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 Minor Arcana #1, Duck and Cover #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 September 4, 2024.
Minor Arcana #1
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Theresa, the daughter of a small-town “psychic” fraud, returns home to care for her ailing mother, however begrudgingly.
But when Theresa discovers that there may be more to the magic than she originally believed, she’ll find herself caught up in a town that desperately needs her help…
One of the most renowned creators in comics, New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer and artist Jeff Lemire (Descender, Black Hammer) arrives at BOOM! Studios with an extra-length opening chapter of a must-read ongoing series inspired by, and intricately linked to, the tarot and perfect for fans of his creator-owned work as well as Helen of Wyndhorn and Locke & Key.
Duck and Cover #1
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Rafael Albuquerque
Publisher: Dark Horse
A manga-influenced teen adventure set in the strange post-apocalyptic America… of 1955. From the team behind the seminal Vertigo series American Vampire!
Prairie Gods #1
Writer: Shane Connery Volk
Artist: Shane Connery Volk
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
Created by the artist of Nottingham, Prairie Gods is The Twilight Zone meets Sin City.
Each self-contained issue centers on supernatural events and characters in and around the small prairie town of Broadacres. The series will resonate with fans of Hellboy, while the shifting genres and themes will appeal to fans of Westerns, crime, racecar movies, lost treasure serials, and war stories-with a dose of action throughout.
The first exhilarating story features Freddy Davis, a champion race car driver, who has returned home to Broadacres. He buys the abandoned speedway intending to race its only undefeated driver: the Devil himself.
What If Donald Duck Became Thor? #1
Writer: Riccardo Secchi
Artist: Lorenzo Pastrovicchio
Publisher: Marvel
Is this fowl worthy of the hammer of Thor?!
When Donald Duck chaperones Huey, Dewey and Louie on an archaeological trip to search for ancient Viking artifacts, he finds more than he bargained for when he comes across the stone ducks from Saturn preparing for an invasion. But everything changes when he discovers an enchanted cane that causes an egg-ceptional transformation, gifting him with the power of Thor! Can he learn how to use his new abilities in time to save Duckburg before he changes back? Find out in this mind-twisting retelling of The Mighty Thor’s thunderous origin!
Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay #1
Writer: Thomas Krajewski
Artist: Jason Muhr
Publisher: Marvel
A new zombie virus is unleashed…and Groot is patient zero!
Groot feels bad – not only because Rocket’s latest scheme put them firmly in the crosshairs of the Avengers, but also he’s just plain sick! Sap-dripping nose and all. Things go from bad to apocalyptic, however, after an ill-timed sneeze in Captain America’s face has unforeseeable consequences! Suddenly, Groot is being attacked by a horde of zombified Avengers, and only he and Hulk, with his impenetrable green skin, remain impervious. Now it’s up to these two heroes to team up and fight their way through a blighted New York City to Banner’s lab in Avengers Tower to find a cure before it’s too late. But can Groot keep the hero in check and on track, or will Hulk unleash his deadly might on the zombies they once called friends?
Autumn Kingdom #1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Christopher Mitten
Publisher: Oni Press
In the borderlands between imagination and reality, horror and fantasy, master storyteller Cullen Bunn (The Sixth Gun, Harrow County) and visionary artist Christopher Mitten (Hellboy & the B.P.R.D.) begin one family’s labyrinthine descent through a perilous forest where the local folklore is anything but a myth…
Bestselling author Andrew Kier found the perfect place to finish his latest dark-fantasy novel-an idyllic, remote cabin on the edge of a lush Swedish forest. His young daughters, Sommer and Winter, gleefully explore…until they happen upon a strange clearing of ancient statues: goblins, dwarves, elves, and a warrior queen mysteriously missing her swordhand and weapon. When something sinister follows the girls home and viciously snatches their parents in the night, the sisters’ only hope may be that ancient relic, lost in the forest underbrush, waiting for a new champion to take it up…
Feral Vol. 1 TP
Writer: Tony Fleecs
Artist: Trish Forstner
Publisher: Image Comics
Meet Elsie, Lord Fluffy Britches, and Patch: three indoor cats lost in the not-so-great outdoors during a nightmarish rabies outbreak. Without their humans to protect them, the cats must find their way home without getting eaten by the zombie-like horde of beasts on their tails. Don’t get scratched. Don’t get bit. Don’t become…feral.
Quick Stops Vol. 2 TP
Writer: Kevin Smith
Artist: Ahmed Raafat
Publisher: Dark Horse
Kevin Smith and his Secret Stash Press bring you the seedy, sexy, sensational origin of the Askewniverse’s sacred cow: Mooby the Golden Calf! Learn the udder truth about an American icon when a young podcaster tries to milk Mooby creator Nancy Goldruff for the bovine’s beginnings, only to meat a cow tale so shocking, it turns her brain to hamburger.
