Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention Preview

 

A harvest moon hangs in the night sky over Baltimore, Maryland as Thomas Evans alights from his carriage. As he enters the Melancholia Club on October 31, 1848, he expects to find the premises bursting with people celebrating Halloween. Instead, one lonely drinker sits in a darkened table. Why is the Club so empty? And why has Thomas ventured there this evening?

Here's all the info from Titan Comics:

 

Edgar Allan Poe: A Tale of Mystery and Intervention

Author/Artist: Norm Konyu

Publisher: Titan Comics

Book Description: Hardcover, 56 Pages, Full Color

Price: $19.99

ISBN: 9781806182169

Release Date: October 6, 2026 

 

 

A darkly playful walk through the mind of Edgar Allan Poe, 

where humor, dread, and beauty collide this Halloween.  

 

 

From Aurora Award–winning creator Norm Konyu comes a graphic novel that dares to make the Master of the Macabre smile.

 

When theatrical producer Thomas Evans meets his old friend Edgar Allan Poe in a gloomy tavern, he has a mission: to pull Poe back from the abyss, if only for one evening. As skulls crowd the table and death-haunted ideas spill forth, Thomas counters Poe’s macabre obsessions with verse, wit, and impossible hope… urging him to imagine a life beyond despair.

 

This graphic novel delights with wondrous art, each sumptuous double-page spread reinterprets a classic Poe tale (The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Masque of the Red Death, and more), twisting familiar symbols into something both reverent and slyly subversive. The result is a work steeped in dread and humour, rich with atmosphere, shivers, and visual invention.

 

The book concludes with an insightful postscript in which Aurora-Award winner Norm Konyu unpacks each literary reference and reflects on Poe’s lasting influence on his own work and modern horror. Perfect for Halloween and beyond, Edgar Allan Poe is a love letter to the weird, the macabre, and the stories that refuse to let us go.

 

 

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Available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million, and Forbidden Planet for the UK & Europe.

 

 

Thanks to Titan Comics for sharing this preview with us. 

 

For more from Norm Konyu, see:

The Space Between the Trees HC Review and

Downlands HC Review. 

 

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 Review

 

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 Review

Writer, Artist & Cover Artist: Michael Walsh

Colorist: Toni-Marie Griffin

Letterer: Becca Carey

Variant Cover Artists: Brian Bolland & Julian Totino Tedesco

Next Level Variant Cover Artist: Hayden Sherman

1:25 Variant Cover Artist: Javier Rodriguez

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $3.99 US/Variant $4.99 US (Card Stock)

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

He has had many lives. The lives he has ended weigh on his soul. Yet no matter how determined he is to get through each day, Jonah's past threatens to drag him to the ground. Some memories refuse to fade. They plague his nights and haunt his days. And if Jonah can’t forget them, at least he can strive to live a better life.

 

What shadows darken Jonah Hex's life? And what helps him get through each day? Let's leap into Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 and see!

 

Story

Even if he returns from death, Jonah Hex remembers the fear and pain he experienced each time. And he knows that, while he returned to life, the people he killed did not. So, the former soldier gives up his life as a bounty hunter. He plunks his blood-stained savings into a one-room cabin. Yet, finding a new reason to live proves harder than he imagined.

 

In Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1, Jonah is not a farmer, a shop owner, or anyone's employee. After spending his career killing people, he prefers to keep his distance from them. Still, Jonah needs help dealing with the painful memories that ended his career. So, when his bottles run dry, he saddles his horse and rides to a nearby town for alcohol.

 

Michael Walsh begins his tale with an incident from Jonah’s past. Then, he introduces Jonah and the world he inhabits. The nearby town of Ashecott offers few comforts. Everyone reacts to Jonah differently. Yet like Jonah, most prefer to keep their distance. Still, the more imaginative souls value his experience and seek to learn more of his exploits. But to all of them, Jonah Hex has one message: “Let me be.”

 

In another life, Jonah excelled as a tracker. Yet, as his experience has taught him, a reputation can be the hardest posse to shake. But perhaps stories of his exploits aren’t the only thing Jonah can’t avoid. Perhaps the curse that made him deathless has sunk into the soil. Instead of avoiding his past, perhaps the man who hung up his revolvers should try harder to understand what happened to him in Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1.

 

Art

The past lives again as Michael Walsh opens his tale. Wobbly borders surround panels in this opening scene, while straight white frames separate scenes in Jonah’s redemption arc. Jonah’s shirt hangs on a wooden chair. Two bottles lay on the floor of his one-room cabin. As Jonah sits up on his bedroll on the wooden floor, scars adorn his gaunt features, while X-marks on his chest and arms echo his disfigured cheek. Haunted by his memories, Jonah seeks comfort by pressing his forehead against his horse's. Later, he rides past a carrion bird pecking at a carcass. A gravedigger works near a plot adorned with a cross to an Unknown corpse.

 

As the sun sinks toward the horizon, men gather in a patch of green. Yet when Brennan hesitates, indigo creeps onto him. As he whispers his desire to do no harm, it covers him entirely. When Jonah awakens in his cabin, orange and red surround him. He sits on the indigo floor, his gray skin suggesting his deathless nature. As they reach town, Toni-Marie Griffin colors Jonah and his horse Peanut indigo. Inset panels across a two-page spread highlight orange-colored aspects of town life. Yet in their inset, Jonah and Peanut have more natural coloring in Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1.

 

Becca Carey fills white dialogue balloons with a hand-printed-style uppercase font. Letters swell and enlarge for raised voices and shrink for lowered voices. The narrator's voice appears as lowercase black letters on scraps of beige paper. Sound effects amplify gunshots, horses' hooves, acts of brutality, drinking, a bell tolling, and creaking in the night. Yet the violet-red blood adorning Jonah's chest in his memory links with an image of death inside a similarly colored sound effect. So, Jonah wears a violet-red bandana to remember his vow. Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

Jonah has worked hard and fought the good fight. Yet all too often, he has done what's easy and called it Necessity. So, as a new era of his life dawns, he chooses a difficult path and calls it Hope in Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1.

 

Rating 9.6/10

 

To look inside see Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 Preview. 

The Adequates #4 Preview

 

The Elites challenge everyone to do their best. Anyone who fails them gets run up the flagpole. That's something Tweak can attest to. When the Elites sent the Jocks after him, the Goobers failed to protect him. His friends didn't even salute him as Tweak hung atop the flagpole outside Savannah High School. So when the Goobers return to Bonaventure Cemetery, Tweak waits for his chance. And when it arrives, he doesn't hesitate.

Will Tweak gain the abilities of the South's greatest superheroes? Or will the spirit of the monster that defeated Void, Bayou, and Moss possess his soul?

Here's all the info from Comixology:

 

The Adequates #4 Preview

Writers: Lee Loughridge & Marz Jr

Artist: Marz Jr

Publisher: Comixology

Kindle Price: $2.99 (free to read with a Prime membership)

Release Date: October 6, 2026

 

The Adequates have joined forces with the Goths! This unlikely pairing sets them on a quest to develop their powers while investigating a possible Demon possession!

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks to Comixology and Superfan Promotions for sharing this preview with us.

 

For how the Goobers received their superpowers, see The Adequates #3 Review.

For how the Goobers' superpowers manifested, see my review of The Adequates #2. 

For how the series started, see my preview of The Adequates #1. 

 

To read or purchase, see The Adequates #4 at Amazon. 

 

Conan & Dragonero #6 Cover Preview

 

Cover A: Mirko Kolac

Conan has tracked magical gems across two worlds. After teaming-up with Ian Aronill on Myrva's airship, the warriors from two worlds defeated the dragon that stole the gems. Yet before the heroes could pry the gems from its scales, a magic hurled them from Ian’s world of Erondàr to the Desert of Shem. Near the mountains where the gems were mined, the warriors find the dragon’s corpse surrounded by scavengers. Conan and Ian defeated the “pitiful” lizards. But someone had already taken the gems.

 

The magical jewels protect the Hyborian Age from the ravages of an ancient demon. Can Conan and Ian return the gems to the temple in Tarantia before the demon notices they are missing? And who cut the powerful gems out of the dragon’s corpse?  

Here's all the info from Titan Comics:

 

Conan & Dragonero #6 Cover Preview

Writers: Luca Enoch & Stefano Vietti

Artist & Colorist: Lorenzo Nuti

Letterers: Richard Starkings & Tyler Smith

Editor: Chris Butera

Cover Artist: Stevan Subic

Publisher: Titan Comics

Issue Description: 32 Pages, Full Color 

Price: $4.99/$14.99 Foil

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

Pulled to the mysterious land of Erondár by dark forces, Conan comes face to face with the famed dragon slayer, Dragonero, and the two warriors must set aside suspicion to stand back-to-back against a supernatural force poised to doom both their worlds.

 

Here are more covers to collect:

 

Cover B: Mirko Kolac Virgin Card Stock

 

 

Cover C: Mirko Kolac Foil

 

Available from local comic shops. For UK & Europe visit Forbidden Planet

 

For more details, visit Titan Comics.

 

 

Thanks to Titan Comics and Heroic Signatures for sharing this Cover Preview with us. 

 

For how this series began, see Conan & Dragonero #1 Review.

For Conan and Ian's return to a city the Cimmerian fears, see Conan & Dragonero #5 Review.  

 

Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy Review

 

Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy Review

Writer & Artist: Charles M. Schulz

Publisher: Titan Comics

Price: $7.99 US

Release Date: October 6, 2026

ISBN: 9781806182787

 

It's the first game of the season as Charlie Brown approaches the mound. Yet, when the game ends, he feels like he's dropped an ice cream cone. He fears a disastrous season. Can anyone rescue Charlie Brown from the doldrums? And will Snoopy be his team's MVP? Let’s don our uniforms, leap into Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy, and see!

 

Story

Baseball is one of the great joys of Charlie Brown’s life. Sadly, like everything else he tries, he struggles to master it. At home, everyone has a good time even when they don't win. But when Charlie Brown attends Summer Camp, others claim that he's not good enough to play “the greatest game.”

 

While Charlie Brown nonetheless strives to better his skills through regular practice, he also tries his hand at having a pen pal in Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy. Lucy wants to keep her brother and everyone else in line. So she operates a Psychiatry booth to help guide them through life. Then, she yells at them when they don’t achieve her standards. Yet while the Human characters struggle with life’s challenges, the spotlight keeps returning to a Beagle who sometimes views life as a World War I fighter pilot.

 

Woodstock bridges the gap between the Human characters and the casual canine in Charles Shultz's story. While Snoopy seems unbothered by the bird's concerns, Linus offers Woodstock sympathy instead of dismissing his distress. Yet Snoopy puts his foot down when Charlie Brown misbehaves. Charlie Brown may be his Human master. Still, Snoopy insists that when it comes to what matters, Charlie Brown's attitude should be (Peanuts:) Your Choice, Snoopy.

 

Art

When Charlie Brown's first loss of the season seems a harbinger, he takes out his frustrations on a nearby water hose. But kicking the neatly circled tubing only gets him tangled up in it. So, Charlie Brown slumps. He hangs his head and adopts a hopeful expression. When he speaks to Lucy, her reaction warms Charlie Brown's cheeks, and sweat leaps off his face.

 

Characters often raise their arms when expressing their anger in Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy. Yet Snoopy takes everything in stride. Lucy has found another way of dismissing irrelevant concerns: she shakes with bellowing laughter. Sadly, everyone else's concerns are irrelevant to Lucy.

 

While Charles Schulz's strips originally appeared in linear form, the newspaper panels zigzag, or take other detours as they descend the page. Characters' thoughts appear in clouds, while bold letters suggest intonation and enlarged letters accompany raised voices. Sound effects reveal the energy Woodstock puts into flying. Yet a large Z in a balloon emphasizes a relaxed approach to life. Thanks to Titan Comics for providing a review copy.

 

Final Thoughts

While some happily capitalize on others' efforts, Charlie Brown insists that success is about doing your best. His friends suggest a Biblical model to inspire him during tough times. Snoopy views life differently. The Beagle draws inspiration from an immortal fictional character to inspire his troubled Human and Avian friends in Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see Peanuts: Your Choice, Snoopy Preview. 

 

For more Peanuts books from Titan, see:

 

You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown Preview 

 

Peanuts: Snoopy and the Red Baron Review

 

Peanuts: Charlie Brown and Snoopy Preview     

Flux House Presents #1 Cover Preview

 

Cover by Emma Ríos

Life can be joyous. Every day is a new day, and every moment offers up new opportunities. As the sun glows overhead, a young girl dances through a field. Plant life glows around her, seemingly absorbing her happiness or enhancing it in a symbiotic relationship. Yet as she smiles and skips along, the girl remembers her mother’s warning. Why has her mother warned her to avoid the shadows? And what other bright souls will we meet in Matt Kindt’s new anthology? 

 

Here's all the info from Oni Press: 

 

 

Flux House Presents #1 Cover Preview

Writer: Matt Kindt

Artists: Matt Kindt with Ella Kindt, Brian Hurtt, David Lapham & More

Cover Artists: Sharlene Kindt & Emma Ríos

Publisher: Oni Press

Issue Description: 64 Pages, Full Color

Price: $9.99 US

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

 

New York Times bestselling writer and multiple Eisner Award nominee Matt Kindt (BRZRKR, Mind MGMT) takes the reins to present a tense and turbulent spectacle of mind-bending comics storytelling from the prehistoric age through many dimensions beyond our own in a truly one-of-a-kind, quarterly comics showcase!

 

Packed with first appearances, shocking self-contained introductions to major new Flux House releases, and awe-inspiring surprises, join one of the medium’s most widely acclaimed creative minds—alongside longtime collaborators Brian Hurtt (Fort Psycho), David Lapham (Stray Bullets), and more—for 64 pages of wildly unexpected and wholly unpredictable stories that will tattoo themselves onto your psyche in brilliant CMYK ink.

 

First: Enter the age of wonder and survival in the double-sized first chapter of a new two-part tale, “SPARK,” as a young woman and her hunter-gatherer community set out to withstand the change of seasons and, with it, harness newfound tools to stave death off for one more cycle of the stars.

 

Then, Kindt and Lapham present the key to “ROOM 101”—a seemingly derelict motel room that also possesses endless doorways to the crossroads of all time and space. And for the gargantuan finale: A brand-new tale of shrapnel and stamina, exploding out of the pages of FORT PSYCHO—Kindt and Hurtt’s mayhem-infused, super-spy epic.

 

 

Here is another cover to collect:

 

Cover by Sharlene Kindt

 

Thanks to Oni Press and Superfan Promotions for sharing this cover preview with us. 

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 Preview

 

He has had many lives. All those lives and deaths weigh him down. Yet no matter how determined he is to get through each day, Jonah's past threatens to drag him to the ground. Some memories refuse to fade. They plague his nights and haunt his days. And if Jonah can’t forget them, at least he can strive to live a better life.

 

What shadows darken Jonah Hex’s life? And what helps him get through each day?

 

Here's all the info from DC Connect: 

 

 

Jonah Hex and the Shadow of Death #1 Preview

Writer: Michael Walsh

Artist & Cover Artist: Michael Walsh

Variant Cover Artists: Brian Bolland & Julian Totino Tedesco

1:25 Variant Cover Artist: Javier Rodríguez

Next Level Variant Cover Artist: Hayden Sherman

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Brian Bolland

Also Available: Blank Sketch Cover

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 32 Pages

Series Length: 6 Issues

Price: $3.99 US | Variant $4.99 US (Card Stock)

Release Date: October 7, 2026 

 

 

Master Of Horror Michael Walsh

takes Jonah Hex to the Next Level!

 

 

Welcome to the end of the Wild West. Welcome to the quiet life of a broken-down bounty hunter whose own story, one of bloodshed, pain, & guilt, ended long ago—or so he thought.

 

In a small town called Ashecott, something evil has arrived. Something more dangerous than a gunslinger, more sinister than an outlaw, & older than the town it seeks to infect. Something from a world beyond the only one its victims have ever known. Something darker. Unfortunately for that evil, Jonah Hex has taken notice. Not just of the otherworldly entities surrounding his home or the child with mysterious abilities they seek to capture—but also of the chance to finally redeem himself. Join master of horror Michael Walsh (Exquisite Corpses) as he begins a terrifying new era of DC’s most infamous bounty hunter!

 

 

Now, let's take a look inside:

 

 

 

Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this preview with us.

Absolute Superman #24 Review

 

Absolute Superman #24 Review

Writer: Jason Aaron

Artist & Colorist: Juan Ferreyra

Letterer: Becca Carey

Cover Artist: Rafa Sandoval & Ulises Arreola

Variant Cover Artists: Mitch Gerads, Juan Ferreyra, & Carlo Pagulayan

Editors: Ash Padilla & Chris Conroy

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $4.99/$5.99 Card Stock

Release Date: October 7, 2026

 

Ra’s al Ghul is dead. His daughter, Talia, who supported him while pretending to lead the Omega Men resistance, is in prison. But the alien entity that enabled the family to kill and enslave people around the world remains at large. So as the Omega Men comb through Lazarus Corp’s files, Jimmy Olsen feeds Kal-El clues to Brainiac’s location. But while remaining one step ahead, Brainiac manipulates Kal’s emotions, making him angry and disgusted with the rich and powerful.

 

Can anyone help Kal-El outsmart the alien technical genius? Or will his anger at Earth's overlords overwhelm him as it did King Shazam? Let's leap into Absolute Superman #24, and see!

 

Story

John Henry Irons forged a hammer to kill Ra’s al Ghul. But when he discovered Superman fighting King Shazam, John Henry fought by the Kryptonian’s side. Lois Lane may have exposed the working conditions in John Henry's slaughterhouse. But with Lazarus Corp shuttered and Ra's al Ghul dead, John Henry is at a loose end. An invitation draws him to the Kent farm outside Smallville. There, he finds a man with divine powers tilling the fields. An alien parasite that once fed on Humans is his docile pet. And he asks John Henry to call him Clark.

 

In Absolute Superman #24, John Henry Irons is assessing his life. As a child, his mother encouraged his penchant for invention. At this turning point, he thinks of her. As if writing a letter, John Henry shares his thoughts, feelings, and reactions with her. But mostly, he shares his amazement at Superman's abilities and character. John Henry may be lost. Yet in Clark Kent, he has found a guiding star.

 

As John Henry intertwines his fate with Superman, Jason Aaron weaves John Henry's arrival at the Kent Farm with his later life by Clark Kent’s side. With Brainiac leading him on a Not-So-Merry Chase, Clark needs someone to help him search for the alien menace. Even if John Henry isn't sure about who he is, Clark believes in him. But while John Henry needs someone to help him discover who he can be, Clark needs a friend to remember who he wants to remain in Absolute Superman #24.

 

Art

As John Henry arrives at the Kent Farm, he carries the symbol of Ra's al Ghul's enslavement. Scenes of Clark showing John Henry around the farm recall Kal-El's youth on Krypton, while his mother worked the family farm. As the former slaughterhouse worker descends a staircase surrounded by sun crystals, he evokes Clark's father serving Krypton and fighting to protect his fellow miners.

 

As Juan Ferreyra adorns Absolute Superman #24 with a vibrant palette, he uses two-page layouts to introduce other people that Clark and John Henry meet. Like these two heroes, these people have suffered. Black borders frame heroes attempting to help characters driven to chaotic action. Green frames surround someone that others regard as a monster. As the red sun crystals form organic shapes and seem to welcome John Henry, the red dust that swirls around Clark when he flies resolves back into a cape when he returns to the ground. Later, a second splash page echoes John Henry's arrival. But instead of showing him from behind, this frontward view shows how John Henry's visit to the Kent Farm has transformed him.

 

As Becca Carey fills white dialogue balloons with black uppercase text, spiky transmission balloons feature italicized text. The letters shrink for lowered voices, grow bold for intonation, and enlarge to express pain. While white clouds capture John Henry’s thoughts about Clark and himself, black clouds reveal the thoughts we repress when suffering. Sound effects help us hear a storm of bullets and John Henry wielding his hammer. Thanks to DC Comics for sharing this story with us.

 

Final Thoughts

In his youth, John Henry Irons sought to understand how things worked. He didn't tinker with people. Instead, he took apart their creations and tried to create technology that would serve Humanity. As Clark Kent searches for Brainiac, John Henry seeks to help him. Yet as he watches Clark couple power with gentleness and temper anger with compassion, John Henry Irons strives to forge a new life for himself in Absolute Superman #24.

 

Rating 9.8/10

 

To look inside see Absolute Superman #24 Preview. 

 

For Kal-El's search for Toyman, see Absolute Superman #23 Preview. 

For Kal-El's reunion with a former Peacemaker, see Absolute Superman #22 Preview. 

For Kal-El's battle on the moon, see my review of Absolute Superman #21. 

For how Kal-El prevents King Shazam's attacks from destroying the Earth, see my preview of Absolute Superman #20. 

For what happened even more before that, see my review of Absolute Superman #19. 

For John Henry Irons' origins, see my review of Absolute Superman #19. 

For King Shazam's origins, see my preview of Absolute Superman #18.