The 2025 version of San Diego Comedian-Con was comparatively muted: Marvel skipped Corridor H in favor of releasing The Implausible 4: First Steps in all its standalone-thrills-but-pivotal-end-credits-scene glory whereas James Gunn solely popped by to advertise Peacemaker season 2, however nothing extra from his bigger Warner Bros./DCU initiative. However the absence of two main gamers in the superhero tentpole house meant there was extra room than ever for the littler guys (relative) to squeeze by way of.
Listed here are a few of the highlights from out of this weekend’s fan mecca. However first, that DC TV present that did present as much as SDCC…
Peacemaker season 2 propels a dope into the multiverse
Since day 1 of taking up DC Studios, James Gunn has fielded questions on how the Snyderverse-adjacent Peacemaker connects to his DC universe reboot and the new Superman movie. This trailer seems like a direct response to the mess enterprise has wrought.
Absolute Surprise Lady received greatest new sequence of the yr at the Eisner Awards
One in every of our favorites of the yr picked up prime honors at SDCC’s annual awards present. Head to ComicsBeat.com — which picked up the 2025 award for Finest Comics-Associated Periodical! — to read the full list of winners.
The Final Airbender spinoff Avatar: Seven Havens unveiled in new artwork
We’re getting a model new Avatar sequence! Set after Korra! And the world has gone to shit! Seven Havens sounds — and now seems — rad as heck.
Gundam Wing obtained a sick new celebratory brief
Bandai swooped into SDCC for the thirtieth anniversary of Cell Go well with Gundam Wing with manga plans, the announcement of a theatrical re-release for Endless Waltz, and merch out the wazoo. However this slick video produced by Frieren: Past Journey’s Finish motion director Toru Iwasawa is the great things.
Aztec Batman: Conflict of Empires casts Horacio García Rojas as a Mesoamerican kicking the asses of a conquistador Two-Face, amongst many different time-period-appropriate rogue’s gallery variants. To be trustworthy, I’m too nostalgic for the Outdated DC Animation Type to completely embrace the hard-lined illustrations of Conflict of Empires, however man, numerous potential right here.
Marvel pronounces Final Endgame
“Endgame” has juice in the Marvel universe, so Marvel Comics correct is taking benefit. Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Final editor Wil Moss took to SDCC to declare the ultimate stage for the Final universe, and this five-issue Endgame sequence from Deniz camp and Jonas Scharf. The mini marks the return of The Maker, who is able to mess with the Marvel heroes after two years of imprisonment.
“That is the craziest and most impactful crossover [I’ve worked on],” Camp stated in a news launch. “I’m actually enthusiastic about it. It’s all the characters: everybody coming collectively in this large approach, arising in opposition to one another in an enormous approach, and the decision of some lengthy plot threads we’ve all been seeing. It’s very large, very dramatic, and with the Final Universe, we will change the world. We are able to really do it as creators as a result of we’ve this unbelievable playground that Marvel has not simply allowed, however inspired us, to make use of. It’s such an honor to do one thing like this. It’s been wonderful, and that is the fruits of lots of what we’ve been doing collectively.”
In the meantime, Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto might be wrapping up Final Spider-Man with #24 this December. “This was every little thing that I pitched,” Hickman promised.
The second Essential Function present, The Mighty Nein, is upon is
Picture: Prime Video
Listed here are the particulars on how the of us at Essential Function will tighten their grip on D&D tradition with the subsequent Prime Video animated sequence.
Predator: Killer of Killers will get a model new ending that includes Arnold Schwarzenegger
Picture: Hulu
This summer time’s animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers discovered a simple solution to tee up a return — cartoon or not — for Schwarzenegger’s Dutch from the authentic Predator movie. Effectively, now twentieth Century Studios and director Dan Trachtenberg have gone the further mile, principally patching in a brand new ending to the film that makes the hints a bit extra overt. It’s on Hulu now!
A lil’ style of Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord and Ahsoka season 2
In case you thought Star Wars TV died with The Acolyte, good news: not fully true. Whereas Lucasfilm seems to be pivoting exhausting again to theatrical with The Mandalorian and Grogu and Ryan Gosling’s Starfighter, there are just a few small-scren productions nonetheless in the works. Listed here are two! The animated Darth Maul ought to tickle longtime Clone Wars followers who perceive this character won’t ever, ever die.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone took to Comedian-Con to mouth off after their incendiary South Park premiere
Fortunately, Comedy Central put the entire panel on-line so that you can watch as a substitute of being mortified of what President Donald Trump would possibly assume. Mike Decide and Andy Samberg have been there too!
A Gen V season 2 trailer promised The Boys crossovers, Homelander’s America
Prime Video teased the precise fifth and ultimate season at Corridor H, however for now, our solely style of its sadistic supes universe is for the upcoming season 2, which is able to attempt to deftly inform its personal coming-of-age story as the strain of connectivity looms.
The Henson Firm made a Star Trek
The sweeping first trailer for Star Trek: Starfleet Academy was the keystone reveal of the Trek franchise’s hour-and-a-half-long SDCC panel, however I’m not positive any news may have topped “Henson Firm turns the Unusual New Worlds forged into Muppets this season.”
The Dragon Prince creators unveiled plans for a Kickstarter to fund an adult-aimed sequel sequence The Dragon King
The Dragon Prince is over at Netflix, however the group at Wonderstorm nonetheless hopes to carve out extra of its fire-breathing fantasy saga. Right here’s how they describe the subsequent chapter, which it says is each standalone sufficient for newcomers to get on board but in addition “Act 3” in the ongoing story.
On the cusp of vanishing into legend, the final of the Archdragons— the younger Dragon King, Zym—wields his nice energy to forge a fragile peace in Xadia. However when a forsaken and forgotten Dragon Prince returns from the shadows of exile, Zym uncovers a fact lengthy buried: the throne he inherited could not have been his to say. And the true inheritor has come to take it again.
Wonderstorm will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding effort to independently produce the present in the coming days.
The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s The Lengthy Stroll obtained a brand new trailer
Mark Hamill seems to be having a blast in the hell that’s The Lengthy Stroll’s cardio-friendly dystopia. Director Francis Lawrence, coming off a number of Starvation Video games films, is behind the digicam on this one and preserving it no-frills. Lionsgate additionally revealed that The Lengthy Stroll screenwriter JT Mollner (who directed the indie thriller hit Unusual Darling final yr) will step as much as develop a movie primarily based on King’s The Lady Who Liked Tom Gordon.
We’re getting a Rick and Morty spinoff
Picture: Grownup Swim
Keith David, who guidelines, will lead President Curtis, co-created by Rick and Morty government producers Dan Harmon and James Siciliano. Per our breaking-news report, “Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn 9-9) and Jim Rash (Neighborhood) will play members of the president’s eccentric employees tasked with dealing with interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal investigations, and coping with unexplained phenomena.”
That Daryl Strolling Lifeless present continues to be on and season 3 seems like a Western
Hmm, may The Strolling Lifeless however make it Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado get me again into this franchise?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will battle Godzilla
Comedian books! Written by Tim Seeley with artwork by Fero Pe, the story imagines a world in which Shredder actually borks his evil plan and the TMNT clear up his kaiju-sized mess. Arriving in November.
5 Evening at Freddy’s 2 will attempt to be higher than 5 Evening at Freddy’s 1
AMC unveils Talamasca: The Secret Order, a 3rd Anne Rice Vampire-adjacent sequence
This seems like Buffy however with the steaminess of Interview with a Vampire. Good.
Captain America will battle the Xenomorph from Alien
Baron Strucker, on task from Purple Cranium in the warmth of WWII, by chance unleashes a xenomorph from Attilan. Cap and the Howling Commandos must cease it. Frank Tieri writing, Stefano Raffaele on pencils. Comedian books!
