Science Fiction related #1 issues, OGNs and one-shots I’m buying this month
Each month a new set of comics previews and solicits arrive with hundreds of pages of new comic book awesomeness. We are living in the golden-est of golden ages in terms of new comics options, and every month fantastic writers and artists are offering up thoughtful visions of the future.
Below are my new SF related picks for this month (1st issues or OGNs). Note that in most cases I don’t have any more info to go on than the cover images and the solicit text presented here, and this list is not so much my recommendations as it is my personal selections/best guesses. I can’t guarantee they are going to be great, but I am betting my own hard earned cash on anything I highlight here, and giving you my reasons for taking a chance on them. If you think I have missed something, I would love to hear from you. Email me at dnewland@historian.us with recommendations, complaints, etc.
All of these should be available for preorder from your local comic shop during the October, 2026 ordering window or will be in stores sometime around December.
PROMETHEUS GRAFT: THE SLAYINGS AT DEATH’S END
Ongoing? Limited Series??, $4.99, on sale 12/9/2026
(W) George Northy (A) Caitlin Yarsky
FROM THE ASHES OF FRANKENSTEIN’S DESTRUCTION . . . A NEW KIND OF DETECTIVE IS BORN! This winter, acclaimed writer George Northy (Yuletide, EC’s Shiver SuspenStories) and Eisner Award–nominated artist Caitlin Yarsky (Dead Teenagers, Black Hammer) invite you to a distant castle to behold a meticulously crafted, first-of-its-kind comics murder mystery starring the greatest man-made monster of all.
Why I’m Buying: Caitlin Yarsky on interior art, and it’s a murder mystery? Sign me up! This was a rough month for new science fiction comics, IMHO, so all three of my picks here are going to be pretty marginal in terms of being SF. But The Monster has always been at least as much SF and horror, right? In any case, this looks like its going to be a ton of fun, and I cannot wait.
FORGOTTEN FIVE
Ongoing, on sale 12/16/2026
(W) Alex Segura, Sara Century (A) Pat Kennedy & Dean Kotz
Decades ago, five teens with strange powers barely managed to escape the clutches of a shadowy organization known as The Contingency. Aided by former Contingency agent Polly Napier and her partner Gilly Stokes, they became The Five: a team of freedom-fighting outcasts! Years later, with the Contingency defeated, The Five have grown up and moved on, leaving the world-saving to new teams of heroes across the country. But when rumors of their old foes begin to resurface, can the Forgotten Five cast off their civilian lives in order to reconnect and resume the fight?
Why I’m Buying: I am leaning into the Challengers of the Unknown feel that this book is giving me. I enjoyed Alex Segura’s comics work as well as his Legendary Lynx novels, and this sounds like it is going to be a “JSA coming out or retirement” sort of book. Hopefully at least one of the Five is a scientific genius who can come up with enough gadgets to make this a legit science fiction pick. In any case, it looks like my kind of book.
LA MANCHA
Ongoing? Limited Series?, 4.99, on-sale 12/16/2026
(W) Christopher Sebela (A) Ibrahim Moustafa
In an era between the age of knights and modern life sits Don Quixote, a man whose love of that bygone era sends him on a bloody spree of mayhem across the land of La Mancha to save the world. With a reluctant assistant, Sancho Panza, at his side, the delusional knight leaves a trail of bodies behind him and tilts at windmills in search of an evil enchanter, dedicating it all to the object of his storybook delusion — Dulcinea del Toboso. Dulcinea, a farm girl working to keep her family’s farm alive, is forced to leave her life behind and take up arms to stop this murderous stranger and defend the one thing that she truly owns: her name.
Why I’m Buying: I’m not even going to try to defend this as science-adjacent in any way. But man, do I love Cervantes and Don Quixote. This seems to be a bit of a new take on things, with Dulcinea taking a bigger role, and I am totally up for it. And how about that cover by Phil Hestor? That’s a work of genius right there.
A note on credits: Rather than trying to track down all the people involved with these books, I am just crediting the names mentioned in the solicits that I use to make my preorder selections. I realize that in many cases this is woefully inadequate, and if by chance you are one of the many overworked and underappreciated inkers, letterers or colorists working in comics these days, I apologize for neglecting your craft. MAYBE YOUR PUBLISHERS SHOULD MENTION YOU IN THEIR ADS!