Comics & Graphic Novels

Recent and Upcoming Comic & Graphic Novel Releases

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COMICS (COMING SOON, CURRENT & ON-GOING)

• Giant Size Criminal
  While we wait ever-so-patiently for the premiere of the TV series (now promised for NEXT year), Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips have thrown us a tasty bone: a special, one-off tale, “The High Roller,” featuring hapless Ricky Lawless involved in a slam-dunk that goes hopelessly awry, plus a tabletop RPG, a behind-the-scenes into the TV series from Brubaker, and an illustrated guide to the major players in this long-running series.
• The Peril Of The Brutal Dark: An Ezra Cain Mystery 
  DC Vertigo brings back the 2020 digital-only side gig of writer Chris Condon and artist Jacob Phillips, never completed until now, in a brand new six-part mini-series. It’s 1941 and NYC private eye Ezra Cain is on the case, hunting down a missing ancient artifact that a secret cult (with possible ties to the Nazis) also want to get their hands on. (February 2026, DC Vertigo).
• Americian Caper | Kindle it!
  Not a PI series, but this new monthly crime comic has Dan “Grand Theft Auto” Houser at the helm, with Lazlow and David “Stray Bullets” Lapham on hand to help deliver the twisted story of two Wyoming families on a collision course with a world of trouble that includes gobs of sex, violence, snake oil and stupidity. Only in America! (November 2025, Dark Horse)
• Death to Pachuco | Kindle it!
  A new five-issue miniseries, set against the backdrop of the infamous 1943 Zoot Suit clashes between US Navy sailors and Los Angeles’ Mexican-American youth. Local private eye Ricardo “Ricky” Tellez is on the hunt for the Sleepy Lagoon Killer, at a time when it’s just not a good time to be Hispanic — or to be asking too many questions. From the creative team of writer/letterer Henry Barajas, artist Rachel Merrill, and colorist Lee Loughridge, and a nifty first issue cover by… David Lapham. (October 2025, Image)
• Good As Dead | Kindle it!
  David Fucking Lapham again! This time writing and drawing his own jam, with some help from co-writer Maria Lapham. (Like, dude! Where ya been?). This new, noirish monthly revolves around the small town of Port Lindon, on an island nestled just south of the Canadian border, and connected to the rest of the world only through the Emissary Bridge… to Canada. Sheriff David Calhoun is in charge, or at least in theory. In reality, the town’s ready to explode, as generations of lies, corruption and dirty secrets are set to explode, and Calhoun, whether he acknowledges it or not, may not live long enough to stop it. (October 2025, Image)
• Spider-Man Noir | Kindle it!
  Yet another dip into the Marvel Multiverse, as 1930s-era private eye Peter Parker once again dons the fedora, trench coat and twin guns, to become Spider-Man Noir in a new five-issue mini-series. This time out, he’s hired by Gwen Stacey to investigate her father’s murder. It’s all prep for the upcoming TV show, set to make its debut in 2026. (October 2025)
• Blazer Annual 1976 | Buy the book
  A tongue-in-cheek anthology that serves as both spoof and tribute to the much-loved 1970s era of British comic magazines, featuring an array of pulpalicious stories, including a new adventure from private eyes Jack Derringer & So’n. This cheese stands alone. (September 2025)
• Los Monstruos
  James Robinson & Jesus Merino team up for this 4-issue mini-series from Dark Horse featuring 1950s hard-boiled big city eye Perry Cutter doing battle with vampires, mummies and various other monsters from the Universal Studio backlot. It helps, I guess, that Perry’s also a werewolf. No word yet on whether his hair is perfect. (May 2025).
• The Loose End | Kindle/ComiXology it!
  Los Angeles screenwriter Steve Hollis’s career is going down the tubes, when the mob comes a-calling. All he has to do is kill one of the biggest names in Hollywood… or else. Four slices of Tinseltown noir by Dave Dwonch and Travis Hymel, from the good folks at HardCase Crime and Titan Comics. (February 2025).
• Missing on the Moon | Kindle it!
  Back to the future? It’s 1997, and the moon has been colonized and industrialized by the Russians and the Americans for decades, when a billionaire’s young daughter goes missing. Ex-security expert turned cynical P.I. Daniel Schwinn is called upon to  finding the missing child, but there’s more going on than just a missing kid. The moon is not a nice place —it’s full of junkies, brutal security robocops, and national and corporate treachery. Written by Cory Crater, with art by Damian Couceiro. (December 2024, Mad Cave Studios)
• Black Hammer: Spiral City | Kindle/ComiXology it!
  Jeff Lemire’s oddly captivating, long-running Eisner-winning superhero fairy tale noir returns in this seven-part mini-series, bleaker than ever, with art by Teddy Kristiansen. Spiral City is, as always, well on its way to shit hole status, a cesspool of poverty, violence and despair, but our “hero,” perennially upbeat private eye Inspector Insector, a giant bug in a trench coat and fedora, is on the case. The first issue recaps past events for newbies dying to catch up, while the Inspector wanders the city, looking for work. (November 2024).

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