FOC Picks for October 11, 2026: A Quiet Place, Canto, and More
This week's final-order list goes from a silent hurricane survival story to clockwork fantasy, Christmas horror, a postwar detective mystery, and one extremely Scrooge-shaped holiday reckoning. Here are ten books we'd point out across the counter.
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A Quiet Place: Rising Tides #1
Grace finds her estranged father on a Florida Keys houseboat just as civilization collapses. Open water offers shelter from creatures that hunt by sound, but his oxygen is running low and a hurricane is coming.
Reader fit: For A Quiet Place readers who want survival horror with a family wound at its center.
See A Quiet Place: Rising Tides #1 on the FOC list
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die With Honor #1
Mead and Stix are hunted through a Tokyo gang war involving bootleg Replicant assassins and a Blade Runner sent to erase the whole operation.
Reader fit: For readers who like their cyberpunk packed with conspiracies, rival crime families, and synthetic killers.
See Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die With Honor #1 on the FOC list
Canto: The Clockwork Chronicles #1
Canto crosses the Mechanical Sea for the Forgotten Isles, where jungle life tangles with strange machines and his friend Mico is in danger.
Reader fit: A friendly new starting point for fantasy readers who like brave little heroes and enormous worlds.
See Canto: The Clockwork Chronicles #1 on the FOC list
Evermind #1
Lucas Zhang can transfer a human mind into a machine. That breakthrough puts him and his activist daughter on opposite sides of a fight over immortality and weaponized technology.
Reader fit: For near-future science-fiction readers who enjoy big ideas with a wonderfully odd mecha-gorilla wrinkle.
See Evermind #1 on the FOC list
Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman #1
Laura, Xavi, and Jason escaped the first Exquisite Corpses game, but the golden mask and the history of the Lone Gunmen have not finished with them.
Reader fit: For returning Exquisite Corpses readers ready to see what survival costs two years later.
See Exquisite Corpses: Lone Gunman #1 on the FOC list
Gangs of Gotham #1
Anarky must bring Gotham's uncontrolled street gangs under the Torus or die trying, beginning in the East End.
Reader fit: For Batman readers who want a street-level Gotham crime story with Anarky in the hot seat.
See Gangs of Gotham #1 on the FOC list
I Saw Spawn: A Twisted Christmas Tale #1
A massacre at the North Pole bears a serial killer's signature, corruption is spreading through Santa's workshop, and Spawn may be the only one able to stop it.
Reader fit: For horror readers whose holiday spirit can survive Santa, serial killers, and Spawn sharing one story.
See I Saw Spawn: A Twisted Christmas Tale #1 on the FOC list
Red Sonja / Barbarella #1
Barbarella hunts an Obsidian Mirror tied to her past while Red Sonja rides to rescue an Oracle, and something is pulling their worlds together.
Reader fit: For anyone who hears 'science fiction meets sword-and-sorcery' and immediately wants the crossover.
See Red Sonja / Barbarella #1 on the FOC list
Rip Kirby #1
Private investigator Rip Kirby has built a perfectly balanced postwar life in New York, just as a changing city begins to test his decency.
Reader fit: For crime-fiction readers curious to meet a classic detective through a brand-new mystery.
See Rip Kirby #1 on the FOC list
Uncle Scrooge: A Christmas Carol #1
Scrooge chooses gold over Christmas and three magical adventures force him to reconsider what belongs in the treasure pile.
Reader fit: For Disney readers who want the Christmas Carol machinery pointed directly at the world's most famous money bin.
See Uncle Scrooge: A Christmas Carol #1 on the FOC list
Ready to make your picks? Open the complete Planet Comics FOC list before Sunday, October 11 at 11:59 PM Eastern.