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 Out of Alcatraz #1, The Last Boy #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 March 19, 2025.
Out of Alcatraz #1
Writer: Christopher Cantwell
Artist: Tyler Crook
Publisher: Oni Press
Convicts Frank Morris and Clarence Anglin have washed ashore in San Francisco after surviving their infamous escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary in June 1962. They soon meet their gruff and disappointed handler, a mysterious young woman who’s also running from something, and hope to quickly get their way north to the border – if they can even make it out of Modesto alive. As a dogged federal manhunt and chance encounters threaten the desperate convicts, everyone involved is about to discover the same bloodstained truth: life on the run is an even more hellish prison than Alcatraz could have ever been.
The Last Boy #1
Writer: Dan Panosian
Artist: Alessio Avallone
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Years after Peter Pan’s adventures with Wendy Darling, the boy who wouldn’t grow up is now the last one in Neverland still clinging to his adventurous youth.
Meanwhile in London, Wendy also yearns for childhood and its freedom from responsibility as she rails against the transition to adulthood and her family’s expectations.
As their desires create a mirror of fantasy and reality, a disastrous encounter with the aging Captain Hook becomes the catalyst for Peter’s realization that Neverland is growing up without him.
But will the two of them find each other once again to carry on their age-old adventures… or is this truly the final threshold of their adolescence in this modern take on a classic tale from legendary writer Dan Panosian (Alice Never After, Canary), and rising star artist Alessio Avallone!
Red Sonja Attacks Mars #1
Writer: Jay Stephens
Artist: Fran Strukan
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
New master of horror comics, Jay Stephens (Dwellings, Tales From The Abyss) and Red Sonja / Mars Attacks artist Fran Strukan stir some adventure and dark comedy into a cauldron of ancient Hyborian terrors!
While serving out a life-debt, Red Sonja uncovers a sinister prophesy of cosmic foulness from beyond the stars and must trek from the deserts south of Hyrkania all the way to the northern shores of the Vilayet Sea to face down the insidious invaders from Mars. Serpent-Men! Undead Martians! Gender swapping! Apemen! Metamorlocks! Martian Pirates! Angry ancient Monster-Gods! An owl with a human face!… don’t miss this retro-scifi/fantasy epic that is sure to take you places you didn’t imagine were possible.
ThunderCats: Lost #1
Writer: Ed Brisson
Artist: Rapha Lobosco
Publisher: Dynamite Entertainment
After being shot down in the middle of a war zone, five Thunderan warriors are fighting for their lives. Together they face a horde of heavily armored soldiers, and the team’s only hope is to somehow break through their lines to reach the wreckage of their ship.
Such overwhelming odds will strain their abilities to the absolute limit. But even if Pumyra, Lynx-0, Shen, Ligon, and their hammer-wielding commander Bengali make it out alive, will they still be able to complete their mission? And even more important: who is the mysterious antagonist who is hunting them and what is his connection to the Book of Omens?
Author Ed Brisson and artist Rapha Lobosco, the celebrated creative team behind ThunderCats: Apex, present a never-before-seen side of the ThunderCats universe in ThunderCats: Lost #1 featuring extravagantly intriguing covers from an all-star roster of talent, including Felipe Massafera, Clayton Henry, Declan Shalvey, Mark Bagley, and Jae Lee & June Chung!
Minor Arcana Vol. 1 TP
Writer: Jeff Lemire
Artist: Jeff Lemire
Publisher: X
New York Times bestselling and award-winning cartoonist Jeff Lemire brings his first solo longform project since Sweet Tooth to BOOM! Studios, bringing with him an iconic protagonist rooted in the Tarot!
Theresa’s mother has fallen ill, and as a young bitter misanthrope, returning to her hometown to take care of her phony psychic of a mom is the last thing on Theresa’s bucket list.
But when Theresa finds out that she may have psychic powers of her own, it will be up to her to reconcile with her ailing mother, confront the failures of her past, and help the townsfolk she’d spent her life running from not so long ago…
Iconic storyteller Lemire (Descender, Black Hammer) debuts his first project at BOOM! Studios with this heart-gripping supernatural story about life, family, community, grief, mortality, and the power of human connection.
Kosher Mafia TP
Writer: David Hazan
Artist: Sami Kivelä
Publisher: Mad Cave Studios
In Cleveland, Ohio, in 1936, Howard Berkowicz, the bookkeeper for the Jewish Mob finds himself on the wrong end of an enforcer’s gun when he tries to spur the Kosher Mafia into action against the rising tide of domestic Nazism in the German American Bund.
