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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: DC Compact Comics Edition is a solid new edition to a classic

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Regarded as one of the greatest Batman stories of all time, master storyteller Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is the perfect graphic novel for longtime comic book fans and new readers alike!

Writer/artist Frank Miller completely reinvents the legend of Batman in this saga of a near-future Gotham City gone to rot, 10 years after the Dark Knight’s retirement. Forced to take action, the Dark Knight returns in a blaze of fury, taking on a whole new generation of criminals and matching their levels of violence. He is soon joined by a new Robin—a girl named Carrie Kelley, who proves to be just as invaluable as her predecessors.

Can Batman and Robin deal with the threats posed by their deadliest enemies after years of incarceration have turned them into perfect psychopaths? And more importantly, can anyone survive the coming fallout from an undeclared war between the superpowers—or the clash of who were once the world’s greatest heroes?

Story: Frank Miller
Art: Frank Miller
Ink: Klaus Jansen
Color: Lynn Varley
Letterer: John Costanza

Get your copy now! To find a comic shop near you, visit http://www.comicshoplocator.com or call 1-888-comicbook or digitally and online with the links below.

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Rancid …And Out Comes the Wolf gets a Companion Graphic Novel

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And Out Comes the Wolf

Big Newport Studios and Z2 have announced a companion graphic novel to the Rancid-inspired, …And Out Comes the Wolf. Artist and writer Kevin Mellon will adapt the graphic novel from the feature script by Danny Peykoff and Jamie and Jason Neese, bringing new layers to the powerful story about fighting for survival in the East Bay punk scene during the 90s. The book series will come in several variant covers including the brand-new Z2 exclusive cover by Dan Mumford.

Also announced are the Deluxe editions of …And Out Comes the Wolf; presented in a 12” x 12” album-sized format with slipcover art and an official flash sheet tattoo by legend Beatleguese; an “Anarchy” ski-cap inspired by the film’s main character Brixton and four (4) art prints featuring work by Travis Knight, Dan Mumford, and Felipe Sobreiro.

It was also announced today that the writers and producers of the …And Out Comes the Wolf film will be in attendance at the Z2 Booth at the 2026 San Diego Comic Con International, which takes place July 23-27th, 2026 at the San Diego Convention Center.

Both the film and graphic novel are rooted in a gritty story of dreams colliding with the limitations of reality in a world of violence and desperation. Surrounded by poverty, drugs, and danger, two best friends hunt for an escape in a city blighted with decay. But the paths are littered with predators and temptations which threaten them at every turn and the unspoken question haunts them: Who manages to get away and who will be devoured when the wolf comes out?

The 100 page graphic novel will be released in a slipcased Deluxe Edition, with four art prints, an “Brixton Anarchy” ski-cap and an exclusive Wolf set of temporary tattoo flash. All editions will be available exclusively at Z2’s website to pre-order, while a standard-sized cover edition will be available via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Target, Walmart, as well as other independent retailers and fine comic shops worldwide in the fall.

The Cutting Garden Hits Shelves this Fall

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From Eisner Award-winning writer Darcy Van Poelgeest and rising star watercolor artist Erin Connally comes The Cutting Garden. This gorgeously rendered, standalone graphic novel hardcover explores companionship, legacy, and sacrifice and will hit shelves this September from Image Comics.

On a quiet street in New Orleans, a mysterious girl seeks out a florist to deliver an earth-shattering truth in a final act of kindness and redemption. The Cutting Garden is an intimate and elegant gothic tale that shares bloodlines with contemporary literary horror books like that of Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and postmodern indie films like The Tree of Life.

The Cutting Garden original graphic novel hardcover (ISBN: 9781534330801) will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, September 2 and independent bookstores, Bookshop, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on Tuesday, September 29. 

The Cutting Garden

Get a new look at Pacific Rim: Final Breach

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After years of failed attempts to enter the Anteverse, the trans-dimensional realm from which all Kaiju emerge, Jake Pentecost and Hermann Gottlieb conceive a daring last-ditch plan whose success hinges on finding legendary Jaeger pilot Raleigh Becket—the only human being to ever survive behind enemy lines. Living in exile off the grid, Raleigh must choose assured annihilation or confront his past and team up with a new generation to pilot the brand-new Gipsy Destroyer, the last Jaeger standing. Tensions escalate and old wounds reopen as the PPDC finally crosses the breach to confront what lies on the other side… It’s time for humanity to meet its true enemy and cancel the apocalypse once and for all.

Pacific Rim: Final Breach is written by Joshua Hale Fialkov with art by E.J. Su and colors by Rebecca Good. It’s out May 5, 2026.

Pacific Rim: Final Breach

Preview: Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Prime, Vol. 3

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Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Prime, Vol. 3

Hayden Robel
April 7, 2026

The action continues in volume 3 of the graphic novel adaptation of the Netflix animated series Sonic Prime, this time with swashbuckling pirates and a race for the Prism Shard!

Back in New Yoke, Sonic desperately tries to convince Nine to join the Resistance, except Nine is focused on building a brand-new home. But then Sonic is transported away to the tropical No Place, where he meets a friendly band of pirates and their mysterious captain, who loves to party. As Sonic’s crew race to the Prism Shard, they quickly realize they’re not the only ones after it. There’s only one way to win—they’ve gotta go fast!

Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic Prime, Vol. 3

Preview: Punk’n Heads

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Punk’n Heads

Dave Baker, Nicole Goux
April 7, 2026

This band plays together, lives together…and unfortunately two of them are sleeping together. Whatever, I’m sure it’s fine. Now put on your punk’n mask and let’s rock!

Hannah Lipsky isn’t sure what’s happening. She dreamed of becoming a fine art painter, but after breaking up with her girlfriend, she’s suddenly dropped out of art school, moved into a flophouse, and gotten roped into singing in a campy horror-punk band. With costumes. To make things even more complicated, she might be hooking up with her housemate/bandmate/high school crush, Jerry. Wherever this is leading, it’s going to be messy.

Punk'n Heads

Hellboy Creator Mike Mignola Expands the Lands Unknown Universe with A New Graphic Novel, Uri Tupka and the Devils

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This November, trailblazing cartoonist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola will release his third original graphic novel in two years. Following the success of 2025’s Bram Stoker Award-nominated Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown and this year’s Uri Tupka and the Gods, Mignola is expanding the Lands Unknown Universe he’s creating with cartoonist Ben Stenbeck with a new folktale anthology exploring the origins of legends of this strange new shared universe. Written and drawn by Mignola with colors from Dave Stewart and letters from Clem Robins, Uri Tupka and the Devils is due out in November from Dark Horse Comics. 

Picking up after the events of Uri Tupka and the Gods, Uri Tupka and the Devils follows the weary hero on a new quest for the secret history of the universe. After his search for the ancient gods ended with some answers and even more questions, heretic and theologian Uri Tupka travels further to discover the truth about the darkness before the world began and what it means for mankind. He visits a Baron’s library full of esoteric books beyond even Uri’s imagination. Each night in the library brings new insight and clarity, but threatens to consume Uri as his unquenchable desire for understanding sends him down a dangerous path. 

Uri Tupka and the Devils is a 104-page hardcover that will be released in bookstores and comic shops on November 16, 2026.

Uri Tupka and the Devils

Shaun Tan’s Hometown is a visually gorgeous, emotionally stunning, funny, and insightful exploration of identity, and what it means to be home

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From the singular mind and brush of New York Times bestselling and Academy Award-winning author-artist Shaun Tan, comes his newest graphic novel, Hometown. It comes to shelves September 1, 2026 from Levine Querido Books.

Hometown is a visually gorgeous, emotionally stunning (and frequently funny) meditation about what it means to belong, and what makes us who we are. Hometown will be published simultaneously in the US, Australia, and the UK.

A girl grows up happily with her adoptive parents, a big sister and a little sister, and friends galore in a vibrant, close-knit community she adores . . . until a creature from outer space falls from the sky and claims (correctly) that she looks more like him than any of the beings she knows and loves. He urges her to go back with him. She doesn’t belong here. Can he be . . . right?

Hometown is a perfect companion to The Arrival, celebrating 20 years in 2026, Shaun Tan’s new masterpiece is a uniquely powerful, funny, and insightful exploration of identity, and what it means to be home.

You can pre-order it now from Amazon, Bookshop, and your local comic shop and bookstore.

Preview: Amelia Shadows Vol. 1: Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost

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Amelia Shadows Vol. 1: Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost

(w) Matthew Dow Smith (a) Matthew Dow Smith

Amelia Shadows has never had what you might call a “normal” childhood. For one thing, her dad’s the most powerful dark magician in the world. And for another, she’s spent her entire life in a house filled with ghosts and monsters and incredibly dangerous magical objects! As far as Amelia’s concerned, her life’s actually pretty cool.

When Amelia and her cat, Clara, aren’t having adventures or dealing with dimensional portals in the pantry, she’s learning to be a dark magician, just like her dad, with the help of a ghost tutor named Gustave. You’d think a ghost tutor named Gustave would be pretty fun, but he’s actually pretty boring.

And if a boring ghost tutor wasn’t bad enough, now Amelia’s dad has hired another ghost to oversee things, Hans. Which wouldn’t be that bad, except Hans has very strong opinions about how things should be around the house. This new head ghost has got to go, and Amelia may have a surprising ally…

Amelia Shadows Vol. 1: Amelia Shadows and the New Head Ghost

Preview: Asterix Collector Vol. 6: Asterix and Cleopatra

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Asterix Collector Vol. 6: Asterix and Cleopatra

(w) René Goscinny (a) Albert Uderzo

For fans of the bestselling series ASTERIX. Re-releasing the classic comic series in a larger format, with never-before-seen archival illustrations and scans. A big volume with backmatter sharing archival photos and creative insights!

When Caesar claims Rome is the most civilized, mocking ancient Egypt, Cleopatra bets she can prove otherwise–by building a brand-new palace in three months’ time. The Egyptian architect seeks out Panoramix and his magic potion. Asterix, Obelix and Dogmatix join the adventure–to guard the potion and their druid, and to help Cleopatra best Rome! But can our favorite Gauls manage this Herculean feat? Especially when saboteurs appear to ruin the Gauls’ work and reputation?!

Asterix Collector Vol. 6: Asterix and Cleopatra
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