The 2025 edition of San Diego Comic-Con was relatively muted: Marvel skipped Hall H in favor of releasing The Fantastic Four: First Steps in all its standalone-thrills-but-pivotal-end-credits-scene glory while James Gunn only popped by to promote Peacemaker season 2, but nothing more from his larger Warner Bros./DCU initiative. But the absence of two major players in the superhero tentpole space meant there was more room than ever for the littler guys (relative) to squeeze through.
Here are some of the highlights from out of this weekend’s fan mecca. But first, that DC TV show that did show up to SDCC…
Peacemaker season 2 propels a dope into the multiverse
Since day 1 of taking over DC Studios, James Gunn has fielded questions about how the Snyderverse-adjacent Peacemaker connects to his DC universe reboot and the new Superman film. This trailer looks like a direct reaction to the mess business has wrought.
Absolute Wonder Woman won best new series of the year at the Eisner Awards
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One of our favorites of the year picked up top honors at SDCC’s annual awards show. Head to ComicsBeat.com — which picked up the 2025 award for Best Comics-Related Periodical! — to read the full list of winners.
The Last Airbender spinoff Avatar: Seven Havens unveiled in new art
We’re getting a brand new Avatar series! Set after Korra! And the world has gone to shit! Seven Havens sounds — and now looks — rad as heck.
Gundam Wing got a sick new celebratory short
Bandai swooped into SDCC for the 30th anniversary of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing with manga plans, the announcement of a theatrical re-release for Endless Waltz, and merch out the wazoo. But this slick video produced by Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End action director Toru Iwasawa is the good stuff.
Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires casts Horacio García Rojas as a Mesoamerican kicking the asses of a conquistador Two-Face, among many other time-period-appropriate rogue’s gallery variants. To be honest, I am too nostalgic for the Old DC Animation Style to fully embrace the hard-lined illustrations of Clash of Empires, but man, lots of potential here.
Marvel announces Ultimate Endgame
“Endgame” has juice in the Marvel universe, so Marvel Comics proper is taking advantage. Marvel Comics editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski and Ultimate editor Wil Moss took to SDCC to declare the final stage for the Ultimate universe, and this five-issue Endgame series from Deniz camp and Jonas Scharf. The mini marks the return of The Maker, who is ready to mess with the Marvel heroes after two years of imprisonment.
“This is the craziest and most impactful crossover [I’ve worked on],” Camp said in a news release. “I’m really excited about it. It’s all the characters: everyone coming together in this big way, coming up against each other in a big way, and the resolution of some long plot threads we’ve all been seeing. It’s very big, very dramatic, and with the Ultimate Universe, we can change the world. We can actually do it as creators because we have this incredible playground that Marvel has not just allowed, but encouraged us, to use. It’s such an honor to do something like this. It’s been amazing, and this is the culmination of a lot of what we’ve been doing together.”
Meanwhile, Jonathan Hickman and Marco Checchetto will be wrapping up Ultimate Spider-Man with #24 this December. “This was everything that I pitched,” Hickman promised.
The second Critical Role show, The Mighty Nein, is upon is
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Here are the details on how the folks at Critical Role will tighten their grip on D&D culture with the next Prime Video animated series.
Predator: Killer of Killers gets a brand new ending featuring Arnold Schwarzenegger
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This summer’s animated anthology Predator: Killer of Killers found an easy way to tee up a return — cartoon or not — for Schwarzenegger’s Dutch from the original Predator film. Well, now 20th Century Studios and director Dan Trachtenberg have gone the extra mile, basically patching in a new ending to the movie that makes the hints a bit more overt. It’s on Hulu now!
A lil’ taste of Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord and Ahsoka season 2
If you thought Star Wars TV died with The Acolyte, good news: not entirely true. While Lucasfilm appears to be pivoting hard back to theatrical with The Mandalorian and Grogu and Ryan Gosling’s Starfighter, there are a few small-scren productions still in the works. Here are two! The animated Darth Maul should tickle longtime Clone Wars fans who understand this character will never, ever die.
Trey Parker and Matt Stone took to Comic-Con to mouth off after their incendiary South Park premiere
Thankfully, Comedy Central put the whole panel online for you to watch instead of being mortified of what President Donald Trump might think. Mike Judge and Andy Samberg were there too!
A Gen V season 2 trailer promised The Boys crossovers, Homelander’s America
Prime Video teased the actual fifth and final season at Hall H, but for now, our only taste of its sadistic supes universe is for the upcoming season 2, which will try to deftly tell its own coming-of-age tale as the pressure of connectivity looms.
The Henson Company 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, but I am not sure any news could have topped “Henson Company turns the Strange New Worlds cast into Muppets this season.”
The Dragon Prince creators unveiled plans for a Kickstarter to fund an adult-aimed sequel series The Dragon King
The Dragon Prince is over at Netflix, but the team at Wonderstorm still hopes to carve out more of its fire-breathing fantasy saga. Here’s how they describe the next chapter, which it says is both standalone enough for newcomers to get on board but also “Act 3” in the ongoing story.
On the cusp of vanishing into legend, the last of the Archdragons— the young Dragon King, Zym—wields his great power to forge a fragile peace in Xadia. But when a forsaken and forgotten Dragon Prince returns from the shadows of exile, Zym uncovers a truth long buried: the throne he inherited may not have been his to claim. And the true heir has come to take it back.
Wonderstorm will launch a Kickstarter crowdfunding effort to independently produce the show in the coming days.
The long-awaited adaptation of Stephen King’s The Long Walk got a new trailer
Mark Hamill appears to be having a blast in the hell that is The Long Walk’s cardio-friendly dystopia. Director Francis Lawrence, coming off multiple Hunger Games movies, is behind the camera on this one and keeping it no-frills. Lionsgate also revealed that The Long Walk screenwriter JT Mollner (who directed the indie thriller hit Strange Darling last year) will step up to develop a film based on King’s The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon.
We’re getting a Rick and Morty spinoff
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Keith David, who rules, will lead President Curtis, co-created by Rick and Morty executive producers Dan Harmon and James Siciliano. Per our breaking-news report, “Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) and Jim Rash (Community) will play members of the president’s eccentric staff tasked with handling interdimensional diplomacy, paranormal investigations, and dealing with unexplained phenomena.”
That Daryl Walking Dead show is still on and season 3 looks like a Western
Hmm, could The Walking Dead but make it Robert Rodriguez’s Desperado get me back into this franchise?
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will fight Godzilla
Comic books! Written by Tim Seeley with art by Fero Pe, the story imagines a world in which Shredder really borks his evil plan and the TMNT clean up his kaiju-sized mess. Arriving in November.
Five Night at Freddy’s 2 will try to be better than Five Night at Freddy’s 1
AMC unveils Talamasca: The Secret Order, a third Anne Rice Vampire-adjacent series
This looks like Buffy but with the steaminess of Interview with a Vampire. Good.
Captain America will fight the Xenomorph from Alien
Baron Strucker, on assignment from Red Skull in the heat of WWII, accidentally unleashes a xenomorph from Attilan. Cap and the Howling Commandos have to stop it. Frank Tieri writing, Stefano Raffaele on pencils. Comic books!