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 The Guy in the Chair #1, Athanasia OGN, 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 8, 2025.
The Guy in the Chair #1
Writer: Hannah Rose May, Utkarsh Ambudkar
Artist: Guillermo Sanna
Publisher: Dark Horse
In the blood-soaked world of assassins and spies, love has no place. Unfortunately for Abhi, a tactical analyst at a private military company, love is all he can think about. Against his employer’s strict policy, he’s fallen head over heels for Merlin, the field operative whose missions he supports as her “Guy in the Chair.”
When Merlin shows up at his apartment bloody, beaten, and pleading for help, Abhi is yanked from behind the safety of his computer screens, and now the two must prevent their former employer and a cabal of corporate overlords from a hostile global takeover that threatens all of humanity.
The Guy in the Chair is a unique new comic written by two passionate storytellers, Hannah Rose May and Utkarsh Ambudkar. With its fresh premise, seamless blend of spy-thriller and romantic comedy, and outstanding artwork by Guillermo Sanna and Dearbhla Kelly, this premiere issue sets the foundation for what is likely to be one of my favorite comics of the year. – CLICK HERE to read the entire review
High Strangeness: Book One: 1967
Writer: Daniel Noah, Chris Condon
Artist: Dave Chisholm
Publisher: Oni Press
SpectreVision, the genre-distorting production company co-founded by Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah, joins forces with Oni Press and a rotating cast of premier comics talents for an unprecedented excursion into High Strangeness—a brand-new series influenced by real, documented cases of paranormal phenomena, to reveal the liminal spaces where reality and hallucination and science and mythology give way to cosmic wonder and existential terror…
In the first double-sized, prestige format chapter: Writer, producer, and real-life experiencer Daniel Noah joins acclaimed writer Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine, That Texas Blood) and Ringo Award–winning artist Dave Chisholm (Plague House) for an unexpected encounter with the Men in Black…
Chicago, 1967. Magazine writer Harry Kean is dispatched to rural Indiana to investigate the sudden disappearance of Becky Plume, a local teenager who stepped into the national spotlight with staggering photographic evidence of a recent UFO sighting. Frustrated to leave his developing stories in Chicago—and the wife he’s hoping to win back—Harry sets off to expose a hoax but instead finds himself in a labyrinth of high strangeness involving a missing girl, her boyfriend, a UFO, and some mysterious black-clad visitors circling at the perimeter of a mystery more vast than Harry could possibly imagine.
Told across five interconnected, prestige-format issues that will interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale, each chapter of High Strangeness also includes a feature-length essay by podcaster and researcher Jim Perry (Euphomet) on the historical facts and documentary evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each issue.
Harley Quinn x Elvira #1
Writer: Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti
Artist: Amanda Conner, Juan Samu
Publisher: Dynamite
The Mistress of the Dark meets Daddy’s Little Monster!
What happens when the Clown Princess of Crime gets bored? Shenanigans, hijinks, grievous bodily harm… the possibilities are endless! Now add in a certain macabre-minded TV host who seems to attract trouble like crypts attract vampires, and the stage is set for the greatest team-up since Frankenstein met his Bride!
With her beloved show on the chopping block following a corporate takeover, Elvira needs to come up with a plan to get things back in the black – and her new friend Harley Quinn has an idea that’s just crazy enough to work! Together, they’re going to throw the greatest Halloween party Brooklyn has ever seen – whether the borough likes it or not!
Written by Amanda Conner and Jimmy Palmiotti — the world-famous tag-team of all things Harley Quinn — this crossover event for the ages from Dynamite and DC Comics also showcases Amanda’s fan-favorite artistic chops, with each issue featuring two (count ’em, two) Conner covers. And that’s not all (certainly not!) – she’s also joining interior artist (and Elvira favorite) Juan Samu to provide selected story pages for the series!
But wait, there’s more! This premier issue also includes darkly captivating covers from Joseph Michael Linsner, Chad Hardin, Ben Caldwell, and best-selling Mark Spears Monsters creator Mark Spears!
Athanasia OGN
Writer: Daniel Kraus
Artist: Dani
Publisher: Vault Comics
Forrest Molson is going nowhere. One year out of high school — and one year into sobriety — she’s working with her father as assistant groundskeeper at Athanasia Cemetery, the final resting place of fallen members of the Dynamic Guild, Venture City’s resident superheroes. At her lowest point, Forrest discovers Athanasia’s darkest secret. At night, the cemetery soil bleeds a substance created from the spectacular substances that ooze from rotting superheroes. This ooze becomes Forrest’s new drug — and she’s intent on using her unpredictable new powers to be judge, jury, and executioner of Venture City’s evil citizens. But as she loses her mind to her new addiction, she inches closer to becoming the most evil of all.
Athanasia stands alongside some of the great, dark superhero tales such as Watchmen, Black Hammer, and The Boys as another pillar in the ongoing dissection of the superhero story. This is a tale about happens after the cape is folded and the world moves on. It’s a brutal tale, that is also beautiful in its own twisted way. A superhero tale told through a dark lens for sure. Athanasia by Daniel Kraus and Dani is a must-read for those fans looking for a superhuman story outside of the everyday of the big two.
