Leonide The Vampyr Returns, Phillip Kennedy Johnson Goes Marvel Exclusive, Archie Takes On Army Of Darkness | Comic Book Club News For November 28, 2025

Mike Mignola and Rachele Aragno’s Leonide is back. Phillip Kennedy Johnson has gone exclusive with Marvel. Archie takes on Army of Darkness.

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Leonide The Vampyr returns.

Phillip Kennedy Johnson goes Marvel exclusive.

Archie takes on Army of Darkness.

This is Comic Book Club News for November 28, 2025.

Mike Mignola And Rachele Aragno’s Leonid The Vampyr Returns:

Leonide the Vampyr is back. The young vampire created by Mike Mignola and Rachele Aragno will return in a new, two-part series titled Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda, flying (like a bat) into stores next year.

Here’s the official synopsis, per PR from Dark Horse: “Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda begins after Leonide is chased off by her latest intended victims. An unwitting good samaritan finds her unresponsive and whisks her away by wagon to a doctor, but when the wagon arrives, the drivers are mummified and the girl is missing, with only a seed left in her place.This two-part story will follow a search for the missing girl’s ancestral home and expose her horrifying family history.”

Leonide the Vampyr: The House of Yonda #1 hits stores on March 18, 2026.

Phillip Kennedy Johnson Goes Marvel Exclusive:

Phillip Kennedy Johnson is the latest writer to sign an exclusive with Marvel. The new multi-year contract is effective as January, 2026.

Said Johnson via press release, “My friends at Marvel have been ideal collaborators, and I’m extremely honored and excited that they’ve asked me to play such a bigger role in the company. Now that our Incredible Hulk run is kicking off its second act with Infernal Hulk #1, and with the other mind-blowing projects we’re putting together for 2026 and 2027, it felt like the time to make Marvel my comics home for a while.”

The announcement comes hot on the heels of Johnson’s run on Hulk evolving into The Infernal Hulk, which hits stores this week. And it also comes as he wraps up his run on Batman and Robin for DC Comics, which will be ending in February of 2026 with Batman & Robin #30. As for what will happen with his run on DC’s Adventures of Superman: The Book of El, which releases a sixth issue in February and is part of a longer planned run wrapping up his time on the main Superman title? Don’t worry, that will finish, too.

This marks the second recent high-profile exclusive deal for Marvel, after the House of Ideas signed up writer Chris Condon earlier this month.

Archie Takes On Army Of Darkness:

Hail to the king, baby! By which we mean Jughead and his crown, because Archie x Army of Darkness is coming this February. And now we know the creative team behind the Archie Comics and Dynamite crossover: writer Erik Burnham, and artist Bill Galvan.

In the series, Archie stumbles upon a copy of the Necronomicon, and summons the Deadites to Riverdale. Enter Ashley J. Williams, who has to fight back the undead hordes and try to save the Town With Pep. Only he also discovers that maybe Riverdale is the place that will finally break the curse that’s been on him all these years.

Archie x Army of Darkness #1 hits stores on February 4, 2026. And yes, of course there’s a Blind Bag for this one.

For Comic Book Club News, I’m Alex Zalben. And I’m happy to announce I’ve also signed an exclusive with Marvel. To exclusively buy Marvel Comics. Just kidding, I love all comics.

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