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§ Seven Stories Press will publish Elon Musk: American Oligarch, a biography of the world’s richest man by Darryl Cunningham, on September 23, 2025. The announcement ends a period of uncertainty for the book, which was released in French by Delcourt last year, but had not been picked up by an English publisher, something Cunningham claimed was caused by fears that Musk would sue. ICv2 states the English edition will include a new section on Musk’s activities at the White House, something heavily indicated by its new cover art.
§ Via a press release, Fantagraphics shared Gilbert Hernandez, and his daughter Natalia Hernandez, are teaming up on Roy, a Love and Rockets spin-off starting August 6. “Fan favorite everyman Roy returns in a two-part story,” reads the synopsis, “teaming up with the Little Stunt Boy to deal with Roy’s arch nemesis — the Froat! Or, should we say: the Froats?!? They’re multiplying! Meanwhile, Natalia delivers a surreal eight-pager detailing an Alien spiritual encounter.”
§ Scholastic announced Dog Man: Big Jim Believes, the 14th installment in Dav Pilkey‘s bestselling children’s series. Releasing November 11, 2025, the book is a direct follow-up to last year’s Big Jim Begins, where the titular cat became the superhero Commander Cupcake, and sees Cupcake, Dog Man/Scarlet Shedder, Sprinkles, and Mecha Molly deal with the return of the alien Space Cuties. Assuming it sells as well as its predecessors, it’ll wind up becoming the biggest graphic novel of the year.
§ Via Bloody Disgusting, Oni Press revealed Cemetery Kids Run Rabid, a sequel to last year’s video game-themed horror series Cemetery Kids Don’t Die. Writer Zac Thompson and artist Daniel Irizarri will reunite on the comic, which picks up four years later, and sees the survivors of the haunted video game Nightmare Cemetery deal with the sudden appearance of a DLC, whose content starts manifesting in the real world. Issue #1 releases August 13.
§ Brian Buccellato and Mattia Monaco are reteaming to on Eat Your Young, a fantasy action series debuting from Mad Cave on August 20, 2025. The six-issue comic revolves an immortal warlord, whose children have the opportunity every century to kill him and claim his throne, or else lose their immortality: and this time, events have been complicated by his decision to name his six-year old daughter his heir. It marks Buccellato and Monaco’s second collaboration, after Chicken Devils at AfterShock.
§ Dark Horse revealed The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos: Children of the Night Returns will have a back-up, “Monsters in Love,” featuring in-universe, EC-inspired horror romance comics consumed by the protagonist. The first story will be created by writer/artist Bradley Clayton (Killer Queens 2), while future entries will feature Chloe Brailsford, Marie Enger, and K Czap. Issue #1 of the (four-part) series releases June 18. The publisher also announced a four-issue rerelease of Dan Brereton‘s OGN Nocturnals: The Sinister Path (originally published in 2017 by Big Wow Art), starting September 3.
§ Speaking of rereleases, Skybound revealed the contents of Invincible Universe: Battle Beast #1‘s “blind bag” variants, including that some copies will include a reprint of 2005’s Spider-Man crossover Marvel Team-Up #14. While Marvel has become open to intercompany crossovers again, we have to agree with Robert Kirkman‘s comment in the press release that “actually reprinting a Marvel comic, especially one as rare and sought after as Marvel Team-Up #14… well, it’s so amazing I can hardly believe it actually happened.”
§ Prime Video released the first official photo from the Spider-Noir show during yesterday’s upfronts:
The live-action series, starring Nicolas Cage, will premiere on MGM+ and internationally on Prime sometime later this year, and be available in black-and-white and color when it does.
§ Finally, attention Doctor Who fans: the upcoming finale of the current season, “The Reality War,” will not be released on Disney+ (BBC iPlayer in the UK) on Saturday, May 31, at midnight PT. Instead, the episode will be available later that day, simultaneously when it premieres in the UK at a yet-to-be determined evening time slot on BBC One. Showrunner Russell T Davies states, “Now we can all experience this devastating climax together, all at the same time, with a unique worldwide premiere. I can promise shocks, scares and revelations off the scale. Come and have fun!”
Dog Man has to fight it out with a new Asterix book in the fall. Both are usually in the 5 million copy first print area, though that accounts for all languages in Asterix’s case, I think.