This Week in Comics, February 25, 2026

Feb 27, 2026

We’re on the road on a bit of a family related Whimventure, but I decided with some of the comics I picked up this week I’d take them along. Last week’s comics were good, but I’ll skip them due to lack of time. I was being lazy and watching the Olympics, along with volunteering at the curling club so while I had time to read them, I didn’t face time to write anything up.

Oh, and while we may be away, don’t worry about the boys- they are being well cared for and I received a message that one (probably Bailey) had a late night assault on the wet food which we thought was safe on the counter.

The biggest news this week happened on Tuesday with MINIUSA announcing their plans for this year’s MINI Takes The States. We went through all the stages of grief and had a lot of time on the road to think and talk about options. MINIUSA has decided instead of an epic life changing summer roadtrip to end all road trips, they will instead do three weekend drives one in Northern California, one in New York, and one in Southern Florida. 🙄 first response was “WTF?!?” This shifted to “Could we do all of them and if so how?” Now we’re to which one would be easiest and could be coupled with a nice simple Fall Whimventure. Yes, they moved it to October and November🙄. Having done MTTS in 2008- ugh. It has been amusing watching the reaction with folks from the targeted states overjoyed and pretty much everyone else in the other 47 state going “huh?” The only thing we know is that we “have to” keep our streak alive and at least attend part of one. I’ve snoozed most of the FB groups for 30 days so I don’t have to listen to the whining, the folks trying to justify this and those celebrating and convincing themselves how wonderful it’s going to be 🙄 MINI Takes The States is about the people I’m just hoping that the event won’t be just standing around a parking lot.

“Hey, I tell you what is. Big city, hmm? Live, work, huh? But not city only. Only peoples. Peoples is peoples. No is buildings. Is tomatoes, huh? Is peoples, is dancing, is music, is potatoes. So, peoples is peoples. Okay?”
-Pete, The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)

Being on the road I’m not going to cover every comic. This doesn’t mean that it wasn’t good. It just means that for some of these excellent titles there’s nothing new or different going on. The absolute titles are still amazing story telling. The DC K.O. Titles are wrapping up. Skinbreaker, And the Ignition Press titles are moving their stories along at a good pace, but if you aren’t reading them- you probably should consider it.

Phantom of the Opera #1 Image Comics W: Boss A: Simmonds The artwork is amazing in this telling of The Phantom of the Opera, then again to do love Simmonds art.
The Peril of the Brutal Dark #1 Vertigo W: Condon A: Phillips With the relaunch of Vertigo I picked a few titles to dive into this new incarnation of the imprint. This one is right up my alley. 1940’s crime noir with an Indiana Jones kind of twist. I’m glad I picked it up and look forward to flowing Ezra Cain’s adventures for as long as they last.
Murder Podcast #5 Ignition Press W: Haun A: Tisserand
Star Trek Deviations - Threads of Destiny One Shot IDW Comics W: Williams A: Maldonado
Superman #35 DC Comics w: Williamson A: Barrows, E. Ferreira, & J. Ferreira DC K.O. Tie-In
Flash #30 DC Comics W: Waid A: Cantwell DC K.O. Tie-In
Absolute Martian Manhunter #9 DC Comics W: Camp A: Rodríguez
Absolute Wonder Woman #17 DC Comics W: Thompson A: Sherman
Skinbreaker #6 Image Comics W: Kirkman A: Finch
Voyeur #4 Ignition Press W: Williams A: Baldeón
The Rocketeer The Island #1 W: Layman A: Edgar This is actually a story concept from Dave Stevens do all those people who complained about it… find something else to complain about. Cliff is on a search for Amelia Earhart and after some issues either the boat and storms… well let’s say he hadn’t found Amelia or a giant monkey… yet. It’s a fun story and a good mix of characters and situations. The art is not in the style of Dave Stevens, but for me that’s OK. It helps us step back and enjoy the story instead of nitpicking over how it just isn’t Dave’s art. Then again I love what Dan Schkade has been doing with Flash Gordon.
Save Now #3 Bad Idea W: Kindt A: Giorello With this being the penultimate issue in this series I’ve been put into a world where the main character can travel back in time and try again until he gets it right. The end of the world causes some issues and having come to grips with it he just wants to keep his family safe and live out b what time he has left… fantastic concept for a hero and story.
New History of the DC Universe The Dakota Incident DC Comics - I just feel bad that I didn’t follow Milestone Comics initially, so I’m still working on figuring things out. More research to see what has changed with this updated history and how it fits into DC continuity.

The Batman Second Knight #3 W: Jurgens A: Perkins While I hope there will be more adventures of the Golden Age Batman I’m happy to see this come to a satisfying conclusion. Maybe in this telling Bruce Wayne finds some peace. The artwork is beautiful making this First and Second Knights stories masterpieces and wonderful retellings of the Batman’s beginning.