r/comicbooks • • 6d ago

WPL: New Comics Discussion for 10/07/2026- Pull of the Week: Midnight X-Men #1 [Discussion]

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The Weekly Pull List results for this Wednesday are in, and this week's top book is Marvel's Midnight X-Men #1.

This thread is open to Pull List posters and all members of the /r/comicbooks community to share your thoughts on the debut issue of Marvel's Midnight X-Men or any new books shipping this week.

The primary intention of this thread is to promote discussion of new books. It also serves as a way to consolidate discussion to a single thread and talk about what books are popular here on /r/comicbooks. That does not mean other threads aren't welcome, this is just a place to start that's easy to find each week.

The thread is populated with comments meant to direct the discussion of each book. Based on community preference we populate the thread with titles appearing on Ten Percent or more of submitted pull lists. If a title you want to talk about is not listed, simply add a comment with the title and issue number first and comment below. There is also a comment dedicated to the discussion of WPL Results linked above.

Spoilers will follow, but there's no harm in tagging them as such. Each title in the Top Ten Percent listed below is linked directly to its corresponding comment for ease of navigation and to avoid seeing details from other books. The post has also been placed in "contest mode" to help readers avoid spoilers while browsing.

This Week's Most Pulled Titles:

Based on 52 submitted pull lists and 80 books shipping.

  1. MIDNIGHT X-MEN #1 (29)
  2. MIDNIGHT SPIDER-MAN #1 (28)
  3. BATMAN #14 (24)
  4. MIDNIGHT FANTASTIC FOUR #1 (24)
  5. DEMON #1 (22)
  6. ABSOLUTE SUPERMAN #24 (21)
  7. ABSOLUTE GREEN LANTERN #19 (15)
  8. DEADMAN #5 (15)
  9. JONAH HEX AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH #1 (15)
  10. BENEATH THE TREES WHERE NOBODY SEES HALLOWEEN SPECIAL #1 (9)
  11. BATGIRL #24 (7)
  12. SUPERMAN THE STRANGER #2 (6)
  13. CROWBOUND #2 (5)
  14. DCS QUOTH THE RAVEN WHATEVER #1 (5)

Feel free to browse through everything the /r/comicbooks community is buying this week.

If you feel the need to reproduce any part of this thread in any other forum, please consult our PSA on how to properly cite /r/comicbooks.

Have a great Wednesday! Looking forward to talking comics with you over the next few days.


r/comicbooks • • 2d ago

[OFF-TOPIC] Weekend Lounge - (October 10, 2026)

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Happy weekend, everybody!

In this thread, you can talk about:

  • What you've been reading this week
  • What you've been watching this week
  • What you've been listening to this week
  • What you've been doing this week
  • Basically anything that isn't overly offensive or anything like that. I don't know, be "responsible!"

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r/comicbooks • • 7h ago

Question I brought X-men 137 a few weeks ago and only opened it now and saw this on the first page. Is this an autograph or a random scribble?

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r/comicbooks • • 12h ago

Other Epic Games' (Gears of War 1-3, Fortnite) Newest Title, An Unnanounced 'Marvel x Star Wars' Shooter in Collaboration With Disney, Has Been Delayed Due To The Project Being Shifted Into Being Developed Completely With AI. "Zero lines of hand written code". "All art to be fully generated with AI".

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r/comicbooks • • 9h ago

Other Preview for midnight spider-man #2 Spoiler

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r/comicbooks • • 3h ago

Other Jonathan Hickman & Mike del Mundo's New Sci-Fi Epic / SHIFT - Episode 1

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r/comicbooks • • 1h ago

Cover/Pin-Up Woverine: Paradise #1 Cover by Dan Panosian.

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r/comicbooks • • 11h ago

NYCC 2026: Dinobots finally enter the Energon Universe as Baroness joins Cobra

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r/comicbooks • • 7h ago

Cover/Pin-Up Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #2 variant by Ryan Sook

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r/comicbooks • • 10h ago

Discussion What Golden Age comics are worth reading today?

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r/comicbooks • • 7h ago

Fan Creation Custom Divider Designs for Marvels Midnight

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Hello everyone I am new to comic world and still waiting on my first few comics. I was bored a little bit and decided to make few divider design. These are for Midnight Spider-Man, X-Men and Fantastic Four. It was hassle trying to extract a good logo quality but here it it. Hope you like it.

Link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1aXmw3XHagN1v6fPJc3OW5JOuEEn9Vvd6?usp=share_link


r/comicbooks • • 8h ago

Can anyone tell me what this is called?

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Hey!

A customer of mine left me this a few years ago and I am trying to identify what it is. It has cut out layers that are taped in place. I can see that this is a draft but is there a name for an item like this?
Thanks!


r/comicbooks • • 4h ago

Crowdfunding P. Craig Russell's independently published Kickstarter has gone live—fully funded in less than 2 hours!

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r/comicbooks • • 9h ago

IDW Reveals Godzilla Versus Everything Crossover Series

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r/comicbooks • • 16h ago

News Avengers #1 | Official Trailer | Marvel Comics

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r/comicbooks • • 6h ago

Discussion Tried rereading the first volume of the boys after finishing the show.

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The comic was way better than I remember! I tried reading it when season two was coming out and thought the comic sucked. Read the full volume after the finishing the show. The comic is way better. It feels like a thriller that happens to have superhero’s. Garth is such a great writer, I love Preacher!


r/comicbooks • • 1h ago

Discussion What's one loathed story you love and one beloved story you loath?

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I really loved "Heroes in Crisis" as it came out and was really disappointed DC dropped the Wally storyline that spun up from it.

I didn't enjoy "Batman: The Long Halloween" it felt bloated and repetitive with a payoff that didn't feel worth much at all.


r/comicbooks • • 18h ago

Excerpt Coppélia [Corpse de Ballet, 2026]

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r/comicbooks • • 14h ago

I read midnight X-Men…

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I’m a Hickman fan, so I was going to get the book regardless of the imprint. After the first issue, I’m curious to see how the story will build out. I laughed because some of the typical Hickman tropes show up in the issue, such as brief conversations between characters which tease out portions of the storyline, combined with an infographic page.

The reference to Claremont’s amazing graphic novel was a nice touch.

I don’t want to give away too much in case folks have not read the book. I enjoyed it and will subscribe to the subsequent issues.


r/comicbooks • • 18h ago

News Blumhouse’s ‘M3GAN,’ ‘The Purge,’ and ‘Happy Death Day’ Getting New Comic Books.

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Through a new partnership with IDW Dark, The Purge, M3GAN, and Happy Death Day are all set to continue as comic series. The initiative will start next year with The Purge in a series from Eisner award–winning writer Dan Watters (Batman: Dark Patterns, TMNT: Shredder) and artist Juan José Ryp (Wolverine: Blood Hunt, Ghost Rider: Vengeance Forever).

“I’m a really big horror nerd. It was my entry point into comics and geeky stuff to begin with,” Watters shared with the outlet. “I can’t tell you anything about Star Trek, can’t tell you anything about Star Wars, but I can tell you about every Friday the 13th movie and I can rank them for you. So once we started talking about the fact that there was this Blumhouse stuff in the works, I immediately went, ‘Well, what about Purge?’”

No details about the book’s plot have been released, though IDW Dark lead editor Heather Antos has met with the filmmakers behind the respective franchises. 


r/comicbooks • • 15h ago

Question Is the this is a love story/this is a detective story frame from a real comic?

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I always assumed it was fan made, but i recently saw a post saying they like when text boxes have logos in comics so that implies it's from an actual comic? if so, which one?

Edit: thank you all!! I really thought it was fake because of how superbat it was but i guess they're just REALLY good friends


r/comicbooks • • 15h ago

Discussion About 2 years ago, I decided to read comics from the beginning (silver age, read very few from the golden age), now I'm finally done. Read about 2000 issues. A tierliest of most of the runs I read:

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r/comicbooks • • 1d ago

Cover/Pin-Up DC character sketch covers I commissioned from DC artists at NYCC

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In Order:

- Deadman by Martin Morazzo

- Zatanna sketched by Bilquis Evely colored by Mat Lopes

- Absolute Catwoman by Denys Cowan

- The Demon by Juan Ferreyra

3 of them were just standard asks to draw the character but for deadman I had asked Morazzao if he had any scrapped ideas for a Deadman cover and to then draw that. Really happy with how they all came out!

(Side note: obviously all these artists have amazing books outside of DC, just called them DC artists for simplicity)


r/comicbooks • • 10h ago

Discussion beneath the trees where nobody sees show: Halloween Special It’s really about the horror of real tragedies being distorted through the game of telephone.

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I absolutely love these series, Samantha Strong The story of a small-town murderess who kills people in the nearest big city while leading a normal life in her own small town is fascinating—especially the feel of this world, which is realistic yet retains a storybook quality thanks to its animal characters. And I'm already looking forward to the conclusion of this trilogy next year, but at least we got a Halloween special.

And I want to talk about this comic, because I think it depicts an interesting kind of horror—namely, the horror that arises when real tragedies, let's say, are so drastically distorted by ordinary people.

I have to share a few spoilers about the two comic series—the main series and Rite of Spring. Samantha Strong is the local bear and owner of the tool shop in the small town of Woodbrook. But she leads a double life as a serial killer, targeting and killing people in the nearest big city because it doesn't attract as much attention there as it would in a smaller town. Everything could be going so well until someone is suddenly killed in the town, and she now fears that the investigation might suddenly turn toward her, the thing is, she doesn't kill people within her own town because she doesn't want to draw attention to herself, The series begins with her setting out to find out who the murderer is in her own territory. Rite of Spring It takes place a few years later and the consequences are very interesting. A woman is looking for her brother and hears about the incident in this small town, so she goes there to conduct her own investigation, where she naturally encounters our favorite murderous bear. Samantha is found to be a killer and she burns down all Bridges and goes into hiding.

The Halloween special is essentially about teenagers around a campfire telling each other stories about Samantha, She has become a legend for many, instead of actually having any real understanding of what really happened. Clearly, many of the stories they tell are, in a sense, bullshit! Heck, the first is about her killing Towmsfolk, Which isn't entirely true. Yes, she did eventually kill people from her own town, but many of her victims came from the nearest big city. The only time she killed people from her own town was in "self-defense". And no, she was not a supernatural being or a member of a satanic sect. There is already a story that is a little closer to reality, but I want you to experience it for yourselves.

It's somehow eerie to know that tragedies are often so drastically removed from reality, so to speak, through the game of telephone, And that must be Spanish, from people who have evil intentions, who want to fulfill a kind of agenda, to frame things for things for which they get advantages. Take the Satanic Panic, for example, where many people were simply accused of Satanism—specifically by those who were themselves fire-and-brimstone preachers, who want to see Satan in every crime or tragedy. Unfortunately, this often happens because real things are often complicated and often not perfectly seamless, Often we don't know why people do their terrible things, and sometimes they themselves don't know why they did it. Especially since real investigations to work through such matters can become extremely complex and create a truly large network with countless small details, It's a complexity that many people often don't understand, and therefore unintentionally oversimplify it. And often it is easier for us to believe in extremes rather than a somewhat more complicated reality Which will never be completely full.

The comic depicts teenagers around a campfire, but today these teenagers are no longer around a campfire, but rather part of a worldwide network that can spread misinformation globally. It’s funny how, at the end of the day, the connected world is turning into a small town.


r/comicbooks • • 5h ago

Question Could you recommend some dark fantasy comics, Evil Dead-type horror (movies), and Constantine?

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Hi, I'm new to comics. I mostly know about movies. The only comics I've read are Daredevil: Born Again, some Spider-Man comics, and Watchmen. I was wondering if you could recommend any comics that deal with magic, demons, and anything related to the afterlife. I'm the DM of a role-playing game, and the universe is superhero-themed. I'm writing some sessions about a powerful demon's revenge against two of my players. This time, I don't have many ideas on how to approach the sessions. I have a draft, but I'd appreciate any comic recommendations so I can read them and get some inspiration.