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Comics Guide for Aug. 12, 2026

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ABSOLUTE BATMAN #23

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KINGDOM OF ZOD

SUPERGIRL #16 

(W) Sophie Campbell (A) Joe Quinones (CA) Guillem March

KINGDOM OF ZOD: PART ONE! SUPERGIRL RALLIES THE SUPER-FORCE!

The Kryptonite Kingdom of El Caldero has b

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Star Wars Comic Books

I turned my nose up at Marvel's Star Wars comics in the late '70s/early '80s. Fast forward to the early 2K's when I found new volumes of the Dark Horse series of tpbs reprinting it on clearance at Half Price Books. I snatched them up thinking "How ba

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Comics Guide for Aug. 5, 2026

BATMAN #12 

(W) Matt Fraction (A/CA) Jorge Jimenez

SIX ASSASSINS. ONE CITY. COUNTLESS WAYS TO DIE!

Six of the world's deadliest killers have descended on Gotham City at once — but who hired them, and who's the target? Surely, it can't be the Batman..

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X-Men: The Hellfire Murder Reactions (SPOILERS)

As is my usual habit, here’s something off-topic to function as SPOILER SPACE.  The pictured fellow is the late, great Richard Kiel (at one point, he was one of Hollywood’s go-to guys when they needed a really large, imposing guy who didn’t need to b

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Comics Guide for July 29, 2026

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DC FINEST: GREEN LANTERN — HARD-TRAVELING HEROES TP: Collects Green Lantern stories published between July 1968 and March 1971 from the pages of GREEN LANTERN #62-82, THE FLASH #191, and WORLD'S FINEST COMICS #201. I've said before that an

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Giant-Size Youngblood #1

"This a serious question: Is there anything original here at all?"

"Challenge accepted. I'll read it so you don't have to."

I should really learn to keep my mouth shut and not be so impulsive.

Reading a Rob Liefeld comic is an experience not unlike read

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Comics Guide for July 22, 2026

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ACTION COMICS #1100

(W) Various (A) Various (CA) Ryan Sook

SUPERMAN RETURNS IN THIS LANDMARK ISSUE! Written by Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, Sophie Campbell and Dan Slott Art by Skylar Patridge, Ryan Sook, Daniel Sampere, Dan Mora and Luca

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Marvel Comics to Leave NYC, Move to Beautiful Downtown Burbank

Story   "Marvel is now seeking to have all of the New York based employees of the comics and franchise group, just over 100 people, relocate to California by July 2027. "

"Yes, please uproot your families and move to the other side of the continent, '

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Comics shipping July 15, 2026

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ABSOLUTE GREEN ARROW #3 (OF 6)

(W) Pornsak Pichetshote (A/CA) Rafael Albuquerque

DINAH ON THE TRAIL OF THE GREEN ARROW KILLER! After the horrifying events of last issue, Dinah must capture the Green Arrow Killer as she finally finds Oliver

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Second-Best Super Friends

I've been thinking about Batman, Green Arrow, and the Question. They've teamed up numerous times, beginning in a string of annuals published in 1988. They feel like the Super Friends Batman hangs out with when he's not with his own Bat family, or wit

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Comics shipping July 8, 2026

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Lunar Distribution

BATMAN AND THE MONSTER MEN TP (2026 EDITION)

Thiis 2006 story is a rewrite or retcon (call it what you will) of the Hugo Strange story in Batman #1 (1940), written and drawn by Matt Wagner. The t

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AHOY to Certify Its Comics as AI-free

For Immediate Release:

AHOY Comics Becomes The First Publisher to Adopt Matt Kindt’s “100% Human-Made” Open-Source Certification For All Upcoming Releases,

Beginning With Mark Russell and Russ Braun’s THE FORGOTTEN DIVINE The Kindt-Designed Emblem Ce

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Comics shipping July 1, 2026

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AVENGERS JLA #2 (OF 4) FACSIMILE EDITION

I had to laugh when I saw this cover originally, because it looks like a page of "school notes" from my elementary school days (only with much better art). That's what I did in school: I drew

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Comics shipping June 24, 2026

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SUMMER OF SUPERGIRL SPECIAL #1 (ONE-SHOT)

DC’s Summer of Supergirl continues with Summer of Supergirl Special #1, a 48-page one-shot arriving June 24. This celebratory anthology brings together an all-star roster o

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"What if Captain America were revived in...?"

Captain America was "put on ice" (retroactively) in 1945 and rescued by the Avengers in 1964. Man Out of Time (2010) had him being revived in the mid-to-late '90s, and "Our Secret Wars" (2025) in the early 2Ks. But there was an earlier version, from

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ROM returns to comics at Image

SPOILER ALERT: M.A.S.K. #1 Blind Bag Reveals Monumental Energon Universe First Appearance

Skybound, Image Comics, and Hasbro Stun Fans Worldwide with a Surprise Launch TODAY!

LOS ANGELES 06/10/2026 — Today Skybound and Image Comics, in collaboration

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ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN #1 RETURNS TO PRESS, ABSOLUTE CASSANDRA CAIN TO DEBUT

ABSOLUTE CATWOMAN #1 RETURNS TO PRESS WITH NEW SECOND PRINTING COVERS

Plus, Che Grayson and Matias Bergara Expand DC’s Absolute-Era Storytelling with Absolute Cassandra Cain One-Shot

Due to overwhelming demand ahead of publication, DC today announced

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FX to Develop 'That Texas Blood' for TV

FX TO DEVELOP BELOVED NEO-NOIR WESTERN THAT TEXAS BLOOD FOR TV

PORTLAND, Ore. 05/29/2026 — Bestselling, fan-favorite neo-noir Western, That Texas Blood by writer Chris Condon (Of the Earth, News from the Fallout) and artist Jacob Phillips (Everything

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Project Superpowers

Reading The Twelve, Band of Heroes and The Marvel Project (not to mention the series in the "Miscellaneous New Universes" thread) recently really put me in the mood to read Project Superpowers. Unfortunately, I had no idea where I had filed it. Rathe

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Comics shipping June 17, 2026

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DC FINEST: ROBIN — THE ORIGIN OF ROBIN TP

(W) Mike Friedrich, Elliot S. Maggin, Various (A) Gil Kane, Irv Novick, Various (CA) Carmine Infantino, Joe Giella

Collects Robin's major solo appearances in Batman #184, 19

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