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Looks like Johns & Hitch’s Redcoat could be up for a movie adaptation.
https://deadline.com/2025/11/atlas-ghost-machine-movie-geoff-johns-comic-book-redcoat-1236617669/
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I had no idea this was coming out, or even that TKO was still operating. But I’ve ordered a copy immediately as Sara was great.
Best option for those of us in the UK seems to be to order from Amazon US, here.
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That Texas Blood returns in June with #21.
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Mike Mignola and Michael Avon Oeming launch new Hellboy Universe series ‘Ghost of a Ghost’ – AIPT
‘Ghost of a Ghost’ #1 is due out on September 23, 2026
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson are teaming with superstar artist Michael Avon Oeming for Ghost of a Ghost, a new four-issue limited series spinning out of Giant Robot Hellboy. Written by Mignola and Roberson, with art by Oeming, colors by Taki Soma, and letters by Clem Robins, the series follows Agent Jian through a psychedelic spy adventure set in the 1960s. Ghost of a Ghost #1 features a cover by Oeming alongside a variant by Dave Johnson, with later issues featuring variants by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
“Many of the stories that I’ve worked on in the Hellboy Universe have started with a conversation, with me having the germ of an idea or Mignola having a half-formed notion he wants to explore,” explained Chris Roberson. “Sometimes the inspiration leans more toward one of us, but this was fully Mike Mignola’s idea from the start. A few years ago at a convention, he sat down with me, Mike Oeming, and Taki Soma and laid out his vision for this character introduced in Giant Robot Hellboy. From there, we got to work bringing it to life. We were all completely aligned on Jian and her story from the start: a globe-trotting spy-fi thriller set in the swinging Sixties, approached in a way the Hellboy Universe hasn’t really explored before.”
Readers first met superspy Agent Jian in Mike Mignola and Duncan Fegredo’s 2023 Giant Robot Hellboy, where she was exposed to enkeladite, a radioactive substance capable of causing horrifying mutations. Now Jian is tied to a shadowy spy network and using her strange new abilities to stop enkeladite from falling into dangerous hands. The trouble is figuring out whose hands are truly dangerous.
“I’m excited to be working on another Mignola project with writer Chris Roberson and colorist Taki Soma,” said artist Michael Avon Oeming. “We’re bringing a fun retro 1960s spy vibe into the Hellboy world, and if readers have even half as much fun with it as we did making it, they’re going to have a blast.”
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‘Ghost of a Ghost’ #1 is due out on September 23, 2026
Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson are teaming with superstar artist Michael Avon Oeming for Ghost of a Ghost, a new four-issue limited series spinning out of Giant Robot Hellboy. Written by Mignola and Roberson, with art by Oeming, colors by Taki Soma, and letters by Clem Robins, the series follows Agent Jian through a psychedelic spy adventure set in the 1960s. Ghost of a Ghost #1 features a cover by Oeming alongside a variant by Dave Johnson, with later issues featuring variants by Kevin Nowlan, Elsa Charretier, and Michael Cho.
This sounds awesome!!
Even though Hellboy’s timeline ended abruptly 10 years ago, Mike Mignola and his collaborators have spent the last decade filling in the blanks in HB’s long career as well as the activities of his fellow BPRD agents. This one sounds like a lot of fun!
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Image Comics August 2026 Solicitations – League of Comic Geeks
Solicitations for August 2026 – at Image
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Future fun and fisticuffs: Carlos Javier Olivares discusses the wonderful and weird ‘Junk Punch’ – AIPT
From time to time, a comic comes a long that you know will be truly great long before word one.
Junk Punch just such a book.
Admittedly, my love for this new Mad Cave Studios title initially centered on the title alone (which I attest to be the best in at least a decade if not much longer). Then, my admiration only grew when I realized it was another book by Paul Tobin and Carlos Javier Olivares, who made the generally affective String. But once I actually got into Junk Punch (where the duo are joined by colorist Francesca Vivaldi and letterer Taylor Esposito), it too socked me right where it most hurts — squarely in my head and heart.
In Junk Punch, we meet Clara Castanelle, who lives in a world where “new compulsions have arisen to afflict individuals in bizarre ways.” As the title suggests, Clara’s compulsion means she can’t stop KO-ing folks’ nether regions, which she then uses to “solve a bizarre series of thefts, such as kisses stolen from willing and waiting lips.”
And, again, if all you wanted to take away from Junk Punch was the insanity and absurdity, there’s volumes of that to go around. But beyond the neon-colored, near-future hijinks lies something of real depth. A title with this intensely charming lead; oddly resonant themes about being yourself; and attitude and joy to spare. It is, as Mad Cave put it, “entertainment with IMPACT!”
Junk Punch #1 is due out this week (June 3). Ahead of this first blow, we caught up with Olivares earlier this week via email. There, we discussed his collaborations with Tobin, the book’s identity and influences, why Clara works as such a compelling protagonist, balancing the many threads and ideas in this story, and even a possible “Junk Punch-verse,” among other topics and tidbits.
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Huh! I had no idea Paul Chadwick was doing more Concrete (out today…)
Wednesday Comics Reviews: We are all lucky that Paul Chadwick’s CONCRETE is back, and more – Comics Beat
In this week’s Wednesday Comics column, Paul Chadwick’s Concrete returns after a decade-plus hiatus, Hellboy is in love, The Phantom gets a crossover, and much more! Plus, The Prog Report and FOC Watch!
Paul Chadwick’s Concrete: Stars Over Sand #1
Writer/Artist: Paul Chadwick
Publisher: Dark Horse ComicsTwenty years have passed since Paul Chadwick last visited Ron Lithgow, the speechwriter-turned-walking-mountain known in the series as Concrete. There were the odd one offs during the reboot of Dark Horse Presents but no full length stories. Finally the series comes out of hibernation with this new story Stars Over Sand, and boy, is it a welcome return.
Concrete has always been a quiet, reflective series, and Chadwick has not lost that in his return. This first issue isn’t a reset, but it more or less picks up after the previous series The Human Dilemma. Concrete, his assistant Larry, and scientist Maureen travel with the newborn from The Human Dilemma out to Colorado’s Great Sand Dunes National Park. Here while writing a speech, our hero gets struck by lightning and gets lost out there.
Nature has always played an important role in Concrete stories and this is no different.There’s a romantic quality to this story in how nature overwhelms Chadwick always frames figures with nature dominating them. The open splash page features a tiny truck and trailer that look ready to be swallowed by the desert around them. One scene where Concrete and his friends wander out into the dunes turns them into insects. As he has throughout the series, Chadwick reminds readers of the both the grandeur of nature and how small we are in it.
Chadwick’s storytelling also focuses on the ephemeral. Time passing, rain washing away footsteps, and even how short our lifespans are in the grand scheme of things. There’s copious imagery of things lost to the sands, especially in the final pages of the issue. The idea that things grasped can just as easily be lost. It’s all beautiful set up for the series premise that once struck by lightning, Concrete will lose his memories and who he is.
Twenty years away and there’s a much rougher quality to Chadwick’s work than previously. He still has a very naturalistic quality to his line. Figures don’t look exaggerated and there’s a gorgeous attention to detail when it comes to nature. But Concrete looks rougher and Chadwick favors a more jagged line. European artists, like Moebius (especially in the thunderstorm sequence) and Herge, have always been in Chadwick’s artistic DNA but it seems more pronounced here.
What’s really striking about this issue though is how beautifully Paul Chadwick uses the comics medium. There’s so many visual ideas on display here. Frequently he’ll “peek” into the trailer Maureen travels in with the baby by cutting into it while Concrete and Larry have a conversation. He uses long panels with multiple images in them. Seeing a creator at this stage in their career experiment with both form and linework is positively thrilling.
Having a new series from Paul Chadwick’s Concrete after so long is truly a gift to comics readers. If there’s any complaint to be had with this issue, it’s that more of a prologue than a self contained issue. Yet that is a minor quibble when there’s so much more to this issue than that.
Concrete has always been about the slow burn and if it took twenty years to get here, it’s been worth the wait.
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Land of Never #1
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Image Comics September Solicitations
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