Chip Zdarsky + Marco Checchetto re-team for ‘Avengers’

Earth’s mightiest heroes get a new title and line-up starting in November.

Marvel has announced that Chip Zdarsky’s work on Avengers: Armageddon will lead into the launch of a new Avengers title, slated to debut in November. The writer will once again team up with Marco Checchetto, who worked with Zdarsky on a pretty great Daredevil run.

“It’s obviously a massive honor getting to write the world’s greatest super hero team,” Zdarsky said “And after what happens in Avengers: Armageddon, this lineup is angry as hell and ready to avenge.”

The book will feature a very Bendis-esque line-up, with mainstay Captain Marvel teaming with Luke Cage, Spider-Man, Wolverine, Daredevil and “an all-new hero set to make their explosive debut soon.” If you’ve been reading Zdarsky’s Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon or Captain America, you probably have a guess as to who that “newcomer” will be. Editor Will Moss also teased there may be more than who we’re seeing here, too.

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Rest in peace, Marjane Satrapi

The creator of ‘Persepolis’ passed away this week at the age of 56.

Marjane Satrapi, the French-Iranian cartoonist and filmmaker who created the renowned graphic memoir Persepolis, died June 3 in Paris. She was 56.

A statement from close friends and family sent to the Agence France-Presse newswire announced her death. “Marjane Satrapi died of sadness a little over a year after the death of Mattias Ripa, her husband and the love of her life,” the statement read. Ripa, a producer, actor and screenwriter, died in April 2025.

Born Nov. 22, 1969, in Rasht, Iran, Satrapi had an upper-middle-class upbringing in Tehran. She became one of the most internationally recognized voices of the Iranian diaspora through her writing, artwork and outspoken criticism of Iran’s government.

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DC announces DC Go expansion, including its first crossover

The webcomics imprint adds new seasons, original series and ‘Runway to Ruin!,’ its first crossover, later this year.

DC Go, the publisher’s vertical-scrolling digital comics imprint, will expand in 2026 with new seasons of returning series, three new originals and its first-ever crossover event.

The expansion kicks off with new seasons of three existing series:

  • Jon Kent: This Internship Is My Kryptonite, by writer Sam Camp and artist Seraji, launched its new season this month.
  • The Magical Mysteries of Shazam!, by Steve Orlando and artist Giopota, arrives in August.
  • Then Nothing Butt Nightwing, by Patrick R. Young and Moy R. Marco, returns in September.
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Oni Press reveals more details on their new Archie Comics line

Ben H. Winters joins Fábio Moon on the flagship ‘Archie’ title in a lineup that also includes new ‘Sabrina’ and ‘Archie in Hell’ series launching this fall.

Oni Press has shared more details on their upcoming Archie Comics line, including a change to the creative team on the Archie title.

When Oni and Archie Comics announced their partnership last year, W. Maxwell Prince was named as the writer on Archie. The series will now be written by Ben H. Winters, best known for his Last Policeman novels and for creating and showrunning CBS’s Tracker. Winters made his comics debut on Oni’s EC Comics line with Cruel Universe in 2024, followed by the miniseries Benjamin in 2025. He joins the art team of Fábio Moon and Nick Cagnetti, along with cover artist Stuart Immonen.

“What an extraordinary honor it is to write these stories,” Winters said. “And more importantly, what a total blast. Archie Andrews is an honest-to-goodness American icon, right up there with Mickey Mouse and Bart Simpson…and just like them, he’s enterprising, curious and kind, forever bouncing into some new adventure along with his loyal pals. I’m finding these characters delightful to write, for the same reason people have enjoyed reading Archie lo these many years — Riverdale’s just a fun place to hang out.”

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Celebrate Pride Month with the Justice League, Adventure Time + more

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Marguerite Bennett, Andrew Lee Griffith, Steve Foxe, Salva Espin, W. Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Gail Simone and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.

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Exclusive | Clover Press reveals rewards for Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comics Kickstarter

Ahead of the campaign launch, Clover Press reveals two new collectibles accompanying its latest collections of the classic ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ newspaper strips from 1981-1984.

Clover Press is heading back to the newspaper pages of the 1980s again with another Kickstarter campaign collecting more of The Amazing Spider-Man newspaper comic strip.

Following the success of last year’s crowdfunding campaign collecting the strip’s earliest years, Clover Press is continuing its archival reprint program with four new softcover volumes collecting every Amazing Spider-Man newspaper strip published between 1981 and 1984.

“By the early 1980s, Spider-Man was firmly established on the newspaper page,” said Clover Press Publisher Hank Kanalz. “Following the success of our campaign to collect the first four years of The Amazing Spider-Man Newspaper Comic, we are thrilled to continue the line. The strips from 1981 to 1984 feature a more seasoned wall-crawler navigating longer, more intricate storylines that balance action, emotional drama and classic Peter Parker misfortune.”

Written by Stan Lee and drawn by Larry Lieber, Fred Kida and Floro Dery, these strips delivered a unique blend of superhero action, soap-opera drama and offbeat storylines. Peter Parker had encounters with killer robots, Doctor Doom’s flying saucer, the Spider Brigade and even the unforgettable Spidey Jeans craze.

Today, we can exclusively reveal two new campaign extras: the cover to an upcoming pocket book facsimile edition and a brand-new lithograph print available to backers.

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Slugfest | Thor, Fantastic Four + Mary Jane celebrate anniversaries in Marvel’s August solicitations

Marvel’s August lineup includes a new Star Wars series, video game tie-ins and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on Marvel’s August titles. Hit the links for more info.

Like DC, Marvel is kicking the crossovers into gear for the summer, with August bringing the first issues of DNX and the new Midnight Universe line, as well as mroe of the Queen in Black and Avengers: Armageddon. There are also several milestone issues, not the least of which is Amazing Spider-Man #1000.

What else does Marvel have coming out in those waning days of summer? Check’em out below.

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Hannah Rose May + Andrea Scalmazzi team on the Hollywood horror satire ‘Fatal Fest’

The writer of ‘The Exorcism at 1600 Penn’ unleashes a survival horror series about six filmmakers competing at a deadly film festival.

Film festivals can be brutally competitive, as we’ll learn in Fatal Fest, a new horror series from writer Hannah Rose May and artist Andrea Scalmazzi, coming from IDW’s horror imprint, IDW Dark.

The series follows six emerging horror filmmakers invited to compete at Fatal Fest, a mysterious festival run by reclusive horror maestro Frank Finch and his production empire, Fatal Films. The catch: to create true fear, contestants must experience it and be willing to kill for it.

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Slugfest | Static joins the Titans, Batman gets some help + more in DC’s August solicitations

Plus: a new Vertigo title debuts, new graphic novels, Alex Ross, a trip to Metropolis for the The Flash and more.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on DC’s August titles. Hit the links for more info.

DC will end the summer with two different crossovers featuring their two biggest characters, as Batman and Gotham are engaged in the Bad Seeds crossover and Superman returns just in time for another showdown with the forces of General Zod. August also brings another Batman and Robin: Year One series from the superstar team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, and all the “Next Level” titles, including Batwoman, Zatanna and Deathstroke, will be featured in Next Level: One Shot #1, a single round fired by Deadshot.

Beyond those big, previously covered items, there’s a lot more to see from DC in August, so let’s jump in.

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Clover Press + Aspen Comics announce ‘The DC Art of Michael Turner’

The deluxe hardcover collecting Turner’s DC Comics work is the third volume in Clover Press’ ongoing art book series, with a Kickstarter campaign launching soon.

Clover Press is back with another of their high-end art books, this time focused on the artwork the late Michael Turner created for DC Comics. And today we have an exclusive first look at the dust jacket for the book, which will be funded through Kickstarter.

The DC Art of Michael Turner is the third volume in Clover Press’ The DC Art Of… series, following The DC Art of Jorge Jimenez and The DC Art of Bruno Redondo. It’s also a nice companion piece to The Marvel Art of Michael Turner, which Clover Press published in 2024.

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‘Money Shot’ returns this summer

‘Money Shot: The F* Offs’ finds the XXX-plorers competing in an intergalactic sexual Olympics.

Those crazy porn-star scientists from Money Shot will return this summer in a “single-issue series,” aka a one-shot, titled Money Shot: The F* Offs from Vault Comics.

Series co-creator Tim Seeley once again will team with co-writer Patton Oswalt and artist Garth Graham, the creative team from Money Shot: Big Bang. The comic will reunite characters from across the series’ seven-year run to compete in a cosmic competition called The F* Offs.

“We’ve been doing Money Shot for 7 years (!), and of course, in that time, we’ve met a whole lot of sexy, weird characters, all of whom we wanted to see again, potentially naked,” said Seeley. “The F* Offs is a crossover event contained to one series, dropping our cast right into the middle of a secret war where they’ll have to compete to save all life and evolution with the main tool that ensures those things exist: Sex!”

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Matt Wagner + Kelley Jones announce a fourth + final Dracula volume

The final graphic novel in the series will be funded through Kickstarter, picking up after the events of Bram Stoker’s original novel.

Happy World Dracula Day! To celebrate the most unholiest of holidays, Matt Wagner and Kelley Jones have announced they’ll launch a Kickstarter for Dracula: Book IV — The Undead, the fourth and final volume in their series of original graphic novels from Orlok Press.

The new volume will taek the series past the events of Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, exploring what happened after the Count’s apparent defeat. The previous three books — The Impaler, The Brides, and The Count — each told stories set in and around the original novel’s story. Colorist José Villarrubia and letterer Rob Leigh round out the creative team.

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