The Beat Digest 06/13/25: IDW resurrects THE TWILIGHT ZONE

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§ IDW Dark revealed a new, five-part The Twilight Zone comic at Entertainment Weekly. The first issue, due out September 24, is being crafted by Dan Watters & Morgan Beem (Swamp Thing: Twin Branches), while subsequent entries will respectively feature stories by Tom Scioli, James Stokoe, Nate Powell, and Francesco Francavilla. The series will mark the first Twilight Zone comic since Dynamite’s 2013-16 run, primarily created by J. Michael Straczynski and Guiu Vilanova, which was capped off by a crossover with The Shadow by David Avallone and Dave Acosta.

§ Marvel unveiled two more Imperial War one-shots: Exiles, featuring Professor X, Lilandra, and their daughter, Shi’ar Majestrix Xandra, by Jonathan Hickman, Steve Foxe, and Francesco Manna; and Nova – Centurion, starring Richard Rider, by Hickman, Jed MacKay, and Matteo Della Fonte. They will be released respectively on September 3 & 10, on the heels of the first two (of five) Imperial War specials (headlined by Black Panther and She-Hulk), which will be released in August. Imperial will presumably conclude with issue #4 in September, although that comic hasn’t been officially solicited yet.

The House of Ideas also teamed up with insulin management brand Omnipod to release Dyasonic: Sound of Strength, a digital comic introducing Omnya/Dyasonic, a tech-based teenage superheroine with type 1 diabetes. The book was written by Paul Allor, who also has diabetes, and features art by Alberto Jiménez Alburquerque. You can read the book here, and visit the official page to find out how you can raise money for Children with Diabetes with Dyasonic on Instagram.

§ Dark Horse announced Kill All Immortals II, a five-part continuation of the first series (which ran from last July until January), starting October 1, 2025. Writer Zack Kaplan, artist Fico Ossio, colorist Thiago Rocha, and letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou will return for the sequel, which will see the now mortal billionaire Frey Asvald, and her brothers, deal with “an ancient and supernatural adversary [that] threatens to destroy their precarious empire and kill them one by one.” In the meantime, Kaplan, Rocha, and Otsmane-Elhaou’s latest series at Dark Horse, Masterminds, will begin on August 27.

§ Via AIPT, Oni revealed another NacelleVerse series, Wild West C.O.W.-Boys of Moo Mesa. Based on the 1992 cartoon created by Ryan Brown, the limited series is set in a version of the Wild West inhabited by humanoid cattle, and will tell the story of how Moo Montana became the marshal of Moo Mesa. It is being written by Matt Hotson (Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers: The Return) with art by Juan Gedeon (Jurassic League), and will begin on September 17. In the meantime, Oni and Nacelle’s first ongoing, Biker Mice from Mars Vol. 2, will kick off on June 25.

§ Superman got a third trailer to mark tickets going on sale a month before its release on July 11. Meanwhile, in an Entertainment Weekly cover story, James Gunn disclosed he is working on something that isn’t “necessarily” a direct sequel (no doubt sparking lots of speculation about World’s Finest or Justice League), and that a new solo Wonder Woman movie is being scripted (although he’s not quoted on who is writing it.)

§ In comics culture news, Minor Threats co-creators Patton Oswalt and Jordan Blum have been appointed the first ever ambassadors for Local Comic Shop Day (September 27); Cullen Bunn teased the launch of a horror-themed podcast called The Cullenoscopy; and “fridge” has been added as a verb to Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, with the phrase attributed to Gail Simone‘s website Women in Refrigerators (created in 1999). Simone comments, “Very cool, and weird at the same time. I got death threats over this, cool for it it to be recognized.”

§ ICv2 reports Ignition Press have entered a distribution deal with Penguin Random House, that will begin in September. Ignition co-founder and publisher Filip Sablik stated, “Penguin Random House is the gold standard of sales and distribution as is reflected no only by their dominant position in the book trade, but their incredible, curated stable of publisher clients.” Ignition was founded by Sablik last year with editor-in-chief Jamie S. Rich, film producer Eric Gitter, and creative director Jeremy Haun, the last of whom is writing the company’s first title, Murder Podcast.

§ Finally, in stories that are peripheral to comics right now, but might prove to be highly relevant someday, Disney and Comcast are suing AI image generator Midjourney for copyright infringement; the SAG-AFTRA video game strike has been suspended, with the national board approving the new deal; and last but not least, the BBC are seeking pitches for an animated Doctor Who series aimed at preschoolers. The show, which is also meant to follow the Doctor and their companions through time and space, is set to premiere in 2027 or 2028 (by which point we should know for certain who the current Doctor will be.)