Criminal is getting a Christmas Special. Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow gets a Compact Comics edition. Marvel’s Age of Revelation will run for five months.
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Criminal gets Christmas special.
Supergirl gets Compact Comics edition.
Age of Revelation to run for five months.
This is Comic Book Club News for September 1, 2025.
Criminal Is Getting a Christmas Special:
The Knives, the brand new Criminal graphic novel from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, is now out on stands from Image Comics. But it looks like Christmas has come early this year, as the team will also release a Criminal Xmas Special.
Revealed in Brubaker’s newsletter, via SKTCHD, the one-shot will come later this year with “a novella-length story about Ricky Lawless and a bunch of cool extras, including a CRIMINAL RPG module by Kieron Gillen.”
In addition, the one-shot will also feature a comic titled “Adventures in Showrunning,” telling the story of Brubaker and Phillips being on set for the upcoming Prime Video series adaptation of Criminal. And not only that, the one-shot will be printed on newsprint.
There’s no release date announced yet for the Criminal Xmas Special, but one would assume some time in December.
Supergirl: Woman Of Tomorrow Gets Compact Comics Edition:
In a move that makes a ton of sense, Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow is getting a Compact Comics edition next year, just in time for the movie adaptation to hit theaters.
Per ICv2, the 216-page paperback will hit stores in January, before the DCU movie hits theaters in June. Written by Tom King and Bilquis Evely, the eight-issue miniseries was nominated for an Eisner Award in 2022, and recently popped back on the sales charts in July, thanks to Milly Alcock’s cameo as Supergirl in this year’s Superman movie.
In the book, Supergirl goes on a quest for vengeance along with a girl named Ruthye, after a man named Krem attacks Krypto the Superdog. Like the rest of the Compact Comics line, the new edition will cost $9.99 and hit stores on January 6, 2026.
Marvel’s Age Of Revelation Will Run For Five Months:
When Marvel announced the upcoming X-Men event Age of Revelation, many fans speculated that it would last for three months, from October to December. Well, hang in there, because it’s actually going through at least February of next year.
The news comes via IGN during an interview with X-Men writer Gail Simone. While setting up the circumstances of the event, that the line will be replaced by titles set 10 years in the future of Marvel Comics, the outlet notes that it will kick off in October, then continue for “the next four months.” That’s followed more explicitly by the note that “Readers can expect the crossover to last through the end of February 2026.”
That certainly leaves some wiggle room for any changes in the publishing plan. And it’s also, of note, shorter than the Age of Apocalypse storyline that inspired it. That ’90s crossover lasted a full six months.
Age of Revelation kicks off with Overture #1 on October 1.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And I guess Christmas hasn’t come early, necessarily, because the Criminal special could come out on Christmas. I’ll edit that out later.
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