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Ms. Marvel must Grapple with a Mysterious New Villain in Ms. Marvel: Remnants of the Past

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By day, Kamala Khan is a typical teen living a typical life: She struggles through her physics homework, fosters a not-so-secret crush on her best friend, and does her best to placate her perpetually stressed-out parents. But by night, Kamala is Jersey City’s premier superhero, patrolling the streets and drawing on her shapeshifting powers to defend her community from the city’s most nefarious villains.  

In a fresh new adventure, Ms. Marvel: Remnants of the Past, the superpowered teen finds herself thrust into a mission centered around a stolen pair of magical spectacles. In her quest to return them to where they belong, Kamala journeys to Lahore, Pakistan – the land of her father’s youth – and must grapple with a mysterious new bad guy and what to do when the choice between right and wrong isn’t so clear.  

Written by acclaimed author and activist Saadia Faruqi, Ms. Marvel is a beautiful exploration of the Pakistani American experience through the eyes of fan-favorite superhero Kamala Khan. Through snappy YA prose and page-turning action, readers get to accompany Ms. Marvel on her adventure which explores themes of colonialism, greed, and heritage. 

Ms. Marvel: Remnants of the Past for ages 12+ is out January 6, 2026. Order your copy from Bookshop, Amazon, your local comic or bookstore, and more!

Ms. Marvel: Remnants of the Past

Marvel’s Yelena Belova stars in new espionage thriller White Widow: Secret Sisters. Out this September

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White Widow: Secret Sisters

Yelena Belova – super-spy, former assassin, and adoptive younger sister of Natasha Romanoff – has been a fan-favorite character since she was first introduced in Marvel’s comics in 1998. Though she is oft-characterized by her sharp humor and youthful spirit, Yelena also harbors a compelling and extremely dark past as a graduate of the “Red Room,” – the brutal Soviet training program responsible for turning young girls into assassins, or “widows.”

In Tess Sharpe’s forthcoming YA thriller, White Widow: Secret Sisters, readers encounter Yelena on the heels of her cutthroat training. Her new mission lands her at the “American Outpost” – the US version of the Red Room. Yelena is tasked with improving the barely capable American trainees, but when her mission goes awry, she ends up on the run with one of the girls, an orphaned, eerily familiar eight-year-old.

Sharpe’s twisty spy-thriller is rife with intrigue, humor, and heart, featuring stunning betrayals and a moving arc of self-discovery for Yelena. For fans of Marvel and those simply in search of their next action-packed narrative, White Widow delivers a page-turning espionage thriller.

From Random House, White Widow: Secret Sisters is out September 2, 2025 and for readers ages 12+. Order it now from Bookshop, Amazon, your local book shop, and more.

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The Scumbag #1

It’s a new week! We’ve got lots on tap to bring you and we’re plugging away at it all. So, while you wait to read some awesome stuff… here’s some articles from around the web you might have missed.

Deadline – ‘The Magic Order’ Not Moving Forward; Netflix Series Was Based On Mark Millar Comic – That’s a shame…

Games Radar – Tom Taylor & Jon Sommariva re-imagine Peter Pan & Neverland in two-book series for Penguin Random House & Glenat – This should be interesting.

How to Love Comics – Amazing Spider-Man: Last Remains Reading Order Checklist – For those who are intersted…

Reviews

Monkeys Fighting Robots – Far Sector #8
How to Love Comics – My Riot
CBR – The Scumbag #1

Preview: 5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem

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5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem

By Mark Siegel and Alexis Siegel
Illustrated by Xanthe Bouma, Matt Rockefeller, and Boya Sun
May 12, 2020

The fourth book in the enchanting graphic novel series 5 Worlds will see its heroes travel to Salassandra, a desert planet, to continue their mission of lighting ancient beacons to restore environmental harmony to an overheating galaxy. As with the previous three volumes The Sand Dancer, The Cobalt Prince, and The Red Maze, each book introduces a new ecosystem and inhabitants that expand the collective mythology behind 5 Worlds. In The Amber Anthem, Oona Lee will not only have to light a new beacon through elaborate dances that command mystical sands, but convince a crowd of 10,000  to join her in singing the titular anthem.

5 Worlds Book 4: The Amber Anthem

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Dial H for Hero #1

It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d you all get? What’ you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below. While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

CBLDF – An Oddly Compelling Interview, Denis Kitchen Talks Comics and Creation of CBLDF – Check out some comic history.

The Beat – Help Wanted: Random House Graphic, DC, Marvel are all hiring – If anyone is looking for a job.

Reviews

Newsarama – Daredevil #3
Newsarama – Detective Comics #1000
CBR – Detective Comics #1000
Newsarama – Dial H for Hero #1
Comic Attack – The Life and Death of Toyo Harada #1

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It was new comic book day yesterday! What’d everyone get? What did you like? What’d you dislike? Sound off in the comments below! While you think about that, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

France 24 – Graphic novel tells the true story of Tibet’s national football team – This sounds rather interesting.

Newsarama – Jared Leto Cast as Sony’s Morbius, A Spider-Man Spin-Off – Report – Interesting… Expect stories about his behavior in 3…2…1…

The Beat – Help Wanted: Random House Graphic is hiring a senior editor and a designer – If anyone is looking for a job.

The Comichron – October’s Walking Dead 15th anniversary ‘blind bags’ make first reorder chart appearance – For those that enjoy the horse race.

 

Reviews

ICv2 – Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Vol. 1 TP

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It’s new comic book day! What’s everyone reading? What are you going to get? What are you excited for? Sound off in our comments below! While you wait for shops to open, here’s some comic news and reviews from around the web in our morning roundup.

Publishers Weekly – Gina Gagliano to Head New RHCB Graphic Novel Imprint – Congrats! And Gina is awesome!

Newsarama – Bendis & Andreyko’s Torso Film Adaptation Scrapped by Studio – Report – Awe.

 

Reviews

ComicMix – 5 Worlds: The Cobalt Prince

The Beat – I, Parrot

SDCC 2015: A Vinyl Audiobook of The Fight Club Prequel Story “Expedition”by Chuck Palahniuk

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expeditionAlmost 20 years after the release of Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club, and a week after Dark Horse Comics published the first issue of the highly anticipated and controversial Fight Club 2 mini-series, Rare Bird Lit officially announced the upcoming vinyl audiobook release of Palahniuk’s Fight Club prequel story “Expedition ” and released an excerpt via SoundCloud.  Rare Bird Lit’s vinyl audiobook release features Palahniuk reading the short story “Expedition” from Doubleday’s new story collection, Make Something Up: Stories You Can’t Unread accompanied by music by Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Rob Campanella and featuring album art by Fight Club 2 cover artist David Mack.

“Expedition” takes place before the events of the bestselling Fight Club novel and is an origin story of Tyler Durden. Hand-numbered copies of the single LP vinyl are available for pre-order now for a limited time for $30.00 via RareLit Bird and an exclusive San Diego Comic Con Rare Bird Lit San Diego Comic Con Variant Vinyl Audiobook will be sold at the Random House booth at San Diego Comic Con from July 8th through the 12th.

The “Expedition” vinyl record features the artwork from the cover of Fight Club 2 issue 2 by bestselling writer/artist David Mack. Fight Club 2 is illustrated by Eisner Award winning artist Cameron Stewart and colored by award winning Dave Stewart. The first issue of Fight Club 2 is available at comics shops, select bookstores and digitally via the Dark Horse digital store and app. A graphic novel collection of the series will be released next year. FIGHT CLUB 2 takes place ten years after the events of the bestselling novel. Tyler Durden lives… a mundane life. A kid, a wife. Pills to keep his destiny at bay. But it won’t last long, the wife has seen to that. The time has come . . . Rize or Die.

DC Comics and Warner Bros. Launch DC Super Hero Girls

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DC Super Hero GirlsDC Comics has said for a while they were working on diversifying their line, the beginning of which we saw with the comics that will launch post Convergence. Now, along with Warner Bros., DC has announced a new universe called DC Super Hero Girls that will help “build character and confidence, and empowers girls to discover their true potential.”

The release will be across platforms including digital content, television specials, made-for videos, publishing, toys, apparel and more. The partnerships include Random House Children’s Books, Mattel, and Lego (OMG I want Legos of this!).

The new line is focused on girls age 6-12 and focuses on female superheroes and super villains from the DC Comics universe during their “formative years.” Featuring a completely new artistic style and aesthetic, the line includes teenage versions of DC Comics’ icons such as Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumble Bee, Poison Ivy, Katana and many more.

The initial launch will happen in the Fall 2015 and include an “immersive digital experience, original digital content and digital publishing.”

Mattel is helping work on the narrative creation, interactive digital components, and eventually a toy line will launch in 2016. This will include an action figure line, an area usually thought of for boys, and fashion dolls.

Random House will be creating books that help bring the world to life and the first will launch in Spring 2016. There will also be graphic novels from DC Comics.

Finally, Lego will be launching building sets based in this world (seriously can’t wait!).

Congrats to DC and Warner Bros. on this impressive initiative and launch and look forward to see what’s to come!

Archie Comics Donates $1 Million Worth of Books to Toys for Tots

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toys for tots archieIn an unprecedented initiative for a comic book publisher, Archie Comics, the home of Archie, Betty, Veronica, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, and many more, has donated over one million dollars worth of children’s books to the Toys For Tots program. The not-for-profit charity organization is dedicated to providing less fortunate children with toys for Christmas. Archie Comics is proud to be part of this mission.

Archie Comics is encouraging its fans to join in with a new initiative called “Archie’s Give-a-Book Program,” to spread the gift of giving to children. Making books available to every child to encourage creativity and literacy is an important mission to Archie Comics.

In addition, the teen residents from the comics’ hometown of Riverdale will be getting in on the fun in a new story entitled, “Holiday Heroes,” where Archie, Betty, Veronica and the rest pitch in their efforts to the Toys For Tots foundation. The special story is featured in Archie Double Digest #246, available now where Archie Comics are sold.

Archie Comics is gladly giving back to the children who have made Archie a household name for over 70 years with the help of its distribution partner Random House, who generously offered its services towards delivering the gifts to this worthy charity.

Visit www.toysfortots.org for more information on how you can help and experience the joy of giving!

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