ComicsOnline kicked off 2026 by reading a TON of comics. There’s a lot to talk about, and we wanted to highlight some of our picks for the week of February 25th, 2026.

New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident #1
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by Matt Sernaker

Official Synopsis: Spinning out of the pages of New History of the DC Universe, uncover an untold moment in DC history, where a murder leads to an all-out war between the heroes of Dakota City and U.S. government! As their home becomes a battlefield, what must Static, Rocket, and the others sacrifice to keep their loved ones safe? But as heroes fall in the past, the stage is set for their return in the present…

Review: With all of the continuity resets and multiversal shenanigans that have taken place over the last few decades, a big question has been left largely unanswered: where are the Milestone characters? That is something that readers have been asking for quite a while now. Thankfully, an incredible team of creators at DC is ready to answer the call. Over the last few months, fans got a “status update” on the DC Universe through the eyes of Barry Allen (former Flash, now multiverse cataloger extraordinaire) in the New History of the DC Universe. During those four issues, we received a massive amount of information and reinforcement about characters, continuity, areas left to explore, and the events that took place in Dakota City which were a major piece teasing have larger implications.

This special issue celebrates the history of the Milestone Universe and all that was, while simultaneously laying the groundwork for a new interpretation and its re-emergence. With the creators shaping this new iteration, the potential for a Milestone renaissance is off the charts. Thanks to some time-travel craziness, the histories of Icon, Rocket, Static, Hardware, and other iconic characters have been altered. An unlikely narrator explains what SHOULD have been, while helping us to connect the dots to the moment when everything changed. The stage has been set for new titles, new adventures, new creators, and new journeys for these characters, and now is the time for action. We highly recommend that you pick up a copy of New History of the DC Universe: The Dakota Incident and experience this one for yourselves. The hype is real, and this is a book that is going to make waves in the comic world.

Green Lantern #32
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by Matt Sernaker

Official Synopsis: The visions that Hal Jordan receives from the Book of Oa grow stronger, leading Green Lantern to make a decision that will change the fate of the Corps and what we know about Green Lanterns forever! And a certain question is popped that will have you asking…are wedding bells breaking up that ol’ Corps of mine? Only time, and next issue’s #600 spectacular will tell!

Review: Hal and Carol have been through a LOT in the last few dozen issues. Their bond and relationship seem to be stronger than ever, and now we get to a pivotal “will they/won’t they” moment with a potential proposal. As the Green Lantern saga continues towards the 600th issue spectacular, it will be interesting to see how this dynamic continues to evolve, thanks to the ongoing fun with the emotional spectrum. I love how the creative team continues to move the story forward and play with expectations, but also consistently finds ways for multiple laugh-out-loud moments that feel organic to the story. Lastly, Kyle and Hal have a big moment leading into the landmark 600th issue and status quo shakeup for Sector 2814.

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Hulk Smash Everything #3
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by Josh Powell

Official Synopsis: WHERE NO HULK HAS SMASHED BEFORE! It’s the fight you never knew you needed. HULK VS THE SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE AT THE CENTER OF OUR GALAXY! Will the uncaring force of physics be enough to end Hulk’s rampage at last or will the Jade Giant conquer the cosmos itself?!

Review: Ryan North is quite, quite mad.  And Jordan White does nothing but egg him on. They also like to show off their research, which is nice because discerning comic book readers like it when their grandiose fantasies are hooked, however tenuously, onto real-world science and history to help give the insanity a sense of scale.  If that describes you, look no further, as this comic is clearly just going to be issue after issue of exactly what the title promises.  

If you caught the first couple of issues, you know that the set up for the whole thing is that The Leader finally got tired enough of the Hulk continually dashing his dastardly schemes to use his time/space caster (let’s call it the Situationizer) to send ‘ol greenskin to various EXTREMELY INTENSE settings which even the Hulk should not be able to survive.  Like, for starters, ground zero of the Chicxulub impactor theorized to have caused the extinction of the dinosaurs (and basically everything else) 65 million years ago.  

I say “for starters” because, this being issue #3, you can infer with your own Leader-like intellect that having gigatons of explosive force from a five-mile wide iridium meteor smashing through the atmosphere at way more than bullet speed directly on his emerald noggin did not suffice to do the job.  Because, although it no doubt hurt way more than a routine punching by the Juggernaut, it also (understandably) pissed him right the hell off, and as you know, the angrier Hulk gets… 

And so our exasperated villain decided to up the ante considerably by teleporting him 150 quadrillion miles to the doorstep of Sagittarius A*, the 4 million solar-mass black hole gluing the Milky Way together, there to be torn apart by tidal forces, buffeted by energies from the more-than-solar-system-sized accretion disk, and incidentally trapped within the event horizon, any one one of which would make that little dust-up in the Yucatan look like the gentle fall of spring rain.

Now, this would be an impressively thorough killing, but it runs afoul of the exact same problem with the earlier arrangement, and in fact everything the Leader and most other Hulk villains have ever tried- to wit, it is quite rude.  Thus the Hulk, whose power scales by degree of chap and is as sensitive to insult as Miss Manners is thereby enabled to do Whatever He Needs To Do to set matters right. The only question is, is there any limit to this process?  And is smashing ever not the solution to any problem?

Alas, dear Leader, the answer, in North’s formulation, is (spoilers afoot) hell no.  Which as of now canonically includes: A) establishing new parameters of comic-book physics by smashing away countless tons of totally degenerate matter a quark at a time over B) the entire future lifespan of the universe until such time as C) the singularity dissipates and expels him back into the entropically wasted ruins of the universe, there to D) grow to giant size and sprout new Doomsday-style extruding bone spurs just in time to E) pick a fight with Galactus (no doubt wondering what the hell he is still doing there, there being no other planets or stars left around to munch on) and show him that F) no matter how conceptual his physical form may be (per Byrne) he can still be made to spit blood and get his humerus snapped, and it still sucks.  Whew!

Buy this book.  PDF, print, it doesn’t matter; find some way to get your hands on it and savor the sheer comic sauce flowing out of it. Plus you’ll get to see how Galaxy Hulk manages to smash his way back through the ages to earth, there to smash past every super hero there ever was to win his way through to the Leader’s brittle, cylindrical, oh-so smash-worthy skull.  ComicsOnline gives it five smashings out of smash and recommends you read it at a Smash Burger and then smash the table as you smash your way out looking for someone who is down to smash.  Hell yeah!  Excelsior!

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