It’s the 23nd new comic book day of the new year! This post covers Marvel Comics June 5 2024 releases. Missed last week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics May 29 2024 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: The Ultimates debut, Alpha Flight divided, Ms. Marvel’s Inhumans reunion, Lando’s verdict, a second Spencer Spidey omni, the Age of Krakoa finale, and more!
This list includes every comic and digital comic out from Marvel this week, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats. I recap and review every new single issue. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to the right guide within my Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect each character in full – and, if a guide is linked from this post, that means it is updated through the present day!
Marvel Comics June 5 2024 Collected Editions
Alpha Flight: Divided We Stand
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302952457 / digital)
See Guide to Alpha Flight. I really, really loved this Ed Brisson & Scott Godlweski Alpha Flight mini-series that was a part of the Fall of X fallout from the 2023 Hellfire Gala.
I have a lot of affection for the core Alpha Flight characters and Ed Brisson voiced all of them particularly well as he explored how they might be stuck on separate sides of the mutant conflict. I think this reads just fine as a standalone outside of a full-on Krakoa read, since most of these characters are non-mutants and not a big part of the past five years of X-Men.
The Amazing Spider-Man By Nick Spencer Omnibus Vol. 2
(2024 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302953645 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). This collects the final half of Nick Spencer’s run on Amazing Spider-Man (2018). I deeply disliked this comic – it felt like a Spider-Man with no jokes and no heart. I think if you are an Osborn Family superfan this would appeal to you, as it deals with a lot of the intricacies of the relationship between Norman and Harry. Otherwise, I wouldn’t recommend it.
In a curious turn of events, the next omnibus is already available – Amazing Spider-Man: Beyond Omnibus (2023 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1302949624 / digital), which contains the entire final portion of this run that reintroduces Ben Reilly.
Black Panther by Eve L. Ewing Vol. 2: Reign at Dusk
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302948849 / digital)
See Guide to Black Panther. I was soft on this series from Dr. Ewing to start, but after the first three issues I really warmed to it and I was bummed to see it end abruptly at issue #10.
I think Ewing did something intriguing and much-needed here by defining more of the urban environment of Wakanda outside of the capital city and exploring T’Challa’s relationship to it outside of being king. Plus, she brought in strong new supporting players and villains. If you can get into a more slow, cerebral take on Black Panther that does not have the political bent of Coates’s run, this could be for you.
Daredevil Epic Collection Volume 18: Fall from Grace
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302957872 / digital)
See Guide to Daredevil. It’s a great sign to see Marvel going back to print on this early Epic Collection, first printed a decade ago in 2014! This D. G. Chichester material from the Black Armor era isn’t exactly in the highest demand. Seeing a new printing shows how dedicated Marvel is to Epic Collections being an evergreen format.
Fantastic Four By Waid & Wieringo Omnibus
(2024 hardcover, ISBN 978-1302957698 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. This universally beloved 2002 run is really the beginning of “modern” Fantastic Four. Yes, you’re perfectly fine to begin with Jonathan Hickman’s smash hit 2010 run, but this is where that version of Marvel’s First Family really begins. If you’re looking for a first Fantastic Four omnibus, this is an excellent place to start.
Fantastic Four by Ryan North Vol. 3: The Impossible Is Probable
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302955984 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. This continues Ryan North’s knockout current run on Fantastic Four. It’s all one and two-shot stories that really focus on the voices and personalities of the team. This really has everything – including a Doctor Doom Dinosaur, the return of the full Fantastic Family, and Sue Storm investigating her own death! My favorite issues of this run are in the prior volume, but this is still pure fun for all ages.
Iron Man Modern Era Epic Collection Vol. 3: World’s Most Wanted
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302956646 / digital)
See Guide to Iron Man. This is the first Modern Epic Collection for Iron Man, and it couldn’t be a better run to start with!
This is the Eisner-winning run from Matt Fraction and Salvador Larroca that released alongside the first MCU Iron Man film. What I love about this run is that it feels sophisticated. It’s not an origin retread or a soft reboot – it throws you into the deep end of his recent continuity and asks you to keep up while delving deep into his character. If you want to read modern Iron Man, I’d say this is the best place to start.
Spider-Man: Reign
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958152 / digital)
A relatively rare Spider-Man future elseworlds tale from 2006.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics June 5 2024 single issue and digital releases!
Marvel Comics June 5 2024 Physical Comic Releases
Aliens: What If…? (2024) #4 – See Guide to Aliens comics. The penultimate issue of this Paul Reiser penned mini-series exploring an alternate second act for his character Carter Burke.
Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #51 – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). I am overjoyed to share that I absolutely loved last month’s Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #50!
Zeb Wells wrote a perfect quipping and thwipping Peter Parker and pulled together two years of plot threads for a highly satisfying major twist that left my mouth hanging open in surprise! It featured a terrific fight and what felt like a smart, strategic version of Spidey that we don’t often get to see.
Here’s where I think some Spider-fans might get hung up on this twist: This particular plot twist relies heavily on a lot of Nick Spencer’s 2018 run and it disrupts our ability to trust Peter.
Personally, I think it hardly matters how we got to this twist – remembering all of the intricacies doesn’t add much to what happened in issue #50. If anything, I’d recommend re-reading Amazing Spider-Man (2022) #6 to refresh your memory of one key element of this plot.
As for Peter acting out of character, I get it. I want to spend some time with the Peter I know, not some untrustworthy, semi-villainous version of him. However, I think Peter acting unlike himself is a trope of the character at this point – stretching back to the Black Costume Saga and including Slott’s Superior Spider-Man.
If that’s not your thing I doubt you will enjoy this arc. But, if you can tolerate it, I think we’re in for some fun.
Blood Hunters (2024) #2 – See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Blood Hunt. I love love LOVED the first issue of this Blood Hunt anthology title!
Each issue of this series will feature two new lead stories and a chapter of an ongoing Dagger story by Erica Schultz. I dug that Dagger story, with art from Bernard Chang & Marcelo Maiolo, and laughed the whole way through a Man-Wolf & J Jonah Jameson story from Christos Gage, Javier Garrón, & Morry Hollowell. (A Mark Russell Clint Barton story was very Mark Russell 🤷♀️)
This issue will continue the Dagger story, plus a Kaare Andrews Hulk tale and Ann Nocenti on Kate Bishop, which should be intriguing.
I find it curious that both of these stories deal with characters who are already appearing elsewhere in Blood Hunt – Hulk has his own one-shot, and Kate Bishop is in the Avengers tie-ins. Part of the charm in the first issue was looking in on characters we might not see elsewhere in the event.
Carnage (2023) #8 – See Guide to Carnage. This Torunn Grønbekk series has been so up and down for me I feel like I’ve been reading a comic about a yo-yo! I love Grønbekk’s grim approach to the reality of Carnage as a psychopathic serial killer, but it didn’t feel like we were getting anywhere with the “Symbiosis Necrosis” crossover with Venom.
With that in the rear-view, issue #7 was back to what I’ve loved the most about this series: seeing how other symbiote characters in the present reckon with the worst of their kind being active again. I love how Grønbekk is using Flash Thompson in this series. She also pulled in Liz Allen, and this is the first time I’ve felt like there’s a purpose behind her being pulled into a symbiote plot.
Ultimately, what I want from a Carnage series is something akin to Dexter – watching one of the worst villains of the Marvel Universe get exactly what he wants while heroes we love struggle at the margins of his murderous plan to try to slow his rampage. It feels like we’re back on that path as of last issue, so it’s a great place to pick up this book – you won’t be missing to much by not backtracking to how it began.
Get Fury (2024) #2 – A Marvel MAX continuity comic by Garth Ennis focused on Nick Fury and Frank Castle in Vietnam.
Ghost Rider: Final Vengeance (2024) #4 – See Guide to Ghost Rider. I am struggling mightily to see the point of this Ben Percy Ghost Rider finale series.
In issues #1-2 we saw a 00s-era Marvel villain take possession of the Spirit of Vengeance. His big plan is to take over all of the criminal operations in a major city, but it doesn’t feel like there’s any real motivation or conflict involved in his plan. He’s doing it because he’s doing it and it’s happening because it’s happening. The plot is even using vampires with zero connection to Blood Hunt, which feels like a major missed opportunity.
I can’t recommend this title in good conscience. This isn’t just a “this doesn’t click with Krisis” issue like I’m having with an otherwise high-quality book like DC’s Batman/Superman: World’s Finest (2022) by Mark Waid. Here, I truly don’t feel like Percy has ever had a good idea of what the Spirit of Vengeance is actually about or what makes for fun comics with a Ghost Rider in them. He has had two years to add anything intriguing to the Ghost Rider canon and he’s come up empty. I don’t think we’ve even seen a single good scene of the Rider getting vengeance throughout the entire run.
If you’re a Ghost Rider fan, I think you should simply hop on board the Midnight Sons: Blood Hunt (2024) mini-series that debuted last week.
Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace (2024) #4 – See Guide to Ms. Marvel. I love this Sabir Pirzada & Iman Vellani take on Kamala Khan and I’m genuinely upset that Marvel won’t be continuing it. I suppose Vellani is busy with other projects both in and out of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but it is such a relief to be reading a Ms. Marvel comic book where Kamala sounds and acts so perfectly in-character with her many years of initial books from her creator G. Willow Wilson.
I was a little less enamored with issue #2 of this book, a silly romp in Mojoworld with Lila Cheney – though I can hardly begrudge Pirzada & Vellani the chance to play with Mojo, especially when it tied in perfectly with an episode of X-Men ’97. However, issue #3 explored a key dangling plot thread for Kamala – her aborted flirtation with Red Dagger! Despite the hint on the cover that the issue would be focused on Marvel Zombies, it was really a delightful tangle of messy teenage emotions.
This final issue could be amazing or go horribly wrong, as it brings the Inhumans out of whatever dusty corner of the Marvel Universe they’ve been hiding in to chat with the now canonically Inhuman Mutant Kamala. There’s not only the potential for more emotional beats there, but also some major continuity resolution – since Kamala was introduced as the face of Marvel’s 2014 Inhumans push and is now a part of their merry world of mutants!
I’m intrigued to see what noted Marvel continuity wonk Vellani has to say here! You could easily pick up this issue with no preamble despite it picking up directly from a cliffhanger in issue #3, since there’s not really an ongoing story being resolved.
Star Wars (2020) #47 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. Charles Soule brings the Trial of Lando Calrissian to its climax!
I’ve really enjoyed how Soule has made each installment of this Lando arc a one-shot story dealing with the Rebellion’s precarious position in the universe heading into The Return of the Jedi. Holding Lando to account for all of his misdeeds in The Empire Strikes Back absolutely feels like a plot point that necessarily needed to be resolved between Episodes V and VI.
Last issue was a genuinely exciting rescue mission for Mon Mothma, a character who I care about a lot more after watching the first season of Andor. I think Soule wrote her perfectly last issue in a way that sets up a sophisticated finale for this Lando plot.
If you want to jump in at the start of this arc, Star Wars (2020) #44 is the place to begin. But, thanks to the one-shot nature of the stories, I think you’d be fine just picking up this new issue as a starting point.
Star Wars: The High Republic (2023) #8 – See Guide to Star Wars Expanded Universe comics. After struggling to finish the middling Phase I of High Republic, I decided to hopscotch over Phase II directly to Phase III to catch up to the present.
It feels like I didn’t miss a single thing (derogatory)!
As the first live action High Republic show is about to drop on Disney+, here’s what I can say for this now years-long comic run: it’s the Saturday morning cartoon of the Star Wars Expanded Universe. The status quo changes but doesn’t really change, such that you could jump from the first arc of Phase I to the current arc of Phase III with hardly any confusion. What started out feeling like an expansive cast and limitless possibility feels like we just see reconfigurations of the same characters and conflicts repeated over and over without any real growth or change (except for a pair of non-binary mind-linked twins starting to grow apart).
I’ve seen plenty of Star Wars super-fans who dig this series but I just don’t get the allure. I think if you’re a major Skywalker Saga fan excited to get into a period full of more Jedis and extra intrigue you should sample “High Republic” in other forms of media. To me, this feels as “for kids only” as a “Star Wars Adventures” book.
The Ultimates (2024) #1 – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Comics. Finally, Deniz Camp’s Ultimates have arrived!
For those not in the know, “The Ultimates” has always been the moniker of the Ultimate Universe Avengers. This new iteration of the team was teased in Hickman’s Ultimate Universe (2023) one-shot, but has been held back as the final book in the initial launch of this new Ultimate line. You truly don’t need to have read that one-shot, or the preceding Ultimate Invasion (2023) #1-4 to jump into this series. But, if you want to know the background of this world, it’s just five issues of reading and it’s all on Marvel Unlimited!
Hickman has set up this new version of the team as an intriguing reflection of the original – with Tony Stark as Iron Lad pulling together Thor, Sif, a newly-unfrozen Captain America, and DOCTOR DOOM(!) to try to piece together the many missing elements of their world’s heroism that have been hidden away or altogether by The Maker.
It’s a terrific concept that leaves plenty of room for Deniz Camp along with Juan Frigeri, Federico Blee, and Travis Lanham to remix existing heroes and add new members. What will be intriguing is to see what conflicts Camp brings to the team, since The Maker is initially off the table for plot reasons depicted by Hickman. I think that’s a good thing, as it leaves some time to develop the relationships between these characters before they face off against the major Big Bad of this new universe.
Venom (2021) #34 – See Guide to Venom. A BLOOD HUNT TIE-IN!
I’ve been having trouble connecting with Al Ewing’s “Venom at the edge of time” plotline for almost the entirety of his series, but last issue’s Blood Hunt tie-in with artist Juan Ferreyra & letterer Clayton Cowles focused on Dylan Brock in the present day really felt like it was in the groove. Ferreyra’s art and colors were off-the-charts spectacular, and Ewing found a way to continue Dylan’s plot while also pulling him into a creepy vampire plot connected with Blood Hunt.
I think you could pick up issue #33 with no preamble, whether you’re just interested in the Blood Hunt tie-in or because you’re interested in the overall plot of this title. It’s a good “catch you up to speed” issue on Dylan’s status quo and emotions at the moment.
Ultimately, it could just be that the Eddie Brock half of Ewing’s plot is never going to click for me.
What If…?: Venom (2024) #5 – See Guide to Venom. In the finale one-shot What If? following the Venom symbiote as it pairs with other heroes and villains, Jeremy Holt writes a venomous version of Moon Knight!
Wolverine: Blood Hunt (2024) #1 – See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Blood Hunt. With Krakoa concluded, Logan gets in on the Blood Hunt action with a mini-series penned by Tom Waltz with one of my all-time favorite Wolverine artists, Juan Jose Ryp!
I mostly know Waltz as one of the main architects behind the past decade of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics, which were pretty damn great – so I’m looking forward to what he does with Wolverine!
X-Men (2021) #35 AKA Uncanny X-Men (1963) #700 – See Guide to X-Men – The Age of Krakoa (2019 – 2024). This is it! The final issue of the Krakoan era, resolving it almost exactly five years after it began.
It’s been a messy path to get here over the past six months, but Kieron Gillen, Luciano Vecchio, & David Curiel turned in an incredibly satisfying penultimate issue with Rise of the Powers of X (2024) #5 last week. Gillen had the great fortune of the fact that Hickman seems to be as big of a Gillen X-Men fan as I am, which meant the keys to resolving some of the biggest plot threads of the Krakoan era were Gillen’s favorite toys in the toybox.
With all of the major conflict of the era resolved by Gillen and Duggan in their twin mini-series, this issue could be more of an epilogue than a finale. What we haven’t dealt with entirely is what happens to Krakoa – both the physical place and the mutant entity behind it. The new “From the Ashes” status quo seems to indicate that it’s no longer home to any mutants. Will we see all of that splintering happen here? Or, will the new era leave a brief gap between this resolution and the start of the new series to insert some mystery into the proceedings.
It’s hard to believe it has been five years since I first assembled with my friends every week for The HiX-Men Report, dissecting every issue of House of X and Powers of X. Krakoa has covered a period of my life that includes a lot of events I wish I could erase from my continuity entirely. But, I can’t retcon my life and I hope Marvel has the equally good sense to leave all of Krakoa intact. Even with the mess of the past months and some of the lost plot threads since Hickman’s spectacular opening salvo, it represents one of the best period of X-Men of all time.
Marvel Comics June 5 2024 Digital-First Comic Releases
This is a list of projected Marvel Comics Digital-First releases based on the recent digital release schedule. Actual releases are not confirmed until they show up on the Marvel Unlimited app.
These releases have not been quick to be released in print, though we’ve now see print versions of a few of these series trickle out a year or more after they were released.
- Infinity Paws Infinity Comic (2024) #10
- Spider-Man Unlimited Infinity Comic (2023) #40 – Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present)
- X-Men Unlimited Infinity Comic (2021) #142 – See Guide to X-Men, The Age of Krakoa
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