Day: June 18, 2026

Todd McFarlane brings his original 1977 Spawn design to comics

Nearly 50 years after creating the character as a teenager, McFarlane teams with Mark Spears for a three-issue miniseries built around his earliest Spawn concept art.

Todd McFarlane is going back to the well that spawned Spawn in a new three-issue miniseries with Mark Spears. Image Comics will release Spawn 77, which will be co-written by McFarlane and Spears, with Spears providing fully painted interior art.

The series takes its name from 1977, the year a budding 16-year-old McFarlane first sketched the character design that would eventually evolve into Spawn. Spawn 77 marks the first official comic appearance of that original design, though the story itself introduces a new character and narrative rooted in Spawn mythology rather than adapting McFarlane’s teenage concept directly.

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Snake Plissken returns in new comic ‘Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago’

Kyle Higgins and Val Rodrigues return to the world of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic, sending the iconic antihero on a new adventure this September.

Mad Cave Studios has picked up the license to make comics based on John Carpenter’s 1981 film Escape from New York, a cult classic that saw Kurt Russell rescue the president when he crash-lands inside the prison that used to be New York.

The comic will head west, though, as Kyle Higgins and Val Rodrigues bring us Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago this September.

“Escape From New York is one of the films that taught me what genre storytelling could be—lean, mean, and built on a world you can’t stop thinking about,” Higgins said. “Getting to write in Carpenter’s Manhattan is the kind of thing my younger self wouldn’t have believed. I can’t wait for everyone to see Snake’s next adventure.” 

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Wes Craig reimagines Superman’s early days in ‘Superman: The Stranger’

The Black Label series strips Superman down to his ‘Action Comics’ #1 roots.

Wes Craig is going old school on Superman in a new Black Label series. DC has announced Superman: The Stranger, a six-issue series arriving in September.

“Superman is my favorite hero. Always has been,” Craig said. “The version I love the most and the one that I think, strangely, reflects our modern world best, is the original. You strip away the extra powers, you strip away Ma and Pa Kent, and Smallville and Krypton, you boil it down to that explosive first issue of Action Comics, and you have this vital, powerful myth of a brash young man with incredible powers fighting against a corrupt city. That’s the story I want to tell.”

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It’s mutants against xenomorphs in ‘Alien vs. X-Men’

The four-issue crossover includes stories by Kieron Gillen, Geraldo Borges, Chris Claremont and more.

Following their battles with the Avengers and Captain America, those pesky xenomorphs from the Alien franchise have their sights set on the X-Men.

Marvel and 20th Century Studios have announced Alien vs. X-Men, a four-issue series written by Die and The Power Fantasy writer Kieron Gillen with art by Alias: Red Band artist Geraldo Borges, which begins in September.

“Alien was the first R-rated movie I ever saw,” Gillem said. “Aliens is one of the four founding teenage films that I built my understanding of story structure upon. As a hormonal teen, I had a looming Alien poster hung over my bed. I love Aliens so much that I am unhelpfully explaining beats to Geraldo by referencing two-second sequences featuring tertiary characters, as if he cares about Ferro and Dietrich as much as I do. So, yes, this is some prime-grade bucket list stuff for me, and I’m highly enjoying taking the X-Men on an X-press elevator to hell.”

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Tom King + Daniel Sampere will kick off ‘The Wonder War’ act 2 in September

The Matriarch’s story continues in the main ‘Wonder Woman’ title and in a 48-page special tracing the Matriarch’s path through Hell.

DC has announced that Tom King and Daniel Sampere’s “The Wonder War” arc will move into its second act in September. The battle with the Matriarch continues in Wonder Woman #37, followed later in the month by Wonder Woman Annual: Wonder War — The Matriarch #1, a 48-page special by Stephanie Williams and Leah Williams, with art by Eduardo Pansica and Belén Ortega.

Wonder Woman #37 continues the story of Steve Trevor and his daughter Trinity, who arrived in the present after a defeat at the hands of the Matriarch two decades in the future. The pair must convince Wonder Woman of the threat a seemingly innocent child will eventually pose.

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