August is a big one for us this year (and it’s my birthday month), so we’re going into this list with a little extra excitement. Good thing the lineup delivers: a Marvel actress writing her first comic, Tommy Oliver coming back to the mantle, an AI murder mystery, hench-people turning on their monster bosses, and a body horror thriller set during the French Revolution.
As usual, this isn’t every comic hitting shelves in August 2026, just the twelve new series, first issues, and limited series that caught our eye the most this time around.
The Accessories, Panick Entertainment
Creative team: David Dastmalchian, Leah Kilpatrick, Patrick Piazzalunga, Marco Brakko
The story: Igor, Renfield, and Mrs. Hyde built their whole existence around serving monstrous masters, hauling bodies, keeping secrets, and cleaning up after every diabolical scheme. But the loyalty finally runs out, and the three of them walk away from the villains they used to answer to. The problem is that freedom doesn’t come with a plan. Now they’re stuck figuring out how to survive as outcasts, caught between furious former employers, torch-wielding villagers, and monster hunters who don’t much care that they’ve switched sides.
Why we’re intrigued: We love the idea of flipping the script on the “hench,” the background players who normally just exist to serve someone else’s story finally get to be the leads of their own. Panick Entertainment has a good track record with this kind of darkly funny premise, so we’re expecting a story that’s as much about identity and reinvention as it is about running from angry mobs.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dynamite
Creative team: Kelly Thompson, Stephen Byrne, Lee Loughridge, Jeff Eckleberry
The story: This new series picks up in the wake of Buffy’s ultimate sacrifice, focusing less on the slaying itself and more on what she left behind. The people who loved her never really got to process losing her, and this book is built around that grief and devotion rather than another monster-of-the-week arc. It also marks the first comic appearance of a character fans have been waiting to see make the jump from screen to page.
Why we’re intrigued: We’re 90s kids, so Buffy has always had a soft spot with us, but what really sells this one is Kelly Thompson attached to write it. She’s shown time and again that she can dig into the emotional weight of a character without losing what made people fall in love with them in the first place, and grief plus a beloved character’s comic debut sounds like a strong combination.
Chachu, Image Comics
Creative team: Iman Vellani, Marianna Ignazzi, Jordie Bellaire
The story: It’s 1979, and Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian girl full of Hollywood dreams and pulp novel fantasies, heads to California hoping to reconnect with her estranged uncle. He’s a semi-retired private eye who had his own brush with fame after marrying the starlet he’d originally been hired to track down. When his wife vanishes again, uncle and niece end up thrown together on an impromptu road trip, one trying to figure out who she wants to be, the other quietly wrestling with the mistakes of his past.
Why we’re intrigued: Iman Vellani stepping behind the page for her solo writing debut is already a big draw for us, especially since it’s inspired by her own experiences coming up in entertainment. But beyond that, a neo-noir road trip built around family, regret, and reinvention sounds like a much more grounded, character-driven read than most of what usually lands in this genre.
Cult-de-Sac, Ignition Press
Creative team: Cullen Bunn, Fico Ossio, Ulises Arreola, AndWorld Design
The story: The Hanson family just settled into their dream home, ready to make it theirs, until they learn the hard way that this particular neighborhood has rules you really don’t want to break. The local HOA isn’t just strict, it’s something closer to a cult, and anyone who steps out of line gets a firsthand look at exactly how far that power extends. Evil, in this case, is a lot closer to home than the Hansons ever expected.
Why we’re intrigued: Cullen Bunn turning the mundane horror of an overbearing HOA into full-blown supernatural terror is such a clever premise, it takes something painfully relatable and twists it into a nightmare. Ignition Press keeps putting out books with this kind of sharp, unsettling hook, and this one feels right in their wheelhouse.
Gastronomique, BOOM! Studios
Creative team: Marguerite Bennett, Helena Masellis, Nisha Singh, Jodie Troutman
The story: Set during the French Revolution, this one follows Lady Charlotte, codename The Python, a spy assigned to hunt down Tarrare, a man compelled by an insatiable hunger to eat anyone unlucky enough to cross his path. Their cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of Paris gets even messier once Charlotte’s former lover Zélie gets pulled into the hunt, tangling revenge, desire, and violence together into one fever dream of a story.
Why we’re intrigued: Erotic body horror set during an actual historical revolution isn’t a combination we run into often, and Marguerite Bennett has built a reputation for writing exactly this kind of bold, unapologetic genre mashup. Between the setting, the premise, and the creative team behind it, this feels like it could be one of the more distinctive books of the month.
Lazarus Order, Mad Cave Studios
Creative team: Sloane M. Siegel, Juan Doe, D.C. Hopkins
The story: In a medieval world where sickness can transform people into monsters, plague doctors have taken an oath to protect humanity, trading their freedom for supernatural abilities that come at a steep cost, the more they use their powers, the closer they get to being consumed entirely. Doctor Damien, a rule-following newcomer, is paired with Edward Talis, a charming and opportunistic veteran, and what should be a routine call to handle an infected patient turns into the first sign that “The First Sickness” is moving to wipe out the Order for good.
Why we’re intrigued: The idea of doctors literally burning themselves out to fight vampires, werewolves, and plague-born monsters gives this a built-in sense of tragedy that we don’t see a lot in medieval horror. Add in a mismatched partnership between a stickler and a veteran with his own agenda, and this sounds like it has both atmosphere and character conflict going for it.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man, Marvel Comics
Creative Team: Bryan Hill, Valentine De Landro, Nico Leon
The story: Miles is back in the red and black, juggling homework, a new crush, and the day-to-day job of looking out for Brooklyn. But things get complicated fast when a vengeful figure from his father Jeff’s old S.H.I.E.L.D. days resurfaces, and this time the threat isn’t just aimed at Spider-Man, it’s aimed at the entire Morales family.
Why we’re intrigued: We’re always happy to see Miles get a fresh run, and pulling a threat from Jeff’s past into the mix gives this one more personal stakes than a typical villain-of-the-month story. It sounds like a good balance of the lighter, friendly-neighborhood tone Miles does so well with a family drama underneath it.
The Omega Book, Mad Cave Studios
Creative team: James Patrick, Pauli Junquera, Pat Brosseau
The story: Priest Brady Parsons inherits a handful of pages from the Omega Book, a text rumored to contain every secret of the universe, left behind by the father he’s resented for as long as he can remember. Almost immediately, it becomes clear that everyone wants those pages, and that the wrong hands getting hold of them could unravel far more than just Brady’s world. To stop that from happening, he’s dragged into a world of science and mystery way beyond anything he was prepared for, all while slowly uncovering the truth about the book and about the father he never really understood.
Why we’re intrigued: A cosmic sci-fi mystery is one thing, but tying it directly to an unresolved father-son relationship gives this a more personal hook than the premise alone would suggest. We’re curious to see how much of this ends up being about the Omega Book itself versus Brady finally reckoning with who his father actually was.
Power Rangers: Green, BOOM! Studios
Creative team: Paul Allor, Gustaffo Vargas, Ed Dukeshire
The story: The world as we know it is gone, and Tommy Oliver has long since put away his morpher to build a quiet life with his own strange little family. That peace doesn’t last, though, once an unexpected visitor from his past shows up and dares him to take up the mantle of hero again, forcing Tommy to decide whether the Green Ranger still has a place in a world that looks nothing like the one he remembers.
Why we’re intrigued: A story built specifically around Tommy is something we’ve wanted for a long time, and setting it in a changed, unfamiliar future instead of just retreading his glory days gives the writers a lot more room to explore who he’s become since. It sounds like less of a nostalgia victory lap and more of an actual reckoning with the character.
Regicide, Image Comics
Creative team: Patrick Kindlon, Ludovic Lalliat
The story: A simple farmhand’s life gets upended when village elders order him to set out for the capital with a dangerous stranger at his side. Their assignment: kill the murderous viceroy ruling over Transylvania. Along the way, betrayal and temptation seem to be waiting around every corner of this dark, doomed march.
Why we’re intrigued: We don’t get nearly enough proper dark fantasy on shelves these days, and a Transylvania-set journey mixing Dracula-flavored horror with betrayal and violence sounds like exactly the kind of genre mashup we’re always hoping more books would attempt.
The Smart Division, Dark Horse Comics
Creative Team: Zack Kaplan, John Pearson, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou
The story: Set just five minutes into the future, a predictive AI program is discovered to have played a role in helping someone commit the perfect murder. To track the killer down, an unlikely pair, a chaotic Gen-Z savant and a seasoned FBI agent, end up launching the Bureau’s very first division dedicated entirely to AI-related crime.
Why we’re intrigued: Zack Kaplan has a real track record of high-concept sci-fi that actually delivers on its premise instead of just coasting on the hook, so this is close to an automatic buy for us. An AI murder mystery paired with a mismatched investigator duo sounds like it’ll be just as much about the partnership as it is about the case itself.
Yumi: 00EX, Image Comics
Creative team: Doug Wagner, Hoyt Silva, Kevin Lennertz, Frank Cvetkovic
The story: Yumi is in love, and also extremely lethal. When her MI6 boyfriend disappears without a trace, she doesn’t wait around, she storms the agency herself, hacking their network and taking down operatives one by one. Along the way she picks up an unlikely ally: an AI-driven Lamborghini that’s built less like a car and more like a weapon of mass destruction.
Why we’re intrigued: Doug Wagner’s books tend to run on this kind of unhinged, high-energy premise, and pairing a spy thriller with a genuinely lethal AI supercar feels like exactly the kind of over-the-top fun we come back to his work for.
Final Thoughts on AUGUST 2026 Comics
That’s our twelve for August 2026. Between Tommy Oliver’s return, an actress-turned-comic-writer, and a cannibal hunt through revolutionary Paris, it’s shaping up to be a pretty wild month for us.
If we had to narrow it down, our most-curious picks right now are probably Miles Morales: Spider-Man, for the more personal family stakes, Yumi: 00EX, because a lethal AI Lamborghini is just too fun a hook to pass up, Cult-de-Sac, for Cullen Bunn going after HOAs specifically, Gastronomique, for that erotic body horror premise set during the French Revolution, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, mostly because we grew up in the 90s and trust Kelly Thompson to do her justice. But they all sound so good…
