New Comics for Wednesday, February 18, 2026
/## NEW COMICS ARRIVE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2026
Brainiacs, the air’s starting to shift.
The kind of weekend where you grab a coat out of habit, then realize halfway down the block you didn’t need it. The kind of light that makes downtown feel like it’s stretching its legs again.
Here’s a suggestion: make a loop of it.
Stop by one of our many excellent local coffee shops. Get something hot, or iced if you’re feeling bold. Walk it over to Green Brain. Pick up something new. Then take your stack somewhere with sunlight — a bench, a table, your own front steps — and disappear into 22 pages of something that isn’t your inbox.
Limited-time sunshine. Ongoing series.
And while you’re out building a better afternoon…
TRUE ROMANCE at The Senate Theater
Saturday, February 14 8:00 PM
The Senate Theater is screening *True Romance (1993) – Unrated Director’s Cut* — which, as many of you know, holds a very particular place in our nerd-hearts.
If you’ve never seen it on the big screen, fix that. If you have? You already know why this is worth leaving the house for.
Support an incredible historic theater. Watch something loud, romantic, violent, and weirdly tender. Fall in love with movies again.
Details here: SENATETHEATER.COM
--- Drink & Draw – Friday, Feb 13
We are only days away from the next **East Dearborn Drink & Draw at Downey Brewing Company**.
Co-sponsored by Blick Art Materials – Dearborn, Green Brain Comics, and Downey Brewing Company. All skill levels welcome. Work in your sketchbook. Start something new. Use our prompts. Borrow materials. Meet fellow creatives. No pressure. No judges. Just paper, pencils, and community.
Brain Candy #75 – Monday, Feb 16 7PM
Brain Candy returns for its Diamond Anniversary event, and the lineup of creatives is stacked.
Seventy-five installments in and we’re still celebrating the people who make the things we love. That’s not an accident. That’s intention.
Come hang with us. Meet the makers. Be part of something ongoing.
On YouTube: Last Call & BrainScan
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Now…
Let’s talk about what’s landing next week and why you might want to be first through the door.
## END OF LIFE #1
Kyle Starks. Steve Pugh. Hitman problems. Midwestern reckoning.
A professional assassin hiding out in his dying father’s hometown while an international cabal wants his head? That’s already strong. Add a cancelled comic-strip artist turned crime lord and unresolved first love into the mix and you’ve got something messy in the best way.
Starks excels at balancing absurdity with genuine heart. Pugh brings the grit. This feels like crime fiction with a cracked grin and a bruised soul.
If you like your violence with personality and your comedy with consequences — this is your book.
## DEATH FIGHT FOREVER #1 (of 5)
Andrew MacLean + Alexis Ziritt = pure chaos energy.
Bruiser brothers. Inter-dimensional crime lords. Gang warfare. Gonzo art. Action-comedy dialed past responsible settings.
If HEAD LOPPER and SPACE RIDERS are any indication, this is going to punch first and laugh while doing it.
Big, loud, kinetic indie energy. Don’t sleep.
## SMILE: FOR THE CAMERA #1
Fashion Month 2005. Five models. Pressure cooker industry. And something watching from behind the lens.
Based on the *Smile* franchise, but digging deeper into paranoia, ambition, and the cost of always being “on.” Glamour sliding into horror is a potent cocktail.
If you like your horror stylish, psychological, and just a little too close to reality — this one might grin back at you.
## ABSOLUTE BATMAN #17
Poison Ivy unleashed from Ark-M.
Scott Snyder continues to reshape Gotham with scale and spectacle, and this time it’s botanical vengeance turned nightmare maze. If you’ve been following ABSOLUTE, you already know this line does not do small stakes.
Ivy versus Batman inside a city that helped create her? That’s mythic, ugly, and compelling.
## DEADLY HANDS OF K’UN-LUN #1
The Seven Heavenly Cities are falling.
Iron Fist at the center. Demonic forces rising. Elektra. White Tiger. White Fox. Pei. Big martial-arts mythos energy colliding with Marvel-scale stakes.
If you’ve missed high-concept martial arts epics in your superhero diet, this is stepping up to the mat.
The days are stretching. The calendar’s full. The coffee’s hot. The racks are loaded.
Whether you’re planning your loop around downtown, locking in your pull list, or just curious what kind of trouble is landing this week… we’ve got you covered.
Below is the full New Comics List for Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
FANTASY / ADVENTURE
ADVENTURE TIME (2025) #10 $4.99
SAVAGE SWORD OF CONAN REFORGED #3 $9.99
GHOST PEPPER #8 $3.99
I HATE FAIRYLAND #48 $3.99
MAGIC: THE GATHERING: UNTOLD STORIES--ELSPETH #3 $4.99
MINOR ARCANA #14 $4.99
SKULLKICKERS TP VOL 01 COMPACT ATTACK EDITION $17.99
SCI-FI / ADVENTURE
ARCADIA #3 $4.99
STAR TREK: THE LAST STARSHIP #5 $4.99
STAR WARS #10 $3.99
STARSHIP GODZILLA [KAI-SEI ERA] #5 $4.99
TERMINATOR METAL #5 $4.99
CRIME / ESPIONAGE
AMERICAN CAPER #4 $4.99
END OF LIFE #1 $3.99
FLORIDA HIPPOPOTAMUS COCAINE MASSACRE #1 (OF 4) $4.99
GOOD AS DEAD #6 (OF 6) (MR) $7.99
INDIE SUPER / ACTION
DARKNESS (2025) #3 $3.99
DEATH FIGHT FOREVER #1 (OF 5) $3.99
THE DISAVOWED #4 (OF 5) $5.00
EXQUISITE CORPSES #10 $4.99
GI JOE #19 $3.99
MEGA MAN X #1 (OF 5) $4.99
POWERS 25 #6 $4.99
SPAWN RAT CITY #22 $3.99
STREET SHARKS #5 $4.99
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: BATTLE NEXUS #5 $4.99
TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: SHREDDER #5 $4.99
THUNDERCATS #24 $4.99
TOXIC CRUSADERS #4 (OF 5) (MR) $4.99
VALIANT BEYOND: THE X-O MANOWAR #6--THE GOD HUNT #2 $4.99
HORROR / SUSPENSE
DELUGE #4 $4.99
EC CATACOMB OF TORMENT #8 $4.99
ELVIRA IN MONSTERLAND TP $19.99
CAPTAIN HENRY AND THE GRAVEYARD OF TIME #4 (HELLBOY UNIVERSE) $4.99
CARMEN RED CLAW: BELLY OF THE BEAST #2 (HELLBOY UNIVERSE) $4.99
LENORE CURSE OF THE BEEBEE YAGA #1 (ONE SHOT) $4.99
SMILE: FOR THE CAMERA #1 $4.99
SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN VOL. 9 $17.99
VAMPIRELLA ARMAGEDDON #8 $4.99
WALKING DEAD DELUXE #131 (MR) $3.99
WHITE SKY #1 (MR) $3.99
DC UNIVERSE
ABSOLUTE BATMAN #17 $4.99
ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN HC VOL 02 AS MY MOTHERS MADE ME $29.99
ABSOLUTE WONDER WOMAN TP VOL 02 AS MY MOTHERS MADE ME $19.99
BATGIRL (2024) TP VOL 02 BLOODLINES $17.99
MARVEL/DC: DEADPOOL/BATMAN #1 4TH PTG $6.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #575 FACSIMILE EDITION (YEAR TWO PART 1 OF 4) $3.99
BATMAN SUPERMAN WORLDS FINEST #48 $3.99
CATWOMAN #84 $3.99
DC W.I.P. DARK NIGHTS METAL #1 $14.99
NIGHTWING #135 $4.99
SUPERMAN UNLIMITED #10 $4.99
TITANS #32 (DC K.O.) $3.99
WONDER WOMAN #30 $4.99
MARVEL UNIVERSE
1776 #4 $3.99
NEW AVENGERS #9 $3.99
BLACK PANTHER 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 $6.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #7 $4.99
DAREDEVIL/PUNISHER: THE DEVIL'S TRIGGER #4 $3.99
DEADLY HANDS OF K'UN-LUN #1 $4.99
DOCTOR STRANGE #3 $3.99
DUNGEONS OF DOOM #2 $5.99
THE WILL OF DOOM #1 2ND PTG $6.99
FANTASTIC FOUR #8 $3.99
IT'S JEFF MEETS DAREDEVIL #1 $5.99
KNULL #2 $4.99
LOST MARVELS HC NO 03 SAVAGE TALES OF THE 1980S (MR) $65.00
MARVEL FITNESS DECK $19.95
SAI: DIMENSIONAL RIVALS #2 $3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #22 $4.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #24 $6.99
EMMA FROST: THE WHITE QUEEN - ALL HAIL THE QUEEN $17.99
GENERATION X-23 #1 $4.99
WOLVERINE #16 $4.99
WOLVERINE: WEAPONS OF ARMAGEDDON #1 $5.99
X-MEN #25 $5.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #24 $4.99
MIDDLE GRADE COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
MINECRAFT: HEART OF COBBLESTONE VOLUME 2 $10.99
MUPPETS NOIR #1 $4.99
NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS LONG LIVE THE PUMPKIN QUEEN GRAPHIC NOVEL TP $15.99
MANGA TEEN+
GUNSMITH CATS: BURST OMNIBUS VOLUME 1 $29.99
JUJUTSU KAISEN GN VOL 29 $11.99
ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVELS
CRICKETS #9 (MR) $14.00
FIELDER #4 (MR) $12.99
CLASSIC COMIC / STRIP ARCHIVES
ALTER EGO #198 $10.95
BACK ISSUE #165 $10.95
COMIC BOOK CREATOR #42 $10.95
JACK KIRBY COLLECTOR #96 $10.95
MAD MAGAZINE #48 $5.99