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‘Absolute Cassandra Cain’ will spin out of ‘Absolute Catwoman’

Che Grayson and Matias Bergara bring everyone’s favorite bad ass Batgirl to the Absolute Universe.

It seems like anything “Absolute” is going to sell out these days, and this Wednesday’s Absolute Catwoman is no exception. DC announced today plans to reprint the first issue and publish a spin-off one-shot, Absolute Cassandra Cain: The Shadow’s Hand #1, in September.

Absolute Cassandra Cain: The Shadow’s Hand #1 will be written by Absolute Catwoman co-writer Che Grayson, with art and a variant cover by Matias Bergara. Absolute Catwoman artist Bengal provides the main cover:

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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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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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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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‘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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Mayor Poison Ivy declares war on Gotham in ‘Batman: Bad Seeds’ crossover event

The event will kick off in August before blooming across the Batman Family titles in September and October.

If you’ve been reading DC’s excellent Poison Ivy series, you know that 1) Pamela Isley, aka Poison Ivy, is now mayor of Gotham and 2) That isn’t exactly the kind of thing you think would go well, having a former (former?) Bat villain serving as mayor. It’s a powder keg, and it looks like it’s set to blow in Batman: Bad Seeds this August.

DC revealed more details about the event, which they first announced back in February at ComicsPro. It’ll feature Matt Fraction and G. Willow Wilson teaming up with a host of artists to tell the story of one really bad night for Gotham, which will spread into the other Bat titles over the course of 10 weeks.

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Iman Vellani, Marianna Ignazzi + Jordie Bellaire present a ‘classic neo-noir private investigator story’ at Image Comics this summer

The ‘Ms. Marvel’ star makes her solo writing debut on ‘Chachu.’

Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani will team with artist Marianna Ignazzi and colorist Jordie Bellaire on Chachu, a five-issue miniseries inspired by Vellani’s experiences in Hollywood.

This isn’t the first comic that the young actress has written, as she’s collaborated with other writers on Ms. Marvel stories for Marvel, in addition to starring as the character on the Disney+ show. Now she goes solo as writer as she enters the creator-owned world of comics.

“I’ve always been deeply curious about comics as an art form because of their capacity to hold contradiction—arguably better than any other medium,” said Vellani. “That became especially meaningful to me while writing Chachu, which grew out of this tension between mourning my youth while I still have it, and an incessant urge to come-of-age already.”

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Marvel says ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ #1000 will be the ‘biggest issue in Spider-history’

Joe Kelly, Pepe Larraz, John Romita Jr., Frank Miller, Stuart Immonen, Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Slott and more will contribute to the oversized issue.

Marvel has revealed more details about Amazing Spider-Man #1000, which will arrive in August.

The big milestone issue will feature a main story by Joe Kelly and Pepe Larraz, which will introduce a new villain named Ravage and promises to “change Peter Parker’s life forever.” It’ll also feature contributions from many creators who have worked on the character in the past, as well as some new to the character, including John Romita Jr., Frank Miller, Stuart Immonen, Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Slott, J.M. DeMatteis, Patrick Gleason, Marcos Martin, Peach Momoko and, in his Marvel debut, screenwriter Noah Hawley.

“Writing Amazing Spider-Man #1000 has stirred up a lot of emotions for me, but gratitude is chief among them,” Kelly said. “It’s a true honor to have the opportunity to contribute to Spidey’s legacy with a huge milestone like this. And special bonus – we get to introduce a new villain?! Amazing. Ravage is layered and complex and mysterious, and I can’t wait to unleash him on the readers with this monumental issue!”

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Mark Waid + Chris Samnee return to Gotham for ‘Batman & Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duos’

The acclaimed creative team picks up where their Eisner-nominated run left off, adding Catwoman to the mix in a new 12-issue series launching in August.

DC has announced a follow-up to the highly acclaimed (and pretty awesome) 2024 maxi-series Batman & Robin: Year One by writer Mark Waid and artist Chris Samnee. Batman & Robin: Year One — Dynamic Duos, another new 12-issue series set in the early days of the duo, will kick off in August.

The original series earned Eisner Award nominations for Samnee, colorist Mat Lopes and letterer Clayton Cowles, all of whom are returning for the new series. The series will feature Catwoman and a new character who may become her sidekick.

“One of the great things about talking story with Chris is that we generally end up with way more than we can actually fit in the books—that’s how excited both of us get when we explore Batman and Robin’s early days,” Waid said. “This is Chris’s dream job, and I could write younger Bruce and Dick forever. Hence Dynamic Duos—Bruce and Dick and Catwoman and a brand-new character who may or may not choose to be Selina Kyle’s sidekick.”

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Rick Remender + Steve Epting bring down the ‘Hammerfist’ in August

The ongoing series from Image Comics blends hardboiled crime fiction and splatter horror, as a hitman is forced to fight the supernatural to save his daughter.

Rick Remender and Steve Epting are teaming up on Hammerfist, an ongoing series from Image Comics and Remender’s Giant Generator imprint that will launch in August.

The series is about Mike Denton, a hitman/absentee father who must awaken a supernatural weapon powered by love to save his daughter from an ancient darkness called Black Noon.

“Hammerfist is for people who grew up on those unhinged genre films of the VHS era, over-the-top, hard-R, wildly original, but never forgetting to be fun,” Remender told IGN. “A hardboiled crime story that mutates into an ultra-violent, Raimi-style horror story following a low-rent killer who becomes the only thing standing between us and eternal darkness. Getting to see it come to life in the hands of a master like Steve Epting is a dream come true. I’ve wanted to collaborate with him for years, and the pages speak for themselves, cinematic, brutal, and emotional. Paired with Matt Hollingsworth’s color there just isn’t a better art team.”

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Kevin Smith, Andy McElfresh + R.B. Silva team for ‘Spider-Man/Hulk: Fire and Brimstone’

The five-issue miniseries arrives in August.

Marvel has announced another miniseries bringing together Spider-Man and the Hulk. Spider-Man/Hulk: Fire and Brimstone, by writer/director Kevin Smith, The Tonight Show writer Andy McElfrsh and One World Under Doom artist R.B. Silva, will kick off in August.

With Hulk and Punisher both appearing in this summer’s big Spider-Man flick, Brand New Day, both characters are getting panel time in addition to screen time with the wallcrawler this summer. Both characters are appearing in Spider-Man: Long Way Home in June, while a story set in the early days of the Punisher and Spider-Man’s relationship, titled The Punisher vs. the Amazing Spider-Man, will arrive in July.

“I’ve played with Peter Parker and swung with Spider-Man before but this is the first time I’m having Hulk issues,” Smith said. “Andy and I are dropping two of Marvel’s most well-known scientists into a spiritual story of Biblical proportions as we exorcise the Incredible Hulk—and I’m not talking cross-fit!”

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DC takes aim at its Next Level titles with a Deadshot one-shot

Gerry Duggan and Fernando Blanco team for a 48-page special this August.

DC Comics is pulling back the curtain on what’s ahead for its Next Level publishing initiative with Next Level: One Shot #1, a 48-page special from Gerry Duggan and Fernando Blanco.

In the issue, Deadshot takes on a job that goes sideways, drawing him into a conspiracy involving a father, his daughter and a web of super-powered lies running through the entire Next Level cast. The story promises to point toward what Duggan and Blanco call “a war on the horizon” for the line.

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