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Marvel announces its new ‘Sorcerer Supreme’

Steve Orlando and Bernard Chang will plot a new course for the Scarlet Witch in December.

With the One World Under Doom crossover series set to wrap up in November, Marvel has been teasing a new character will step into the role as sorcerer supreme — someone besides Doom or the traditional bearer of the title, Doctor Strange.

This week Marvel revealed who would take on the job when the Sorcerer Supreme title launches in December, and it is none other than the mystical Avenger, the Scarlet Witch. The tale of how she gets her new gig will be told by longtime Scarlet Witch scribe Steve Orlando, joined by artist Bernard Chang.

“When it comes to the Scarlet Witch…anything’s possible,” Orlando said. “Those are the words Wanda lives by, and they’re the words we as creators live by, too. So, with the Sorcerer Supreme title in the wind after One World Under Doom, the question became—who’s the next to wield the cloak and the eye? Or more precisely—who could hear such powerful artifacts crying out from the edge of destruction? And in the Marvel Universe, there’s one person above all who hears you when no one else will—Wanda Maximoff!”

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Benjamin Percy + José Luis Soares launch a new ‘Punisher’ ongoing

Frank Castle’s new series lands in February.

Following the current Punisher: Red Band miniseries, that book’s writer Benjamin Percy will team with artist José Luis Soares on a new Punisher ongoing series.

The new series will continue the story set up in the Red Band miniseries, although it isn’t completely clear if it’ll come polybagged and contain all the blood ‘n’ guts that the miniseries did. But you can expect to see Jigsaw show up.

“Punisher: Red Band was a new beginning for Frank Castle—and an unrelenting assault,” Percy said. “The book was polybagged, because it was a biohazard, dripping with blood. Now that you know we aren’t fooling around, we’re entering a new phase of storytelling that will serve both as a continuation of Red Band and a fresh start for new readers.”

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Slugfest | The kids are all fight in DC’s January 2026 solicitations

Plus: Absolute Zatanna debuts, Kyle Rayner gets in the ring and Supergirl celebrates Valentine’s Day.

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. This edition focuses on DC’s January 2026 solicitations.

DC K.O. continues in January, with the previously announced tie-in books like Knightfight and Superman, but also in two new one-shots.

Let’s look first at DC K.O.: The Kids Are All Fight Special #1, which picks up on some of the plot lines introduced in Titans — specifically Granny Goodness showing up to give our heroes, including Jon Kent/Superman, a hard time as they try to evacuate Earth.

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Exclusive | Valiant Beyond continues in January with ‘X-O Manowar: The God Hunt’

Steve Orlando returns with new artists Diego Giribaldi and Tomas Aira to chronicle more of Aric of Dacia’s adventures next year.

Valiant Beyond is taking Aric of Dacia on his most personal mission yet with X-O Manowar: The God Hunt in January. Writer Steve Orlando returns with new artists Diego Giribaldi and Tomas Aira for this four-issue arc.

The new miniseries will follow Valiant Beyond’s The X-O Manowar miniseries, which debuted in September and finishes up in December.

“The next X-O Manowar blockbuster kicks off with The God Hunt!” Orlando exclaimed. “Aric of Dacia walks the wastelands of tomorrow in search of honor–but he doesn’t walk alone. His ally, his queen, his armor…Shanhara is with him. They’re one! So if the God Marshal comes to take Shanhara’s head for a prize, he’ll have to go through the Man of War!”

And it sounds like that’s exactly what the God Marshal has planned.

“From the depths of the cosmos comes The God Marshal, the most feared of the Starwatch, tasked with bringing in all fugitive deities–dead or alive,” Orlando said. “But if the Marshal wants Shanhara, he’ll have to rip her from Aric of Dacia’s cold, dead, heart!”

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NYCC | Enter the ‘Dungeons of Doom,’ if you dare, in January

Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Benjamin Percy and more engage in the ultimate heist — stealing the unguarded secrets of Doctor Doom.

Doom’s reign as sorcerer supreme and emperor of the world may be coming to an end soon, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be some fallout. At New York Comic Con, Marvel announced Dungeons of Doom, a three-issue miniseries that will find “a new cast of characters from various corners of the Marvel Universe” shifting through the wreckage of Latveria to find Doom’s secret weapons.

Phillip Kennedy Johnson and Benjamin Percy are co-writing the series, which will feature art by Carlos Magno, Robert Gill, Justin Mason and Georges Jeanty.

“Ben Percy is a kindred spirit, and we both love horror books,” Johnson said. “Without spoiling the events that lead up to this series, there’s going to be a big conflict in Latveria, and all these factions end up in a place they didn’t ever know that was there. It gives us a set up for a horror anthology in the Marvel Universe, where we’ll see various factions of the Marvel Universe opening these doors and finding these horrors that Doom has been keeping hidden.”

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NYCC | Marvel’s Ultimate Universe will end next year

Each series will end between December and April, with the final battle with the Maker coming in ‘Ultimate Endgame.’

For the second time, Marvel’s Ultimate Universe will come to an end.

During Marvel’s Next Big Thing Panel at NYCC, Head of Marvel Comics and Franchise Dan Buckley, Editor in Chief C.B. Cebulski, Senior Editor Wil Moss, The Ultimates writer Deniz Camp and Ultimate Wolverine writer Chris Condon confirmed that the finite story, as it was conceived by story architect Jonathan Hickman, would wrap up in 2026.

“It’s hard to talk about without getting emotional,” said Camp. “It really is the culmination of everything Jonathan began. Everything from my book and everyone else’s book are all converging. It’s gonna be definitive, it’s going to be big, it’s going to be emotional, there’s going to be death…it’s just wild.”

Marvel previously announced this past summer that December’s Ultimate Spider-Man #24 would be the final issue of that title, and have confirmed that Ultimate Black Panther, Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates will all end with their 24th issues. Ultimate Wolverine will end with issue #16. The showdown with the Maker will conclude with the previously announced Ultimate Endgame, the five-issue miniseries that kicks off in December and concludes in April.

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NYCC | Joshua Williamson returns to Marvel to write ‘Iron Man’

The writer of ‘Superman’ and ‘G.I. Joe’ takes on the Armored Avenger in January.

It’s been almost a decade since Joshua Williamson did any work for Marvel, as he’s flown his flag for the past 10 years at DC and Image, writing high-profile titles like Superman, G.I. Joe and more. But he’ll make his return to the House of Ideas next year to write Iron Man.

Williamson will work with artist Carmen Carnero on the title, which will feature Madame Masque, members of the classic Thunderbolts team and a new archenemy.

“I am a huge Iron Man fan. A massive Iron Man fan… and I knew it was time. I absolutely had to do this,” said Williamson. “Part of our tagline for this book is that Tony Stark is the most dangerous weapon in the Marvel Universe. When he went into the cave, Tony built the armor… but after I thought about it more, the armor wasn’t what he built in the cave. Tony built Tony.”

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NYCC | Rick Veitch + Michael Zulli’s unpublished ‘Swamp Thing’ story will finally come to print

‘Swamp Thing 1989’ will be published as a four-issue Black Label series next year.

One of comics’ most infamous “lost” stories is finally coming to print. At New York Comic Con during their Vertigo panel, DC announced that Rick Veitch and Michael Zulli’s unpublished Swamp Thing #88 from 1989 will finally be published, the first issue of a four-issue miniseries that’ll wrap up the story Veitch originally intended to tell.

Swamp Thing 1989 will kick off in April of next year as a Black Label title, with the first issue containing the completed but never published issue. It’ll be followed by three new issues, written by Veitch with art by Tom Mandrake and Trish Mulvihill. Zulli, unfortunately, passed away last year.

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NYCC | ‘X-Men: Shadows of Tomorrow’ will follow ‘Age of Revelation’

Marvel has announced yet another X-Men publishing initiative that’ll come in the wake of their current crossover.

X-Men: Age of Revelation is just a little more than a week old, so it must be time to announce what comes next. At the New York Comic Con, Marvel revealed Shadows of Tomorrow, which will include 11 new/returning titles in the X-Men line.

To catch you up: in the wake of the well-regarded Krakoa era of the X-Men, spearheaded by Jonathan Hickman and continuing for a number of years, Marvel launched X-Men: From the Ashes, which was a return to a more traditional approach, where the world once again hated and feared mutants. Rather than living on a mutant paradise island, the characters were scattered, from Alaska to New Orleans, where they tried to pick up their lives again.

Reception has been tepid, at best, to the new line, with several of the launch titles not making it very far itno their runs. Then all of them ended in September to make way for Age of Revelation, a story set 10 years in the future, where Doug Ramsey, the former New Mutant turned Heir of Apocalypse, ruled with an iron fist. That story is just getting started and is set to run through December, a short-term event like Age of Apocalypse, but the nature of comic news, retailing and solicitations means it’s time to turn to January.

If you were a fan of the From the Ashes books, the good news is that several of the creators who worked on them will return to the characters they were working on after Age of Revelation. There are also some new titles coming, with a big focus on solo X-titles/duos vs. team books (although we’ll see those, too). Let’s have a look:

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NYCC | Zorro strikes twice in 2026 with new projects from Alien Books

Alien Books follows its ‘Zorro Remastered’ crowdfunding project with a pair of new series for 2026, created by Howard Chaykin, Jorge Fornés, Dan Abnett and Aaron Lopresti.

Building on the success of this year’s Zorro Remastered Kickstarter campaign, Alien Books has announced two new miniseries starring the legendary masked avenger, both set to debut in 2026.

“We’re building something truly special for both Zorro and comic book fans,” said Alien Books Editor-in-Chief Matias Timarchi. “It’s a dream come true to be working with creators of this caliber.”

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NYCC | Vertigo is back next year with new ‘100 Bullets,’ Deniz Camp, Kyle Starks, Ram V + more

DC’s creator-owned imprint returns with 10 titles in 2026.

It’s been almost a year since DC announced they were bringing Vertigo back from the dead as their creator-owned imprint, with the only project coming out under the banner being The Nice House by the Sea by James Tynion IV, Alvaro Martínez Bueno and Jordie Bellaire.

At New York Comic Con this week, DC pulled back the curtain on a full wave of creator-owned titles set to roll out in 2026. The panel “DC Vertigo: We’re Back,” moderated by Executive Editor Chris Conroy, was the first public showcase of the imprint’s comeback and the creators — some new, some familiar — who will bring it back to life.

The return will see 10 titles in 2026, including the return of The Nice House by the Sea with issue #7 in February. Joining Nice House are nine more series spanning horror, science fiction, noir and more:

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NYCC | Nick Cagnetti + Daniel Ziegler rise from the grave with ‘Spirit of the Shadows’

The five-issue miniseries debuts in January.

Oni Press has announced Spirit of the Shadows, a five-issue supernatural superhero series from writer/artist Nick Cagnetti and co-writer Daniel Ziegler. It marks Cagnetti’s first full-length art project since his breakout Pink Lemonade.

The bold, neon-hued dive into the afterlife will debut in January.

“This series goes to a lot of crazy spooky places,” Cagnetti said. “It’s an intricate web of revelation, revenge, and redemption that constantly leaves you gasping at the moral quandaries. I can’t wait for readers to see this book finally!”

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