A curated guide to new comics hitting shelves this week, covering notable debuts and new story arcs. Highlighted new series include Time Before Time (a time-travel crime story from Image), X-Corp (the business side of the X-Men), and Silver City (an afterlife mystery from Aftershock). Ongoing titles starting fresh arcs include Fantastic Four with the Bride of Doom storyline and Star Wars' War of the Bounty Hunters event. The week's trade releases feature Dreaming Eagles (Tuskegee Airmen by Garth Ennis), Cyclopedia Exotica, The Department of Mind-Blowing Theories, and Stone Fruit. Pick of the week: Barbalien: Red Planet, a Black Hammer Universe series exploring the AIDS crisis through a queer sci-fi lens.
