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DC Comics, Scholastic, VIZ, DSTLRY, Webtoon, and more: Job openings in the comics biz right now (January 2026)
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Chris Arrant
Welcome to 2026! Here's how Popverse will continue to be your pop culture tour guide & bestie
The Avengers are back. Dune returns. Stranger Things is over. Comics lives on. It's the year 2026, and you've got Popverse by your side.
Chris Arrant
DC Comics changes the name of a major new Batman villain ahead of her 2026 debut
Goodbye, Lady Death Man: How a character got a big tweak before their showdown with Batman
Chris Arrant
DC's Robin Tim Drake originally had a different name, but was only changed AFTER his debut to pay homage to Batman director Tim Burton
Tim Drake’s original name was Jeff, and one reference to the name was accidentally kept in one of his first Batman appearances
Joshua Lapin-Bertone
Tom King describes his “all-encompassing” relationship with DC Comics and DC Studios as one of "love" and "potential"
Tom King says his work with DC Comics is driven by love for its characters.
Ashley V. Robinson
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine is returning to adult horror by reviving Stuff of Nightmares at BOOM! Studios
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine says his Boom Studios series Stuff of Nightmares will return in 2026
Grant DeArmitt
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DC Comics, Scholastic, VIZ, DSTLRY, Webtoon, and more: Job openings in the comics biz right now (January 2026)
#ComicJobs
Welcome to 2026! Here's how Popverse will continue to be your pop culture tour guide & bestie
The Avengers are back. Dune returns. Stranger Things is over. Comics lives on. It's the year 2026, and you've got Popverse by your side.
DC Comics changes the name of a major new Batman villain ahead of her 2026 debut
Goodbye, Lady Death Man: How a character got a big tweak before their showdown with Batman
DC's Robin Tim Drake originally had a different name, but was only changed AFTER his debut to pay homage to Batman director Tim Burton
Tim Drake’s original name was Jeff, and one reference to the name was accidentally kept in one of his first Batman appearances
Tom King describes his “all-encompassing” relationship with DC Comics and DC Studios as one of "love" and "potential"
Tom King says his work with DC Comics is driven by love for its characters.
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine is returning to adult horror by reviving Stuff of Nightmares at BOOM! Studios
Goosebumps creator R.L. Stine says his Boom Studios series Stuff of Nightmares will return in 2026
DC is using its Absolute line to quietly set the stage for Vertigo Comics’ return in 2026
How DC plans to relaunch Vertigo by piggybacking on the success of Absolute DC.
Remembering George Pérez, with guests Dan Jurgens, Dan DiDio, Alex Segura, Constance Eza, and Phil Jemenez from NYCC 2022
In the wake of the comic legend's passing, friends and cohorts of Pérez went to NYCC to reflect on his eternal legacy in the medium
How Marvel's Jonathan Hickman is using DC Comics' playbook of Batman: Dark Knight Returns and Superman: Red Son to evolve Marvel Comics' future
Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman sees value in standalone stories set in alternate universes
Marvel Comics to end its current Avengers era after 3 years to set-up Doomsday tie-in and Armageddon takeover
Marvel's Avengers are reaching "the end of an era," ahead of 2026's ibg plans in comics and movies.
How modern-day "fake people" inspired Marvel's reboot of Gwen Stacy in Ultimate Spider-Man
For Ultimate Spider-Man writer Jonathan Hickman, Mysterio was the perfect role for Gwen Stacy as the wife of Harry Osborn.
Marvel is retconning Captain Marvel and her history as Ms. Marvel with a new "dark family secret"
Carol Danvers has a complicated past. In 2026, its going to get even more complicated for Captain Marvel.
Inside the "gutsy decision" to kill the Ultimate Marvel universe, and why they were worried continuing it would be wrong
Marvel is ending the Ultimate Universe at its peak, and writers Jonathan Hickman, Chris Condon, and Peach Momoko tell Popverse that’s the point
What Tom King wants to work on next at DC isn’t about heroes, it’s about collaborators
At New York Comic Con 2025, the King of comics shared what superheroes he hopes to one day get the chance to work on.
James Tynion IV buys back The Woods' multimedia rights from BOOM! while Tiny Onion builds its adult animation slate
James Tynion IV's Tiny Onion studio has an animated adaptation of The Woods in the works
Oni Press and Archie Comics join forces for a star-studded launch of 3 new ongoing series, Archie, Archie in Hell, and Sabrina the Teenage Witch
Fall 2026 marks "an utterly unique path into the future" with the partnership between Archie Comics and Oni Press