Andrea’s Outlaw Picks for 10.22.2025
Hey, Comic Shop Friends! A reminder that we prerecorded our usual Tuesday night new release video (because we were at the 100th NEO-TACC meetup), so it’s up on Facebook and YouTube if you need to take a look!
This Saturday, come out to the shop and Trick or Treat! We have free Trick or Read comics to give out to those in costume, or if you make a purchase, and of course we’ll have candy! And it’s no trick; we’ll have back issues at 50% off all day Saturday too! This will be the only time back issues will be half off until our Black Friday Sale so get yourself a treat!
MARVEL COMICS
Here’s the four new Age of Revelation tie-ins this week!
Even if Logan is lost, the world still needs a Wolverine. Wendigo was Logan’s last student, and he wants to uphold his mentor’s legacy. Moving far away from the reach of the X-Virus, and far from what Logan has become, Wendigo takes his place as a hero. The people of Vancouver know that the Wonderful Wolverine is there to protect the city! But a secret from Wolverine’s past is about to show up, and may destroy the life the Last Wolverine has built. If you’re missing some Alpha Flight action, this’ll be the book for you! Written by Saladin Ahmed, with art by Edgar Salazar.
Quentin Quire is teaching a group of kids with psychic abilities to become Revelation’s elite spy network. They’re silently watching and taking down rebels in the Revelation Territories, but there’s something Quentin is not seeing, even with his Omega level powers. He believes he’s fully in control, but these kids may prove to be stronger than he knows. Does he have what it takes to carry the mutant utopia dream into the future, or will the next generation replace the former revolutionary? Tony Flees takes Omega X years into the future with artist Andres Genolet.
Unfriendly and unstable! Look out! Here comes that Radioactive Spider-Man! To hold off the effects of the X-Virus, Peter Parker is dosing himself with lethal radiation, and while it may not kill him, it sure is messing him up. But no matter what it does to him, he’s still determined to protect those living in New York. Even though Highside is home to “pure” mutants and favored by Revelation, there are still citizens in Lowtown that need Spider-Man’s help. He and Dr. Cecilia Reyes are doing what they can to take care of their own. When Revelation’s police force decide that what’s hidden in a lab belongs to them, they’ll learn that the Radioactive Spider-Man vow to protect the city includes them, and that some things are locked away for a reason. From writer Joe Kelly and artist Kev Walker.
After the assassination of one of his prized Choristers (Read the X-Men: Age of Revelation Overture to find out more!), Revelation has welcomed a new mutant to fill the vacancy. Fabian Cortex is not happy about another Chorister, and is not hiding his hate of young Elbecca Voss. She’s scared and unsure about her new position. But that’s not the only thing she should be scared of… The Ghost of Philadelphia is haunting the city, and is focusing on Elbecca. With Revelation receiving a delegation from Arrako, and a message from Apocalypse, the mutant utopia is threatened. This is the title that’s focused on Revelation’s narrative, and writer Jed MacKay and artist Netho Diaz are showing the cracks starting to break apart his reign.
DC COMICS
The three DC K.O. tie-ins this week, Flash #26, Justice League Unlimited #12, and Superman #31, are giving us the perspective of what’s happening on Earth while the champions are heading into the gauntlet.
Superman tasks Lexcorp and Mercy with building a dozen Superships to help evacuate the planet, but on launch Lois decides to take hers on a little detour. She knows from her adventure with Jor-El that he and his simulation can’t be trusted, so to get the information about Darkseid and the Heart of Apokolips Superman and the Justice League need, Lois is going to dig until she gets the truth. If she gets the information she needs, will it be enough to help the heroes? How will she get it to Superman? Written by Joshua Williamson with art by Eddy Barrows and Eber Ferreira.
The Speed Force is hurting. Darkseid is coming. Impulse has an idea, but before Wally can stop him, he’s off into the past. The timestream may have been slowed down, but that’s nothing to Darkseid. He knows they’re coming. Now Impulse is on the run through time, and his actions are already changing the present, and past. Can Wally catch up to him in time, before the Impulsepoint changes everything. Written by Mark Waid and Christopher Cantwell, with art by Vasco Georgiev.
The lower-level villains that weren’t sealed off in the Phantom Zone are starting to wreak havoc on Earth. They’ve been given power-ups, but by who? Mr. Terrific suspects Uber-Demon Neron, and his plan: assemble a team of time-displaced heroes and head into hell! It’s the only way to save millions of people, and possibly send those displaced back to their original times. If they can survive hell … Mark Waid and Dan Mora present the Terrific Ten, and send them on a do-or-die mission!
New story arc! Guest artist Matias Bergara fills in for this two-issue story as Diana learns more of the mythology of the Amazons. She’s also learning that there is a price for her use of magic. Attacks are happening around the world by something that feels desperate and dark. Something that is bringing out anger and darkness in Diana. What is it? Where did it come from? Is it tied to Diana? “I cannot lose myself.” Another beautiful issue written by Kelly Thompson. This is a great jumping on point, but we’d all recommend that you start at the beginning if you haven’t read Absolute Wonder Woman.
SMALL PRESS COMICS
EC’s very first Western genre anthology! This giant-sized special celebrates revenge and retribution on the lawless frontiers of the Old West! Four tales of gunfighters, scoundrels, and more, featuring a classic EC story, “Colt Single Action Army Revolver” by Harvey Kurtzman and Jack Davis, originally published in Two-Fisted Tales #20. On the trail of bandits and murderers, a lawman and an orphaned Paiute girl head through the desert, but they’re in need of “Cool, Cool Water” in John Arcudi and Sebastian Cabrol’s opener. There’s a “Fire In the Hole” in Tony Moore’s tale of a man haunted by a coal mine collapse, and he cannot escape his part in it. Ann Nocenti and David Lapham may have “The Cure” as a snake oil salesman gets his comeuppance. Finally, the “Pony Express” never stops, and a messenger has to make his way across the country, past highwaymen, through war and more to deliver an urgent message.
Hello Halloween! Hello Darkness has summoned up a fresh batch of nightmares for this Halloween special one-shot. “The Graveyard Club” returns to throw a Halloween party in R.L. Stine and Carola Borelli’s story. Hack has both a one-pager and “Weegee”, about demons waiting to be released from a spirit board. Then it’s “Johnny Pumpkin Time”! Writer Shawn Patrick Boyd and artist Elijah Henry go viral with Johnny Pumpkin and his Yum Yum candy challenge! Just because you’re in America doesn’t mean you can ignore the traditions of your ancestors, as a family finds out in Megan Hutchinson’s “Samhain.” Finally, “Billy Pritzker Talked Too Much” and the town’s children listened. Now they’re on a spree of tricks and pranks, but they’ll learn there’s consequences to their chaos.
As we get closer to the end of October, we move closer to my second favorite holiday – Thanksgiving! I’m a sucker for a good (or not-so-good) Thanksgiving horror movie, so this one-shot comic from writer Mark Russell and artist Mauricet is right up my alley. The Turkeyneck Killer continues their murder spree, and for one family, it’s hitting close to home. Every family feels the strain around the holidays, dealing with traditions and expectations. Hiding secrets and putting on a different persona around relatives is normal at Thanksgiving, but for this family, the mask is about to crack. Not knowing how close they are to the killer, and how it has bound them together, one family secret leads to another, until it’s all fully out in the open.
