What Happened Last Week?

A brief overview of major events, announcements, or trends in the comic industry from the past week.

• Highlight #1: Marvel unveils Thunderbolts trailer. A new trailer for "Thunderbolts*" was unveiled during the Super Bowl, introducing a mysterious villain who appears to be Robert Reynolds, also known as the Sentry. The film is scheduled for release on May 2, 2025.

• Highlight #2: Marvel Studios is gearing up for the release of "The Fantastic Four: First Steps," scheduled for July 25, 2025. This reboot introduces a fresh take on the iconic superhero team, set against a retro-futuristic 1960s backdrop.

• Highlight #3: Thirty Parties Currently Looking at Buying Diamond Comic Distributors → Read More

Mainstream Highlight of the Week

New Releases

Marvel Comics

• The Amazing Spider-Man #67

  • THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN CONTINUES! With his patron, Cyttorak, attacking the world, Juggernaut won't just sit aside. But he's not a solo act... THE X-MEN GET INVOLVED TO HELP SPIDER-MAN SAVE THE WORLD!

• X-Men #11

  • PLANETFALL! A deadly cadre of warriors pursue their target to Earth, a target making a beeline to the X-Men’s home territory of Alaska! But who is this fugitive, and what grim portents do they carry for the X-Men?

• One World Under Doom #1

  • ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM! Six months ago, Doctor Victor Von Doom became Sorcerer Supreme — then disappeared behind Latveria’s closed borders. For most, there’s enough going on in the world that Doom’s absence is not a priority, and some time without him feels like a blessing. Only a few recognize it for what it truly was... the calm before the storm. It is a storm that has now arrived. The world has woken up to a new reality: Doctor Doom, Earth’s Sorcerer Supreme, has magically taken over every broadcast medium on the planet and declared himself Emperor of the World — the ruler of a new United Latveria! And shockingly, impossibly, all of Earth’s leaders seem to be going along with this. Luckily, whether it’s mind control or Doombots, whatever’s affecting them hasn’t affected Earth’s heroes — and so they quickly form a strike team to stop Doom’s machinations. But will they succeed? And what happens when some begin to welcome their new Emperor with open arms, clamoring for One World Under Doom? Marvel’s biggest and most shocking event ever begins right here with ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM #1.

Find all Marvel’s new comic releases here.

DC Comics

• Absolute Batman #5

  • WILL THE PARTY END HERE FOR ABSOLUTE BATMAN? With his friends lives at stake, will a broken, beaten, and ultimately defeated Bruce Wayne finally compromise and give up both himself and his morals to Black Mask? Or does he have something even BIGGER than himself to help? And what does this have to do with Mayor James Gordon and his relationship with a young Bruce Wayne? All this and more in the penultimate issue to the first arc of ABSOLUTE BATMAN!

• Action Comics #1083

  • METROPOLIS IN THE CROSSHAIRS OF A VILLAINOUS CONSPIRACY! The second chapter of this tale of truth and hope! As Clark Kent digs into what drove Major Disaster back to crime, he begins to uncover a greater conspiracy involving previously reformed villains. But when the noble reporter gets too close to the truth, he finds himself under attack? Now, only one person can take over his investigation — Superman!

• Batman and Robin #18

  • MEMENTO'S GRUESOME RAMPAGE ACROSS GOTHAM CONTINUES! A hospital erupts in flames. A boat careens into a dock. Fresh corpses are found in the ruins of Arkham Asylum. These are but a few of Gotham's historical atrocities, committed in disturbing, copycat-like fashion by the foul creature known only as Memento. While the dynamic duo fails to prevent these heinous acts, the very fabric of their alliance frays and rips. Can Batman withstand losing his city to violence while losing his son to uncertainty?

Find all new DC Comic Releases here.

Image Comics:

• Bug Wars #1

  • Slade Slaymaker is a kid from Alabama suddenly lost in a vicious world beyond his imagining, a world of marauding ant armies, spellcasting spider witches, and beetle-riding barbarians. A kingdom of tiny but deadly warriors hidden in his own backyard. The same world that saw his father eaten alive by insects now plunges young Slade into the middle of a brutal Bug War to decide the fate of his family.

    From the superstar team of writer JASON AARON (SOUTHERN BASTARDS, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Absolute Superman) and artist MAHMUD ASRAR (Conan the Barbarian, X-Men, Batman & Robin) comes the over-sized debut of BUG WARS: BOOK ONE, the first adventure in a sprawling new dark fantasy epic.

• The Moon Is Following Us #6

  • All hope is lost. Or is it? New nightmares are here to guide whoever may be left in Penny's dangerous dreams.

• Geiger #11

  • The critically acclaimed adventures of the Radioactive Rebel continue! Who is the other Glowing Man, and do they have a cure for Geiger’s condition? In this issue, we finally meet the poor soul who was transformed into a monster of mass destruction by the radioactive fallout, but then somehow cured. Can this spiritual doppelgänger truly help save Geiger from his increasingly out-of-control abilities?

Find all new Image Comic Releases here.

Indie Spotlight

Featured Indie Artist/Creator

• Name: Sean Wood

• Work: Recon and The Little One → Launching on Kickstarter in 1 week!

• Where to Find Them: Instagram 

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Angelos Savvaidis