Welcome to the November 18-24, 2024 edition of New This Week, where we feature new arrivals and updated series hitting the digital shelves of GlobalComix.
Below are new arrivals coming on board this week, including titles from Andrews McMeel Publishing, Image Comics, GUNGNIR, Vault Comics, and two independent creators.
Monday, November 18, 2024
Doonesbury: Long Road Home - Updated Series
After losing his leg—and his trademark helmet—B.D. returns home from Iraq to begin a remarkable journey of healing in this Doonesbury book. On a road outside Fallujah, an RPG blows apart a Humvee and upends the life of a former football star named B.D. As a medevac chopper swoops down, the wounded Guardsman hears “Not your time, bro. Not today”. The Long Road Home: One Step at a Time chronicles seven months of cutting-edge cartooning, during which B.D.—and readers of the strip—experienced the kind of personal transformation no one seeks.B.D. survives first-response Baghdad triage, evacuation to Landstuhl, and visits by innumerable celebs, both red and blue in hue.
Henry Hare #116 - Updated Series
Henry Hare, the best blacksmith in the world, is exiled from his village (Deserved), so, since he's at it, he decides to follow and protect a child, Larry Berry, a kid naive to the dangers of the world but with the heart of a hero. Both will face danger, meet enemies, friends and in bewteen. All to save Larry's village, which is suffering from a terrible and mysterious curse, which is taking the life of his mother and many others.
Tuesday, November 19, 2024
Grommets #1-2 - New Arrival
The Grommets’ big day out! After some fine dining at the Bell, Rick and Brian meet up with the Jens to skate a parking garage. They’ll face security guards, jock thugs, and wipeouts in a classic day of unsupervised danger, fun, and adventure in the lives of 80s suburban latchkey kids.
Wednesday, November 20, 2024
The Wrong Man #33 - Updated Series
After getting on the wrong plane, England born Rigel Adams finds himself floundering in unfamiliar America trying to make enough money for a flight back home. Follow the exploits of this nervous office worker as he stumbles his way through day to day activities that don't always go quite right in this silly short gag comedy! Updates Wednesdays. Occasional Crude Humor!
Mutant Cats (Verticals) #16 - Updated Series
Flux is just your everyday cat, a supervisor at Mutant Labs, clawing his way through corporate life and a hairball of a marriage. His team? Muse, a genius with a phobia of risks, and Sphinky, the intern whose elevator doesn't quite hit the top floor. Their latest brainchild? The Cluster, a device that's a hop, skip, and a jump away from either lighting up the city or blowing up the space-time continuum. After unleashing cosmic chaos, complete with dimension-hopping apes and a beast named Mukonga, it's a race through the absurd to patch up the universe.
Thursday, November 21, 2024
Submerged (Verticals) - New Arrival
On the night of the biggest storm in New York City history, Elysia Puente gets a call from her estranged little brother Angel, terrified, begging for help. When the call cuts out suddenly, despite the bad feelings between them, Ellie rushes into the night. Finding his broken phone in front of a barricaded subway station, Ellie follows echoes of her brother into the sinister darkness of the underground, desperate to find him before it’s too late.
Friday, November 22, 2024
Free Agents #1-3 - New Arrival
THE RETURN OF SUPERSTAR! The trail of the stolen Breach-tech leads the FREE AGENTS to Los Angeles…and they smack into a confrontation with the celebrity hero SUPERSTAR, who isn’t wild about extra-dimensional aliens busting stuff up on his turf. And hey, is that RADIANT BLACK sniffing around the AGENTS, too? What’s that all about? Also shipping this month: A new edition of SUPERSTAR: AS SEEN ON TV , the graphic novel by the FREE AGENTS ’ own KURT BUSIEK and (literal) superstar artist STUART IMMONEN!
Saturday, November 23, 2024
Cathy: I'd Scream Except I Look So Fabulous - Updated Series
America’s favorite comic strip heroine navigates the perils of being a modern woman in this hilarious collection. By now, we’re all familiar with Cathy’s battles among the four basic guilt groups: food, Mom, love, and career. Women can identify with Cathy Guisewite’s hilarious portrayal of the universal struggles of modern femininity. A confirmed chocoholic, Cathy often consoles herself with one more trip to the fridge, then pays for it with frightening excursions in department store dressing rooms. Mom pushes Cathy to find the man who will give her grandchildren. As for her career, Cathy struggles to be a superstar, even though her desk looks like a disaster area.In fact, Cathy’s all-too-recognizable life is what endears her to devoted readers.
Cathy: Wedding of Cathy and Irving - Updated Series
Relive the romantic story of the engagement and marriage of one of America’s most endearing comic-strip heroines in this collection.“The comic-strip character Cathy, one of America’s most famous single career women, finally got married to her hapless longtime boyfriend, Irving—and on Valentine’s Day, no less. It’s the end of an era-or was it?” —USA Today“YES.” Rarely has one word, one positive response, resonated so loudly from the world's comic pages. But when leading lady Cathy finally took the plunge—after nearly 30 interminable years!—and accepted boyfriend Irving's marriage proposal, the occasion certainly deserved notice among Cathy fans around the globe.
Sunday, November 24, 2024
Chupacabra (Verticals) - New Arrival
Hi it’s me, Alessandra, you can call me Sanny though, wait, don’t think that’s because we’re close or anything, I just don’t want to hear you butcher the rolling R in my name thats all. Anyhow I guess you're wondering why you're here, how did we even meet? You know I’m just a high school senior right? I know, impressive, but stay with me, I’m trying to uncover the truth about these strange occurrences, these strange coincidences happening in my home town of East Valley.
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BeltofOrion 9 months ago
Thank you for the feature!
ArtCrumbs admin 9 months ago
@BeltofOrion You're very welcome!
Huntsman 9 months ago
Oh yes, more Verticals to the God of Verticals! Amen!🥳🥰❤️