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Marvel’s Midnight Universe Sells a Million Before Anyone Has Read It
Marvel's Midnight Universe horror line launches with Hickman's Midnight X-Men and a million combined pre-release sales.
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October 2026
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Back Issue #26 February 2006 (magazine review)
Another back issue of ‘Back Issue’. With the sub-title of ‘Spies And Tough Guys Issue’, it’s easy to see why this issue is…
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Frank Miller: American Genius – rain, ninjas and redemption, now free on YouTube (comics documentary).
If the embed above has vanished into the shadows of Hell’s Kitchen or been quietly set to private, you can watch the documentary…
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VisionQuest: Marvel’s android walks into a trap on purpose (official trailer).
Marvel’s official VisionQuest trailer swaps August’s quiet navel-gazing for a rescue mission, with Paul Bettany’s Vision strolling knowingly into a trap while James…
September 2026
ReviewComics
Batman Arkham Asylum: The Deluxe Edition Living Hell by Dan Slott, Ryan Sook, Wade Von Grawbadger and Jim Royal (graphic novel review).
Now here is an unusual book. Batman at most appears for a couple of pages near the beginning and towards the end. The…
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Clayface trailer: DC Studios sculpts a body-horror villain for Halloween
DC Studios has dropped a new trailer for Clayface, James Watkins' horror thriller about a Gotham actor who gets his face back and…
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Comic Book Creator #45 September 2026 (magazine review).
You can always expect a few surprises with Comic Book Creator, usually involving creators I’ve never heard of, such as Carol Lay, who…
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Doctor Strange Endless Nightmare by Kevin J. Anderson, Raúl Allén and Patricia Martín (review).
Periodically, publisher Abrams has been releasing standalone stories using characters from the Marvel Universe. Here we have Doctor Strange: Endless Nightmare by writer…
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Back Issue Annual # 1 2026 (magazine review).
TwoMorrows gathers the Neal Adams material from four hard-to-find issues of 'Back Issue' into a single 82-page annual, covering his DC Comics years…
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Spider-Noir cancelled: Amazon shoots the goose, checks the spreadsheet, asks where the golden eggs went (news).
Prime Video has cancelled Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir after one season, roughly twenty minutes before the show turns up at the Emmys with eleven…
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Alter Ego # 201 September 2026 (magazine review)
Reed Tucker profiles E. Nelson Bridwell, DC’s walking encyclopaedia and creator of the Inferior Five, in ‘Alter Ego’ # 201, plus a 1976…
August 2026
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Moon Knight Season 1 (blu-ray TV series review).
I remember when Moon Knight first hit the stands in his own comic book in the early 1980s, and actually meeting its artist,…