Month: June 2026

Slugfest | Bad Seed, Kingdom of Zod continue in DC’s September solicitations

Things go from bad to worse for Gotham as the Super family battles General Zod.

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

DC’s September line-up starts strong with the introduction of three new team titles, as they bring Legion of Super Heroes, New Teen Titans and the Doom Patrol back to their line-up. But wait — there’s more! The first month of fall also brings crossovers, Absolute developments and a new Halloween special.

Let’s start first with Batman: Bad Seeds, which gets its start in August but really goes into overdrive in September, as it runs through all the Batman titles and gets a couple of spinoff miniseries.

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘Mind MGMT’ is back in business

Plus: The end of the Ultimate Universe, the Summer of Supergirl, John Byrne’s X-Men: Elsewhen collection 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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DC’s Next Level goes next level in September with ‘Legion of Super-Heroes,’ ‘Teen Titans’ and ‘The Doom Patrol’

Who’s your favorite super team?

DC’s September solicitations are making the dream work with not one, not two but THREE new team titles. Teen titles? Yeah, that too, as both Legion of Super-Heroes and Teen Titans return to the publishing slate.

The launches follow all the other recent Next Level titles, including Batwoman, Lobo, Deathstroke: The Terminator, Firestorm, Zatanna, Barbara Gordon: Breakout and The Deadman, with a couple more — The Demon and Jonah Hex — waiting in the wings.

“These books are set in continuity,” said DC co-architect Josh Williamson, who is also writing the Legion title. “While the series will be independent reads and not heavily tied to other books, they will exist alongside DC’s ongoing comic book series like Superman, Batman, Justice League Unlimited and more.”

Not sure we needed that clarification, but ok … well, maybe we did? Several of DC’s September titles seem to have a new moniker in front of them, ie All In Batman, All In Batgirl, etc. Maybe they’re trying to avoid confusion with the red-hot Absolute Universe.

So let’s take a look at each new title, all of which come out Sept. 2 …

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Nominees announced for the 2026 Russ Manning Award

Named for the creator of ‘Magnus, Robot Fighter,’ the awards program recognizes the comic industry’s most promising newcomers.

Comic-Con International has announced the nominees for this year’s Russ Manning Most Promising Newcomer Award, which will be presented during the Eisner Award ceremony in July.

Named for the creator of Magnus, Robot Fighter, the award recognizes a new artist who “shows a superior knowledge and ability in the art of creating comics.”

Previous winners include Dave Stevens, Eleanor Davis, Jeff Smith, Marion Churchland, David Petersen, Tyler Crook, Dan Mora, Lorena Alvarez, Nate Simpson, Zoe Thorogood and Oliver Bly. Richard Blake, writer and artist of Hexagon Bridge, won the award last year.

Congratulations to this year’s nominees:

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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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Black Panther + Namor take a road trip to Hell this September

The five-issue ‘Black Panther/Namor: Doomed’ spins out of ‘Avengers: Armageddon’ and ‘Captain America,’ sending the two rivals into the underworld after their nations are attacked by demonic forces.

Two characters who ain’t the best of friends will be forced to work together this fall against an even bigger threat. Marvel has announced Black Panther/Namor: Doomed, a five-issue limited series from writers Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan with art by Stefano Nesi that’ll launch in September.

The series finds T’Challa and Namor in an uneasy alliance after Wakanda and Atlantis are attacked by demonic forces, sending the two leaders on a quest into Hell. There, they discover Doctor Doom’s wandering soul, following his death in One World Under Doom.

“Truly, we feel like the most fortunate writers on Earth to get to tell stories with any of the iconic heroes from the limitless sandbox of the Marvel Universe, let alone icons as monumental as T’Challa, Namor, and Victor Von Doom,” Parker said. “Black Panther is one of the coolest and most inspiring figures in all of fiction, and the Sub-Mariner’s iconic rivalry with him as one of the founding members of Marvel dating back to 1939 is the most hilarious and compelling dynamic we could hope to put our own personal spin on. We can’t wait to show readers the unimaginable dangers that lie ahead in this bold new era.”

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Oni Press expands EC Comics line with ‘Cruel Kingdom 2,’ treasury edition collection

The publisher continues its EC Comics revival with another round of its fantasy-horror miniseries and a treasury-sized collection of the imprint’s best stories so far.

Oni Press is continuing its EC Comics line with two new September releases.

First up is Cruel Kingdom 2, a second helping of the dark fantasy-horror miniseries that launched last year. The six-issue miniseries will kick off with stories by writers David M. Booher, Matt Bors and Jude Ellison S. Doyle, and artists Ryan Kelly, Lukas Ketner and David Lapham.

The anthology-style series continues the EC tradition of ironic, gruesome morality tales set in a medieval fantasy world. Future issues will include contributions from John Arcudi, Ramón F. Bachs, Sarah Gailey, Sami Kivelä, Curt Pires, SOM and Alison Sampson, among others.

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Guillem March brings the romantic thriller ‘Ofiusa’ to Image Comics in September

The ‘Karmen’ creator returns with a six-issue miniseries that weaves a love triangle across two timelines.

Guillem March will write and draw Ofiusa, a six-issue miniseries coming from Image Comics in September.

The series follows two parallel storylines: a romance between the irresistible Mar and a young entrepreneur named Joan, and, in another timeline, Joan meets the enigmatic Isla on a paradise island. The two threads form a love triangle built around hidden secrets and a dark revelation waiting to surface.

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