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SDCC recap & comic comebacks!

Episode Summary

San Diego Comic-Con 2025 may be wrapping up today, but the reveals, surprises, and sneak peeks are still echoing across the multiverse, and we’re breaking it all down! This week on the AIPT Comics Podcast, we’re recapping the biggest moments from SDCC: from jaw-dropping trailers and panel reveals to surprise creator announcements and massive crossover teases. But that’s not all, 2025 is shaping up to be the year of the comeback. We’re diving into the return of beloved properties like Buffy, Angel, Swat Kats, and Supernatural, as well as a bold new era of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams II. Plus: Vault’s surprise retailer giveaway, Barbaric's brutal one-shot, a terrifying new tech-horror anthology from Mad Cave, and Rob Liefeld’s Youngblood flexing its way back into the spotlight.

Episode Notes

NEWS

  1. SDCC biggest reveals:
    1. Marvel reveals
  2. 'Buffy' and 'Angel' make comic comeback with Kelly Thompson at the helm
  3. Dean and Sam hit the road again in new 'Supernatural' comic launching October 2025
  4. Swat Kats returns with first-ever comic series, launching on Kickstarter this fall
  5. New era of TMNT launches December 2025 with Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams II
  6. Rob Liefeld's 'Youngblood' #1 flexes with star-studded variant covers
  7. Vault Comics surprises retailers with free bonus boxes for 'Big Rig' #1
  8. Barbaric returns this October with brutal new one-shot ‘The Black Knight’
  9. Mad Cave Studios launching tech-horror anthology 'Terrorbytes' for fall 2025
  10. Tyler Kirkham launches high-octane action series ‘Final Boss’ out November 2025
  11. 'GTA' and 'Red Dead' writer Dan Houser launches new crime comic 'American Caper' for November 2025
  12. October Marvel Comics solicitations!
    1. Amazing Spider-Man swings into cosmic chaos and Goblin danger in new look at ASM #13 & #14
    2. Marvel celebrates Latin Heritage Month with 'White Tiger Reborn' one-shot Spotlighting Hector and Ava Ayala
    3. Marvel and DC’s forgotten hero returns: 'Spider-Boy' #1 reprinted after nearly 30 years
    4. Marvel brings magic and mayhem in October 2025 in 'Strange Tales'
    5. Marvel celebrates 70 Years of 'The Muppets' with new variant covers in October
    6. Marvel Knights expands with brutal new Punisher series starting October 2025

Our Top Books of the Week

Dave:

  1. Exquisite Corpses (2025) #3 (Pornsak Pichetshote, James Tynion IV, Valentine De Landro, Michael Walsh)
  2. The Seasons (2024) #6 (Rick Remender, Paul Azaceta)

Chris:​​

  1. The Voice Said Kill #1 (Si Spurrier, Vanesa R. Del Rey)
  2. Dark Honor #3 (Brian DeCubellis,  K.S. Bruce, Ethan Sacks, David Messina) 

Standout KAPOW moment of the week:

Chris: Godzila #1 (Tim Seeley, Nikola Čižmešija)

Dave: Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 (Deniz Camp, Javier Rodriguez)

TOP BOOKS FOR NEXT WEEK

  1. Chris: News from the Fallout #2 (Chris Condon, Jeffrey Alan Love) | DC's Kal-El-Fornia #1 (Various)
  2. Dave: Godzilla vs. America: Boston (various) and Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #8 (Becky Cloonan, Jeph Loeb)

JUDGING BY THE COVER JR.

  1. Dave: Assorted Crisis Events #5 (1:25 Alvaro Martinez Bueno Cover)
  2. Chris: The Savage Wolverine #1 (Tom Parkinson-Morgan Cover)