Marvel’s Daredevil gets a new creative team. Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart in new comic. Maia Kobabe publishes middle grade follow-up to Gender Queer.
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Marvel’s Daredevil gets a new creative team.
Rocketeer teams up with Amelia Earhart.
Maia Kobabe publishes middle grade graphic novel.
This is Comic Book Club News for November 17, 2025.
Marvel’s Daredevil Gets New Creative Team:
For months now, writer Stephanie Phillips has been teasing a dream job at Marvel, and it looks like we finally know what that is… Starting in March, Phillips will take over Daredevil for Marvel alongside artist Lee Garbett, for a new Daredevil #1.
In the new series, Matt Murdock is a law professor, and being targeted by a new supervillain named Omen.
The previous team on Daredevil was Saladin Ahmed and Aaron Kuder, who wrapped up their run with Daredevil #25 in September — so there’ll be about a six month gap between runs. Also of note? This marks the second time in almost four decades that a woman has been the main writer on the Matt Murdock Daredevil title, after Jenny Blake Isabella’s run in the ’70s, and Ann Nocenti’s lauded, influential run from the ’80s. Recently, Erica Schultz wrote an (excellent) run on Daredevil: Woman Without Fear, focusing on the Elektra version of the characters, as well as Daredevil: Unleash Hell, also focused on Elektra, another excellent miniseries.
…And of course, you can’t have a new #1 without so many covers. Following Marvel’s first experiment with “True Believers Blind Bags” on Ultimate Endgame #1, the publisher will be furthering the grift — sorry, gift — with Daredevil #1, which will feature rare variant covers, “ultra-rare one-of-a-kind sketch covers” and more.
Daredevil #1 hits stores on March 18, 2026.
Rocketeer Teams Up With Amelia Earhart In New Comic:
Great news, we found Amelia Earhart — and she’s teaming up with The Rocketeer in a new series from IDW titled The Rocketeer: The Island.
Written by John Layman with art by Jacob Edgar, the book is based on a never before published outline by The Rocketeer creator Dave Stevens, as the titular hero tries to rescue Earhart, only to discover a “mysterious island that is full of surprises.”
The Rocketeer: The Island #1 goes on sale February 25.
Maia Kobabe Publishes Middle Grade Follow-Up To Gender Queer:
Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer is one of the most lauded — and most banned — graphic novels of the past decade. And now, the creator is publishing a sort-of follow up with Opting Out.
Per ICv2, the Scholastic Graphix middle grade book will feature art by Swati “Lucky” Srikumar, and focus on “a seventh-grader, Saachi, who is uncomfortable with the way her body is changing and also feels left behind as her classmates begin to pair off with boyfriends and girlfriends. Saachi doesn’t feel much like a girl or a boy, and with support from her parents, she comes to realize that she doesn’t have to put herself into a category right away, and that she might choose to make different decisions as she gets older.”
Unlike Gender Queer, Opting Opt is fiction, and is aimed at the 10-12 age group. Though Kobabe’s work has also appeared in anthology, this is only the second, full-length graphic novel from the writer. It will hit stores on May 5, 2026 in both hardcover and paperback.
For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And keep putting out those blind bags, this is one bubble that can stretch to infinity!
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