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SDCC Slugfest | News from DC, 2000 AD, Fantagraphics + more

As San Diego Comic-Con looms, we round up news on the show, recent comic announcements and more. Plus: comics at the G1 Climax opener!

With the San Diego Comic-Con coming up on July 23-26, we have news and announcements dropping left and right, so here’s an attempt to keep up with it all. Hit the links for more info.

DC has unveiled its plans for San Diego Comic-Con, which includes a continuation of their decade-long plan to spotlight a different era of the company, building toward their 100th anniversary in 2035. Last year spotlight the 1940s, so this year will focus on the 1950s — the decade that brought us Supergirl, Legion of Super- Heroes, Barry Allen, Hal Jordan and MAD Magazine.

Their booth will feature a 1950s-style Daily Planet newsstand, and they plan to give away free copies of MAD Magazine #1 facsimile edition, based on the original that debuted in 1952.

Here’s a video DC released spotlighting the comics and characters of that decade:

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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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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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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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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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DC announces José Luis García-López Artist’s Edition for March 2027

The 240-page oversized hardcover, curated by Scott Dunbier, collects original art from one of DC’s most influential artists.

DC has announced José Luis García-López’s DC Classics Artist’s Edition, a 240-page oversized hardcover collecting original art from the artist’s six-decade career at the company, arriving next March.

García-López’s work on the DC Comics Style Guide shaped the DC characters’ visual identity for decades, and his runs on titles like Superman and The New Teen Titans established him as one of DC’s defining illustrators. The collection includes seven complete stories along with a curated selection of covers and rare pieces, with stories written by Alan Brennert, Gerry Conway, Paul Dini, Michael Fleisher and Paul Levitz, among others.

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Dare to Be Super: Weird Al Yankovic teams with the World’s Finest in September

Batman, Superman and the king of musical parody unite to save two dimensions from a plague of boringness in a new one-shot.

Weird Al Yankovic is no stranger to comics, having edited an issue of MAD Magazine, appeared on various covers at DC and even had his songs turned into comics over at Z2. But now he’s going one step further by teaming up with Batman and Superman in Batman/Superman/Weird Al: World’s Weirdest #1.

The 40-page one-shot from writer Mark Waid and artist Dan Schoening, with “vibes” by “Weird Al” Yankovic himself, arrives in September. Naturally, it features Mr. Mxyzptlk.

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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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DC announces DC Go expansion, including its first crossover

The webcomics imprint adds new seasons, original series and ‘Runway to Ruin!,’ its first crossover, later this year.

DC Go, the publisher’s vertical-scrolling digital comics imprint, will expand in 2026 with new seasons of returning series, three new originals and its first-ever crossover event.

The expansion kicks off with new seasons of three existing series:

  • Jon Kent: This Internship Is My Kryptonite, by writer Sam Camp and artist Seraji, launched its new season this month.
  • The Magical Mysteries of Shazam!, by Steve Orlando and artist Giopota, arrives in August.
  • Then Nothing Butt Nightwing, by Patrick R. Young and Moy R. Marco, returns in September.
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Slugfest | Static joins the Titans, Batman gets some help + more in DC’s August solicitations

Plus: a new Vertigo title debuts, new graphic novels, Alex Ross, a trip to Metropolis for the The Flash and more.

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

DC will end the summer with two different crossovers featuring their two biggest characters, as Batman and Gotham are engaged in the Bad Seeds crossover and Superman returns just in time for another showdown with the forces of General Zod. August also brings another Batman and Robin: Year One series from the superstar team of Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, and all the “Next Level” titles, including Batwoman, Zatanna and Deathstroke, will be featured in Next Level: One Shot #1, a single round fired by Deadshot.

Beyond those big, previously covered items, there’s a lot more to see from DC in August, so let’s jump in.

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Clover Press + Aspen Comics announce ‘The DC Art of Michael Turner’

The deluxe hardcover collecting Turner’s DC Comics work is the third volume in Clover Press’ ongoing art book series, with a Kickstarter campaign launching soon.

Clover Press is back with another of their high-end art books, this time focused on the artwork the late Michael Turner created for DC Comics. And today we have an exclusive first look at the dust jacket for the book, which will be funded through Kickstarter.

The DC Art of Michael Turner is the third volume in Clover Press’ The DC Art Of… series, following The DC Art of Jorge Jimenez and The DC Art of Bruno Redondo. It’s also a nice companion piece to The Marvel Art of Michael Turner, which Clover Press published in 2024.

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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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