DC has announced a new five-issue DC Black Label series, Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum, by W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran. It comes to comic shops on August 13, 2025.
W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran are the team behind the award nominated series Ice Cream Man from Image Comics. The series brings the Man of Tomorrow into contact with every flavor of Kryptonite under the yellow sun. The creative team will launch an all-new limited series that reimagines Superman through a daring, genre-defying lens.
Across the five issues, Superman must look inward to find strength in his most famous weakness. Each issue explores different facets of Superman’s character, mythos, and moral core, while bending narrative form in ways only Prince, Morazzo and O’Halloran can. While Ice Cream Man became a cult favorite for its surreal, often harrowing dive into horror and existential dread, this new Superman title marks a departure—eschewing horror in favor of introspective, fun, genre-fluid storytelling.
In the upcoming comic book series, four new Kryptonites have been discovered in deep space, and Superman needs to know just what, exactly, they do to him—lest the colorful rocks of his home planet fall into evil hands! With Batman at his side, this DC Black Label Superman five-issue event explores the consequences of each never-before-seen variety of Kryptonite—all in the formal, and boundary-pushing fashion the creative team are celebrated for.
Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 is lettered by Good Old Neon and features variant covers by Tula Lotay and Juan Ferreyra, a foil variant cover by Wes Craig, and a 1:25 variant cover by Alex Eckman-Lawn, arrives wherever comic books are sold on August 13, 2025. All covers will retail for $5.99 US.
This January, the iconic Ice Cream Mancreators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran will be joined by an all-star lineup of creators contributing their own flavors to the cheeky critically-acclaimed anthology horror series for the all-star Ice Cream Man #43, composed of one-page tales of terror. Some of the biggest names in comics, including Grant Morrison, Patton Oswalt, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Deniz Camp, and Frank Barbiere have crafted their own original stories for the jam-packed edition full of goodies. Ice Cream Man #43 will also feature Zoe Thorogood’s short story “For James,” and the issue is dedicated to her brother, with partial proceeds from sales of the issue going to charity on his behalf. And now fans can get an early taste of the comic with a look at the table of contents—with the terrifying titles revealed—as well as the full “Baby Grand Piano” story written by Prince, and panels from Grant Morrison’s “Hell Freezes” and Matt Fraction’s “Life by Misadventure” stories, all featuring at by Morazzo and O’Halloran.
The Ice Cream Man anthology series, led by mysterious horror host Rick, is a genre-defying comic book series featuring short tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption, with each installment featuring its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingers—lickety split!—can change the course of your life forever. Ice Cream Man has rippled through the comic book scene since its debut in 2018 and recently was scooped up for the big screen by veteran writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.
Ice Cream Man #43 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, January 29 (FOC January 6):
Cover A by Martín Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran (Lunar code 1124IM255)
Ice Cream Manis going from the comic page to the big screen. Screen Gems has acquired the film rights to the horror anthology written and created by W. Maxwell Prince.
Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who are behind the series Wednesday as well as the writers of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, will produce and adapt the comic.
Ice Cream Man is a horror anthology published by Image Comics and has featured art by Martin Morazzo and Chris O’Halloran. The comic debuted in 2018.
Gather round the neighborhood ice cream truck for these tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption. Each installment features its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingers—lickety split!—can change the course of your life forever.
Chocolate, vanilla, existential horror, drug addiction, musical fantasy…there’s a flavor for everyone’s misery.
The project is in very early development and a search for a writer is still going.
W. Maxwell Prince continues his winning one-shot series formula with the new hit Swan Songs, which has sold out completely at the distributor level. Image Comics will rush this popular debut issue back to print in order to keep up with escalating demand.
Swan Songs is a series of standalone one-shot stories about endings…The End of the World. The End of a Marriage. The End of a Sentence. The End of the End of the World! (Which one might consider the BEGINNING of a new world…). And along for the terminal ride are some of comics’ best and brightest artists. This first apocalyptic issue—”The End of the World”—is drawn by none other than The Department Of Truth‘s Martin Simmonds.
Swan Songs #1, second printing (Diamond Code MAY238761) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, August 2. You can read our review here!
When it comes to W. Maxwell Prince comics, “weird” doesn’t cut it. From Ice Cream Man to HaHa, strangeness and weirdness are just the first few pages. From there they pivot hard into less traveled territory, a place of in-betweens and unstable angles that often deal in raw and painful emotions. I like to refer to Prince’s work as emotional Twilight Zones. They can be brutal, bruising, darkly sweet, and outright terrifying.
His latest anthology, Swan Songs, goes down the same path, but this time the emotional anchor lodges itself into the concept of endings (hence the title). Issue #1, fully painted by Martin Simmonds (Department of Truth), cracks the spine of the series open with a tender and frightening tale about the apocalypse coupled with the care of a terminally sick parent. It tugs at the more sensitive parts of the soul, and then it adds pain and love to leave a lasting mark on the reader.
Swan Songs will feature a new artist each issue, among them Caspar Wijngaard, Filipe Andrade, Caitlin Yarsky, collage-artist Alex Eckman-Lawn, and Martín Morazzo. The first story, titled “The end of…the world,” follows a young guy that braves a broken-down cityscape in search of a Better Home Magazine before an atomic bomb destroys all life as they know it. His mom, who is bedridden in a near-empty hospital, loves listening to her son read to her from the magazine. The young man wants to indulge his mom one last reading session before the final curtain falls.
One way to approach Maxwell Prince stories is by taking them as emotional puzzles. It’s not that you’re required to make specific pieces fit into place to make sense of the story. Rather, your experience will hinge on how you connect certain story sequences together at a deeper level, taking into account what drives each character to engage with their world. In Swan Songs, this thought exercise is perhaps more guided than Maxwell Prince’s previous work thanks to a strong sense of finality that permeates throughout each page.
Urgency becomes a crucial storytelling device thanks to that focus on endings. Martin Simmonds visuals are a large part of the reason for this, especially in terms of scope. Simmonds takes care to foster an acute sense of impending doom that carries through each page. The city the man runs through in his desperate search looks like it’s ready to collapse under its own weight. Background characters and other signs of life project resignation, whereas buildings and roads look like they’re usefulness has run out. It’s as if everyone and everything in the story knows it’ll all truly end once the comic reaches its final page.
Simmonds’ use of muted colors mixed in with darker shades of reds becomes an integral part of the story’s emotional palette. The setting is made to look like it was hopeless and unsalvageable way before the atom bomb ever threatened to end all life. It creates an interesting contrast with the young man’s mission of finding the last Better Home magazine for his mom.
Horror is allowed to set in as well, especially with the presence of emotional vampires that threaten to block the man’s progression. They help populate a dark world that’s already signed its death warrant and they allow readers to connect even more emotional dots between the main situation and the other concerns that hover around it.
Swan Songs #1 sets the tone for a unique emotional journey that hopes to unsettle with the intention of getting at harder but necessary interpretations of our relationship with the end. There’s melancholy and there’s pain, confusion and frustration, but also the possibility of hope should the individual find it within him or herself to see certain things all the way to their conclusion. And yet, none of this is telegraphed to the reader. You don’t read Swan Songs for answers. You read it for the questions it’ll make you ask. Whatever answers you find are entirely yours.
Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artist: Martin Simmonds Letterer: Good Old Leon Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Read and then stare into nothingness and let it all sink in
Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
When it comes to W. Maxwell Prince comics, “weird” doesn’t cut it. From Ice Cream Man to HaHa, strangeness and weirdness are just the first few pages. From there they pivot hard into less traveled territory, a place of in-betweens and unstable angles that often deal in raw and painful emotions. I like to refer to Prince’s work as emotional Twilight Zones. They can be brutal, bruising, darkly sweet, and outright terrifying.
His latest anthology, Swan Songs, goes down the same path, but this time the emotional anchor lodges itself into the concept of endings (hence the title). Issue #1, fully painted by Martin Simmonds (Department of Truth), cracks the spine of the series open with a tender and frightening tale about the apocalypse coupled with the care of a terminally sick parent. It tugs at the more sensitive parts of the soul, and then it adds pain and love to leave a lasting mark on the reader.
Swan Songs will feature a new artist each issue, among them Caspar Wijngaard, Filipe Andrade, Caitlin Yarsky, collage-artist Alex Eckman-Lawn, and Martín Morazzo. The first story, titled “The end of…the world,” follows a young guy that braves a broken-down cityscape in search of a Better Home Magazine before an atomic bomb destroys all life as they know it. His mom, who is bedridden in a near-empty hospital, loves listening to her son read to her from the magazine. The young man wants to indulge his mom one last reading session before the final curtain falls.
One way to approach Maxwell Prince stories is by taking them as emotional puzzles. It’s not that you’re required to make specific pieces fit into place to make sense of the story. Rather, your experience will hinge on how you connect certain story sequences together at a deeper level, taking into account what drives each character to engage with their world. In Swan Songs, this thought exercise is perhaps more guided than Maxwell Prince’s previous work thanks to a strong sense of finality that permeates throughout each page.
Urgency becomes a crucial storytelling device thanks to that focus on endings. Martin Simmonds visuals are a large part of the reason for this, especially in terms of scope. Simmonds takes care to foster an acute sense of impending doom that carries through each page. The city the man runs through in his desperate search looks like it’s ready to collapse under its own weight. Background characters and other signs of life project resignation, whereas buildings and roads look like they’re usefulness has run out. It’s as if everyone and everything in the story knows it’ll all truly end once the comic reaches its final page.
Simmonds’ use of muted colors mixed in with darker shades of reds becomes an integral part of the story’s emotional palette. The setting is made to look like it was hopeless and unsalvageable way before the atom bomb ever threatened to end all life. It creates an interesting contrast with the young man’s mission of finding the last Better Home magazine for his mom.
Horror is allowed to set in as well, especially with the presence of emotional vampires that threaten to block the man’s progression. They help populate a dark world that’s already signed its death warrant and they allow readers to connect even more emotional dots between the main situation and the other concerns that hover around it.
Swan Songs #1 sets the tone for a unique emotional journey that hopes to unsettle with the intention of getting at harder but necessary interpretations of our relationship with the end. There’s melancholy and there’s pain, confusion and frustration, but also the possibility of hope should the individual find it within him or herself to see certain things all the way to their conclusion. And yet, none of this is telegraphed to the reader. You don’t read Swan Songs for answers. You read it for the questions it’ll make you ask. Whatever answers you find are entirely yours.
Writer: W. Maxwell Prince Artist: Martin Simmonds Letterer: Good Old Leon Story: 10 Art: 10 Overall: 10 Recommendation: Read and then stare into nothingness and let it all sink in Release date: July 5, 2023
Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Bestselling writer W. Maxwell Prince continues his wildly popular, winning one-shot formula in the upcoming, Swan Songs. This all-new multi-artist project will feature a who’s-who of top tier talent and launch this July from Image Comics.
Along for the terminal ride are some of comics’ best and brightest artists. The first apocalyptic issue, “The End of the World,” is drawn by none other than The Department Of Truth’s Martin Simmonds. Future artists for future endings include Caspar Wijngaard, and Filipe Andrade, with more to be announced.
Swan Songs explores the way things END…and also how they never really do. It’s comprised of stories about endings…The End of the World. The End of a Marriage. The End of a Sentence. The End of the End of the World! (Which one supposes might consider the BEGINNING of a new world…)
Swan Songs #1will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 5:
Cover A by Simmonds – Diamond Code MAY230068
Cover B by Nimit Malavia – Diamond Code MAY230069
Cover C 1:50 copy incentive variant by Morazzo & O’Halloran – Diamond Code MAY230070
Bestselling Ice Cream Man creators W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo have hit the mark once more with a new hit series—Art Brut. Image Comics will rush issues #1 and #2 back to print this week in order to keep up with increasing customer demand. The reprints will feature new covers by Morazzo and Lopes.
Alongside the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, Arthur Brut the Mad Dreampainter (and his trusty sidekick, Manny the Mannequin) must dive back into the very paintings that made him insane…or reality itself might just crumble to pieces. A colorful, gonzo romp through art and art history, Art Brut is equal parts police procedural, hyper-fantasy, and psychological thriller—a veritable Pollock-splatter of comics genres tossed onto one giant pulpy canvas.
Art Brut #1, second printing (Diamond Code DEC228536) and Art Brut #2, second printing (Diamond Code DEC228537) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, February 22.
Available on Wednesday, February 15:
Art Brut #3 Cover A by Morazzo & Lopes – Diamond Code DEC220226
Art Brut #3 Cover B by Eckman-Lawn – Diamond Code DEC220227
Art Brut #3 Cover C by Morazzo & Lopes – Diamond Code DEC220228
(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A/CA) Martin Morazzo, Mat Lopes In Shops: Dec 14, 2022 SRP: $3.99
Presenting here the first major work from the creative minds behind ICE CREAM MAN-re-lettered, remastered, and under its original intended name! The world of fine art is falling apart, and only ART BRUT knows how to fix it. Alongside the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, Arthur Brut the Mad Dreampainter (and his trusty sidekick, Manny the Mannequin) must dive back into the very paintings that made him insane…or reality itself might just crumble to pieces. A colorful, gonzo romp through art and art history, ART BRUT is equal parts police procedural, hyper-fantasy, and psychological thriller-a veritable Pollock-splatter of comics genres tossed onto one giant pulpy canvas! Each issue features new covers, new design, and a new Silver Age-style backup story featuring the art hero that no one’s ever heard of-until now! Originally published under the title The Electric Sublime, this special edition presents the NPR-lauded, critically acclaimed material in its intended form.
(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A/CA) Martin Morazzo, Mat Lopes In Shops: Dec 14, 2022 SRP: $3.99
Presenting here the first major work from the creative minds behind ICE CREAM MAN-re-lettered, remastered, and under its original intended name! The world of fine art is falling apart, and only ART BRUT knows how to fix it. Alongside the Bureau of Artistic Integrity, Arthur Brut the Mad Dreampainter (and his trusty sidekick, Manny the Mannequin) must dive back into the very paintings that made him insane…or reality itself might just crumble to pieces. A colorful, gonzo romp through art and art history, ART BRUT is equal parts police procedural, hyper-fantasy, and psychological thriller-a veritable Pollock-splatter of comics genres tossed onto one giant pulpy canvas! Each issue features new covers, new design, and a new Silver Age-style backup story featuring the art hero that no one’s ever heard of-until now! Originally published under the title The Electric Sublime, this special edition presents the NPR-lauded, critically acclaimed material in its intended form.
