Ice Cream Man team takes on Superman. Spider-Gwen gets a new continuity. Red Sonja gets a reboot.
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Ice Cream Man team takes on Superman.
Spider-Gwen gets a new continuity.
Red Sonja goes absolutely ultimate!
This is Comic Book Club News for May 20, 2025.
Ice Cream Man Team Takes On Superman:
DC Comics‘ Summer of Superman might make way for the Fall of Superman, if the creators of the hit Image Comics series Ice Cream Man get their way. The publisher has announced that W. Maxwell Prince, Martín Morazzo, and Chris O’Halloran are tackling Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum, a new five-issue Black Label series beginning in August.
Said Prince via press release, “We’ve developed a reputation for pretty left-of-center experimentation, with respect to comics storytelling, and this is basically what we’re doing over the 5 issues of Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum: using our unique voice in comics to tell a Supes yarn that’s both strange and timeless—out there and also totally grounded. You might know what Green, Red and Black Kryptonite does to Superman, but what about Purple? Or Cobalt? Or Speckled?”
DC is careful to note that the team (probably) won’t kill Superman or go full on nihilistic, as some issues of Ice Cream Man tend to do. Instead of existential dread, look forward to “introspective, fun, genre-fluid storytelling.” The plot? Four new types of Kryptonite have been discovered, and Superman has to find out what they do, alongside Batman. And each issue of the series will explore a different genre and part of the Superman mythos.
Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum #1 hits stores on August 13.
Spider-Gwen Gets New Continuity:
Long titles are so hot right now, and Marvel is getting in on the game with All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1. The comic will continue the series already started by Stephanie Phillips and Paolo Villanelli, except all-new.
…And I know I’m being glib here, but the title is sort of all-new, at least in terms of the plot. While the hook of the previous Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider comic was that Spider-Gwen was trapped in the main Marvel 616 universe, the conceit of All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider is that thanks to a Cosmic Cube, reality has been rewritten so that Gwen has always been part of the main Marvel Universe.
Gwen’s brand new day begins when All-New Spider-Gwen: The Ghost-Spider #1 hits stores on August 20.
Red Sonja Reborn In New Dynamite Book:
First we got a rebooted Ultimate Universe, then DC’s Absolute Universe. Now, get ready for a brand-new take on Red Sonja in Dynamite’s Sonja Reborn, a new comic written by Christopher Priest with art by Alessandro Miracolo.
Said Priest, “We might have called this book ‘Becoming Red Sonja.’ … Sonja Reborn is our ‘Kelvin Universe’ alternate take on the classic, branching off from familiar paths in order to spiral chaotically into the unknown. I’m having a blast writing it, which is equal parts endorsement and warning!”
In the new series, a “Young British diplomatic clerk” from 2025 named Maggie Sutherland is sent back to Hyboria and transformed into Red Sonja. The book, per PR, is “a tale of survival which takes a hard look at what life in the Hyborian Age might actually be like for a modern woman who finds herself suddenly thrust into it! How might a single woman survive a land of mystical threats and monsters without caving into her fears, dying of infection, or losing the at-best conditional loyalty of her ragged band of male cutthroats? What might this woman really be like and how could she possibly survive?”
Sonja Reborn #1 hits stores in August.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And can a modern woman really have it all? A career, romance, AND dying of infection? I guess we’ll see!
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