Writer: Roger Langridge Artist: Roger Langridge Covers: Roger Langridge (A), Jae Lee (B) FC | All Cardstock Covers | 32 pages | Adventure | $4.99 | Teen
IT’S TIME TO MEET THE SUSPECTS! After succumbing to the consciousness-clobbering effects of a brick to the noggin, Kermit the Frog finds himself walking a new beat in Dreamland as private investigator Flip Minnow. His first assignment? Tracking down Meringue Crustworth, the missing daughter of pie magnate Dolores Crustworth. Seems like a straightforward enough case, but there’s something about the situation that isn’t sitting well with Flip — something that goes far beyond his inexplicably deep-seated aversion to pies. Joining forces with the friendly beat cop Officer O’Bear, the green P.I. starts running down leads, which eventually steer the pair into an oddly unappetizing pie shop that leaves Flip’s phobias untriggered. But what the flatfoot and the gumshoe discover inside turns out to be even stranger than a narcoleptic frog in a trench coat! Master storyteller ROGER LANGRIDGE continues his heart-felt return to the Muppet realm with The Muppets Noir #2 — featuring sharply shadowed covers from both the author and guest artists JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG!
Writer: David Pepose Artist: Jonathan Lau Covers: Francesco Mattina (A), Jae Lee (B), Michael Cho (C), Bjorn Barends (D) FC | All Cardstock Covers | 32 pages | Adventure | $4.99 | Teen
TIME’S UP FOR THE GUARDIAN OF THE SPACEWAYS! Across the multiverse, a grim figure has been hunting down Space Ghosts — and his name is Tempus the Time-Master! When the Ghost Planet team arrives to prevent the Council of Doom from escaping during an attempted prison break, our heroes are suddenly confronted by this rogue chrononaut — who quickly proves to be a far greater threat than anything they have faced before. As Jan, Jace, and Blip are scattered helplessly across the timestream, can Space Ghost find a way to counter Tempus’s seemingly unlimited abilities before his own time runs out? Find out in the fast-paced pages of Space Ghost #10, brought to you by the self-winding creative team of DAVID PEPOSE and JONATHAN LAU — featuring expertly overclocked covers courtesy of FRANCESCO MATTINA, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, MICHAEL CHO, and BJORN BARENDS!
Disney Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town #4
Writer: Torunn Grønbekk Artist: Edu Menna Cover: Jae Lee (A), Soo Lee (B), Alan Quah (C), Disney Library (D) FC | All Cardstock Covers | 32 pages | Adventure | $4.99 | Teen
SHIVER IS ON THE LOOSE! While still recovering from the tricks perpetrated by the rascally trio of Lock, Stock, and Barrel, the residents of Christmas Town now face a far greater threat to their civic harmony. With an unleashed Shiver finally showing his scary side, and Oogie Boogie’s ghouls running rampant in pursuit, the cozy little holiday town’s first-ever Halloween celebration looks as though it’s going to be permanently derailed. But with luck — and a bit of teamwork — Sally, Mrs. Claus, and their group of unlikely heroes might yet save the day! Grab a cup of cocoa and settle in by the fire for the chilling conclusion to TORUNN GRØNBEKK and EDU MENNA’s multi-holiday madness in Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas: The Shiver of Christmas Town #4 — featuring colorfully frosted covers lovingly baked by JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, SOO LEE, and ALAN QUAH, as well as a special selection from the Disney Library!
The Baltimore Comic-Con returns to the Inner Harbor’s Baltimore Convention Center on September 25-27, 2026. Baltimore Comic-Con welcomes Garth Ennis, Torunn Grønbekk, Tony Harris, Jae Lee, Mark Schultz (courtesy of Flesk Publishing), and Gus Vazquez as guests of the 2026 event! Purchase your tickets today!
Garth Ennis broke into the American comic scene in 1991, taking over the writing reins on Hellblazer. After a successful four-year run, Ennis moved on to create Preacher, a 66-issue epic that ran from 1995 -2000. In addition to these two ground-breaking series, he also had lengthy runs on DC’s The Demon and Hitman. Most recently, Ennis wrapped up The Boys, a 72-issue story which began at DC’s Wildstorm imprint before moving to Dynamite Entertainment with issue #7, and is now a hit series on Amazon Prime.
Torunn Grønbekk is a Norwegian comic book writer and portrait painter. She is best known for her work for Dynamite and Marvel, like Red Sonja, Thor, Punisher: War Journal, Valkyrie, and Venom. She lives and works in Norway (and sometimes in her cabin in the Swedish woods).
She has recently worked on Realm of X, Venom, Red Sonja, and Carnage.
Tony Harris is a comic book artist. He is also a commercial illustrator, painter, sculptor, designer, and prop builder. Tony has worked for DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, Disney, Lucasfilm, Universal Studios, Chevy, 20th Century Fox, New Line Cinema, Aftershock, Hasbro, Cartoon Network, Heavy Metal, Malibu Comics, Verotik Comics, Caliber Comics, First Comics, and many, many others. Tony has worked on properties such as Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman, Flash, Justice League, JSA, Starman, Ex Machina, The Whistling Skull, Lazarus 5, Obergeist, Doctor Strange, Iron Man, Hulk, Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Deadpool, Captain America, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Maleficent, Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Mummy, Aliens, Predator, Classics Illustrated’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Invisible Man, The Master of Ballantrae, and many, many more. Tony has won the highest award given in the comic book industry, the Eisner for Starman and Ex-Machina and has been nominated 19 times. Tony is currently compiling material for The Marvel Comics Art of Tony Harris from Clover Press/Marvel.
Jae Lee is a Korean-American comic book artist, known for his dark style. In 1990, he became one of the youngest artists ever to work for a major publisher. He is an Eisner Award-winner for his work on Marvel’s The Inhumans. His art can also be seen in Stephen King’s Dark Tower and Batman/Superman. Jae is also the co-creator of The Sentry for Marvel Comics.
Since entering the world of cartooning in the mid-1980s with the science-fiction adventure series Xenozoic Tales, Mark Schultz has slowly but consistently produced a very diversified body of work. He has created illustrations for Robert E. Howard’s Conan stories, scripted four years of Superman, composed a science guide to genetics and DNA, created the Stormforce 10 adventure SubHuman with paleontologist Michael J. Ryan, and written the novella Storms at Sea, which he also illustrated. Currently, he scripts the comic strip Prince Valiant and, in his free moments, continues to work on a new Xenozoic graphic novel as well as a sequel to Storms at Sea. Flesk, who are presenting Mark’s appearance at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con, has been his proud publisher since 2005 and continues to regularly release collections of his sketches, commissions, and personal works.
Gus Vazquez is an illustrator who has worked in nearly every field, including comic books, trading cards, storyboarding for music videos, commercials, animation and film, logo design, character and toy design, and more. He started his career in comic books working as an assistant to comic book artists Adam Pollina on X-Force, and Kevin McGuire on Trinity Angels. He got his first solo gig at Marvel Comics drawing the covers and interiors for Sunfire and Big Hero 6, the series that introduced the characters featured in Disney’s Oscar winning Big Hero 6. He has worked on such Marvel titles as Deadpool, X-Force, Spider-Man, What If? Civil War, What If? Back in Black, The Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe, and more. For DC, he has worked on such titles as Green Lantern, JLA, Blue Beetle, and most recently on Flash, Suicide Squad, and Green Arrow. Gus was the artist on several issues of Claudio Sanchez’s (of rock music group Coheed and Cambria) The Amory Wars, and was instrumental in helping bring together the creative team of his friends, David Atchison (writer) and Tony Shasteen (illustrator), and his niece, film and TV actress Rosario Dawson on 12 Gauge’s The O.C.T. More recently, Gus has been working for DC Comics on The Sasquatch Detective, a backup story which can be found in the pages of Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles, as well as DMC (Daryl Makes Comics) and on La Borinquena. He is also working on his creator-owned book, Fang.
This year’s confirmed guests for the show include: Jason Aaron (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles), Marty Baumann (Pixar artist), Josh Blaylock (Mercy Sparx, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Jeffrey Brown (Hulk Teach, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Mark Buckingham (Fables), Jim Calafiore (NED, Lord of the Pit), Howard Chaykin (Time Squared), Jo Chen (Runaways), Cliff Chiang (Paper Girls), Frank Cho (Harley Quinn), Steve Conley (The Middle Age), Amanda Conner (Harley Quinn), Olivia Cuartero-Briggs (The College Try), Paris Cullins (Blue Devil), Todd Dezago (The Perhapanauts), Colleen Doran (The Sandman), Garth Ennis (The Boys), Trish Forstner (Feral), Jose Luis Garcia-Lopez (DC Nation), Chris Giarrusso (Mini Marvels), Torunn Grønbekk (Catwoman), Gene Ha (Mae), Larry Hama (GI Joe: A Real American Hero), Tony Harris (The Whistling Skull), Mike Hawthorne (Deadpool), Jamal Igle (Superman), Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Infernal Hulk), Dan Jurgens (Action Comics), Peter Krause (The Power of Shazam, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Mike Kunkel (Herobear and the Kid), Jae Lee (Inhumans), Kevin Maguire (Justice League), Laura Martin (Nubia: Queen of the Amazons, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Ron Marz (Green Lantern), Jose Marzen Jr. (Y: The Last Man), Mike McKone (Teen Titans), Bob McLeod (New Mutants), Carla Speed McNeil (Finder), Adriana Melo (Fantastic Four), Pop Mhan (He-Man and the Masters of the Universe), Al Milgrom (Spectacular Spider-Man), Terry Moore (Strangers in Paradise), Mark Morales (Thor), Bill Morrison (The Simpsons), Sarah Myer (TMNT Saturday Morning Adventures), Phil Noto (Fantastic Four: First Foes), Kevin Nowlan (Batman: Sword of Azrael), Patrick Olliffe (Untold Tales of Spider-Man), Ryan Ottley (Invincible), Jimmy Palmiotti (The Punisher), Margeaux Pepoy (Simone & Ajax), David Petersen (Mouse Guard), Tom Raney (Incredible Hulk), Afua Richardson (Kahhori: Reshaper of Worlds), Tone Rodriguez (Feral, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Don Rosa (Uncle Scrooge), Craig Rousseau (The Perhapanauts), Mark Schultz (Xenozoic Tales, courtesy of Flesk Publishing), Louise Simonson (The Death of Superman 30th Anniversary Special), Walter Simonson (Thor), Matthew Dow Smith (DC’s Misfits of Magic), Scott Snyder (DC K.O.), Brian Stelfreeze (Black Panther), Gus Vazquez (Sunfire and the Big Hero Six), Mark Waid (Action Comics), Bob Wiacek (All-New Wolverine, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Matt Wieringo (Stargate Atlantis: Gateways), Chuck Wojtkiewicz (Justice League, courtesy of Hero Initiative), Rich Woodall (Sgt. Werewolf), and Thom Zahler (Long Distance).
Welcome to our revamped “Crowdfunding Corner” rounding up some of the latest crowdfunding news. We’re going beyond just announcement projects, we’ll be tracking to make sure these projects get delivered as well as what we think the “risk” of backing them are.
We’ll be updating the format as we get a better handle of the needs of this sort of coverage, so stay tuned and check out the first round of projects!
The Objectivist
Publisher: N/A Creative Team: (w) Curt Pires (a) Alex Diotto, Luca Casalanguida (c) Mark Dale (l) Micah Myers (ca) Jae Lee Launch Date: Launching soon Risk: Medium – With the first crowdfunding campaign, it’s always worth some caution, there’s a good chance it’ll likely miss its expected release (a common issue with first campaigns)
Curt Pires, the comics trailblazer behind Galactic, Lost Fantasy, and countless other celebrarted works has announced the Kickstarter campaign for The Objectivist, a 140-page original graphic novel with art from acclaimed artists Alex Diotto (Lost Fantasy, Indigo Children) and Luca Casalanguida (Lost Fantasy), colors from Mark Dale, and lettering from Micah Myers.The project features haunting covers by Eisner Award-winning artist Jae Lee.
The Objectivist follows an isolated vigilante whose grip on sanity unravels as he mounts a one-man war against corruption. His journey quickly spirals into moral freefall when the foundations of truth that have fueled his blood-splattered crusade begin to crumble. The resulting narrative sucker punch weaves thematic and visual threads ranging from The Question, Sin City, and Batman: Year One to Steve Ditko’s Mr. A.
Fans can sign up for The Objectivist’s mailing list at the link below to receive updates when the project will launch. The graphic novel will be released in a physical hardcover as well as digitally on the digital comics and manga hub, Neon Ichiban, with detailed reward tiers to be announced closer to the Kickstarter launch.
Tales of Asunda Tome + New Untamed Comic & D&D 5e Module!
Publisher: Stranger Comics Creative Team: (w) Sebastian A. Jones, Justin Estrada (a) Alex Paterson (c) Blond (l) Joshua Cozine Launch Date:Currently funding – ends April 20 2026 1:01 PM EDT Risk: Low – The publisher has run previous crowdfunding campaigns and they’ve been delivered.
THIS KICKSTARTER HAS TWO MAIN FEATURES
TALES OF ASUNDA TOME 1 – OUR FIRST OMNIBUS! TALES is an anthology series, with each issue being a one-shot story filling in the gaps between the various titles. Some TALES return favorite heroes like Niobe or Dusu. Others introduce new characters who may have a role to play in the future.
Known for our Deluxe Oversized Hardcovers, this is our first Omnibus. A 400-page Graphic Novel that collects TALES Volumes 1 and 2 and the 2009 #0 issue. It’s packed with 9 comics, art galleries, prose, songs, and game material for D&D 5e and Pathfinder 1e! The Kickstarter edition has Foil Inlay Titles and a wraparound dust jacket with a poster on the back!
THE UNTAMED: WISHING WELL – AN OVERSIZED COMIC & RPG MODULE IN ONE! This is a prequel one-shot comic to the series that launched Stranger Comics, and it stars the Stranger and Dura! It’s also the first issue in Tales of Asunda Volume 3.
After reading the comic you can enter Asunda as the oversized issue is paired with our WISHING WELL D&D 5e MODULE! Roll up a character and venture into the depths below the Town of Oasis!
Lost Fantasy fans can sneak a peek at early pages from co-creators Curt Pires, singer/songwriter Franklin Jonas, and rising star artist Patrick Mulholland’s upcoming series launch Fireborn. This new tale will be set in the same world of the beloved Lost Fantasy series and will hit shelves next month from Image Comics.
Fireborn follows Aaron Hillburg who is just another rich-kid failson ghosting his responsibilities, hopping rooftops, and hating his billionaire father in peace… until a mysterious floating dragon egg bonds to him and ignites a hidden lineage of ancient magic inside his body.
Now every violent outlaw wizard, biker cultist, and supernatural warlord between New York City and The World Beneath is hunting him—and they’ll burn the world down to pry the egg from his corpse.
Fireborn #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, April 15.
Cover A by Mulholland – Lunar Code 0226IM0287
Cover B by Mulholland Invincible Homage – Lunar Code 0226IM0288
Cover C by Mulholland Absolute Homage – Lunar Code 0226IM0289
Cover D by Jae Lee Foil – Lunar Code 0226IM0290
Cover E Blank Sketch – Lunar Code 0226IM0291
Cover F 1:15 copy incentive by Patrick Mulholland Design – Lunar Code 0226IM0292
Cover G 1:25 copy incentive by Patrick Mulholland Invincible Homage Virgin – Lunar Code 0226IM0293
Cover H 1:50 copy incentive by Patrick Mulholland Absolute Homage Virgin – Lunar Code 0226IM0294
Cover I 1:75 copy incentive by Jae Lee Black & White & Blood Virgin – Lunar Code 0226IM0295
Cover J 1:100 copy incentive by Patrick Mulholland Franklin Jonas & Curt Pires Signed Virgin – Lunar Code 0226IM0296
Cover K by Tyler Kirkham – Lunar Code 0226IM0297
Cover L by Kirkham Black & White & Blood Virgin – Lunar Code 0226IM0298
Cover M by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0226IM8001
Cover N I Hate Fairyland Team-up variant – Lunar Code 0226IM8021
Cover O I Hate Fairyland Team-up NSFW variant – Lunar Code 0226IM8022
Lost Fantasy #9 will be available at local comic shops on Wednesday, April 15 as well:
Writer: Declan Shalvey Artist: David O’Sullivan Covers: Lucio Parrillo (A), Declan Shalvey (B), Jae Lee (C), Emilio Pilliu (D), Action Figure (E) FC | All Cardstock Covers | 32 pages | Horror | $4.99 | Teen
THUNDERCATS AT THE CROSSROADS! Ever since he fled the destruction of his home world, Lion-O has wondered about Thundera’s history and his place in it — and how he would measure up against those who preceded him in the royal line. Now, after two years and countless adventures on Third Earth and beyond, the young leader of the ThunderCats is about to learn the long-hidden secret of Thundera’s origin — and the shocking truth that is revealed could tear the ThunderCats apart! In this milestone 25th issue of their acclaimed series, author DECLAN SHALVEY and artist DREW MOSS bring an epic story arc to a close while also opening a new chapter in an even larger tale — an event expanded upon in this month’s ThunderCats X SilverHawks: Road to War one-shot! Featuring suitably celebratory covers from SHALVEY, LUCIO PARRILLO, JAE LEE & JUNE CHUNG, and EMILIO PILLIU, ThunderCats #25 also includes a special PREMIUM MYSTERY OF THUNDERA BLIND BAG! The Premium Blind Bag contains three limited editions of the one-shot selected randomly from a range of covers exclusive to this offering — including virgin variants, colored blanks, and more!
Co-writers Robert Windom and Lily Windom, Eisner Award winning artist Jae Lee, and colorist June Chung will kick comics into high gear with the upcoming ongoing series M1: Monster Racing League. This high-octane launch will start its engines in June from Image Comics.
This launch will include an eye-popping variant cover by Jon J Muth and additional, highly collectible covers by Lee.
Emmy Award winning writer and producer Jeffrey M. Howard is also developing an animated version of the series.
When 17-year-old Dev moves to Japan, she stumbles into an underground world of illegal street racing, where speed is power and mutation wins championships. This high-octane sci-fi drama, set in a near-future Tokyo, is Fast & Furious by way of KPop Demon Hunters, Arcane, and Akira.
This project marks the second project that the Windoms have written together after the graphic novel Family Time, which Lily co-wrote with her father at just eleven-years-old.
This also will be the first time that award-winning creator Jae Lee has been an interior artist on an ongoing monthly comic book series since the ’90s. Husband-wife duo Lee and Chung are known for their popular comic covers and interior art collaborations on titles such as This Ends Tonight and Batman/Superman.
Outside of comic writing, Robert Windom is known for executive producing the documentary Dave Stevens: Drawn to Perfection, for which he won a Film Threat award. The critically acclaimed film was directed by Kelvin Mao; Windom, Lee, and Chung also co-created the Image Comics limited series This Ends Tonight and Seven Sons with Mao.
M1: Monster Racing League #1 will also feature a variant cover illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Jon J Muth, who is known for creating children’s books such as Zen Ties and illustrating graphic novels such as Grant Morrison’s The Mystery Play, for which he won the Eisner Award in the “Best Painter” category.
M1: Monster Racing League #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 10.
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Cover A by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0285
Cover B by Muth – Lunar Code 0426IM0286
Cover C Blank Sketch cover – Lunar Code 0426IM0287
Cover D 1:25 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0288
Cover E: black & white 1:50 copy incentive by Jae Lee – Lunar Code 0426IM0289
Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics have revealed variant covers from renowned artist Nimit Malavia for Corpse Knight.
The debut issue of the original new series from theteam of writer/co-creator Michael Chaves, artist/co-creator Matthew Roberts, colorist Rico Renzi, and letterer Pat Brosseau, hits comic book shops on April 22, 2026, perfect for fans of White Sky, King Spawn and The Darkness.
The themed covers by Nimit Malavia each feature a Corpse Knight character framed by stunning stained glass and will be available as 1:25 incentive variants across all six issues of the original new series.
War ravages France, but a young girl named Foy lives in relative peace with her father… until tragedy strikes. As Foy struggles to fend for herself, she’s granted a miracle—her father returns from the dead to protect her.
Now, they embark on a sacred quest, confronting murderers, wild animals, wandering armies, and black magic plaguing the countryside. As Foy comes face to face with the dark side of miracles and the secrets of the Corpse Knight, she must question if the man by her side has always been a monster…
In addition to the 1:25 incentive variant cover by Nimit Malavia, Corpse Knight #1 has a main cover by Matthew Roberts and Rico Renzi, an open to order variant by Jae Lee, a 1:10 incentinve “storybook” theme cover by Tonči Zonjić, a 1:50 incentive cover by Andrea Milana, a 1:100 foil incentive cover by Stephanie Hans, a die-cut helmet cover by Matthew Roberts, a blank sketch cover, and an I Hate Fairyland Team-Up variant by Stipan Morian.
A full list of the themed covers is below:
Corpse Knight #1 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code: 0226IM0309)
Corpse Knight #2 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code: 0326IM0287)
Corpse Knight #3 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code Coming Soon)
Corpse Knight #4 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code Coming Soon)
Corpse Knight #5 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code Coming Soon)
Corpse Knight #6 Cover D (1:25 Incentive) by Nimit Malavia (Lunar Code Coming Soon)
(W) Paul Jenkins (A) Christian Rosado (C) Matt Milla (L) Joe Caramagna (CA) Alex Maleev (VCA) Cafu and Frank D’Armata, Francesco Mobili and Moreno Dinisio, Jae Lee and June Lee
HE’S BEEN AN AVENGER, A DARK AVENGER AND A THUNDERBOLT!
THE SENTRY IS BACK — BUT SO IS THE VOID!
From creator Paul Jenkins comes a bold, high-stakes epic about MARVEL’S most dangerous hero — the SENTRY, a man with the power of a million exploding suns– and the dark entity born from his own psyche: the VOID. When the Void resurfaces, threatening to unravel reality itself, the Sentry must battle not only cosmic forces and criminal empires, but the monster within.
Guest-starring REED RICHARDS, SPIDER-MAN and the KINGPIN in a tale of impossible choices and devastating consequences. Can the Sentry save everything when the cost might be everything he loves?
