Alex Zalben

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HELLO KITTY AND FRIENDS: HELLO WORLD is coming to IDW

Then on to Star Trek, with a new Star Trek flagship series featuring Seven of Nine and Jack Crusher heading off with a new crew that heads off to parts unknown.

THE LAST RONIN: TRAINING DAY is a prequel one-shot from the original LAST RONIN team that shows King Kong ain't got nothing on them.

Oversized TMNT #300 from Gene Luen Yang and Kevin Eastman. Maybe a J. Scott Campbell cover (hopefully with sexy, elongated turtles?)?

THE HORROR OF GODZILLA, also previously announced, coming out July 29 from Parker and Sheridan, with art by Tristan Jones.

IDW Crime line is up with a few, previously announced titles. They're all three issue crime stories coming out over the neext few months.

Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees gets big applause from the retailers. An Artist's Edition is coming, as well as wrapping up the Rite of Spring miniseries and more to come.

SLEEPY HOLLOW: THE WITCHES OF THE WESTERN WOOD is a prequel series about how the headless horseman lost his head. It comes out on May 6 from IDW.

Aub Driver says EVENT HORIZON has been a "massive success" for IDW. There's a sequel titled INFERNO, 200 years after the events of the movie. On sale April 22. Robert Carey takes over interior art from Tristan Jones.

Antos teases that issue 5 of A QUIET PLACE "makes me cry every time."

Next up, A QUIET PLACE: STORM WARNING, which is hitting in March, by Phil Hester and Ryan Kelly. It takes place "alongside" the films -- not a prequel, necessarily.

Editor Heather Antos knows that May, herself, a fashion model so is writing from her own experiences.

IDW is kicking off this block with SMILE FOR THE CAMERA, the new comic book spinoff of the movie series by Hannah Rose May and Marianna Puglia, showing off a trailer and covers.

Hello, I am back later for the final chunk of presentations! Or, some of them.

That's it for Legendary! We'll be back later for the final chunk of presentations.

Legendary talks their own classic monsters line done in conjunction with various estates. Dracula and Frankenstein have both come out, with THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA working with the Lon Chaney estate coming at some point in the future.

New "publishing program" announced for...

On sale October 2026:
STREET FIGHTER

On sale February or March 2027:
GODZILLA X KONG: SUPERNOVA

(No details on what as of yet)

DUNE PART ONE AND TWO Graphic Novel is getting a reissue with a slipcase, in advance of the third movie. It comes out on October 10, 2026; it's the first retail release for DUNE 2.

TRICK 'R TREAT: WITCHING HOURS is a brand new anthology featuring four new stories that Michael Dougherty came up with and will be out in August. It features Sam from the movie.

JUSTICE LEAGUE VS GODZILLA VS KONG 2 collected edition is coming out in April from DC.

MONARCH: THE LOST ADVENTURES is an official tie-in to the Apple TV show including five new stories, written by Stephanie Williams, Margueritte Bennett, Paul Cornell, Tony Lee, and James Wright, comes out July 14.

PACIFIC RIM: FINAL BREACH, VOLUME ONE is a three-part graphic novel series that continues the franchise. It combines elements from the two films including John Boyega, Charlie Day, and Charlie Hunnam, with art by EJ Su. It comes out May 5.

Robert Napton, publisher of Legendary Comics is here, noting "you haven't heard from us in a while, and we're here to rectify that."

Legendary Comics is up next to wrap up this session (there are more presentations later, just FYI).

Ignition is giving 10 copies of Innards #0 to every store at ComicsPRO so they can sell them starting next week at the $4.99 cover price, to get the buzz going.

Speaking of CHEW, Rob Guillory is here to introduce the first of THREE books he's doing with Ignition: INNARDS, with art by Sam Lofti. It takes place decades on a nuclear attack, where people have to teleport into the Earth to get a rare form of energy. "This is shitty redneck teleportation."

Next up, Dave Wielgosz with his first creator-owned book, SHOWDOWN, a five issue series with art by Tadd Galusha. A neo-western revenge story about a woman who comes back to town to fight the man who forced her to leave town the first time.

Tini Howard is here to introduce SICKO with art by Amilcar Pinna. It's about "the incredible indiginity of having a body" and how much it sucks to be sick. It focuses on a med student who's immune system started attacking her... And then she figured out her immune system can attack people, too.

Ande Parks is here to announce BAD THOUGHTS, "an Extraction style thriller with a Stephen King twist," which is the man character is an empath. Artist is Dave Wachter. He can pick up residue from crime scenes (though not from eating them like in CHEW unfortunately).