Rey’s (Daisy Ridley) journey in the Star Wars galaxy is set to continue with the upcoming movie New Jedi Order, but fans shouldn’t expect to see her mentor Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) make an appearance.

In an interview with ComicBook to promote his new movie The Life of Chuck (which opens in select theaters June 6th and nationwide June 13th), Hamill was asked if he would return as Luke’s Force ghost in New Jedi Order. Though the actor is forever grateful he played such a meaningful role in the Star Wars franchise, he believes it is time for Lucasfilm to move past the legacy characters and focus entirely on the younger generation.

“I am so grateful to George [Lucas] for letting me be a part of that back in the day, the humble days when George called Star Wars ‘the most expensive low-budget movie ever made,’” Hamill said. “We never expected it to become a permanent franchise and a part of pop culture like that. But my deal is, I had my time. I’m appreciative of that, but I really think they should focus on the future and all the new characters.”

Set to be directed by Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, New Jedi Order picks up roughly 15 years after The Rise of Skywalker, following Rey as she ushers in a new era for the Jedi. While the film has encountered numerous hurdles since it was first announced, it remains in active development. During a panel at Star Wars Celebration Japan in April, New Jedi Order was one of the many Star Wars movies mentioned when Lucasfilm outlined its plans for the future.

It Happened on Hyde Street: Devour collaborators Maytal Zchut and artist Leila Leiz reteam with colorist Alex Sinclair and letterer Rob Leigh for a blood curdling tale of toxic frenemies and blood-bathed revenge in, Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story. This haunting new Ghost Machine one-shot story is set to hit shelves next month from Image Comics.

A first look at the gruesome new Hyde Street story will send fans screaming… for more.

“I’ve so enjoyed telling the story of Sisterhood but the thing that excites me most about the book is Leila’s art," said Zchut. "Every panel is beautifully crafted, profoundly captivating, and deeply emotional. Leila captures elements that words alone could not. I can’t wait for you all to see her incredible work.”

Leiz added: "Working together with Maytal has been an explosion of creativity. Her passion and perfectionism are contagious. Building a partnership with this kind of osmosis is really rare. I'm enjoying every second!”

Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story revolves around two life-long, extremely co-dependent friends whose relationship radically changes when one accidentally drowns during a sorority hazing incident... But on Hyde Street, death takes on a terrifying new meaning.

Sisterhood: A Hyde Street Story #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 2:

Cover A by Leiz & Alex Sinclair - Lunar Code 0525IM302

Cover B by Ivan Reis & Danny Miki - Lunar Code 0525IM303

Cover C by Peter Snejbjerg & John Kalisz - Lunar Code 0525IM304

Cover D 1:20 copy incentive by Raymond Gay & John Kalisz - 0525IM305

All Ghost Machine titles, including Geiger, Hyde Street, Redcoat, Rook: Exodus, The Rocketfellers, and more, are also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

Ghost Machine’s groundbreaking creator collective was launched at New York Comic Con in October 2023 and features a global best-of-class lineup of artists and writers whose award-winning and iconic works include a who’s who of comic book legends such as Batman, Superman, Spider-Man, Aquaman, Stargirl, JSA, The Flash, The Ultimates, Black Lightning, Green Arrow and countless more: Brad Anderson, Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Rob Leigh, Lamont Magee, Francis Manapul, Brad Meltzer, Ivan Reis, Peter Snejbjerg, Peter J. Tomasi, and Maytal Zchut. In an industry first, all of Ghost Machine’s creators jointly own and run the company, sharing in all of Ghost Machine’s publishing, media, merchandising and licensing. Each creator is exclusive to the company for their comic book work after completing projects already committed to. Ghost Machine recently boosted its already unrivaled creator roster with renowned inkers Andrew Currie and Danny Miki who joined on an exclusive basis.

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Oni Press is proud to present FRANKIE AND THE CURIOUS COCOON QUEST! From Caitlin Rose Boyle (Jonesy, Frankie and the Creepy Cute Critters, and Frankie and the Beastly Bog Song) comes the third Frankie Fairy adventure perfect for young explorers! Join the quest when the charming, critically acclaimed series continues on March 10th, 2026!

Frankie Fairy loves to learn about creepy critters! Joined by her biologist mom and equipped with a field guide full of creepy critter facts, Frankie finds all aspects of nature fascinating! That is until Tuna, her beloved pet wooly bear caterpillar, is nowhere to be found. Frankie’s mom thinks Tuna must finally be entering metamorphosis—a time of change when Tuna would transform from a cuddly caterpillar to a flying moth. Frankie wants Tuna to stay the same little fuzzy worm she’s always been. But when she discovers the beauty of the transforming world around her, will she accept that one day, everybody—even Tuna—experiences some kind of change?

“FRANKIE AND THE CURIOUS COCOON QUEST is about transformation in the world around us, and the metamorphosis we go through on a personal level as we grow to embrace our best possible selves,” said Caitlin Rose Boyle. “As she learns about changes that insects and animals go through in the natural world, Frankie also has to learn to embrace the future with open arms—whatever form it may take. It’s a story that’s really close to my heart, and I did my best to put it on the page in a way that kids and parents alike can both enjoy!”

Readers loved FRANKIE AND THE CREEPY CUTE CRITTER and FRANKIE AND THE BEASTLY BOG SONG; get ready for Caitlin Rose Boyle’s next epic chapter in FRANKIE AND THE CURIOUS COCOON QUEST when it debuts March 10th, 2026!

Listen for the ear-worm jingle of the Ice Cream truck as it pulls up to the curb with a sickly sweet new Summer scoop…The darkly inventive, critically acclaimed comic book series by creators W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran, and Good Old Neon will return with a yummy new tale of terror, Ice Cream Man #44, in July and the Ice Cream Man, Vol. 11 trade paperback collected edition in September from Image Comics.

This tantalizing tale will center around a job performance review gone wrong. Additional upcoming issues of the anthology will feature a twisted Hitchcockian Rear Window homage, a completely creepy tale of cryogenic anti-aging chambers, and a series of vintage medical ads that downplay some pretty shocking side effects.

“Golly. I can’t believe we’ve been putting this book out for 7.5 years,” said Prince. “In comic time, I think that makes us officially geriatric. And so, speaking as a veritable sequential grandpa, I’ll tell you this: I still don’t quite understand how and why we have made it this far. I mean, I am so proud of the corpus of tales we’ve assembled; Ice Cream Man is the defining artistic project of my life. (And I think I can probably say the same for my co-creators).”

Last year’s Ice Cream Man #39: “Decompression in a Wreck, Part One,” has been nominated for Best Single Issue/One-Shot for the 2025 Eisner Awards. The issue is the first in a two-parter story that shows how time slows down and life flashes by during a deadly heart-and-bone-breaking car accident, resulting in the death of a family. The comic details how decompression works in comics storytelling, and how a mere five seconds of a tragedy can be stretched into a 28-page deep dive. “Each moment sacred, each millisecond housing a loving memory, or a painful reminder, or an enticing glimpse into a future that will never, ever happen…” writes Prince in the comic.

The second part of the story, Ice Cream Man #40, shows the accident from the perspective of the truck drivers who collided with the family. Both issues have been collected into Ice Cream Man: Decompression In A Wreck Deluxe Special Edition #1 and Ice Cream Man TP, Vol. 10, available now.

This year also marked the critically acclaimed release of the all-star edition, Ice Cream Man #43, which featured one-page contributions not just from the stellar originators of this disturbing and delightful form experiment, but also short stories written by the likes of Grant Morrison, Patton Oswalt, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Matt Fraction, Jeff Lemire, Geoff Johns, Zoe Thorogood (who also illustrated her own story), Deniz Camp, and Frank Barbiere, with art by Morazzo and O’Halloran. Ice Cream Man has rippled through the comic book scene since its debut in 2018 and was scooped up for the big screen recently by veteran writers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Wednesday, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice).

In the Ice Cream Man anthology series, mysterious horror host, Rick, delivers morsels of delicious terror in every flavor. The genre-defying comic book series features short tales of sorrow, wonder, and redemption, with each installment featuring its own cast of strange characters, dealing with their own special sundae of suffering. And on the periphery of all of them, like the twinkly music of his colorful truck, is the Ice Cream Man—a weaver of stories, a purveyor of sweet treats. Friend. Foe. God. Demon. The man who, with a snap of his fingers—lickety split!—can change the course of your life forever.

Prince added: “It’s an absolute privilege to spin yarns about Rick the Ice Cream Man, his jingly-jangly truck, and, most importantly, everyday people fighting their way through the morass of adult life: grief, regret, addiction, divorce, overdue bills, sick family, sick self, the fall of democracy…it’s never-ending, that list. But I can still see that sliver of light breaking through…We somehow managed to make a ‘horror’ book that is, in fact, about human suffering, with slivers of light and hope streaked through the center of everything. Plus, we’ve gotten to perform some very wild comic-specific formal experiments: a silent, three-reality, and three-color issue; a story that's an actual palindrome; a crossword puzzle; an instruction manual; a dark recreation of beloved children’s books; an advent calendar; a telethon; an issue that is one continuous image when read in landscape orientation.”

“Ice Cream Man is the fulfilling, creative, challenging, cool, and ultimately fun series one can only dream of being a part of when having a comics career,” said O’Halloran. “Having a front row seat to the inventiveness of my collaborators' hard work for almost 50 issues manages to keep me motivated and inspired with this art form, and just feel very lucky to have my name on this book and be its colorist.”

“Not sure what I can add to what Will and Chris already said, ’cause I feel exactly the same way they do, but I wanted to thank our readers, our fans!” said Morazzo. “It wouldn’t have been possible without you guys, and I’m sure I can speak for the rest of the team now, we’re forever grateful!”

“THANK YOU to everyone who has stuck with us for so long,” added Prince. “We’ve still got a lot of surprises in store for issues #44 and beyond, including the Ice Cream Man, Vol. 11 trade paperback! Eleven volumes to sadden your shelves, stack high as a doorstop, or if you’re in the mood, read entirely in one sitting. And this is to say nothing of our Ice Cream Man movie in development over at horror central, Sony Screen Gems, headed by Wednesday and Smallville creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, alongside our amazing producer Aaron Schmidt. Feel free to start your dreamcasting for Ice Cream Man RIGHT NOW.”

Ice Cream Man TP, Vol. 10, which collects issues #37-40 (ISBN: 9781534397286, Lunar Code 0524IM265)—including the “Decompression in a Wreck" issues—is available at comic book shops, as well as independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones. Ice Cream Man TP, Vol. 11, which collects issues #40-44 (ISBN: 9781534331167)—including all-star issue #43—will be available at local comic book shops on September 17, as well as independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on September 30.

Ice Cream Man #44 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, July 23 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is June 30):

Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 1224IM303

Cover B by Declan Shalvey – Lunar Code 1224IM304

Ice Cream Man #45 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, September 10 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is August 18):

Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 0325IM323

Cover B by Alison Sampson – Lunar Code 0325IM324

Ice Cream Man #46 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, October 8 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is September 15):

Cover A by Martín Morazzo, Chris O’Halloran – Lunar Code 0525IM391

Cover B by Juni Ba (to be revealed) – Lunar Code 0525IM392

Ice Cream Man is also available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

DC Studios' upcoming Green Lantern series, Lanterns, now has a dozen cast members reportedly in place to help tell the story in its 2026 debut. Coming as the first Green Lantern-centric project from any DC Universe in well over a decade, anticipation is building to see the Green Lantern Corps in action on the small screen once again.

DC Studios has reportedly cast Laura Linney for an undisclosed role in the upcoming Lanterns show on HBO Max. The three-time Oscar nominee and four-time Emmy winner will embark on her first comic book project with DC Studios, with the rest of the Lanterns cast slowly coming together alongside her.

The Linney casting was initially reported on The Hot Mic podcast. She is best known for her work in The Big C, Savages and Kinsey. (via The Direct)

Beetlejuice The Musical will return to Broadway for the third time when the First National Tour of the international hit musical comedy begins performances Wednesday, October 8 at The Palace Theatre.

The First National tour of the musical launched on December 7, 2022, at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Theatre and is now in its third year. The tour will play a limited 13-week Broadway resurrection engagement at the Palace through Saturday, January 3, 2026.

Casting was not announced. (via Deadline)

For ticket information, visit beetlejuicebroadway.com.

“The Sandman” is still ending with Season 2, but fans will be getting one more episode than they thought.

Netflix revealed on Tuesday that, in addition to the 11 episodes already announced, a bonus twelfth episode will drop on July 31. The bonus episode is titled “The Sandman Presents: Death: The High Cost of Living” and will focus on the character Death (Kirby Howell-Baptiste).

As previously announced, the first six episodes of Season 2 will debut on July 3, with the next five premiering on July 24.

Season 2 will bring several fan-favorite storylines from the comics to life, including the “Season of Mists,” “Brief Lives,” “The Kindly Ones,” and “The Sandman: Overture” collections. The season will also include single-issue stories such as “Tales in the Sand,” “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “The Song of Orpheus,” “Thermidor,” and “The Tempest,” among others. (via Variety)

Writer Mário Freitas and artist Lucas Pereira team up to pay tribute to the Jack Kirby legacy with a fictionalized tribute to the comics icon in the upcoming, The Man Who Dreamt the Impossible. This treasury edition one-shot will hit shelves in August from Image Comics and is a must-read for any fan of pop culture history.

“This book is huge. In format. In scope. In ambition. Just like Jack did. But this is not a biography. It is more of a classic 'what if?' scenario: what if Jack Kirby had lived well beyond the age of 76? What if he had survived his Roz; if he had spent his last years in a care home, reunited with his old creative pals from the days of the ‘House of Ideas’ (a term so well spread by propaganda, as if American comics hadn't been a house of ideas since the days of McCay, King, or Herriman)," said Freitas. "It is, above all, a narrative corollary to the great strengths of Kirby's career: the complexity of human relations and the relentless pursuit of the impossible that lies hidden in the Cosmos. But different. Original. Just like Jack did.”

Jack King is the eldest in the care home. A prodigy of imagination, always telling fascinating stories, but recently suffering from extreme fatigue and lack of motivation. Then comes Mike, a young orderly who will help restore Jack's spirit and his much-loved library, a place fallen into disarray and near abandonment, certainly not unrelated to the sinister pestilence lurking on its shelves…

Pereira added: “A textual and visual exploration of what could have been—but also of what truly was. Kirby suffered greatly in real life from what was done to him and to his work, and this story is no different. We don’t sugarcoat what needs to be said or shy away from reflecting on what actually happened. Jack is a genius, but his creations were, over time, distorted and rearranged at the whim of a former caretaker at the nursing home. Now, with Mike’s help, Jack King will set everything back in its rightful place—where it never should have ceased to be.”

This story is a salute to Jack Kirby, to the men who better took care of his work, and to others who suffered the same creative and editorial constraints throughout their careers.

The Man Who Dreamt the Impossible (Lunar Code 0625IM270) will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, August 27.

The Man Who Dreamt the Impossible will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

An early preview of the highly anticipated upcoming series Lazarus: Fallen shows that lead

character Forever Carlyle is not afraid to get bloody to prove her point. As she sets out to destroy the Families–the wealthy few running this “near future” dystopian world—she’ll need to make allies along the way. Helmed by Eisner Award-winning creators writer Greg Rucka (The Old Guard) and artist Michael Lark (Gotham Central), and colorist Santi Arcas, the New York Times bestselling dystopian sci-fi series Lazarus is returning for a final installment.

Fans of Andor, Silo, and Blade Runner will enjoy this futuristic, and yet prescient, tale about what those in power will do to obtain more power and to silence those in opposition…and what rebels, whether genetically engineered or not, will do to stop them. Along with early preview pages from Lazarus: Fallen #2, a look at the process and cover artwork from the series tease a little of what’s to come soon.



Rucka, Lark, and Arcas are joined by letterer Ariana Maher, editor Alejandro Arbona, and graphic designers Eric Trautmann and Richard Howe for the new series, with issue #1 debuting June 25 (with a Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers today, June 2). Lazarus: The Fourth Collection—a hardcover volume that collects Lazarus #27 and #28, and for the first time, the complete seven-issue run of Lazarus: Risen—is also now available, along with the first three collections, for those looking to catch up on the series ahead of Lazarus: Fallen.

“The first arc, ’Rise’—which is taken in part from the Free slogan of ‘Rise, Resist, Be Free’—very much hits the ground running, dealing with the immediate repercussions of the end of Lazarus: Risen," said Rucka. "It’s been less than two days in the story since the end of Lazarus: Risen, and Lazarus: Fallen is throwing the reader right back into the action and the story. That’s deliberate. Readers are smart, and they know how to read and extrapolate from context, so new readers to the series will be able to understand what’s going on. That said, it’s going to be a far more rewarding read if you know how we got to this point.”



The Lazarus series follows Forever Carlyle, an unkillable, genetically-engineered soldier, controlled by the mechanisms of her father, Malcolm Carlyle. Malcolm is the patriarch of one of the powerful Families that rose to rule the world after an economic-driven apocalypse. The Families now own everything and everyone; in this neo-feudalist order, you are either of value to the Families and made a Serf, or you are irrelevant, disposable labor, called Waste.

But the Families are driven by greed, and in their unending pursuit of more and more, each created a Lazarus—a man or woman created and trained to be the loyal instrument of their Family’s will. Forever Carlyle is the Lazarus of the Carlyle Family, raised to absolutely believe in her duty to her family, and with an unquestioning loyalty to her father. That time is over, and now Forever—with the aid of her younger sister and next iteration of the Carlyle Lazarus, Infinity—means to destroy the world her father created.

“Our first issues are about framing this new world that Forever’s actions have created, about her and her sister finding allies, and about her father, Malcolm’s, own machinations,” Rucka added. “Like Forever, Malcolm knows the endgame is approaching. The question is whether or not it’s the endgame he’s envisioned all along. Amidst all this, there’s interpersonal drama and continued growth—both for Forever and her sister, now calling herself Infinity—as well as others. But Forever and Infinity are hunted from the word go, and there are other Families, and their Lazari, on their heels, including, especially, Sonja Bittner. After all, Forever has committed the ultimate crime: she’s betrayed the Family.”





Lazarus: Fallen #1 will be available at comic book shops on Wednesday, June 25, featuring a cover by Lark (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is today, June 2; Lunar Code 0425IM294). Issue #2 hits shelves on July 30 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is July 7; Lunar Code 0525IM403), and issue #3 hits shelves on August 27 (Final Order Cutoff deadline for retailers is August 4; Lunar Code 0625IM356).

Lazarus: The Fourth Collection is now available at comic book shops (Lunar code 0325IM428), and on June 3, will be available at independent bookstores (ISBN: 9781534335912), Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones. The series will also be available across many digital platforms, including Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, and Google Play.

Amazon MGM Studios is finalizing a deal to acquire Split Fiction, a hot feature package based on the video game of the same name, which is set to team Wicked helmer Jon M. Chu and actress Sydney Sweeney, Deadline is reporting.

The deal is reportedly coming in at north of $2 million. Deadline was first to report on bidding for the project a couple of weeks ago, when Sony was among others in the race. The script is by Paul Wernick & Rhett Reese, the duo behind recent Marvel Studios hit Deadpool & Wolverine.

Story Kitchen’s Dmitri M. Johnson & Mike Goldberg will produce the feature take, with Timothy I. Stevenson executive producing. Electric Somewhere is also producing, with Hazelight Studios’ Josef Fares and Oskar Wolontis exec producing.