Getting this done before the country officially goes to hell in 48 hours or so before the country officially starts going to hell seemed compelling for some reason. Sorry, optimism is not a word that seems realistic now. You’ll find part 2 over here.
People’s names listed in bold are either LGBT+ or supportive. Thanks where thanks is due – Andy Mangels because this was his idea and to Mike McDermott and Steven Leitman for their suggestions and input about several series that have been added to the list!
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ABSTRACT STUDIOS
MOTOR GIRL #4 $3.99 Page 268
Terry Moore
Vic and Larry try to bully Samantha into selling the junkyard, but Sam proves to be a formidable opponent, especially with the help of a few resident extraterrestrials! Motor Girl has won the hearts of comic readers. Don’t miss a single issue of this fun, heart-felt story.
AFTERSHOCK
ANIMOSITY Vol 1 $14.99 Page 274
Marguerite Bennett and Rafael De Latorre
One day, for no reason, the Animals woke up. They started thinking. They started talking. They started taking revenge. Collecting the first four issues of the best-selling series, plus the special one-shot issue Animosity: The Rise. The world is plunged into chaos as the newly-intelligent Animals fight humanity, and simply fight each other, for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. In the midst of the turmoil is Jesse, an 11-year-old girl, and her dog, Sandor, who is devoted to her and her protection. One year after the incident, Jesse and Sandor begin a cross-country journey to find Jesse’s half-brother, Adam, who is living in San Francisco. Don’t miss out on this fantastic first collection of the series Everyone is talking about!
INSEXTS #11 $3.99 Page 278
Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristiantine
Beauty. Intrigue. Treachery. Are the creatures lurking beneath the dark streets of Paris the real foes… or are Lady and Mariah the true dangers? And will those closest to the Insexts be harmed before an answer can be found? Another dose of bone-chilling horror from Marguerite Bennett and Ariela Kristantina.
ARCHIE
ARCHIE #18 $3.99 Page 2292
Mark Waid and Pete Woods
New Story Arc! The Blossom Twins have found out their father has been lying to them about why they moved to Riverdale. It’s up to Detective Jughead to learn the dark truth behind the Blossom Family! Join us as we welcome new Archie series artist Pete Woods [Kevin Keller is in the cast.]
THE ARCHIES $4.99 Page 296
Alex Segura, Matthew Rosenberg, and Joe Eisma
Brand New One-Shot Special! Follow Archie’s quest to make his songwriting dreams a reality, and see what happens when the rock ‘n’ roll dream starts affecting his relationships with his closest friends. Join co-writers Alex Segura and Matthew Rosenberg (Archie Meets Ramones) and artist Joe Eisma (Archie) for a power-pop one-shot that goes loud on the music, fun and friendship.
JOSIE & THE PUSSYCATS #5 $3.99 Page 292
Marguerite Bennett and Cameron Deordio
Josie and the Pussycats play at a State Fair! Josie has her sights set on recording with famous country star Cheri Overwood — but a newcomer to the music scene, Felicity Mountain, has stolen the Pussycats’ spotlight. The girls might just miss their chance at the big time, unless Josie, Valerie and Melody can unearth the shocking truth about the Felicity!
JUGHEAD: THE HUNGER $4.99 Page 296
Frank Tieri, Michael Walsh, and Robert Hack
Brand new one shot special! Jughead Jones has always had an insatiable appetite… but what if his hunger came from a sinister place? When a murderous menace is on the prowl, taking the lives of some of the most well-known and esteemed inhabitants of Riverdale, Jughead and his family’s dark legacy comes to light.
RIVERDALE #1 $3.99 Page 294
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Alitha Martinez
From Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and the writers of the new CW series Riverdale comes the first issue of the must-read, brand new, ongoing comic series! Set in the universe of the TV series, the Riverdale comic offers a bold, subversive take on Archie, Betty, Veronica, Josie & the Pussycats, and their friends, exploring small-town life and the darkness and weirdness bubbling beneath Riverdale’s wholesome facade. Features interior art by up-and-coming artist Alitha Martinez.
SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH ONE SHOT $4.99 Page 297
Katie Cook, Franco, and Andy Price
Brand New One-Shot Special! Sabrina is off to college for her first foray into “the real world.” After years of being protectively home schooled by her aunts, she is ready to experience friends, boys, and parties-but a shocking revelation will rock her world in a way she never expected!
AVATAR
PROVIDENCE #12 $4.99 Page 303
Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows
This is the issue when all you know changes. The finest horror work ever written comes to a conclusion you cannot imagine. All the threads are weaving into a tapestry of history re-imagined. Or was our history the fiction? Time to wake up, he who slumbers. This is Providence… or is this Yuggoth? Alan Moore’s masterpiece draws to a close, and nothing will be the same. Available with Regular, Pantheon, Portrait, Dreamscape Wraparound, Women of HPL, the painted Weird Pulp and a special Ancient Tome Incentive cover, all by collaborator Jacen Burrows. [The central character is gay.]
BLACK MASK
QUANTUM TEENS ARE GO #2 $3.99 Page 306
Magdalene Visaggio and Eryk Donovan
Well, things aren’t exactly getting better. Nat and Sumesh keep seeing strange figures everywhere – but nobody else is. What the hell is going on? Turning to some good old-fashioned DIY mad science to track down an answer, the kids get more — and less — than they bargained for
BOOM
ADVENTURE TIME #62 $3.99 Page 325
Mariko Tamaki and Ian McGinty
A contest is started to see who is the best Princess in all of Ooo!
BACKSTAGERS #8 $3.99 Page 324
James Tynion IV and Rian Sygh
Final issue! The crew has spent so much time in the backstage world that they haven’t gotten around to preparing anything for the show!
COADY AND THE CREEPIES #1 $3.99 Page 314
Liz Prince and Amanda Kirk
Punk isn’t dead…but Coady is. Coady, Criss, and Corey are sisters and bandmates in the band Coady and the Creepies. After a van accident leaves Corey badly scarred and Criss in a wheelchair, they’re getting back into the punk scene. But they still need to contend with the challenges of staying true to their punk ideals, while also dealing with the media attention they’ve attracted, as well as the tension surrounding the fact that Coady escaped the accident seemingly unscathed. Now on tour, they’re fighting their way through the (sometimes literal) battle of the bands, earning enamel pins, and heading for the gig of their lives…so long as no one realizes that Coady is actually a ghost
GOLDIE VANCE #10 $3.99 Page 323
Hope Larson, Jackie Bell, and Noah Haynes
Goldie joins the pit crew of the Prescription 1 race to investigate whether the racers, including Sugar, are being sabotaged.
GOLDIE VANCE Vol 2 $14.99 Page 320
Hope Larson and Brittney Williams
Sixteen-year-old Marigold “Goldie” Vance has an insatiable curiosity. She lives at a Florida resort with her dad who manages the place, and it’s her dream to one day become the hotel’s in-house detective. In this second story arc, Goldie investigates the mysterious appearance of a lady astronaut on the beach! Collects issues #5-8. (See the feature image up top!)
JONESY #11 $3.99 Page 323
Sam Humphries and Caitlin Rose Boyle
The only thing bigger than her hair is her personality! Jonesy keeps on dancing to the beat of her own electric-colored drum in the latest issue of this much-adored series.
JOYRIDE #11 $3.99 Page 322
Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Marcus To
Part one of the epic finale! They’ve gone to the edge of the galaxy and back, but the gang can’t run from their past forever. They must return to Earth and nothing will ever be the same.
LUMBERJANES #36 $3.99 Page 324
Shannon Watters, Kat Leyh, and Carolyn Nowak
The final round of the ‘Janes derby match turns into gauntlet derby, with swinging swords and spiked pits. Did anyone even read the rule book?!
MEGA PRINCESS #5 $3.99 Page 325
Kelly Thompson and Brianne Drouhard
Final issue! Max and Justine come face-to-face with the Evil Queen who’s been kidnapping princes and turning them into frogs!
MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #13 $3.99 Page 316
Kyle Higgins and Hendry Prasetyo
Storming the command center! Our remaining heroes will do all they can to get back their home and to save Zordon and Alpha 5.
STEVEN UNIVERSE #2 $3.99 Page 324
Melanie Gilman and Katy Farina
When the local business owners in Beach City start to feel the economic pinch during the tourist off-season, Mayor Dewey and Buck come up with a solution: food trucks!
THE WOODS #30 $3.99 POage 322
James Tynion IV and Michael Dialynas
As Karen, Ben, and Sander regroup to make one final assault on Isaac and the Black City, those left on Earth struggle with the recent revelations that the Bay Point students are still alive.
CHAPTERHOUSE
DIE, KITTY, DIE! Vol 1 $24.95
Dan Parent and Fernando Ruiz
The hit comic collected in a softcover! Kitty Ravencraft, a beautiful and magical young witch, is the star of her own popular comic book. When her greedy, publicity-starved publisher wants to in-crease in-terest in her comic book, he does what many comic book publishers do nowadays — he sets out to kill his main character, Kitty! Even worse, he decides to really spike sales by killing the real Kitty in real life! The question is though, how do you kill a witch?
D.E.
RED SONJA #3 $3.99 Page 358
Amy Chu and Carlos Gomez
Sonja reunites with her trusty sword with the help of her new friend NYPD cop Sir Max of Bushwick. Plus, the She-Devil finally comes face to face with her old foe, the evil sorcerer Kulan Gath, and gets some of her questions about this strange new world answered
WONDER WOMAN ’77 MEETS THE BIONIC WOMAN #4 $3.99 Page 360
Andy Mangels and Judit Tondora
We Rebuilt Them…Better, Faster, Stronger! In a brief respite from battle, Diana Prince and Jaime Sommers (The Bionic Woman) visit the exotic Paradise Island, where some familiar faces from the past greet them! Meanwhile, the evil cadre of villains are poised to strike, and their targets will shake our heroines to the core!
NBM
KERASCOET HC SET $55.00 Page 399
Hubert and Kerascoet
Specially priced set reuniting two perennially popular books with art by the amazing duo under the Kerascoet name. In “Beauty,” when Coddie unintentionally delivers a fairy from a spell that held her prisoner, she does not realize how poisoned the wish is she gets in return. From repulsive and stinking of fish she becomes perceived as magnetically beautiful, which does not help her in her village. In “Miss Don’t Touch Me,” the “Butcher of the Dances” is on the prowl for young loose women. Blanche works as a maid along with the only family she knows, her sister, fun-loving Agatha. Suddenly, Blanche loses her to what she saw was murder but others only write off as suicide. [A transgender character is among the cast in Miss Don’t Touch Me. I can’t speak whether Beauty does or not. These graphic novels are available separately.]
SUBLIME
DONT BE CRUEL AKIRA TAKANASHI STORY GN $12.99 Page 417
Yonezou Nekota
Polite and proper college student Akira Takanashi has a secret. Back in high school, he fell deeply in love with his teacher but was spurned. Now, whenever the pain of his heartbreak gets to be too much, he finds comfort in the arms of med student and notorious playboy Shimagawa-very adult comfort. Shimagawa would gladly go out with him, but Akira’s past heartbreak means he insists on keeping things strictly physical-that is, until his obsessed younger brother Jutta arrives to disrupt this comfortable routine!
FINDER DELUXE ED SECRET VOW GN Vol 8 $12.99 Page 417
Ayano Yamane
After Asami’s subordinate Sudo betrays him, Akihito attempts to chase Sudo down, only to wind up captured and at his mercy. Sudo’s fixation on Asami has only grown stronger with time, to the point of wanting him dead. But Sudo isn’t the only threat: another enemy appears on the horizon, gunning for the power Asami wields
TITAN
SHERLOCK: THE BLIND BANKER #3 $4.99 Page 428
Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss
The second incredible manga adaptation of the hit television series starring worldwide superstars Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
TORCHWOOD 2.4 #4 $3.99 Page 428
John Barrowman, Carol Barrowman, Antonio Fuso, and Pasquale Qualano
Written by Captain Jack himself — John Barrowman — and Carole Barrowman! Illustrated by Neil Edwards
VAULT COMICS
HEATHENS #2 $3.99 Page 338
Natasha Alterici
The viking warrior Aydis crosses hellfire to reach the Valkyrie Brynhild, only to discover that was the easy part. Actually setting Brynhild free from Odin’s curse is a whole other story. Meanwhile her talking horse Saga confronts the mystical wolves who will end the world.
