Science Fiction Saturday: Void Rivals #1

Skybound Entertainment and Image Comics released Void Rivals #1 earlier this week. Here is the official summary:

"Robert Kirkman and Lorenzo De Felici launch an all-new shared universe! War rages around the Sacred Ring, where the last remnants of two worlds have collapsed around a black hole in a never-ending war. However, when pilot Darak and his rival Solila both crash on a desolate planet, these two enemies must find a way to escape together. But are they alone on this strange planet? And what dark forces await that threaten the entire universe?"

Cover of Void Rivals #1 from Skybound and Image Comics

Superhero Sunday: Space Ghost Annual #1

Dynamite released Space Ghost Annual #1 last week. Here is the official summary:

"An all-new SPACE GHOST ANNUAL is here! As Space Ghost and the Twins mourn their recent losses, they find themselves trying to stop a dangerous heist pulled by the master thief known as Magnus and his mysterious, reality-warping alien! Can they discover the deadly secret behind Magnus’s mind-bending crime spree before it’s too late, or will the enigmatic alien bring untold destruction to the galaxy? And can Space Ghost forgive himself before the next deadly menace arrives to threaten the galaxy?"

Cover of Space Ghost Annual #1 from Dynamite Comics

Science Fiction Saturday: Star Trek: Celebrations 2026

IDW Publishing released Star Trek: Celebrations 2026 earlier this week. The following six stories are included in this issue: "Girlfriends," "Mx. T'Lir's Night Out," "Worst-Case Scenario Protocol," "Klingons Don't Flirt," "Love's First Bloom" and "Lovesick." Here is the official summary:

"You are cordially invited to the party that is this year’s Star Trek: Celebrations anthology! This one-shot features the universe’s queer characters in tales of love and triumph, exemplifying Gene Roddenberry’s mission for us all to one day celebrate infinite diversity in infinite combinations."

Cover of Star Trek: Celebrations 2026 from IDW Publishing

Science Fiction Saturday: Green Lantern Corps #16

DC Comics released Green Lantern Corps #16 earlier this week. I love the little figures of Green Lanterns Jessica Cruz and John Stewart in the upper left-hand corner. Here is the official summary:

"RAGE CONSUMES! As John Stewart recovers, Katma Tui and Soranik Natu survey the Korugar that’s survived a fractured spectrum and the rebirth of Parallax. Jessica Cruz tries to decide how to intervene in a conflict between two members of the former United Planets, a conflict Guy Gardner and his team were using to conceal their search for Butcher — the emotional entity of rage."

Cover of Green Lantern Corps #16 from DC Comics

Bonus: This issue features a three page preview of Absolute Green Arrow #1 coming in May 2026.

Monster Monday: Megaghost Volume 2 #2

Dark Horse Comics and Albatross Funnybooks released Megaghost volume 2 #2 last week. Here is the official summary:

"A perfect sunny afternoon turns into a nightmare of endless night when the sinister supervillain ultraghoul invites some special guests to visit the haunted hamlet of Dunwich Heights: nosferatons, space vampires from the Dark Side of the Moon! These sci-fi fiends are out to conquer the world, and only junior occultist martin magus and the supernatural giant robot megaghost can stop them… if the intergalactic vampire bat kaiju Drakulaar doesn’t suck them dry first! And how are teen occult detective Joanna Dee and the nefarious nethergods connected to all of this?"

Cover of Megaghost Volume 2 #2 from Dark Horse Comics and Albatross Funnybooks

Science Fiction Saturday: Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1

DC Comics released Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 last week. Here is the official summary:

"In this corner, we have intergalactic heavyweight Guy Gardner fighting in the @%$$@ division, and his challengers are… Manhunter androids, space apes, the Guardians, and fellow Lantern John Stewart?! The Deadpool team of Matteo Lolli and Gerry Duggan presents Light Club: a tale of the best and worst Lantern in the corps."

Cover of Tales of the Green Lantern Corps: Guy Gardner #1 from DC Comics

Bonus: This issue includes a three-page preview of Barbara Gordon: Breakout #1 coming this month. Here is the ad found in this issue:

Ad for Barbara Gordon: Breakout #1 from DC Comics

Science Fiction Saturday: The New Space Age #5

Mad Cave Studios released The New Space Age earlier this week. This issue also includes a four page preview of Planet Atmos: Exordium Here is the official summary:

"The science and magic that Mark, Stacey, and Bobby harnessed have been weaponized. Untold destruction and death are going to rain down on San Francisco, and the military’s weapons can’t stop the killing machine they’ve unleashed. Mark and the Stargazer are the only things standing in the killer drone’s path. Can Mark stop the machine and save the city? Or will his only chance to see Joey again be destroyed in front of his eyes?"

Front Cover of The New Space Age #5 from Mad Cave Studios

Back Cover of The New Space Age #5 from Mad Cave Studios

Science Fiction Saturday: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy -- Lost Contact #1

IDW Publishing released Star Trek: Starfleet Academy -- Lost Contact #1 earlier this week. This mini-series is based on the Paramount+ original tv series. Here is the official summary:

"Caleb, Genesis, Jay-Den, Kyle, and Tarima are all students of Starfleet Academy, the illustrious school responsible for the Federation’s best. One day, they dream to serve as great leaders on board ships of their own, to study the cultural intricacies of sentient life amongst the Galaxy, or to go where no person has explored before. But today, their mission is simply to execute a survey simulation on a lifeless, low-oxygen planet. Or at least, it seems simple… until a huge storm cuts off their contact with their teachers aboard the Athena… and something impossible appears: an alien. Now, they’ll have to work together and use everything they’ve learned in class about first contact to make it off the planet alive!"

Cover of Star Trek: Starfleet Academy -- Lost Contact #1 from IDW Publishing

Science Fiction Saturday: Flash Gordon #0

Mad Cave Studios released Flash Gordon #0 this week. The cover features Flash and Dale Arden waving (I'm not crazy about the cover art but the interior art is better). This issue is a prologue and features and continues in Flash Gordon #16, which begins a new adventure with the new creative team that started here. Here is the official summary:

"Flash Gordon has always been a maverick, on the football field and in the stars. But when he’s offered a job training the next generation of explorers, he’ll end up fighting for top gun! A “quick trip” around Neptune’s moons with Flash’s cadets turns into a deadly alien hunt – and one of the new recruits thinks they can save the day without the dusty instructor."

Cover of Flash Gordon #0 from Mad Cave Studios

Science Fiction Saturday: The Eternals 50th Anniversary Special

Marvel released The Eternals 50th Anniversary Special earlier this week. Ikaris and Captain America are featured in the first story titled "Back from the Edge" with an appearance by the Howling Commandos. Thena and Ransak the Reject is featured in the second story titled "Of Masks and Monsters." Ikaris appears again in the final story titled "The Lost Eternal", which introduces Telegon. Here is the official summary:

"CELEBRATE FIFTY YEARS OF JACK KIRBY’S COSMIC VISION! THE ETERNALS return in an oversized anniversary special honoring the legendary creations of the King of Comics. Discover untold stories of Earth’s immortal protectors, explore their hidden history and witness the debut of a BRAND-NEW ETERNAL — one whose secrets could shake the foundations of the MARVEL UNIVERSE! Featuring CAPTAIN AMERICA, IKARIS, THE REJECT and introducing THE LOST ETERNAL! This milestone issue is a must-have for Kirby fans and Marvel collectors alike!"

Cover of The Eternals 50th Anniversary Special from Marvel

Monster Monday: MegaGhost Volume 2 #1

Dark Horse Comics and Albatross Funnybooks released MegaGhost volume 2 #1 last week. This is the first issue in a four-part mini-series. Here is the official summary:

"Young scholar of the strange Martin Magus and the supernatural giant robot MegaGhost defend the city of Dunwich Heights against the threat of the Occult Kaiju. But a new menace looms, for the sinister necromancer known as Ultraghoul has made a deal with the Nethergods, dark powers from another dimension, to give him the power to defeat his arcane archenemy for once and for all!"

Cover of MegaGhost Volume 2 #1 from Dark Horse Comics and Albatross Funnybooks

Science Fiction Saturday: Lobo #1

DC Comics released Lobo #1 earlier this week as part of their Next Level event. Here is the official summary:

"VRRRRROOOOOOMMMMMMMM! The Main Man’s back, baby! And his ride is a motorcycle that moves at the speed of sound, but only if that sound is a rippin’ guitar solo, and you better hop on before he leaves you in the dust with all the bastiches he’s fragged for money or convenience! The Eisner-nominated creative team that brought you a fantastic parable of adolescence in the Midwest, the story of an artist who embraces darkness a little too closely, and the tale of a gunslinger with too much grit to stay buried brings you a classic yarn spun in the star-kissed threads of the cosmic DC Universe."

Cover of Lobo #1 from DC Comics

Science Fiction Saturday: Imperial Guardians #1

Marvel released Imperial Guardians #1 earlier this week. Here is the official summary:

"Gamora, Captain Marvel, Amadeus Cho (Brawn aka Hulkbuster), Darkhawk, Cosmic Ghost Rider! Five unlikely operatives recruited by Maximus of the Inhumans. Their mission? Protect the delicate balance of new Galactic Union by ANY means necessary… and failure is NOT an option. Expendable, deniable and disavowed, they are the Imperial Guardians. But can they do Maximus’ dirty work and keep their consciences clean? Why has a Kree Grand Admiral gone rogue and attacked Hala? What’s going on with Darkhawk’s mind? What deluded fool thought COSMIC GHOST RIDER was a team player? And, most importantly… what kind of game is Maximus REALLY playing?"

Cover of Imperial Guardians #1 from Marvel

Women Wednesday: Harley Quinn x Elvira #5

DC Comics and Dynamite Entertainment releases Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 today. Here is the official summary:

"FROM CLASSIC CASTLES TO COSMIC CHAOS! After making a daring escape from their would-be captors in Transylvania, Elvira and Harley Quinn find themselves rocketing through space with the ever-dashing Vartox. Their destination? A jaw-dropping interspecies wedding in a galaxy far, far away. But when the ceremony spirals into madness and Elvira is abducted by a fanatical alien cult that worships her with drooling devotion… well, that’s when things start to get weird!"

Cover A of Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 by Amanda Conner

Cover B of Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 by Chad Hardin

Cover C of Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 by Joseph Michael Linsner

Cover D of Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 by Ben Caldwell

Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 Cover Gallery Page 1

Harley Quinn X Elvira #5 Cover Gallery Page 2

Science Fiction Saturday: Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein at Amazon is one of my favorite science fiction novels. Here is the summary:

"Robert Heinlein's Hugo Award-winning all-time masterpiece, the brilliant novel that grew from a cult favorite to a bestseller to a science fiction classic."

"Raised by Martians on Mars, Valentine Michael Smith is a human who has never seen another member of his species. Sent to Earth, he is a stranger who must learn what it is to be a man. But his own beliefs and his powers far exceed the limits of humankind, and as he teaches them about grokking and water-sharing, he also inspires a transformation that will alter Earth’s inhabitants forever."

Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein at Amazon

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Science Fiction Saturday: Archie and Friends: Space Adventures #1

Archie Comics released Archie and Friends: Space Adventures #1 earlier this week. The cover features Archie, Veronica, Betty and Jughead on another planet. This one-shot issue features a brand-new story featuring the return of Cosmo the Merry Martian (I wish he was on the cover). Here is the official summary:

"Archie and his friends go INTERGALACTIC in this BRAND-NEW Space-Age story! When Archie and the gang gets ready to head into space on a rocket Dilton built, everything goes smoothly, until the spacecraft enters a realm where it becomes lost. With the teens LOST IN SPACE, it’s going to take someone out of this world to save them — someone like COSMO THE MIGHTY MARTIAN! All that plus over 30 pages of intergalactic adventures!"

Cover of Archie and Friends: Space Adventures #1 from Archie Comics

Women Wednesday: Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny #1

IDW Publishing released Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny #1 today. The cover features Uhura as played by Nichelle Nicols on the original tv series. The story is a great read for Black History Month and this week's Women Wednesday. There is a very special guest star that appears in the story too. Here is the official summary:

"This special one-shot features Lieutenant Nyota Uhura. In the 23rd century, she explores far-flung star systems with her crew on the Enterprise as part of her mission to communicate and build bridges with life found across the Galaxy. But in the 20th century, humankind was working to build understanding among themselves, with African Americans on Earth championing the Civil Rights Movement and using their voices and acts of protest to end racial segregation and discrimination. Now, by way of the Guardian of Forever, Uhura is yanked back through time to 1963. There, she’ll join all those fighting for equality and justice and reconnect to why her work as a communications officer is perhaps the most important work of all."

Cover of Star Trek Deviations: Threads of Destiny #1 from IDW Publishing

Science Fiction Saturday: Absolute Martian Manhunter #2-8

Catching up on Absolute Martian Manhunter today since DC Comics released #8 earlier this week. It's still a trippy and weird science fiction title.

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #2 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #3 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #4 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #6 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #7 from DC Comics

Cover of Absolute Martian Manhunter #8 from DC Comics

Science Fiction Saturday: DC K.O.: Green Lantern: Galactic Slam #1

DC Comics released DC K.O.: Green Lantern: Galactic Slam #1 last week. It features the origins of Omega-Bam-Man, intergalactic wrestler. Yes, that's Darkseid, Blackfire and Knockout on the cover along with Omega-Bam-Man and Kyle Rayner aka Green Lantern. Here is the official summary:

"KYLE RAYNER BRINGS THE COSMIC REINFORCEMENTS! As the K.O. tournament rages on Earth, the cosmos holds its collective breath as the heroes of our planet fight for the survival of the very universe. But the cavalry is on the horizon! Kyle Rayner, in a bid to provide cover for his fellow Green Lanterns, has found himself pummeled across the galaxy and into the ring of… a wrestling federation?! Oh no… oh dear heavens no… is Omega-Bam-Man about to enter the DC K.O. fray?! Oh mah gawd! An entire cavalcade of brawlers is right behind him! Are there tables? Somebody get the tables!"

Cover of DC K.O.: Green Lantern: Galactic Slam #1 from DC Comics

Science Fiction Saturday: Star Trek: Lower Decks #15

IDW Publishing released Star Trek: Lower Decks #15 earlier this week. Brad Boimler is on the cover along with "Star Trek 60". I will admit that this is the first issue of this series that I have read but I greatly enjoyed the humor. I also have to admit that I have yet to watch the animated tv series on Paramount+. Here's the official summary:

"When Commander Jack Ransom promised Boimler command of the away team on Laapoonia in the event that both he and Sun-Sanchez — his Number One — were taken out of commission, he didn’t think it’d, like, actually happen. But now, Boimler is in charge, and things have gone full-blown Crisis Royale: A planet’s missing population, a big-ass alien warship, and a team at each other’s throats threaten to explosively end the Cerritos’ second-contact mission with Laapeeria. The name’s Boimler. Brad Boimler. And he’s got a license to… mildly delegate while panicking under pressure."

Cover of Star Trek: Lower Decks #15 from IDW Publishing