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§ Disney has delayed Avengers: Doomsday until December 18, 2026, and Avengers: Secret Wars to December 17, 2027. Both movies were originally intended for May of their respective years. The decision means Spider-Man: Brand New Day, due out July 31, 2026, will be the first MCU movie released next year; the gap between it and Fantastic Four: First Steps will also make it the longest between its films since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has also removed the other, unannounced Marvel films that were dated for 2026 and 2027, except for one, which is still set for July 23, 2027.
§ BOOM! Studios and IDW Publishing will release Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III, a new series starting August 13, that will pit the two teams against Lord Zedd and Shredder. Ryan Parrott, who penned the first two installments in 2019 and 2022, will return, this time joined by Vincenzo Federici on art. It wasn’t the only Power Rangers news BOOM! had this week either, with the reveal of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind, a one-shot by Zoe Tunnell and Tango based on the recent beat-em-up game, releasing August 6.
Additionally, Kill Your Darlings writers Ethan S. Parker and Griffin Sheridan will team up at BOOM! with debut artist Keith Browning for a time-travel thriller, called Blink and You’ll Miss It. Starting August 6, the book revolves around a woman trying to save her childhood best friend from their hometown, where reality has become unstable. Lastly, BOOM! unveiled Dune: Edge of a Crysknife: Rage of Shai-Hulud, a new one-shot by Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Andrea Scalmazzi, and Francesco Mazzoli, that’ll continue July’s Hiding Among Harkonnens on August 27.
§ Per a press release, Titan will release Blade Runner: Black Lotus – Las Vegas, a sequel to the 2022 comic, based in turn on the 2021 anime series. Writer Nancy A. Collins will return for the new arc, with Jesus Hervas succeeding Enid Balam on art, which’ll see fugitive replicant assassin Elle/Black Lotus head to the ruins of Las Vegas (as seen in Blade Runner 2049). There, she discovers the replicants who worked in the casinos have become “living embodiments of ancient Egyptians and Romans.” Issue #1 will be released in September.
Via ComicBook.com, Titan also unveiled Spectors, a new horror adventure OGN by Shannon Eric Denton and David Hartman. Set in the same universe as the pair’s last book, Kraken, the book follows a monster-hunting duo battling an evil cult trying to break the multiverse. Unfortunately, their war is complicated when one of the pair discovers his own father was involved in the cult’s human experiments during the 1930s. It will be released on May 12, 2026.
§ Dark Horse announced The Adventures of Lumen N., a 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea sequel by James Robinson, Phil Hester and Marc Deering. Debuting September 3, the four-part series follows Captain Nemo’s granddaughter, as she teams up with the submariner himself to save the world. It marks Robinson’s second time writing Captain Nemo, following 2003’s League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie. The publisher also revealed James Stokoe‘s Orphan and the Five Beasts: Bath of Blood, the sequel to his 2021 martial arts saga, which’ll consist of four issues, starting September 24.
Furthermore, Dark Horse owner Embracer Group is planning to rename itself Fellowship Entertainment, after the heroes of The Lord of the Rings. The once-sprawling Swedish company, which also owns Middle-earth Enterprises (home of the film, stage, merchandise and game rights for The Hobbit and its sequel), Tomb Raider developers Crystal Dynamics, and many more, will make the change once it sells off its other remaining subdivision, Coffee Stain Studios, by the end of the year.
§ Mad Cave revealed Red Vector, an “earthbound space opera” by Tim Daniel, David “DB” Andry, and Chris Evenhuis. Kicking off August 27, the book follows a desert park ranger, who encounters two aliens from opposite sides of an alien civil war after they crash-land on Earth. The publisher also shared more of their Speed Racer plans with ICv2, disclosing an eight-part Racer X comic by Mark Russell and Nuno Plati will begin in September, and that the character will star in the first installment of Tales from the Road, by Mark London and Sebastian Piriz. The main Speed Racer series, by David Pepose and Davide Tinto, begins July 30.
§ In an interview with AIPT, Alien Books stated the Valiant Beyond line, which was delayed from earlier this year as a result of Diamond’s bankruptcy, will now kick off in August. Now distributed in partnership with IDW, the books will commence with Mauro Mantella and Fernando Heinz Furukawa‘s four-issue Bloodshot reboot on August 13. The Valiant Zombies: Resurrection comic, originally intended for Free Comic Book Day, will also be released sometime this fall, just in time for Halloween.
§ Finally, in webcomics-to-print news, Popverse shares Oni Press will publish queer supernatural romance The Demon of Beausoleil, by Brazilian cartoonist Mariana Costa, on January 27, 2026. Meanwhile, Vault announced in their solicits that they will release The Internal Sea (originally titled Mare Internum), by Der-shing Helmer (who currently works as Vault’s managing editor) on September 9. An Eisner-nominated sci-fi series that ran from 2015-19, The Internal Sea follows a geologist and biologist uncovering the hidden world beneath the surface of Mars.
