The Crownsville comic is a ghost story based on the real Crownsville Hospital, an all-Black psychiatric facility that opened early in the 20th century. For years, the hospital was known for overcrowding and neglecting patients, and there were rumors that patients were abused and put through illegal experiments.

Geiger #19 puts a spotlight on one of the recurring characters, The Glowing Woman, Ashley Arden, another person seemingly afflicted in a similar fashion to Tariq Geiger. As we’ve seen in her appearances to date, she has a very different demeanor than Geiger, and she definitely has her own agenda. This story demonstrates that and offers insight as to how she got that way. 

This volume collects Weird Science #12-15, and #5-6, though if you can follow the numbering sequence on this title you’ll want to consider joining our Overstreet Advisors group. The series had previously been known as Happy Houlihans, Saddle Justice, and Saddle Romances, and after #23 would be known as Weird Science-Fantasy, again ostensibly continuing the numbering. These sorts of changes were generally done to avoid the cost of purchasing another mailing permit, which were a premium expense against the thin margins of publishing comics in those days.

Locke & Key creator Joe Hill has this to say about writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips’ recent collaboration: “Reckless is an absolute rush: on the same level as golden age Travis McGee novels and the hardest-hitting Richard Stark stories. This one comes at you as fast as Steve McQueen in a souped-up Mustang and as hard as Charles Bronson with a baseball bat. You gotta have it.”

The Terminator Metal series goes inside the minds, or CPUs, of Terminators in an anthology book that provides insight into how they process situations and survive. The first two issues were set in the future during the human resistance, while issue three takes readers back to 1889 in Blue Mountains, Oregon.

Decades ago, Paul Barry’s deep sea exploration crew was lost under inexplicable circumstances, and he’s spent the intervening years plagued by guilt and not knowing what happened. Now not only has their vessel been found, the crew is alive and they appear not to have aged a day in the interim. It’s a massive mystery, one that unfolds beautifully in the hands of writers Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray, artist Tony Aikins, and colorist Paul Mounts. 

Postal is set in the town of Eden, Wyoming, an off the map place where people are private and live simple lives. They are also entirely made of criminals who have problems with authority and impulse control, so Eden is less like a sanctuary than a carefully controlled zoo filled with predators.

It’s the holiday season, and the teens of Riverdale have been invited to a dance at the North Pole with Noelle, Sugarplum, and Jingles. But the festive soirée turns sour when Archie becomes the object of too much affection.

In the second issue, the Doctor and his new cohorts – a Tentaculon named Methelough, an Adipose called Annie, the cyborg warrior H-8, and the Slitheen pirate Felik – make their way through the cell blocks on a mission to find the Warden’s office. Meanwhile, the unhinged Warden is forcing Belinda to regale him with stories about Earth.

Dynamite’s first Maleficent series was a standout title among their Disney villain books. That continues in this second volume written by Paulina Ganucheau and drawn by Theo Stultz. Her greed for power and position have driven Maleficent from the safety of her kingdom into a strange, otherworldly setting. And yet, she has no fear.

This installment of Josie and the Pussycats is equal parts music, misunderstandings, and mishaps. The band keeps finding hurdles in their attempts to rock out and perform for an audience, which makes for a quartet of amusing stories. Despite the challenges they face, the band sticks together to make their music and perform for the fans.

Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn, the initial offering of the imprint, was the first of 12 volumes which collected writer-artist Hugo Pratt’s seminal work. The first book collects Pratt’s first six interconnected short stories: “The Secret of Tristan Bantam,” “Rendez-vous in Bahia,” “Sureshot Samba,” “The Brazilian Eagle,” “So Much for Gentlemen of Fortune,” and “The Seagull’s Fault.”