Jumping On– Series Premieres, One-Shots, And New Story Arcs Kicking Off On September 4, 2024

One of the most frustrating things about finding new comics to read and enjoy is finding a good jumping on point. It can be confusing and disheartening to pick up a single issue from the middle of an arc without having the context of the previous chapters.

With that in mind, here are a few New Story Arcs, Series Premieres, and One-Shots that caught my eye for this upcoming New Comic Book Day, Wednesday,September 4, 2024.

Featured Series Premieres, One-Shots, and New Story Arcs:

Minor Arcana #1, BOOM! Studios

Jeff Lemire has arrived at BOOM! Studios with his longest self drawn book since Sweet Tooth wrapped up a decade ago.

Theresa, the daughter of a small-town “psychic” fraud, returns home to care for her ailing mother, however begrudgingly.

But when Theresa discovers that there may be more to the magic than she originally believed, she’ll find herself caught up in a town that desperately needs her help…

Dark Empty Void #1, Mad Cave Studios

In a secret underground compound, scientists lose control of their creation, a microscopic black hole that unexpectedly spews out a cosmic maelstrom, strange dangerous creatures, and most surprisingly…a mysterious human teenage girl. 

Now, a depressed but brilliant psychologist must help her estranged husband and the other scientists solve the mystery and close the black hole before it consumes all of Earth. 

The Autumn Kingdom #1, Oni Press

Writer Cullen Bunn teams with artist Christopher Mitten to bring a story from the borderlands between imagination and reality, horror, and fantasy, wherein one family’s labyrinthine descent through a perilous forest where the local folklore is anything but a myth . . . 

Author Andrew Kier found the perfect place to finish his latest dark-fantasy novel, an idyllic, remote cabin on the edge of a lush Swedish forest. His young daughters, Sommer and Winter, gleefully explore… until they happen upon a strange clearing full of ancient statues of goblins, dwarves, elves, and a warrior queen mysteriously missing her swordhand and weapon. 

When something sinister follows the girls home and viciously snatches their parents in the night, the sisters’ only hope may be that ancient relic, lost in the forest underbrush, waiting for a new champion to take it up…