September is one of those months where the lineup barely makes sense on paper and we love it for that. Xenomorphs going up against mutants, Archie somehow sharing a list with cult horror and teen superheroes, and a handful of new horror books we’ve been keeping an eye on all in the same batch. It’s a weird mix, but that’s exactly why we’re excited.
As always, this isn’t every comic coming out in September 2026, just the twelve new series, first issues, and limited series that caught our attention the most.
Alien vs. X-Men, Marvel Comics
Creative team: Kieron Gillen, Chris Claremont, Geraldo Borges, David Messina
The story: A mission to track down a Phoenix egg goes sideways when the X-Men bring something far more dangerous back to Earth. What follows is an all-out war between mutants and Xenomorphs, with an unlikely ally possibly tipping the scales. It’s a crossover decades in the making, and it doubles as a jumping-on point for the next era of Marvel’s mutants, assuming anyone survives.
Why we’re intrigued: We’re deep in our Alien era. We rewatched the whole franchise last Halloween, and Alien: Earth reignited that love this year, easily some of the best TV we’ve watched in a while. So when Marvel and 20th Century Studios announced this four-issue crossover, following up on Alien vs. Avengers, we were sold before we even checked who was writing it. Then we saw the creative team, and that sealed it. Read more about it here!
Archie, Oni Press
Creative team: Ben H. Winters, Fábio Moon, Jason Wordie
The story: Archie Andrews has always had it all: loyal friends, football glory, and effortless charm. Now, through his eyes, we get a tour of Riverdale’s past, present, and future, starting with a local film festival that throws everything into chaos. At the center of it all sits a mystery only Jughead can untangle.
Why we’re intrigued: Archie relaunches always catch our attention, and this one comes with real pedigree behind it: Ben H. Winters writing and Fábio Moon on art is a genuinely exciting pairing for a character who’s been around since 1941. Oni Press picking up Archie Comics’ flagship title feels like a real swing at reintroducing him for people who haven’t picked up an Archie book in years, and that kind of fresh-start energy is exactly what gets us curious.
Crowbound, Image Comics
Creative team: Jeff Lemire, Dustin Nguyen, Steve Wands
The story: Rose lives an unremarkable life working the Factory, a massive structure running along the coast that divides the world in two, leaving everyone else to scrape by in the flooded villages and swamps in its shadow. When her daughter Ava is violently taken a year before she’s due to join the workforce, Rose is forced outside the walls and comes face to face with the Scarecrow Queen, an ancient, violent figure who offers her one shot at saving Ava, in exchange for her soul.
Why we’re intrigued: This one sounds bleak and intense in the best way, dystopia, folk horror, and a mother willing to make a devil’s bargain. But honestly, the real sell for us is Jeff Lemire’s name attached. We read pretty much everything he writes without even needing to know what it’s about.
DNX, Marvel Comics
Creative team: Jed MacKay, Federico Vicentini
The story: The X-Men and 3K, two factions each led by an heir of Xavier, are on a collision course. Cyclops and the Chairman both got a glimpse of the Age of Revelation’s future, and came back with opposite missions: the X-Men want to stop it, 3K wants to bring it about. While the X-Men turn to the Fantastic Four for help saving one of their own, the White Beast sets his plan in motion to unleash the X-Virus on a major population center.
Why we’re intrigued: We’ve been loving the current X-Men run, so an event growing out of it was already going to grab us. Add in two factions built around opposing visions for mutant evolution, and there’s a good ideological clash baked into the premise itself. Jed MacKay writing it is also making us feel very excited about it.
Exquisite Corpses: Fox Mask Killer, Image Comics
Creative team: Che Grayson, Adam Gorham, Jordie Bellaire, Becca Carey
The story: The Fox Mask Killer is a legend even among assassins, feared by the people who make a living being feared. But now she wants the one thing that’s never been an option for her: out. And the only one who might actually be able to offer her a way clear of that life could be the devil herself. This one digs into the tragic backstory of Exquisite Corpses’ most iconic killer, the character who’s been the face of the franchise since it started.
Why we’re intrigued: We loved Exquisite Corpses from the jump, and Fox Mask Killer was the character who really put the series on the map, so getting her origin feels like a big deal. We already got a taste of how good these spinoffs can be with the Rascal Randy miniseries, and if this one hits that same mark, we’re in for a treat.
The Folk of Dooney Hollow, Ignition Press
Creative team: Jeremy Haun, Alex Lins, Trish Mulvihill
The story: Kerri, a grad student researching local folklore, heads into the Ozarks looking to soak up the land and the legends attached to it. She has no idea how literal those legends are about to get. A chance run-in during a hike in the woods leads her straight to a set of ceremonial grounds, and to the thing the town has been quietly living in fear of for generations. The village she’s stumbled into, Dooney Hollow, has stayed hidden from the outside world for over a hundred years, and the people who wander in usually don’t make it back out to tell anyone it’s real.
Why we’re intrigued: This has all the makings of a solid folk horror read, and Jeremy Haun’s name on it goes a long way with us. His work on Murder Podcast has been genuinely great, so we trust him to handle something this atmospheric well.
It Demands Sacrifice, Bad Idea Comics
Creative Team: Philip Gelatt, David Yarovesky, Adam Pollina, Dean White
The story: Bronson is the runt of a close-knit goat family, spending his days trying to prove to his older siblings and intimidating father that he’s more than the smallest one in the herd. That ordinary life ends in one night when a satanic cult tears through the farm, kills the humans who raised the goats, and hauls Bronson’s family off into the wilderness to be sacrificed under a blood-red moon. Saving them now falls to the herd member least equipped for it: a small, terrified, undeniably adorable goat.
Why we’re intrigued: The goat’s-eye-view angle is such a specific, weird choice for horror, and we’re always drawn to stories that filter something violent and terrifying through a narrator who has no business being caught up in it. Animal-POV horror is a small subgenre, but it lands when done right, and this premise sounds strange enough to pull it off. Read more about it here!
No Gods, No Masters, BOOM! Studios
Creative team: Julio Anta, Jacoby Salcedo, Francesco Segala
The story: An afternoon detention gets violently interrupted when a kaiju tears into the city, and three New York teenagers with nothing in common are suddenly forced to team up just to survive. Felipe, still adjusting to life in a new city, has to rely on two classmates he barely knows to rescue his mom from a collapsed subway station as Manhattan gets torn apart around them.
Why we’re intrigued: Kaiju stories are having a real moment right now, and what stands out about this one is where it chooses to point the camera. Instead of leaning into pure spectacle, it seems focused on the people and communities actually living through the destruction, which feels like a genuinely different angle for the genre. Read more about it here!
Six of Us, Dark Horse Comics
Creative team: Tom King, Gabriel Hernández Walta, Jordie Bellaire, Clayton Cowles
The story: Six actors built one of America’s favorite sitcoms. Millions watched, the show was everywhere, and then one of them died under circumstances nobody can quite explain. As the surviving cast tries to process the loss, old rivalries and buried secrets start surfacing, and the line between the performances they gave on camera and the ones they’ve been giving each other off camera starts to blur.
Why we’re intrigued: Tom King is a writer whose announcements we circle no matter the premise, he’s built a career on stories that dig into grief and ambition with real precision, and this Hollywood noir angle sounds like exactly the kind of material he thrives on. Read more about it here!
Smile: Any Given Smile, IDW Publishing (IDW Dark)
Creative team: Stephanie Williams, Pablo M. Collar, TrÃona Farrell, Ariana Maher
The story: It’s 1995, and a whole community has its eyes locked on a major championship game. Maximillian Dupree, an unexpected star at backup quarterback, is cracking under the weight of expectations from his team, his fans, and debts owed to the local gambling underworld. Then a string of suicides rattles the town, pulling a journalist into an investigation that ties the deaths to the upcoming game, and to a warped, reality-bending presence coming for everyone’s minds before kickoff.
Why we’re intrigued: We had a great time with the previous Smile comic, and this franchise has been doing a genuinely good job translating that unsettling, contagious dread from the films onto the page. A championship game setting gives this entry its own identity instead of just repeating what we’ve already seen, and we’re curious how they build tension around something this public and high-stakes.
Tales of Wonder, Image Comics
Creative Team: Steve Skroce, Ian Herring, Pat Brosseau
The story: Stu and Jake’s friendship goes back to WWII, but it couldn’t survive the comic book industry. Their Wonder Comics creations grew into a massive global franchise, and that success drove a wedge between them. Decades later, the two reunite to launch a cinematic universe built around their old characters, only to discover the superheroes and monsters they made up are suddenly real. Saving the world means getting past years of resentment and stolen credit first.
Why we’re intrigued: We’re always drawn to the “fictional heroes come to life” premise, it tends to open up a lot of fun, unpredictable directions. Add in the decades-long friendship-turned-rivalry at the center of it, and this feels like it has both the spectacle and the character drama to back it up.
Teen Titans, DC Comics
Creative team: Kyle Higgins, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Marcelo Costa, Becca Carey
The story: When one of their own goes missing after attending a rally for Ascend, a fast-growing youth movement training kids to survive a world shaped by superhuman conflict, Fairplay, Cheshire Cat, Proxy, and Wildcard team up with Red Hood to track them down. Jason thinks the group is too soft and reckless, they can’t accept that he’s still willing to kill. Now they’re stuck working together whether they like it or not.
Why we’re intrigued: Kyle Higgins writing Teen Titans is an easy yes for us on its own, and the setup, mixing a missing-persons hunt with Red Hood’s much darker methods clashing against the team’s, sounds like a fun source of tension to build a book around.
Final Thoughts on September 2026 Comics
September’s lineup goes out swinging with a kaiju rampage seen from street level, mutants finally getting their long-awaited crack at Xenomorphs, and a horror comic told entirely through a goat’s eyes, so yeah, this was a fun one to put together.
Our picks for the ones we’re most excited to actually crack open: It Demands Sacrifice, because animal-POV horror is such a specific swing and this premise sounds unhinged enough to pull it off, No Gods, No Masters, for choosing to focus on the people caught underneath a kaiju rampage instead of just the spectacle, Exquisite Corpses: Fox Mask Killer, since finally getting the franchise’s most iconic killer’s origin feels like a long time coming, and Alien vs. X-Men, because we’ve been fully back in our Alien era all year and this crossover is basically built for us. September’s got a lot going for it either way.
