Welcome to “This Week in Comics”! Looking for a new comic book to pick up this week? Here’s your guide to what’s coming out at your local comic shop (or available for digital purchase) this week (March 11th, 2026). Each week, we’ll focus on at least one of each of the following: The latest issue of an ongoing series that’s worth highlighting, a new issue #1 (a great starting point!) for an ongoing or mini-series , a stand alone (one-shot) comic, and sometimes even a comic available in the digital backlog available on Marvel Unlimited, DC Infinite or Comixology Unlimited!
Highlight of the Week (Ongoing Comic, DC):
EMPEROR AQUAMAN 15: “ALL HAIL EMPEROR AQUAMAN! Jump into a fresh start for the king of Atlantis… and beyond! After the events of DC K.O., Aquaman finds himself on a journey of self-discovery where he must launch a brand-new mission imbued by Omega Energy — the very essence of conquest. To reach across the stars with the power of the blue, our king must first defeat the Crimson Queen and free his friends and family from her evil clutches. What is Arthur’s ominous connection to the Omega that threatened to tear apart the very fabric of reality in the K.O. tournament? Find out in this jumping-on point that answers the question: What does it mean to rule with absolute power?”
The launch of new DC storylines (following “DC K.O.”) continues! We already had Poison Ivy become Mayor of Gotham City, so yeah, let’s do Aquaman becoming Emperor as well! Emperor of what? Maybe everything, going by Arthur’s new powers! The creative team of Jeremy Adams and John Timms are shaking things up under the sea, so check this title out!
Highlight of the Week (Ongoing Comic, Dynamite Entertainment):
SPACE GHOST #9: “BLIP TO THE (PSYCHIC) RESCUE! When Team Space Ghost is ambushed on the Ghost Planet and trapped inside their own minds by the villainous Sorceress, Blip must don the Creature King’s telepathic helmet in order to save his now-catatonic family. But even if he can manage to throw a monkey wrench into the Sorceress’s works, will it be enough to save the Guardians of the Spaceways from their own inner demons? Or will her All-Seeing Eye burn our heroes to their deepest cores?
Find out in the intensely introspective pages of Space Ghost #9, from the telepathically linked creative team of DAVID PEPOSE and JONATHAN LAU — featuring consciousness-expanding covers from FRANCESCO MATTINA, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, MICHAEL CHO, and BJORN BARENDS!”
Out of all of the “classic cartoons” that have been relaunched as comics, this one has proven to be best “re-imagining/modernizing” (after all, shouldn’t Space Ghost be hosting a TV show on late night cable?). Seriously, it’s just a good solid read every month. And hey, this particular issue may have Blip the Space Monkey save the day. You can’t go wrong with a Space Monkey!!!
New Issue #1 (Ongoing Series):
X-MEN UNITED #1: “WELCOME TO GRAYMATTER LANE, LEARN TO SURVIVE THE EXPERIENCE!
“Build a school,” Charles Xavier told them, and the X-Men have done so — but in a manner nobody saw coming! Welcome to Graymatter Lane, a place where mutants anywhere in the world can come together in unity to teach one another the skills needed for their survival! With instructors including Wolverine, Beast, Prodigy, Magneto and more, and a campus unlike any before seen, it’s the crossroads of the X-Universe as a student body from across the globe works to take mutantkind to the next step in their evolution — and to cope with a brewing threat to all of their number!”
The X-Men concept often works best when it wraps itself in a school setting. This is the first ongoing X-Men book to launch following last year’s “Age of Revelation” event (mostly we’ve gotten several X-Men mini-series up until now), and this looks to be a great “jump on board” book, with a new take on the “school for gifted children” concept!
New Issue #1 (Mini-Series):
ALIAS: RED BAND #1: “THE RETURN OF JESSICA JONES!
A series of grisly murders in Hell’s Kitchen pulls JESSICA JONES into a mystery more sinister than she could’ve ever imagined. As the wife of Mayor LUKE CAGE, she’ll have to tread carefully as she forms a dangerous alliance with TYPHOID MARY to track down the killer. But as she delves deeper into Hell’s Kitchen’s dark underbelly, the evidence she finds presents more questions than answers…
Follow the mystery in an all-new RED BAND miniseries written by SAM HUMPHRIES (NEW AVENGERS, LEGENDARY STAR-LORD) and drawn by Geraldo Borges (THUNDERBOLTS), celebrating the 25th Anniversary of ALIAS!”
Once upon a time (okay, it was 20 years ago), “Alias” was the little Marvel “adult” book that was the best thing ever written by Brian Michael Bendis (before he started getting bogged down in reshaping the main Marvel universe with his Avengers run). Since then, the “Jessica Jones” character has become much more mainstream (and arguably more boring). I don’t want Jessica Jones to divorce Luke Cage or anything like that, but let’s see if this recaptures any of the spirit of that original “Alias” comic from the early 2000’s! Bendis isn’t returning as writer, but maybe writer Sam Humprhies can shake things up?
USAGI YOJIMBO: KAITO ’84 #1: “In 1984 Osaka, the bloodline of Miyamoto Usagi lives on through Kaitō, a cunning rabbit thief with a rebellious spirit. He embodies his ancestor’s legacy in a way the stoic samurai we know and love never could. A daring new heist for a legendary spear sets Kaitō down a perilous path, forever altering his destiny and placing the fate of Osaka, and perhaps the world, on his shoulders.”
Everybody loves Usagi Yojimbo. Like the original Ninja Turtles, Cerebus, and The Tick, Usagi Yojimbo is one of the early indie comics from the 80’s, with a long history. This new version is a “modern” twist on the rabbit samurai lore – the story is set in the 80’s and focuses on a descendant of the legendary samurai. This one certainly looks unique!
51 #1: “What if all the secrets housed in AREA 51 leaked out into the world? Who would be responsible for that mess? And who would be responsible for cleaning it up? After the President’s screw-up son, Harvey, gets in trouble with the law, his dad calls in a favor and gets him assigned to the real-life Area 51 — Hangar 51. But it’s not the thrill ride the conspiracy theorists would have you believe. Harvey spends most of his days cataloging items he’s forbidden from even looking at.
That all changes when Harvey and his coworkers decide to throw a rager and wake up from their bender to find that every single item from Hangar 51 has been stolen. Now in the deepest trouble of his life, Harvey and his ragtag crew must go out into the world and put the genie back in the bottle — capturing rogue aliens, stolen superpower formulas, experimental energy weapons, and all manner of impossible objects. And as they hunt each piece down, a darker truth begins to surface: who actually broke into Hangar 51… and what do they plan to do with what they took? Writer Curt Pires and artist Jok take you on a trip like you’ve never been to explore a conspiracy theory you won’t ever believe!”
Well, that plot description says it all, doesn’t it? I’m always interested in whatever new oddity comes out of Mad Cave Studios. It should be worth a look!
Digital Back Issue of the Week:
X-MEN #33 (1994): “Sabretooth reveals to Rogue Gambit’s history while living in Paris. What will Rogue be upset by – the fact that Gambit had a clandestine affair, or that he let a lover die in order to save his brother?”
Hey, we’ve got Season 2 of “X-Men ’97” approaching soon, right? Time to revisit the era of X-Men that inspired/influenced the cartoon! Anything from the X-Men line of comics, from around “X-Tinction Agenda” in 1990 to “Onslaught” in 1996, these were the biggest years to be an X-Men fan! This one here (X-Men #33, from 1994) is a nice little “flashback” story featuring Gambit and Sabretooth, but perhaps the big attraction is the fantastic artwork of Andy Kubert! It’s just a nice window into the mid-90’s X-Men phenomenon, a great time period in X-Men lore! This one’s available on the “Marvel Unlimited” service.
So what are you reading this week?!?
