidge (DC Comics’ The Shadow Cabinet) and Tim Seeley (Hack/Slash, Local Man, Nightwing), along with the incredible art talents of Christian Rosado.
Star Trek: Omega #1
Writer: Christopher Cantwell, Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing
Artist: Various
Publisher: IDW Publishing
Two and a half years of comics spanning 60 years of Star Trek history, a fair few awards, and more than a few universe detonations, and it’s all been coming to this…
Star Trek: Omega is the denouement of the critically acclaimed Star Trek and Star Trek: Defiant storylines, and the first glimpse at all that comes next. The crews of the Theseus, Defiant, and Enterprise set to work restoring the universe to what it should be after the evil android Lore’s intervention. Each hero finds their peace in preordained or unexpected ways, with individual scenes depicted by one of Star Trek’s or Defiant’s mainline artists!
The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night #1
Writer: James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal
Artist: Isaac Goodhart
Publisher: Dark Horse
A new school year begins for Christopher Chaos and his friends as he finds himself divided from his mentor, Adam Frankenstein, and searching for answers outside of any textbook. But when a dangerous, new monster arrives in New Briar City with a mysterious hunter on his trail, a strange case develops that only Christopher can solve! Will the Monster Club survive their latest foe or will they be torn apart—piece by bloody piece?
This issue introduces the Chaosverse’s Dr. Henry Jekyll and a brand-new monster hunter known only as Helbound!
Where Monsters Lie Volume 2: Cull-de-Sac TP
Writer: Kyle Starks
Artist: Piotr Kowalski
Publisher: Dark Horse
Come join us, friends, for it’s time to visit another gated community for slashers and meet a new cast of horrible monsters as we return to the world of Where Monsters Lie. Connor Hayes, final girl turned apex monster hunter, has been brought to Site B and expected to be a good little killer, but will he cooperate? And what sort of bone-tingling secrets inhabit this new horror hamlet?
Welcome to Site C! Home of hillbilly slashers, backwoods cannibals, and all the rural killers. I’m sure everything will be perfectly fine here.
Seasons TP
Writer: Rick Remender
Artist: Paul Azaceta
Publisher: Image Comics
Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn are the Seasons Sisters, the daughters of the world-renowned Seasons Detectives. Ten years ago, their famous parents disappeared. Left to raise themselves, the sisters formed an unbreakable bond. Now that bond is tested as the sisters fall prey to sinister forces. The youngest sister, Spring, is the last hope of saving them from a fate worse than death. Will Spring be able to piece her shattered family back together before it’s too late for them all?
Rick Remender (Black Science) and Paul Azaceta (Outcast) weave an elevated tale of whimsical horror unlike anything ever experienced in comics and it all starts here! Perfect for fans of boundary-breaking horror in all forms.
Kill Them All HC
Writer: Kyle Starks
Artist: Kyle Starks
Publisher: Oni Press
A betrayed assassin will stop at nothing to get revenge. A hard drinking disgraced former cop just wants to get his thankless job back. For either to get what they want, they’re going to have to fight their way from lobby to penthouse, through wave after relentless wave of merciless criminals, assassins, drug lords, murderers, and even . . . accountants [shudder], until there’s no one left standing. In short: KILL. THEM. ALL.
