Writer: David Dastmalchian · Leah Kilpatrick Artist: Soo Lee Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic Cover artist: Soo Lee
In the ruins of Chicago, political tensions rise as the ambitious Orpheus challenges Romero, Grand Leader of the Northern Territory. Meanwhile, Frankie chooses to follow the terrifying beast Virago. The young human remains wary but curious as to why they were spared—are there such things as “Good Monsters” amidst the hordes of malevolent creatures vying to dominate the Kingdom of Earth?
Yumi is in love. Yumi is lethal. When her MI6 boyfriend disappears, Yumi storms the agency – hacking their network, dismantling their operatives, and setting everything on fire. There she finds her first ally… a fully AI Lamborghini that’s built less like a car and more like a WMD. The anti-spy thriller begins here. Yumi: 00EX #1 flips the Bond formula with a debut that’s an assault on the senses and MI6.
Written by Doug Wagner, Yumi: 00EX #1 is fun, a hell of a lot of fun. It’s the story of a young women, trained in lethality, trying to figure out what happened to the man she fell in love with. It just so happens that man works for MI6. What occurs in the first issue is over the top action that if it were a film, would shake the theater in explosions, screaming from the death, and a soundtrack blasting everyone in their seat. It’s pop sense in every way.
Wagner keeps things fun with Yumi strolling through MI6 raining down death while chatting with her father and listening to some music at the same time. There’s an air about Yumi, she’s better than her foes and she knows it. But, we the readers are left with the question as to how is she? What’s her story? All of that is teased, with hints to far more in Yumi’s past, which then opens up the question if her love of the MI6 agent Richard is more obsession by a villain? Wagner teases and hints at these things while delivering humor, action, and some solid violence.
Hoyt Silva delivers the action with colors by Kevin Lenertz and lettering by Frank Cvetkovic. The team puts together visuals that force you to pause to catch every little detail and allow you to appreciate even more jokes than the just the absurd premise. When I saw the comic is an assault on the readers, I mean that with love, as the art is packed in every panel, especially the opening battle, and you can “hear” the panels and everything they deliver visually. The comic bounces between styles with cutesy art lulling us into the belief that Yumi and Richard’s “love” is legit and not just Yumi’s exaggerated take (though the stories she tells seem very exaggerated). The overall style of the comic feels like K-Pop with an action bent in choice of design as well as color.
Yumi: 00EX #1 is a hell of a lot of fun. The comic is pure action and humor with a slightly twisted heroine in the spotlight that leaves readers guessing if she’s a narrator that can be trusted. With some fun pop references and flashy action, it delivers something new to the spy action genre and has us excited to see what’s next.
Story: Doug Wagner Art: Hoyt Silva Color: Kevin Lenertz Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic Story: 9.0 Art: 9.0 Overall: 9.0 Recommendation: Buy
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It’s blood for blood! The Scavengers and the killer go head-to-head in a bloodbath of fury, but the Scavs want her alive! And for the friends’ lone survivor, escape is more than just making it out alive. In this landfill where only pain is salvaged, will she make it out whole?
Writer: David Dastmalchian · Leah Kilpatrick Artist: Soo Lee Letterer: Frank Cvetkovic Cover artist: Soo Lee
2036. Two years ago, hordes of monsters rose from the earth and sea, devouring everything in sight. Much of mankind was massacred before the monsters realized they needed humans. In this new world, humans have two options: service or slaughter. When a young child named Frankie narrowly escapes their fate as livestock, they soon realize that their fight for survival has only just begun.
From the critically acclaimed writing duo of David Dastmalchian and Leah Kilpatrick and the Bram Stoker Award–winning artist Soo Lee comes this all-new monstrous miniseries.
Blood-soaked katanas, sentient Lamborghinis, and a soundtrack that can level city blocks. Yumi—the world’s greatest hacker, demolitions expert, and anti-spy—embarks on a globe-trotting mission of vengeance as she tracks down her kidnapped boyfriend, super secret agent Richard. The debut issue of Yumi: 00EX infiltrates comic shops on August 12th from writer Doug Wagner, artist Hoyt Silva, colorist Kevin Lennertz, letterer Frank Cvetkovic, designer Sasha Head, editor Lisako Yamauchi, creative studio 12-Gauge Comics, and publisher Image Comics. Trailblazing a path of pulpy spy fiction for a new generation, Yumi is a rush of pop culture adoration and hyper-kinetic brawls that resculpt the genre.
The first issue includes stunning cover art from Nicoletta Baldari, Mirka Andolfo, and Silva.
This project follows Wagner’s sold-out murder thriller with artist Daniel Hillyard, Narco, also published by Image Comics.
Yumi: 00EX #1 goes on sale at local comic shops on August 12th, 2026. Preorder from you local comic shop before Final Order Cutoff on July 21, 2026.
Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Stein & Brandt, Rosi Kampe, Triona Farrell, and Dearbhla Kelly wrap up their beautiful, action-packed, and soul-searing Pride Month event in Justice League: Dream Girls #4. Most of this issue is set in the Kampe-drawn dream dimension, where Galaxy fights to save her BFF Dreamer from the clutches of the Key, who is very close to having infinite knowledge that will transform him from that one villain you vaguely remember getting knocked out by a boxing glove arrow in Grant Morrison’s JLA run to an A-list baddie. It cements the bond between Galaxy and Dreamer while setting them on two quite different, yet valid heroic paths. Axelrod and Maines give both heroines full arcs while leaving room for either them or other creators to play in the sandbox. In addition to wrapping up the weekly crossover event, JL: Dream Girls #4 features a powerful, personal black and white autobiographical comic from the legendary Klaus Janson about growing up as a gay, immigrant cartoonist in the 1960s and 1970s.
To start, it’s been such a pleasure to follow JL: Dream Girls each week and see transgender superheroes written by transgender comics creators get to be front and center in a big summer crossover with such a buffet of different art styles and a huge cast of characters, LGBTQ+ otherwise. (Batman is a trans ally, y’all!) And it wouldn’t be a summer crossover with some badass fisticuffs, and JL: Dream Girls #4 doesn’t disappoint. There’s a surreal action-horror vibe to Rosi Kampe and Kelly’s visuals, with interesting panel layouts as Galaxy flies around and tries to get Dreamer to literally wake up and not be married to the Key. For example, while Dreamer is under the Key’s thrall, the gutters are black, but when she gets her act together, they’re different colors or non-existent. Kampe’s line art and Dearbhla Kelly’s colors go from something light and almost trance-like to solid and punchy as the story progresses. As someone who has put on a variety of identities throughout the series, it’s so empowering to see Dreamer finally be herself in JL: Dream Girls #4’s climax.
After the big fight, JL: Dream Girls #4 has an extended epilogue that’s drawn by Stein & Brandt and colored by Farrell, who have done an excellent job on the Watchtower sequences throughout the series, giving this large cast of characters their own unique personalities, sometimes with a single eye movement or head tilt. (I live for Jon Kent’s eyes lighting up and wanting to play DnD even though Damian Wayne says it’s for nerds.) The use of “Bwahahaha” all but confirms, but they’re worthy successors to the superhero sitcom era of J.M. DeMatteis, Keith Giffen, and Kevin Maguire’s Justice League. The highlight of this part of the story is a conversation between Batman and Dreamer, where he tells her that if someone is uncomfortable with her being simply present in a space, that’s their problem. It brings the superhero/queerness/trans metaphor full circle and means a lot because it’s DC’s biggest seller saying those words. Jadzia Axelrod and Nicole Maines have done a wonderful job telling a story that is both a sci-fi/superhero epic with psychological dimensions that also works as a personal tale of two very different transgender women coming to terms with who they are. It was in the previous issue, but Coagula and Dreamer talking about being transgender lesbians is an all-time great moment in superhero comics. Finally, Galaxy and Dreamer are just awesome friends, and I hope they have many more adventures either as part of the Justice League or together. (DC editorial, we need a JLQ ongoing.)
After the colorful triumphs of the lead story, the black and white backup story from Janson entirely switches tone, and I appreciate the reader’s advisory between them. He gives a stark portrayal of what it was like to be a gay man in the 60s and 70s, with bullying, slurs, and not having heroes like Galaxy and Dreamer to look up to. However, young Klaus finds hope through superhero comics, which are the only part of the story done in color and give him an escape as he struggles to fit in with the oppressive society around him. Another place of escape for him is one of the first Pride parades that happened after Stonewall, and it’s cool to see the LGBTQ+ culture of the era, like when Klaus shows another young man his art portfolio after getting an early assignment at DC Comics. There’s also a shift in Klaus Janson’s art style as he grows in confidence in himself as an artist and gay man, before culminating in that iconic style that defined Batman and Daredevil for generations of heroes. And, personally, I love that a queer person like myself is partially responsible for those dark stories that were important to me growing up and still are to this day. I appreciate that Mr. Janson was able to share something so personal in such a beautiful way and that DC continues to publish autobiographical stories by LGBTQ+ creators.
Justice League: Dream Girls #4 shows both the triumphant and sad sides of queer identity through its punching and friendship-filled lead story and its sobering, yet hopeful backup story. It’s the perfect comic to read during the last week of Pride Month.
Story: Jadzia Axelrod, Nicole Maines, Klaus Janson Art: Stein & Brandt, Rosi Kampe, Klaus Janson Colors: Triona Farrell, Dearbhla Kelly Letters: Jodie Troutman, Frank Cvetkovic, Lucas Gattoni Story: 9.0 Art: 9.5 Overall: 9.3 Recommendation: Buy
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In close collaboration with CD PROJEKT RED, Dark Horse Comics presents Night City’s newest noir detective in Cyberpunk 2077: Jayk’s Case, a four-issue murder mystery set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077. The series featureswriter Jordan Thomas, artist Nicola Izzo, colorist Igor Monti, and letterer Frank Cvetkovic. Izzo creates main cover art for each issue, with variants for issue #1 from Jorge Fornés, Richard Blake, and Nimit Malavia.
A private investigator is hired to find the killer of a high-ranking executive, but the objective isn’t for justice—it’s for an escape. Embroiled in a network of Militech agents, he’ll need to find the killer before they do, but what truth are they trying to silence? And with ties to one of Night City’s most dangerous gangs, the death of one corpo may be just the beginning.
Find out if uncovering the corporate conspiracy is worth the ire of the largest gangs in Night City in Cyberpunk 2077: Jayk’s Casewhen the issue #1 (of 4) arrives in comic shops on October 21, 2026, for $4.99.
The Scavengers have another plan for the left-over friends, but so does the mysterious killer . . . As each survivor’s part in this savage game of cat-and-mouse is decided, they’ll discover the true motives of those who roam the landfill and the everlasting horror that will remain.
From 2023 Hugo Award-winning writer and writer of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, and showrunner of Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2Bartosz Sztybor and 2023 Hugo Award-winning artist Alessio Fioriniello, Dark Horse Comics presents The Weapon is Hungry, an original story of survival and sacrifice. Joining Sztybor and Fioriniello, are colorist Jonathan Amarillo, letterer Frank Cvetkovic, and designer Piotr Niklas as the story of a dangerous weapon—or innocent child—arrives in bookstores and comic shops in September 2026.
A child or a weapon of mass destruction—a deadbeat mother finds a second chance to get it right and another, to destroy the world! Estranged from her family, a troubled mom finds a baby kaiju, the first of its kind since their forced extinction. Despite its monstrous nature, she sees an innocent child worthy of love and protection, but will its true power soon be unleashed? Alongside her boyfriend, the son of an alcoholic veteran and her teammate, an eccentric chain smoker—the trio become entangled in a government conspiracy. With the yakuza, monster hunters, and a crazy sushi chef after them, they must make a choice: save the baby, save the world, or save themselves.
Experience an original story from the award-winning writer and artist behind Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams in The Weapon is Hungry when the 184-page (5.75×8.25”) paperback arrives in bookstores and comic shops on October 27, 2026, for $19.99.
From the critically acclaimed writing duo of actor, writer, and producer David Dastmalchian, and actor, writer, and producer Leah Kilpatrick along with the Bram Stoker Award-winning artist Soo Lee, Dark Horse Comics invites readers to journey into a world where humans are no longer the dominant species with Kingdom of Earth. The four-issue series features letterer Frank Cvetkovic with cover art by Lee.
2036. Two years ago, hordes of monsters rose from the earth and sea, devouring everything in sight. Much of mankind was massacred before the monsters realized they needed humans. In this new world, humans have two options: service or slaughter. When a young child named Frankie narrowly escapes their fate as livestock, they soon realize that their fight for survival has only just begun.
Survive or be served on a silver platter in Kingdom of Earth #1 (of 4) when it arrives in comic shops on July 15, 2026, for $4.99.
