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§ The New York Public Library will open ¡Wepa! Puerto Ricans in the World of Comics, an exhibition about Puerto Rican comics and creators on Saturday, October 4. Timed to coincide with Hispanic & Latine Heritage Month, New York Comic Con (October 9–12), and Puerto Rican Heritage Month (in November), the exhibit will explore Puerto Rico’s past, present and future, and “the many ways in which Puerto Rican comics creators have shaped the medium in the mainland U.S. and in the island,” including Alex Schomburg and George Pérez. It marks the NYPL’s first “full-scale” comics exhibit, and will remain open until March 8, 2026.
§ Nakama Press, Mad Cave’s imprint for comics from and inspired by East Asia, announced two books. First up is My Soul Mate, a semi-autobiographical graphic novel with a supernatural twist, by Hong Kong-based cartoonist Wah Kee. Due out January 20, 2026, the award-winning book follows Chung Chuen Ming, a comics art assistant, who begins collaborating with newcomer Cheung Shan on a manhua of their own. “There’s just one small issue: Chung Chuen Ming just died and has been possessing Cheung Shan! Can a creative collaboration bloom between these two artists, even against the boundaries of life and death?”
The second book announced by Nakama is The Boyfriend, a manga-esque horror OGN by Emmy-nominated writer Seth M. Sherwood (Leatherface), and artist Elisa “Pocci” Pocetta (Un/Sacred). Out February 24, it follows a lonely girl who conjures up an imaginary boyfriend, only for it to come to life when she lands a real boy, now “determined to eliminate anyone who stands in the way of their twisted connection.” It marks Sherwood’s second comic, following 2017’s Heavy Metal series 1985 Black Hole Repo.
§ Fantagraphics revealed their Winter 2026 catalog. Titles listed include new editions of Love and Rockets, Fritz the Cat, Corto Maltese, The Eternaut, Uncle Scrooge: Lost Beneath the Sea, the latest reprint of Atlas’s Adventures into Weird Worlds, and the first in a three-volume collection of Barry Windsor-Smith’s work at Marvel. For specifics, click here to read the PDF file. In the meantime, Fantagraphics’s second Lost Marvels release, Howard Chaykin Vol. 1: Dominic Fortune, Monark Starstalker, and Phantom Eagle, is available now.
§ Dark Horse will release a deluxe, hardcover Library Edition of The Oddly Pedestrian Life of Christopher Chaos, reprinting the first two volumes of James Tynion IV, Tate Brombal, and Isaac Goodhart‘s queer horror series, on March 10/11, 2026. Volume three, Children of the Night, will arrive in paperback in the meantime on February 3.
§ The Peanuts Gang will star in a new video game, Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club, releasing on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC on October 10, 2025. Developed by Cradle Games, and published by GameMill, the game will allow youngsters to solve puzzles and mysteries as Snoopy with the help of the rest of the gang. It marks the first Peanuts game since 2015’s movie tie-in Snoopy’s Grand Adventure, and will retail for $39.99. A Deluxe Edition, costing $49.99, will offer exclusive outfits, mini-games, and 75 full color comics, available to read in-game. Physical copies will be limited to Switch versions of the Deluxe Edition, and only sold from Target.
§ Netflix released the trailer for Wednesday season two, part two, out September 3. Speaking of Netflix, Deadline reports Boyd Holbrook is in talks to join the streamer’s Extraction series. The show, a spin-off of the Chris Hemsworth films based on the graphic novel Ciudad, will star Omar Sy as a mercenary on a rescue mission in Libya. Holbrook will co-star as extraction team leader David Ibarra. The eight-episode series does not have an ETA at the time of writing.
§ Over on Disney+, Thunderbolts* will be added to the streaming service on Wednesday, August 27. Meanwhile, in a Collider interview with Bryan Andrews, it was disclosed Marvel Zombies will be released on Wednesday, September 24. The four-part animated series is a TV-MA What If…? spin-off, featuring the voices of Simu Liu, Elizabeth Olsen, Florence Pugh, Hailee Steinfeld, Dominique Thorne, Iman Vellani, and more.
§ Finally, via The Digital Bits, the 1990s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film trilogy will be released on 4K Ultra HD for the first time on December 16. The box set, released by Arrow Video, will include brand new scans of the films, director’s commentaries, and interviews. The very first TMNT film, directed by Steve Barron, turned 35 earlier this year, and its anniversary is also being marked by a theatrical rerelease courtesy of Fathom Entertainment this week.
