NYCC | Jeff Lemire + Dustin Nguyen reunite for ‘Crowbound’

The dark new series will land in March.

Fans of Descender, Ascender, and Little Monsters have something new to get excited about. Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen are teaming up once again for Crowbound, an ongoing series launching from Image Comics in March. The announcement dropped last night at New York Comic Con during the Lunar Distribution retailer event.

“Crowbound has been a project Dustin and I have been developing for several years, and we are incredibly excited to finally unleash it,” Lemire said. “This is our next major collaboration, something huge in scope like Descender was, but this story will also break new creative territory for us.”

Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Crowbound follows Rose, a mother on a desperate quest to rescue her daughter Ava after she is taken by the sinister Factory Men. Along the way, Rose must confront eerie, otherworldly forces, navigate a nightmarish lowland filled with strange creatures, and challenge forgotten gods in a sprawling dark fantasy adventure that blends Southern Gothic dread with Neo-Western grit.

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Man of Action will bring their creation ‘Ben 10’ back to comics

The new series will launch at Dynamite Entertainment next February.

For the first time, the original creators of Ben 10 are bringing the action-packed adventures of the hero to comics, kicking off an ongoing series this February from Dynamite Entertainment in another partnership Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products.

The creative force behind the franchise—Joe Casey, Joe Kelly, Duncan Rouleau and Steven T. Seagle, collectively known as Man of Action Entertainment—are well known in the comics world AND for creating the Ben 10 animated series, but this is the first time they’ll personally craft Ben Tennyson’s escapades on the comics page.

“Ben 10 is obviously very close to our hearts, and has been for the last 20 years,” Casey said. “So we’re psyched to finally present a vision of Ben and his mythology in the manner and format that we’ve always wanted to see. This is basically a straight-up superhero comic that’s going to compete with every major series out there. This is ‘Ultimate’ or ‘Absolute’ Ben 10. We guarantee, this is the best that Ben 10 has ever been.”

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NYCC | ‘Jem and the Holograms’ return to comics at BOOM! Studios next year

BOOM! will bring new ‘Jem and the Holograms’ stories to fans in 2026 and launch a Kickstarter to collect the franchise’s previous comics runs.

BOOM! Studios and Hasbro will bring the fan-favorite franchise Jem and the Holograms back to comics in 2026. Expect all-new adventures featuring Jem and her friends, alongside a BOOM! Direct Reserve Campaign collecting the historic run of Jem and the Holograms comics, launching on Kickstarter this November.

The announcement coincides with the brand’s 40th anniversary and the release of new dolls from The Loyal Subjects.

“I was part of the team that brought Jem & the Holograms back to comics in 2015 and saw first-hand the positive impact our stories had on a broad and diverse community of readers,” said Michael Kelly, publisher of BOOM! Studios. “I could not be happier than to be working with Jerrica, Kimber, Stormer and the rest of the group (yeah, even Pizzazz) once again.”

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Robert Kirkman + Dan Mora roll out a new era for ‘Transformers’

Check out new comics and graphic novels arriving this week by creators like Scott Snyder, Javier Fernandez, Nick Dragotta, Pere Perez, J. Michael Straczynski, Chris Condon, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Tini Howard and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. It’s a huge week for comics, so let’s get to it.

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 | Unwrap an advanced look at ‘Yuletide’ by George Northy and Rachele Aragno

‘Tis the season to be terrified.

While most holiday tales focus on sugarplums and goodwill toward men, Oni Press is bringing something darker down the chimney this year with Yuletide, a horror-tinged holiday adventure from writer George Northy and artist Rachele Aragno.

This three-issue series of double-sized issues counts down to Christmas with a story that’s more interested in the eerie, ancient roots of the season than its twinkling lights and festive cheer. And we’ve got an exclusive look at some pages from the first issue.

Set in Christmas, Pennsylvania—a town that bills itself as “the merriest place on Earth”—Yuletide follows a group of teens who find themselves caught between their town’s obsession with America’s biggest holiday and something far more sinister lurking beneath the tinsel and tradition.

“I’ve long been fascinated by the dark, strange, obscure Yuletide monsters from various cultures, from Germany to Iceland to Wales. The way these demons have been buried and forgotten felt like the perfect metaphor for how we often bury our own darkness and personal demons throughout the holidays,” Northy said. “If Buffy taught us ‘High School can be Hell,’ then Yuletide will show that the best way of dealing with our own holiday demons isn’t by pretending they aren’t there, it’s by facing them together.”

Check out the preview and the solicitation for the first issue below, and look for it to arrive at your local comic shop Oct. 15.

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‘Putty Pygmalion’ by Lonnie Garcia wins at the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards

‘Putty Pygmalion’ competed against four other works in the LGBTQ+ Comics category.

The 37th annual Lambda Literary Awards were presented this weekend in a virtual ceremony from Charlie’s Queer Books in Seattle, Washington that celebrated the best in LGBTQ+ literature across 26 categories.

In the LGBTQ+ Comics category, Putty Pygmalion by Lonnie Garcia took home the award. Published by Silver Sprocket, this innovative graphic novel offers a queer reimagining of the classic Pygmalion myth through Garcia’s distinctive multimedia comic art style.

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Create your own brackets for DC’s upcoming ‘DC K.O.’ crossover

Superman, Wonder Woman, Lobo or … Plastic Man? Make your picks on who will win the big tournament to become King Omega.

It may not be March, but if you like creating your own tournament brackets, then DC has you covered — they’ve launched a website that’ll let you pick the winners and losers in their upcoming “fight club” crossover comic DC K.O.

Thus far DC has told us that DC K.O. will involve heroes and villains battling it out, tournament style, for the right to become “King Omega” and gain enough power to take on a supped up Darkseid. They’ve revealed the 32 characters participating, and they showed us several of the issues coming in December where the big battles will go down. But until now they’ve been coy about who will fight who, so this new site gives us the first look at all the match-ups.

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DC + Marvel have more crossovers planned for 2026

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of their first team-up, DC and Marvel will bring Superman and Spider-Man back together for more crossover madness.

If you enjoyed the recent Deadpool/Batman crossover between DC and Marvel, then here’s some good news — the two publishers will continue to work together in 2026, releasing both reprints of past crossovers as well as new stories.

It’s not a surprise, really, as Entertainment Weekly revealed that the two publishers had plans for 2026 back when Deadpool/Batman and November’s Batman/Deadpool were announced. And now we know what those plans include — two new crossover books featuring Superman and Spider-Man, as well as reprints, or “fascimile editions,” of Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man #1 and Marvel Treasury Edition #28.

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Shortbox Comics Fair returns with more than 140 digital comics

The annual event is back this October with brand-new comics from creators around the world.

The annual Shortbox Comics Fair has returned, offering digital comics in a variety of genres from artists all over the world. It runs through Oct. 31.

The fair is curated by Zainab Akhtar, who used to run the Shortbox comic imprint, and published and sold print comics up until February of last year. The spirit of the imprint continues with the fair, which offers a wide selection of really cool comics by both veteran and up-and-coming indie creators. You can find previews of each of them on the site.

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It’s Wednesday, and you know what that means …

AEW and DC Comics — two Wednesday staples — are teaming for a comic series and cross-promotion.

Fans of All Elite Wrestling know the familiar catchphrase that the masked Excalibur says every Wednesday night to kick off AEW’s Dynamite. And comic fans, of course, know that Wednesday means “new comics.” But now the two are coming together, again, as AEW has announced a crossover miniseries that will see AEW’s wrestlers meet the Justice League in 2026.

Writer Steve Orlando will team with artist Travis Mercer on the project, which will feature covers by Lucas Meyer.

DC and AEW plan to have a “special preview edition” of the comic at the New York Comic Con later this month, where AEW owners Tony Khan and wrestlers like Jon Moxley, Swerve Strickland, Orange Cassidy and Willow Nightingale, will join comic creators Steve Orlando and Travis Mercer on a panel.

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Here’s an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at ‘Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador’ #1

Artist Laurence Campbell shares his layout and process art from the upcoming two-part Hellboy story.

Today we have an exclusive peek at the artistic process behind the upcoming Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: The Ghost Ships of Labrador #1, arriving this November from Dark Horse Comics.

Hellboy creator Mike Mignola teams up with Judge Dredd writer Rob Williams for a chilling new two-part story, with stunning artwork from Hellboy universe veteran Laurence Campbell. In these exclusive layout and process pages, you can see Campbell’s approach to bringing this ghostly tale to life.

The story plunges Hellboy into a town besieged by supernatural forces, where spirits run rampant and a fellow B.P.R.D. agent has vanished into the paranormal maelstrom. It’s classic Hellboy horror—atmospheric, mysterious and packed with the occult danger fans love. Check out the process pieces below.

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Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Fall into comics

This week kicks off several new crossovers from Marvel and DC, along with new series from Justin Joordan, Patrick Piazzalunga, Chris Gooch, Oliver Ono, Stephanie Williams, Letizia Cadonici and more. Plus: Cold Slither is back for one more show!

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. Fall is here, it’s time to wake up the singer from Green Day and both DC and Marvel have big events kicking off 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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