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 White Boat #1, Blood Squad Seven #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 May 22, 2024.
White Boat #1
Writer: Scott Snyder
Artist: Francesco Francavilla
Publisher: DSTLRY
New series debut from the acclaimed team behind Detective Comics and Night of the Ghoul comes a modern horror classic!
White Boats are the mega-yachts that the super-rich use to traverse the globe-floating islands where your every desire can be fulfilled. And getting invited on board one should be a dream come true…that is until the crew traps and transports you to a remote island where secret cults have existed for millennia, working on something called “The Human Project.” Does the White Boat ship you to paradise or sink you into hell on earth?
White Boat reunites Scott Snyder, the visionary writer who redefined comic book dread with Wytches and introduced Batman into a terrifying, cerebral era, with modern noir master Francesco Francavilla for a white-knuckle descent into Lovecraftian maritime madness!
For fans of Hereditary, The Host, Jurassic Park and The Island of Dr. Moreau.
Blood Squad Seven #1
Writer: Joe Casey
Artist: Paul Fry
Publisher: Image Comics
Thirty years ago, they were America’s premiere celebrity superhero team. Seen on television, on tabloid magazine covers, scoring million-dollar endorsement deals…they were everywhere! Now, a new generation takes up the mantle-or perhaps, the poisoned chalice-fulfilling a promise made decades ago: to be the heroes that a fractured America needs!
The Butcher’s Boy #1
Writer: Landry Walker
Artist: Justin Greenwood
Publisher: Dark Horse
Deep within the backroads of the Pacific Northwest, an entire town fell victim to the brutal cleaver of the Butcher of La Perdita. But that was more than a hundred years ago, and in that time the generational nightmare of murder and meat has been reduced to morbid clickbait folklore for bored travelers to share online.
And yet some say the Butcher still haunts the streets at night, seeking fresh meat for his larder. A true Lovecraftian horror? Or just the feverish dreams of a mentally unstable serial killer. Six friends on a road trip are about to find out…
Union Jack the Ripper: Blood Hunt #1
Writer: Cavan Scott
Artist: Kev Walker
Publisher: Marvel
Union Jack Paints the UK Red!
As vampires inherit the Earth, one lone man has made it his mission to protect it. But what does Joey Chapman, Union Jack have up his sleeves? And will it be enough? And who will Union Jack have to face to keep London from falling? Cavan Scott and Kev Walker bring you a Union Jack story like you’ve never seen before!
Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1
Writer: Stephanie Phillips
Artist: Federica Mancin
Publisher: Marvel
Trapped in the 616…for good!
Welcome to New York! Gwen truly becomes a Ghost-Spider when she moves full time to the universe where Gwen Stacy died years ago. But why did she leave Earth-65? Why aren’t the other spiders supposed to know she’s here? Why isn’t she supposed to suit up? And who will get hurt when she does?
Ribbon Queen TP
Writer: Garth Ennis
Artist: Jacen Burrows
Publisher: AWA Studios
There is something ancient and terrible loose in the world of men. Something that hates them with burning passion, that bears a grudge born of ten thousand years. Something that wants its revenge.
NYPD Detective Amy Sun has a problem: Three years ago, a young woman was rescued from a serial killer by a police tactical unit. Now she’s dead, and Amy has a bad feeling that the SWAT team leader is responsible. As she investigates the existence of a corrupt cabal within her own precinct, Detective Sun soon discovers that there is something else on their trail – a force of vengeance older than the human race itself has awoken, invoked by the tormented murder victim in the weeks before she died, and is out for the blood of the guilty, who soon find themselves suffering a fate more gruesome than anything they could have dreamed of. The Ribbon Queen has come to New York City…and when she learns the truth, Amy is not at all certain that it should be stopped.
A Haunted Girl TP
Writer: Ethan Sacks, Naomi Sacks
Artist: Marco Lorenzana
Publisher: Image Comics
The fate of all life on Earth depends on a girl who doesn’t know if she wants to live! Cleo, a 16-year-old adopted Japanese-American whose anxiety and depression drive her to suicidal thoughts, is fresh out of the hospital and trying unsuccessfully to reintegrate back into her old life. What she doesn’t know is that her real struggles are just beginning, as she finds herself encountering an increasingly terrifying succession of ghosts. Is she losing her grip on reality… or is the explanation much, much worse? A Haunted Girl is a horror story that explores the real-life terror that comes with the struggles of anxiety and depression.
Blood Commandment TP
Writer: Szymon Kudranski
Artist: Szymon Kudranski
Publisher: Image Comics
Living an isolated life in a shadowed valley surrounded by mountains and a thick forest, a father and son are terrorized by a dangerous supernatural presence. Only the father’s dark secrets can save them… or damn their souls for all eternity! Being a single father can be tough, but for Ezra Connolly, it’s a duty he doesn’t take lightly. Living off-grid, away from prying eyes, in the heart of forest country, he spends his days teaching his teenage son Wil survival skills. But Wil has questions, questions Ezra fears to answer-about his past, and about why they never leave the valley before sundown.
