Dark Horse hands Nathan Fillion a comics writing debut with Witness Point #1, a four-issue Wisconsin noir co-written with Heath Corson and drawn by Soo Lee, due July 8 at $4.99. #NathanFillion

Frank Miller drew his first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cover ever for TMNT #300, due July 22 from IDW. Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams II kick off the milestone with The City That Never Dies. #TMNT

Marvel scrapped the staggered August rollout for its Midnight Universe. Jonathan Hickman's Midnight X-Men and its two sister horror titles now launch together on October 7, the only new Marvel books shipping that day. #MidnightUniverse

New Comic Day: 66 new books hit shelves July 1. Batman #11 keeps the Bat-line rolling, Amazing Spider-Man #32 swings back, and 100 Bullets returns with The US of Anger #1. #NewComicBookDay

Eleven of the Top 20 bestselling author graphic novels in April were Invincible volumes, per Circana BookScan. Robert Kirkman's Image series keeps riding its animated season, with the three Compendium bricks leading the pack. #Invincible

Steve Skroce returns to superhero comics, writing and drawing Tales of Wonder for Skybound. The six-issue series lands September 2, following two estranged Golden Age creators who reunite when their old heroes and monsters turn real. #Skybound

Marvel spent months telling retailers the Ultimate Universe was ending forever. Then Ultimate Universe Finale #1 shipped June 24 with a last page that reads 'the Ultimate Universe will return.' #Marvel

Two Image launches in a row have outrun their print runs. Red Roots sold out at the distributor level and was rushed back to press, and White Sky's second printing outsold its first. #ImageComics

Dynamite's Ben 10 #1 cleared 112,000 first-issue copies, one of the largest non-DC launches of 2026 so far. Joe Casey and Robert Carey brought the Cartoon Network hero to comic shops on May 6. #Ben10

Kelly Sue DeConnick and Gail Simone are both bringing new creator-owned series to Dark Horse this year. DeConnick launches Skate Ali with Sam Humphries, and Simone debuts The Ring with artist Elisa Romboli. #DarkHorse

Absolute Green Arrow #1 pulled roughly 300,000 copies in retailer demand, beating what Absolute Batman drew at its launch 18 months ago. Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque now anchor DC's fastest-rising line. #AbsoluteUniverse

Fifty-nine Dark Horse employees have moved to form Dark Horse Workers United with the CWA, pressing interim CEO Jay Komas for voluntary recognition. The group names a continued commitment to creator-owned comics among its goals, the year founder Mike Richardson left. #ComicsIndustry

Marvel is clearing October 7 for a single launch. That Wednesday the only new Marvel books are the three Midnight Universe debuts, with Jonathan Hickman writing Midnight X-Men alongside new horror takes on Spider-Man and the Fantastic Four. #Marvel

Spawn #376 hands the franchise to writer Matthew Rosenberg and artist Stephen Segovia, jumping the story a full year forward. Al Simmons, restored to humanity, hides in a fractured Manhattan as a cabal called The 400 hunts him. #Spawn

Ten volumes of Invincible and its spinoffs landed on May's BookScan superhero graphic novel chart, a catalog run usually seen only from manga. Robert Kirkman's series rode the Prime Video Season 4 wave back onto the charts. #Invincible

Marvel ends its Ultimate Universe on June 24 with Ultimate Universe: Finale #1. Architect Jonathan Hickman wrote the conclusion into his contract from the start, so the line closes exactly when his story does. #UltimateUniverse

Things From Another World's flagship sits in Milwaukie, Oregon, right next to Dark Horse Comics' home base. TFAW Milwaukie carries new releases, back issues, manga, and a deep collectibles wall. tfaw.com

Jae Lee returns to monthly comics with M1: Monster Racing League, an Image series written by father-daughter duo Lily and Robert Windom. It follows 17-year-old Dev into Japan's underground street racing, where mutation wins championships. #ImageComics

34.7 percent. That is DC's share of the comic shop market in Q1 2026, its widest lead over Marvel since the Absolute line launched in 2024. #ComicSales

DC's Next Level imprint expands September 2 with new ongoing series for the Legion of Super-Heroes, Teen Titans, and Doom Patrol. Joshua Williamson and Hayden Sherman handle the Legion, set a thousand years after Superman first reached Earth. #DCComics

Paul Chadwick's Concrete: Stars Over Sand #1 shipped June 17, the first new Concrete since 2012. The $4.99 Dark Horse five-parter opens with amnesia and desert isolation. #Concrete

Absolute Batman #20 crossed 500,000 copies sold in May, the best single-issue sales figure in DC history per Scott Snyder. Twenty issues in and the run keeps setting records. #AbsoluteBatman

Three horror titles, one day: Hickman on Midnight X-Men, Percy on Midnight Fantastic Four, and Johnson on Midnight Spider-Man all land October 7 as the only Marvel comics shipping that week. #MidnightUniverse

2026 Eisner Best One-Shot/Single Issue wraps up our daily nominee spotlight. Six nominated issues, including Assorted Crisis Events #4, which also earned a Best New Series nomination. Winners announced July 24 at Comic-Con. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-one-shotsingle-iss…

2026 Eisner Best Digital Comic: The Lycan, Overwatch 2: Against the Tide, Practical Defense Against Piracy, The World of Lublu, DeadAss, In the Real Dark Night. Six comics distributed digitally earning Eisner recognition. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-digital-comic #Eisne…

2026 Eisner Best Webcomic: Keeping Time, Superfish, The Legend of Parvaterra, The Accidental Undergrad, Terran Omega: The Ghosts of War, Tiger Tiger, Sable: A Ghost Story. Seven nominees for the strongest comics published online. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-webcomic #Ei…

2026 Eisner Best Archival Collection/Project-Comic Books: The Atlas Comics Library, Weird Science Vol. 1 XXL, Hothead Paisan, Comics of the Movement, Scream! The Specials, AKIRA Vols 1-5. Six projects preserving wildly different corners of comics history. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nomin…

August 4: Dark Nights: Metal gets the DC Compact Comics treatment at $9.99, with Injustice Year One following July 21. Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo's 6-issue event, now in pocket form. DC has 10 such editions in 2026. #DCComics

Kristin Kreuk (Smallville, Reacher) makes her comic writing debut July 29 with Black Star #1 from Titan Comics. The 5-issue gothic horror series is set in early 19th-century Winnipeg, co-written with her Burden of Truth co-stars. #BlackStar

He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Wings of Fate #1 hits shops June 10, five days after Amazon MGM's live-action film. Dark Horse's 4-issue series by Tim Sheridan picks up in Eternos after Skeletor's siege, at $4.99 per issue. #MastersOfTheUniverse

versedb_talker is a ComicTagger plugin that adds VerseDB as a metadata source. Install: drop the .whl into your ComicTagger plugin folder, add your free VerseDB API token in settings. Works on Windows, macOS, and Linux. github.com/Reggio-Digital/versedb_talker #ComicTagger

versedb_talker is a ComicTagger plugin that writes more than series and issue number. Credits, characters, teams, story arcs, key issue flags, age rating, and cover image all come through from VerseDB in a single lookup per issue. github.com/Reggio-Digital/versedb_talker #ComicTagger

Got manga, manhwa, and bande dessinee sitting next to Marvel and DC? versedb_talker is a ComicTagger plugin that handles the whole shelf. Right-to-left reading is detected automatically for manga. VerseDB doesn't treat western single issues as the default. github.com/Reggio-Digital/versedb_talker #…

versedb_talker v1.0.0 is live. Tag comics from ComicTagger using VerseDB as the metadata source: 1M+ issues, 150K+ series, credits, characters, and arcs. Manga, manhwa, and western formats all supported. Free with a VerseDB account. github.com/Reggio-Digital/versedb_talker #ComicTagger

M.A.S.K. #1 launched June 3, Dan Watters and Pye Parr's entry into Skybound's Energon Universe. The franchise, now in its fourth year, spans Transformers, G.I. Joe, Void Rivals, and M.A.S.K. #EnergonUniverse

Twenty days before the Supergirl film, DC drops a 48-page Summer of Supergirl Special on June 24. The movie adapts Tom King and Bilquis Evely's Eisner-winning eight-issue miniseries Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. #Supergirl

Chip Zdarsky and Marco Checchetto reunite for Avengers #1 on November 4. Their post-Armageddon team: Spider-Man, Wolverine, Captain Marvel, Daredevil, and Luke Cage as Earth's Mightiest Survivors. #Avengers

Robert Kirkman's Invincible franchise claimed 11 of the top 20 author graphic novels on the April 2026 Circana BookScan chart. The three Compendium volumes led the list. Season 4 premiered in March, and spinoffs Battle Beast and Tech Jacket Compendium charted alongside them. #Invincible

DC closed Q1 2026 with 34.7% market share to Marvel's 29.4%, a gap wider than either publisher has held over the other in years. Absolute Batman alone reached 11 reprints, and the Absolute Universe line has moved 8.2 million units since October 2024. #DCComics

59 Dark Horse employees petitioned CWA Local 7901 for recognition on May 29, giving management until June 3 to respond. Dark Horse Workers United wants fair wages and a written commitment to creator-owned publishing as part of any formal agreement. #ComicsIndustry

2026 Eisner Best Painter/Multimedia Artist: Teddy Kristiansen, Cathy Malkasian, Qu, Linnea Sterte, Mika Song, Martin Simmonds. The most visually experimental category on the ballot. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-paintermultimedia-artist #Eisner2026

$500,000 in sales and 18,000 units sold through Whatnot. Rob Liefeld launched Youngblood No. 1 direct-to-consumer across five cover editions after calling comic shops unreliable for new launches. #Youngblood

DC and Marvel's recent crossover stories are being collected in a single 176-page hardcover, out September 8. Batman/Deadpool, Superman/Spider-Man, Flash/Fantastic Four, and Supergirl/Blade, priced at $29.99 hardcover and $19.99 paperback. #ComicBooks

2026 Eisner Best Penciller/Inker: Javier Rodriguez, Hayden Sherman, Eric Zawadzki, Chris Samnee, Sean Phillips, Elsa Charretier. Rodriguez picks up nominations in three craft categories this year. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-pencillerinker #Eisner2026

Iman Vellani's solo writing debut arrives this August from Image Comics. Chachu is a five-issue neo-noir set in 1979, co-published with James Tynion IV's Tiny Onion studio. Art by Marianna Ignazzi, colors by Jordie Bellaire. #ImageComics

The Boys finale borrowed the skeleton of Garth Ennis's comic ending. Same crowbar. Same Hughie killing Butcher. Same oversight role. Different body count. Every match and divergence, broken down. #TheBoysTV versedb.com/blog/the-boys-finale-comics-ending-compared

2026 Eisner Best Writer/Artist: Linnea Sterte, Juni Ba, Jamal Campbell, Jesse Lonergan, Sheng Chang, Kazumi Yamashita. A category where one person carries the full vision. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-writerartist #Eisner2026

Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon #4 hits shelves this week as the last setup issue before Avengers: Armageddon, Chip Zdarsky's five-issue event, launches in June. The story has been threading through his Captain America run for months. #AvengersArmageddon

2026 Eisner Best Writer nominees: Deniz Camp, James Tynion IV, Kelly Thompson, Mariko Tamaki, Scott Snyder, Stephanie Williams. Six writers, one winner in July. versedb.com/lists/system/eisner-award-nominees-2026-best-writer #Eisner2026

After nearly 30 years running Marvel's comics division, Dan Buckley is stepping down. Brad Winderbaum, head of Marvel TV and animation, takes over, with David Abdo joining from Disney Music as GM of comics and franchise. #MarvelComics