Superman 2026 Annual: Year One Thousand #1 Preview

 

Superman's friends miss him. His Justice League teammates search the timestream for him. Yet no one misses Clark Kent as much as Lois Lane. She misses her husband, co-worker, and confidant. 

As the threats to Earth multiply, so do the threats to her family. Lois Lane is a hardworking reporter, and oversees a global news outlet. But how does Clark Kent's absence affect his wife? And when Clark returns, how will his brief moment of godhood, and his travels through time, have altered him in Lois' eyes?

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Superman 2026 Annual: Year One Thousand #1 Preview

Writer: Joshua Williamson

Artists: Eddy Barrows & Yasmine Putri

Cover Artist: Eddy Barrows

Variant Covers Artists: Mark Spears, Ariel Olivetti, Mario Foccillo & Alex Eckman-Lawn

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 48 Pages

Price: $5.99 US/Variant $6.99 US (Card Stock)

Release Date: July 29, 2026

 

 

Superman at the 

End Of Time!

 

 

At the end of DC K.O., Superman became King Omega with the powers of a god. But after pushing Darkseid back to the Absolute World, Superman rejected the Heart of Apokolips…and went missing.

 

Now the story of where he went can be told! The future was infected by Darkseid and his Legion—leaving a trail of death and disaster in their wake—including the Legion of Super-Heroes.

 

Now Superman is using Time Trapper’s powers to heal the future and correct the damage that has been done. But Superman’s godlike powers are fading fast, and he may become lost at the end of time!

 

 

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For more on Lois Lane, Superman, and their family see:

My review of Superman Unlimited #15.

My preview of Superman #40. 

My review of Action Comics #1100: Superman Meets Superboy. 

Dark Knights Of Steel II #1 Preview

 

A child receives visions from the past and present. The child glimpses momentous events half a world away. And in a world where illegitimate Prince Bruce Wayne once hunted anyone with magical abilities, this "gift" seems more like a curse. 

While the unwanted visions continue, perhaps the child witnesses a boy's difficult childhood. Ten years ago, Victor Falcone yearned to see the Blüdhaven Isles reclaim their former greatness. He believed his father should take what he needed to rule his kingdom effectively, and incite fear to gain respect. Would Victor Falcone adopt his gentler approach to international relations? And how will these two children shape their world?

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Dark Knights Of Steel II #1 Preview

Writer: Tom Taylor

Artist: Otto Schmidt

Cover Artist: Yasmine Putri

Variant Cover Artists: Travis Moore, Davide Paratore & Josh Middleton

Foil Variant Cover Artist: Josh Middleton

Publisher: DC Comics

Issue Length: 40 Pages

Series Length: 12 Issues

Price: $4.99 US/Variant $5.99 US (card stock)

Release Date: July 15, 2026

 

 

The Fan-Favorite Elseworlds Epic Continues!

 

 

An entire medieval world was forever changed when a spaceship crashlanded from a doomed planet. Monarchs died, kingdoms rose, long-buried treachery came to light…and a League was born.

 

Now an ancient, violent war brews beneath the waves, one that promises untold destruction should it break the surface. If the League hopes to weather it and protect the lands of its realms and beyond, it must first root out the treasonous agents hiding in plain sight amidst its own ranks!

 

Worldwide bestselling writer Tom Taylor (Detective Comics, Nightwing) and acclaimed artist Otto Schmidt (DC vs. Vampires, Green Arrow) welcome you back to the epic high-fantasy world of Dark Knights of Steel, where the darkest days yet still lie ahead!

 

 

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For another fantasy story from Tom Taylor, see my review of C.O.R.T.: Children of the Round Table #1. 

For the beginning of Tom Taylor's story about a little-known superhero, see my review of Detective Comics #1108. 

Superman: Chains of Love Special #1 Preview

 

Jack Ryder has his hands full hosting his show "No Laughing Matter." When he's not exposing Superman's weaknesses to the world, his alter ego, the Creeper, also has a show. But when a new girl hits Metropolis, the Creeper busy schedule goes out the window. How will Livewire change his life? And can he help her forge a future that doesn't involve a return to the Stryker's Island Penitentiary?

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Superman: Chains of Love Special #1 Review

Writers: Leah Williams & Dan Slott

Artists: Ig Guara & Rosi Kampe

Cover Artists: Yasmine Putri, Juan Ferreyra, Ig Guara & Mirka Andolfo

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $5.99/$6.99 Card Stock

Issue Length: 48 Pages

Release Date: February 4, 2026

 

Livewire and the Creeper forge a deadly new villainous alliance! And they make out! Gross!

 

Love is in the air—also death—in Superman: Chains of Love Special! Step aside Daily Planet—a new news force is taking the city of Metropolis by storm! When the former felon Livewire is released from prison, an unholy alliance and (frankly, wholesome) romance with the Creeper is forged in the fires of a super-villain battle! But with two of Metropolis’s most notorious shock-jock media personalities getting together comes the debut of a new outlet to rival even that of the Daily Planet. Witness the rise of the Wiretap and some shocking surprises in the Superman: Chains of Love Special!

 

 

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Justice League: The Omega Act #1 Preview

 

 

"Priority Omega Alert! Threat level is off the charts!" 

The Justice League Tower may have survived a brutal attack, but Steel and Metamorpho are in a bad way. All available heroes are racing to join the fight. But with Mr Terrific sounding "uncomfortably ominous," is all hope lost?

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Justice League: The Omega Act #1

Writer: Joshua Williamson

Artist: Yasmine Putri

Cover Artists: Jorge Fornés, Kyuyong Eom, Fernando Blanco, Salvador Larroca & Don Aguillo

Publisher: DC Comics

Price: $5.99/$5.99 Card Stock

Issue Length: 48 Pages

Release Date: October 1, 2025

 

It’s all been leading to this! A special oversize prologue to DC’s biggest event of the year. Everything since DC All In Special has been building to this moment!

 

Time Trapper is on the run from Darkseid’s Legion. Racing through time to learn how to stop Darkseid’s conquest, he witnesses how the future is already lost and the only hope for survival lies with the Justice League!

 

The Time Trapper has a plan to save the DCU, but it means making an impossible offer to the League…

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