Holy Lacrimony, avant-garde comic creator Michael DeForge’s new graphic novel, investigates trauma, isolation, as well as the search for community and personal fulfillment with humor and nuance.

Greg & Fake’s new collection riffs on the meta-Archie universe to follow the adult-oriented adventures of Ambar and Alana, sisters living in the seaside town of Las Brisas, who discover a pair of magical medallions giving them the power to transform into masked superheroes.

Michael D. Kennedy’s (New Yorker, New York Times) debut collection of beautiful, shape-shifting short stories combines West Indian folk traditions with a prismatic approach to modern indie comic illustration. These ten tales combine to create a unique and compelling journey through the Black diaspora into England and beyond.

Sara Phoebe Miller’s debut graphic novel is an outstanding young adult story that confidently captures feelings of adolescent isolation and angst without ever tumbling into melodrama.

Land of Mirrors is full of music and poetry. It’s a psychedelic journey through endless ombre landscapes that explores difficult topics like loneliness, isolation, and sadness. All the while, it’s a sweet (and often humorous) meditation on friendship and growth.

Life Drawing: A Love and Rockets Collection is a perfect entry point for anyone who’s recently discovered this groundbreaking series. It features Jaime’s work and is primarily focused on the character of Tonta, a nexus whose personal journey intersects with many of the other major storylines.

It’s all sex, death, and mind control in this promising new Image crime series by writer A. J. Liberman (Cowboy Ninja Viking, Term Life, Batman: Gotham Knights) and artist Mike Henderson (Nailbiter, The Forged, Cable: Love & Chrome). The Hive takes place in a world with a special subset of humans called “hivers” who have a biological power to compel others to obey their every command by influencing them to join a hivemind-like state.

The Legend of Kamui, Shirato Sanpei’s influential manga epic, is finally getting a proper English language release. This sweeping tale of feudalism in 17th century Japan was originally published in 74 installments between 1964 and 1971 in Katsuichi Nagai’s celebrated alternative manga magazine, Garo.

Writer Gus Moreno (This Thing Between Us) and artist Jakub Rebelka’s (Cyberpunk) new series follows Father Barrera, a disgraced priest reassigned to the isolated South American town of Puerto Cristina to study the rite of exorcism under the tutelage of the mysterious Father Stygian. It quickly becomes apparent nothing is as it seems and Stygian might not be the best mentor. In this promising first issue, there’s more than enough action and character development to hook any fan of religious horror.