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 Uncanny Valley #1, Rat City #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 April 10, 2024.
Uncanny Valley #1
Writer: Tony Fleecs
Artist: Dave Wachter
Publisher: BOOM! Studios
Oliver is a seemingly typical 12 year old boy…except for a mysterious family history that seems to start and end with his mother, and unexplainable powers, that is.
He can do things other boys can’t, to the point of landing him in some trouble. Baffled by the surreal cartoonish nature of his abilities and followed by a murder of peculiar crows, the mystery behind Oliver’s family history finally unfolds!
Written by fan-favorite writer Tony Fleecs (Stray Dogs, Local Man) and illustrated by acclaimed artist Dave Wachter (Punisher, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), discover what makes Oliver special and strange as he searches for his place in the world.
Rat City #1
Writer: Erica Schultz
Artist: Ze Carlos
Publisher: Image Comics
The EXTRA-LENGTH first issue of Rat City has finally arrived. Peter Cairn is an ex-soldier, an amputee, and a Hellspawn in a post-war future. But Peter’s not dead like Al. Peter got his Spawn powers from the nanites in his prosthetic legs-nanites that were affected when Al Simmons initiated his necroplasmic detonation in the present. Al had no clue that the effects would ripple across not just space, and but time as well.
Deadweights #1
Writer: Tyrone Finch
Artist: Sebastian Piriz
Publisher: Ahoy Comics
Is this another exciting new superhero universe? No-just a buddy comedy about two unlucky henchmen trying to make their way in the world! Deadweights takes a hard look at what happens after the fight when the villains are tired of being villains, and the heroes aren’t as heroic as they want you to think. Featuring the first of six “mug shot” incentive covers by Richard Pace (Second Coming), which will form a linked image.
Monsters are my Business #1
Writer: Cullen Bunn
Artist: Patrick Piazzalunga
Publisher: Dark Horse
From the co-creator of The Sixth Gun and Harrow County comes a new action horror comedy! Meet Tanner “Griz” Grisholm. Along with a shrewd necromancer who wants him dead and a chainsaw-wielding koala bear named Cuddles, as he wages a bloody war against nightmares from beyond time and space. It’s thankless work, but someone has to do it. And when a group of government contractors go missing in the nightmare landscape of the Flooded Zone, Griz stumbles into a mystery he may not be able to carve his way out of. His old biker pals, the Howling Gargoyles, are up to no good, and the memories might be too much for Griz to handle.
Spawn: Unwanted Violence TP
Writer: Todd McFarlane
Artist: Mike Del Mundo
Publisher: Image Comics
Spawn: Unwanted Violence is a gripping two-part miniseries that combines the writing of Todd McFarlane and the stunning art of Mike Del Mundo, with bonus behind-the-scenes extras. Spawn faces a moral dilemma witnessing senseless violence, while THE FREAK uncovers “File F.” As tension rises and police target SPAWN, he has to inevitably confront morality and the essence of good and evil.
