SDCC | ‘Ultimate Endgame’ begins in December as ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’ ends

Details were shared at the San Diego Comic-Con this week.

Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto’s final issue of Ultimate Spider-Man will arrive in December, just as the Maker returns in Ultimate Endgame.

Hickman attended the Marvel Comics: Ultimate Universe Panel at San Diego Comic-Con today, sharing that the story he and Checchetto have been telling was always meant to end with issue #24.

“This was everything that I pitched,” Hickman said. “Nothing has deviated. It’s been really nice to execute the plan well and everything culminates into this issue. Fans of the Ultimate Universe are going to love it. It’s been a real pleasure being the writer of Ultimate Spider-Man.”

It was almost two years ago that fans were introduced to the Ultimate Universe version of Spider-Man — an older Peter Parker married to Mary Jane and father to two kids who had never been Spider-Man. As the maker tried to supress the hero community, Tony Stark had found a way to bring them back, and one of the first heroes he contacted was Peter Parker.

And now that story will come to an end. Here’s a look at the final cover by Checchetto:

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SDCC Slugfest | ‘Knightfight,’ Bad Batch, ‘Marian Heretic’ + more

Plus: Terrorbytes! Youngblood! And a big sale from Fantagraphics!

Slugfest is a roundup of cool announcements about projects coming to a shelf near you. With the San Diego Comic-Con upon us, 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 information.

From the DC All In Panel earlier this week came news of a tie-in title for the big DC K.O. event that DC announced last week — and it involves a whole lot of fighting and a whole lot of Robins.

According to reports from the panel, Knightfight by Joshua Williamson and Dan Mora “explores Batman’s worst nightmare: what if the Robins all became Batmen in twisted alternate futures?”

Yes, Dan Mora is adding another book to his schedule, and still killing it:

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SDCC | Marvel’s ‘Deadpool/Batman’ will feature a Frank Miller story

Al Ewing and Dike Ruan also join the line-up with a Rocket Raccoon/Green Lantern story.

It’s 1982, and Frank Miller is drawing Wolverine. It’s 1987, and Frank Miller is writing Batman. It’s 2025, and Frank Miller is writing and drawing Wolverine and Batman.

Marvel announced in San Diego this week that the recent Eisner winner is, indeed, writing and drawing a story for the upcoming Deadpool/Batman one-shot that will feature Wolverine — the Old Man Logan version — and the Batman as seen in Miller’s classic Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. He also drew a variant cover featuring both characters:

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SDCC | Marvel teases the end of ‘One World Under Doom’ — and what will follow

Ryan North and RB Silva present the big finale in November.

All good things must come to an end, even the benevolent rule of the one true Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Doom.

The One World Under Doom, Marvel’s big crossover event and miniseries, will come to a head in issue #9 in November, and in San Diego this week writer Ryan North teased what that issue will bring.

“The story is in two parts,” North said. “[In the second part], you’re kind of waiting for the other shoe to drop, because there’s no way he’s doing what he’s doing without any consequences. So in the second half, you see what’s going on behind the scenes.

“There is some stuff coming up that I’m very excited for,” he continued. “I know issue nine is the conclusion, but issue eight has some big stuff that I’m very excited about.”

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SDCC | Matt Kindt + Ibrahim Moustafa bring John Le Carré’s Circus to comics

The three-issue miniseries begins in November.

Writer Matt Kindt and artist Ibrahim Moustafa will team up to bring the world from John le Carré’s novels into comics. The three-issue John Le Carré: The Circus—Losing Control will begin in November.

Le Carré is the author of many best-selling espionage novels, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which have been adapted to film. Several of his books are connected and feature a British intelligence agency nicknamed the Circus, which is overseen by a man known only as “Control.” His right hand is a man named Smiley, and his left hand, as seen in the comic, is his executive assistant, Maggie. When Control goes missing, it’s up to Maggie to find him — while keeping the world on track.

“Getting asked to contribute a piece to John le Carré’s world of Smiley has been one of the greatest honors and responsibilities of my life,” said Kindt. “I wasn’t looking for this job but I was called into service. And much like Smiley, my heart is in the right place and hopefully that will be enough.”

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Your 2025 Eisner Award winners

‘Lunar New Year Love Story’ takes home three awards, while ‘Santos Sisters’ won for Best Continuing Series.

The winners of the 2025 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards were announced Friday night in San Diego.

Lunar New Year Love Story by Gene Luen Yang and LeUyen Pham, published by First Second, took home three awards, including Best Graphic Album – New and a Best Writer award for Yang. Santos Sisters by Greg & Fake, Graham Smith, Dave Landsberger and Marc Koprinarov, which is published by small press publisher Floating World Comics, took home Best Continuing Series, beating out several series by Marvel, DC and Image.

Other awards given out included the Bob Clampett Award, a humanitarian award that was given to Mad Cave Studios’ L.A. Strong charity anthology. Don Glut and Sheldon Mayer received the 2025 Bill Finger Award for Excellence in Comic Book Writing. Richard Blake, writer and artist of Hexagon Bridge, won the Russ Manning Award. And Akira Comics in Madrid, Spain took home the Spirit of Comics Retailing Award.

Congratulations to all the nominees and winners, which you can see below, followed by the Hall of Fame inductees for 2025:

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SDCC | She-Hulk, Nova + more ongoings will spin out of ‘Imperial’

‘Planet She’Hulk’ and ‘Nova: Centurion’ lead the pack in November.

At the San Diego Comic-Con today, Marvel revealed that Jonathan Hickman, Iban Coello and Federico Vicentini’s Imperial miniseries is not only redefining the Marvel cosmos, but is also serving as the launching pad for five new ongoing series starring Nova, She-Hulk and more.

If you’ve been paying attention to the one-shot tie-ins for the event, you can probably guess the five series:

  • Planet She-Hulk by Stephanie Phillips and Aaron Kuder
  • Nova: Centurion by Jed MacKay and Alvaro Lopez
  • Exiles by a to-be-announced creative team
  • Black Panther: Intergalactic by to-be-announced creative team
  • Imperial Guardians by to-be-announced creative team

All five series are being set up in the Imperial War one-shots, with the first two debuting in November.

“This is a story that unites all the disparate and separate powers of the galactic portion of the Marvel Universe—the Kree, the Shi’ar, the Skrulls, and more—all in one big science-fiction epic, set up in a series of Russian nesting dolls where in every issue, something is pulled off, and something is revealed behind the thing you just learned the last time out. It’s an all-out cosmic war,” Marvel Execuitve Editor Tom Brevoort said.

Here’s a look at the two announced titles:

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SDCC | Frank Tieri + Stefano Raffaele pit ‘Alien vs. Captain America’

The miniseries kicks off in November.

Following the recent Aliens vs. Avengers miniseries that brought the Alien franchise into contact with the Marvel Universe, Marvel announced at the San Diego Comic-Con today Alien vs. Captain America by Frank Tieri and Stefano Raffaele.

The story, set during World War II, will feature Hydra looking for the hidden city of Attilan, home to the Inhumans. But like the stupid Nazis they are, their quest for power leads to them unleashing something very, very bad.

“Ya know, sometimes a project comes along and you just have to pinch yourself that you get to be involved with it,” Tieri said. “I mean, here you have two of the most iconic properties in entertainment—Captain America, who is basically the ultimate hero, going against Alien, one of the ultimate names in horror. As a writer, what more can you ask for than that?”

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SDCC | Gene Yang + Freddie Williams II take on ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’

Plus: TMNT X Godzilla, Battle Nexus and more Turtle-focused news from San Diego.

The 12th issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will be the final issue by Jason Aaron and Juan Ferrerya, who kicked off the new series last year. But December will bring a new creative team as Gene Luen Yang (American Born Chinese) and Freddie Williams II (Batman/TMNT) take over the title.

The creative team change was one of several TMNT-related announcements IDW made this week at the San Diego Comic-Con.

According to publisher IDW, “this all-new story arc will provide fans with a fresh jumping on point as the Heroes in a Half-Shell are back together and hopeful about the future of the city, but there’s a dark and personal danger lurking in the shadows as a deadly new assassin makes their debut.” Yang and Williams will be joined by Jake Thomas, who take over editing the title.

“I’ve been a fan of the TMNT since I was young. I remember watching the ‘80s cartoon with my brother and then reenacting the Turtles’ adventures with our action figures,” Yang said. “I read my first issue of TMNT at a friend’s house, and I was blown away by the melding of gritty martial arts action and wild, out-of-left-field ideas. Many years later, I began my cartooning career in American independent comics. All of us from that corner of comics owe a huge debt to Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird. Their talent and creativity, both as comics creators and as businessmen, carved out a path for the rest of us to follow. In fact, the very first comic I ever self-published was funded by a grant from Peter Laird’s Xeric Foundation. I’ve admired the Turtles for a long, long time. I’m absolutely thrilled to get to tell their stories at IDW.”

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SDCC | ‘Age of Revelation’ continues in November

See what’s up with Magik, the Fenris twins, the Iron King, Vindicator and the X-Babies during Marvel’s next big X-Men event.

Marvel has revealed more details about Age of Revelation, their big alternate-history X-Men event that kicks off in October. Following the slow trickle over four days of revealing the titles that’ll take over the X-Men line in October, Marvel has released covers and solicits for the second issues of each of those titles, which will arrive in November.

As a reminder, Age of Revelation is an Age of Apocalypse-style event. Like the 1990s event — which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year — Age of Revelation will show us an alternate world and bring the relaunch of several X-related titles for the duration, as Doug Ramsey, the heir to Apocalypse, creates a new world order and we jump 10 years into the future to see what it brings.

I covered the first issues when they were announced here, here, here and here, if you need to catch up on what was previously announced. Now here’s what you can expect in November … note that a couple of titles, Binary and Rogue Storm, are missing, but Marvel said details on their second issues would be released at a later date.

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SDCC | Robert Kirkman + Mark Englert return to ‘Capes’

Remastered issues of the 2003 series will arrive in November from Skybound, followed by new issues written by Benito Cereno.

Capes, an early superhero comic by Robert Kirkman and Mark Englert, will get a makeover by the creators as it returns in November.

The story revolves around a superhero business, Capes Inc., that’s set in the same universe as Invincible (and has been seen in the animated series). It employs characters like Kid Thor, Knockout, Captain Cosmic and more, who protect New York when they’re on the clock.

Capes originally debuted in 2003, a month before another Kirkman-written series, The Walking Dead, and many years before Kirkman would form Skybound and become an Image partner. At the time, the young up-and-coming writer had already kicked off Invincible and Tech Jacket at Image Comics, so he was turning into a force for the publisher.

Kirkman and Englert’s original Capes stories will be remastered with new art and dialogue by the original creative team and released as single issues. And then with issue #7, the title will continue with new stories drawn by Englert and written by Blood & Thunder writer Benito Cereno.

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SDCC | ‘Kull’ will return at Titan Comics in 2027

Plus more news from Titan’s ‘Conan the Barbarian’ panel.

Robert E. Howard’s Kull, sometimes known as Kull the Conqueror or King Kull, will return to comics in 2027 at Titan Comics.

The publisher returned to San Diego to reveal more details on upcoming Conan the Barbarian projects, revealing to fans at their panel plans for the return of Kull, The Savage Sword of Conan: Reforged, Scourge of the Serpent and more.

Not much was said about Kull, which is still two years away, but in the more immediate future, Oct. 8 brings the extra-sized Conan the Barbarian #25 by longtime Conan writer Jim Zub and fantasy artist Alex Horley, who is painting the issue. Here’s a preview:

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