Day: June 16, 2026

Box Brown explores AI resurrection + big tech in next graphic novel ‘Forevr’

The Top Shelf graphic novel follows a family grappling with a consciousness-uploading app that lets them keep chatting with their dying mother … for a reasonable monthly fee.

Top Shelf Productions will publish Forevr, a new original graphic novel from Brian “Box” Brown, creator of Andre the Giant: Life and Legend, Is This Guy for Real? The Unbelievable Andy Kaufman and many other wonderful graphic novels.

The story follows Brenda, whose dying mother uploads her consciousness to the aptly named “Forevr,” an app that allows surviving family members to continue chatting with deceased loved ones. As Brenda and her girlfriend pursue careers as wilderness survival influencers, her father grows increasingly dependent on the digital version of his wife, and tensions come to a head on a family camping trip.

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Deadpool + Punisher collide in Benjamin Percy’s ‘Big Guns’ crossover this September

The four-part crossover launches runs through ‘Wade Wilson: Deadpool’ and ‘Punisher.’

Marvel Comics is marking June 16 — that’s “616 Day” — with the announcement of “Big Guns,” a four-part crossover launching in September that runs through Benjamin Percy’s Wade Wilson: Deadpool and Punisher series.

The crossover kicks off in Wade Wilson: Deadpool #8, which is illustrated by Geoff Shaw, then continues in Punisher #8, which is drawn by José Luis Soares.

“When you’re writing The Punisher, and you’re writing Deadpool—two street-level characters with opposite personalities—the math works itself out,” Percy said. “I had to bring them together. Violently. Get ready for non-stop mayhem, the re-invention (and glow-up) of a classic villain, and the introduction of the Merc-mobile (a rolling HQ I’m pretty damn excited about) as well as a new weapon that will change the 616 forever. Unlike Frank and Wade—who naturally despise each other—Geoff Shaw and José Luis are a perfect pairing, the best pens drawing the biggest guns.”

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Marvel announces ‘The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe’

The Muppets will team with Marvel heroes in a one-shot featuring stories by Chip Zdarsky, Pete Woods, Kyle Starks and more.

It’s time to play the music, it’s time to thwip the thwips … it’s time for Marvel and the Muppets to throw down.

The two Disney-owned entities are teaming up for The Muppets Take the Marvel Universe #1, a one-shot coming in September that celebrates the 50th anniversary of The Muppet Show.

The anthology will feature stories by Chip Zdarsky and Pete Woods, Kyle Starks and Mike Henderson, Ashley Allen and Paco Medina, MacKenzie Cadenhead and David Baldeon, Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Adam F. Goldberg, E.J. Su and Áthila Fabbio, among others.

“With the great power of two iconic properties comes great responsibility. I promise to not let down Kermit, Fozzie and Animal the way Spider-Man let down his Uncle Ben,” Zdarsky said. “It’s impossible to overstate how excited I write for Miss Piggy, who I consider to be one of the greatest icons of the last hundred years, a character who speaks to every generation. I also got to write Deadpool. And Pete Woods is turning in the most stunning, detailed and joyous pages. Seeing his take on these characters interacting is a real delight.”

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