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ComicsPro 2026: DC Next Level Reveals Teen Titans and More for Summer 2026

Posted on February 20, 2026 by Graphic Policy Team Leave a comment

ComicsPro 2026 is going on and DC is rolling out what we can expect in the year to come. During the conference, retailers were shown a new trailer for DC Next Level, highlighting the initiative’s rollout through the first half of the year. Lobo #1, Batwoman #1, and Deathstroke: The Terminator #1 will all launch on March 18, followed by The Fury of Firestorm #1 on April 8 and Zatanna #1 on April 29.

DC then spotlighted two newly announced Next Level titles arriving this summer: Barbara Gordon: Breakout by Mariko Tamaki and Amancay Nahuelpan in May, and The Deadman by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo in June.

Barbara Gordon: Breakout

The Deadman

Retailers were also provided a look at DC’s upcoming slate of Next Level titles ahead of solicitation, including Legion of Super-Heroes, Doom Patrol, Jonah Hex, The Demon, and Batman: Shadow of the Bat. Creative teams and launch dates will be announced soon.

DC’s ComicsPro presentation further revealed the next major Next Level series: Teen Titans, launching this summer from Kyle Higgins and Daniele Di Nicuolo, the acclaimed team behind Power Rangers: Shattered Grid. In Teen Titans, Red Hood uncovers a network of missing powered teens and reluctantly joins forces with a new generation of plugged-in, hyper-capable young heroes to find them and expose the lie dividing their world.

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Archie Comics and Oni Press Begin New Era in 2026 with a Publishing Partnership

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Oni Press and Archie Comic Publications, Inc. have revealed an ambitious and wide-ranging publishing partnership that will mark a milestone new beginning for Archie, Betty and Veronica, Jughead, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Josie and the Pussycats, and the rest of Riverdale’s most iconic characters across a distinctly original and stylistically reimagined slate of monthly comic series, original graphic novels, and prestige collections honoring the full breadth and influence of Archie Comics’ nearly nine-decade history.

The joy of being young. The pain of growing up. In 2026, the fantastical, pure-pop existence of “America’s Favorite Teenager” will be thrown into overdrive as Archie Andrews reaches a once-in-a-lifetime crossroads between then and now, daydream and reality, the heat of the moment and the vast expanse of eternity, across three daring new monthly series from some of the most brilliantly innovative creators working in the comics industry today: multiple Eisner Award nominee W. Maxwell Prince, Hugo Award nominee Corinna Bechko, and Harvey Award winner Patrick Horvath, working alongside riveting artists, including multiple Eisner Award winner Fábio Moon, Nick Cagnetti, Eisner Award nominee Kano, and Russ Manning Award winner Tyler Crook.

Timed to coincide with the 85th anniversary of Archie’s’ first appearance in Pep Comics #22 in 1941, the new partnership will officially begin in Fall 2026 with a new slate of ongoing, monthly comics series:

ARCHIE #1
Written by W. Maxwell Prince
Art by Fábio Moon and Nick Cagnetti
September 2026

SABRINA THE TEENAGE WITCH #1
Written by Corinna Bechko
Art by Kano
October 2026

ARCHIE IN HELL #1
Written by Patrick Horvath
Art by Tyler Crook
November 2026

The new Archie line will be editorially overseen by Oni Press Editor-in-Chief Sierra Hahn with additional contributions from Senior Editor Bess Pallares and Editor Megan Brown with guidance from Archie Comics‘ own Senior Director of Editorial Jamie Rotante and Editor & Art Director Vincent Lovallo. Full creative details on each series are being kept under tight wraps, but readers and retailers can expect to hear more as Oni Press and Archie begin a unified marketing and communications campaign for their new slate that will include key appearances at the annual ComicsPRO Industry Conference in Glendale, CA and San Diego Comic-Con 2026 in the months ahead.

Following the debut of the all-new Archie #1 in September 2026, the unprecedented publishing partnership between Oni Press and Archie Comics will continue as Oni releases a wave of brand-new collections spanning all eras of Archie’s history in variety of formats – including compact digest editions, deluxe hardcovers and omnibi, and comprehensive box sets – that will spotlight contributions from the characters’ original creators John L. Goldwater, Bob Montana, and Vic Bloom, alongside those from a decades-spanning cast of seminal writers and artists including Dan DeCarlo, Veronica Fish, Francesco Francavilla, Erica Henderson, Stan Goldberg, Tom King, Paul Kupperberg, Dan Parent, Samm Schwartz, Fiona Staples, Kelly Thompson, Michael Uslan, Mark Waid, Chip Zdarksy, and many more.

In 2027, the line will expand further will the debut of an all-new line of middle grade and young adult graphic novels – set in their own, accessible continuity outside of the core Oni Press publishing line – that will feature contributions from some of the most acclaimed and recognizable talents writing and illustrating for those audiences today. More details on those titles will be revealed in mid-2026.

Coming up, Archie will next appear on the small screen in a live-action horror series Afterlife with Archie on Disney+ followed by the big screen in a new live-action feature film written by Eisner Award winner Tom King and produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller for Universal Pictures.

This is the third publishing partnership Oni Press has announced in recent years. Along with Archie, Oni is also publishing comics under the classic EC Comics imprint and Matt Kindt’s Flux House imprint debuts in Summer 2026.

Preview: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #5

Posted on December 13, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #5

(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A) Martín Morazzo

What’s truly at the end of the rainbow? We can’t be certain, but we’re pretty sure it ain’t a pot of gold!

Up to now it’s been a peculiar, polychromatic pilgrimage for Superman: he’s lost track of time under the influence of Purple Kryptonite, grown to skyscraper size via Cobalt K, revisited his adolescence by way of Speckled K, and traveled to the fifth dimension using a “key” carved of Rainbow Rock.

Now, in this final issue, the chickens have come home to roost — and so, too, has Kal-El. Back in Metropolis, the Man of Tomorrow must stand face-to-face with the Man of Today… and decide for himself, finally, whether Lex is right: Does home hurt too much?

Preview: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #4

Posted on November 8, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #4

(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A) Martín Morazzo

Superman finds himself somewhere over the rainbow in this landmark issue — featuring the debut of a brand-new, canon-changing, sure-to-be-essential-for-all-time character! (At the very least, he’s awfully cute!)

What never happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The answer awaits in a form-bending, head-spinning, myxed-up melee of mites, men, and multicolored meteoroids.

It’s a major milestone for our magnificent medium — with two added dimensions for extra support!

Preview: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #3

Posted on October 4, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #3

(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A) Martín Morazzo

Superboy and Captain Marvel ride the rickety roller coaster (literally!) through the many-hued amusement park of motley meteoroids that is the Kryptonite Spectrum!

With Superman now a bit… shorter in the tooth… the Boy of Yesterday must team up with a truly Marvelous friend in a story for the ages… for all ages!

What, exactly, is Nostalgia Springs? And what do Toyman and Sivana have to do with it? Find out in this great adventure — chock-full of crayons, Kryptonites , and a cruise through comics chronology!

Preview: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #2

Posted on September 6, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #2

(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A) Martín Morazzo

THE CREATIVE TEAM BEHIND ICE CREAM MAN PRESENTS: SUPES-ZILLA! This colorful cruise through a cornucopia of curious new Kryptonites continues! After last issue’s timey- wimey race against (or was it toward?) the clock, Superman (with Batman’s help!) is left to deal with the sizable effects of cobalt Kryptonite. Watch in awe as the Man of Steel grows, grows… and grows some more, bringing us the Kal-El kaiju comic of our collective dreams! What’s happened to the fortress? Why is Supes-zilla so angry? And what on earth is Chemo doing here?

Find out in this guest-filled romp from the creative team behind Ice Cream Man — in a story only they could possibly tell. Featuring Wonder Woman, John Stewart, Atom Smasher, and the introduction of Linda, Queen of Spreadsheets and Pivot Tables.

DC goes back to press on Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1

Posted on August 31, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

The first printing of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 is flying off shelves, and DC is headed back to press for a second printing of this hit comic book to arrive in stores on October 8. Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 Second Printing will arrive with a recolored version of Martín Morazzo ‘s main cover for issue #1. You can read our review of the debut issue here.

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is by writer W. Maxwell Prince and artist Martín Morazzo, with colors by Chris O’Halloran. Prince, Morazzo and O’Halloran lend their signature blend of existential superhero fantasy/horror to the world of Superman in this new comic book series that brings the Man of Tomorrow into contact with every flavor of Kryptonite under the yellow sun. In the limited DC Black Label 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 five-issue event explores the consequences of each never-before-seen variety of Kryptonite—all in the formal, and boundary-pushing fashion, that Prince, Morazzo, and O’Halloran are celebrated for.

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #2 will publish on Wednesday, September 10. The second printing of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 is on Final Order Cutoff on Monday, September 15, with an on-sale date of October 8. The third issue of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum also arrives on October 8. The collected edition of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum will be available wherever books are sold on April 21, 2026.

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 2nd printing

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 Has Vibes of All-Star Superman

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Brett

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 Superman’s side, this DC Black Label Superman event explores the consequences of each never-before-seen variety of Kryptonite. Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 delivers a somewhat fun start evoking All-Star Superman as well as classic Superman stories that embraced the fantastical and sometimes silly.

Written by W. Maxwell Prince, Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 introduces four new types of Kryptonite. For those who might know, there already exists different types of Kryptonite in Superman’s world with some weaking him, others making him angry, and others taking away his powers. But, what do these four types do? Superman recruits Batman to figure that out with an idea it’s best to know so they can prepare and the reality that Superman’s enemies might want get ahold of the new type of Kryptonite and use it against Superman. There’s a weird logic to Superman’s idea and reluctantly Batman goes along with the concept.

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 has a look and vibe of the sillier stories in Superman’s history, with the first Kryptonite messing with Superman’s perception of time. In what could be a vertigo inducing story, it’s dealt with in teases and hints as to what’s to come while also dipping into a little bit of humor.

The story and concept, so far, have a fun whimsical feel to it, not taking itself too seriously and having more fun wit the characters and concept of a story. Though the comic is DC Black Label, it so far doesn’t have the adult and more mature feel that one would expect from that imprint. Which, makes the reader ponder what might be coming that requires such a label.

Martin Morazzo handles the art with Chris O’Halloran on color and lettering by Good Old Neon. The art style reminds me again of All-Star Superman but with a bit of Howard Chaykin thrown in. The art style fits well for the story itself and in particular, Superman’s struggles are shown in his body language and facial expressions. As the initial issue he faces is difficult to really nail down, the art does a great job of showing off his issues.

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 is a fun start to the series. There’s something about it that clicks and feels like a fun classic feel while at the same time delivering a somewhat ominous tone for what’s to come. It’s a debut that you can sit back and enjoy and look forward to what wacky impact Kryptonite will have on Superman next.

Story: W. Maxwell Prince Art: Martin Morazzo
Color: Chris O’Halloran Letterer: Good Old Neon
Story: 8.4 Art: 8.4 Overall: 8.4 Recommendation: Buy

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Preview: Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1

Posted on August 13, 2025 by Graphic Policy Team

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1

(W) W. Maxwell Prince (A) Martin Morazzo (C) Chris O’Halloran
32 pages
$5.99

The team behind the critically acclaimed Ice Cream Man comic comes to DC to apply its singular storytelling style to none other than the Man of Steel! 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 Superman’s side, this DC Black Label Superman event explores the consequences of each never- before-seen variety of Kryptonite — all in the formal and boundary-pushing fashion that W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran are celebrated for!