It’s San Diego Comic Con Week, which normally means we see a torrential downpour of major news. That’s not so this time, as this week has seen consistent drops but no deluge — at least not yet. That doesn’t mean there weren’t interesting things out there, though, so let’s explore that by highlighting ten things I liked or didn’t like from the week in another edition of Comics Disassembled.

Good Devils, Making Great Comics

If there’s one new comic announcement from this week that I’m most excited for people to read, it’s undoubtedly David Brothers and Nick Dragotta’s Good Devils: Don’t Play Fair with Evil. This Image Comics one-shot arrives in October, and it has everything I want in a comic. 64-pages for the completely reasonable price of $5.99? Yes, that works. A single release collecting three comics? Heck yeah. A single-issue that’s perfect-bound???? I’m going to marry this comic.

Even better, it collects three great comics, each of which I already own and have read in wildly disparate formats. The Good Devils one-shot features the pair’s tremendous backup story from Newburn, Go Back; it has their exceptional and energetic ShortBox Comics Fair 2023 digital release Fight Like Hell; and the superb Attack on Lady Liberty from the Cry Punch anthology. This is an all killer, no filler situation, as each of these comics rule. That’s particularly true of Go Back, in my opinion, a short comic that was so good it nearly made my end of the year list as a backup.

If you only know Dragotta for Absolute Batman and Brothers for his Time Waits series at DSTLRY with Chip Zdarsky and Marcus To, I cannot recommend this comic to you enough. Each individual component is wonderful comic booking, and its final version should be even more special. I mean, did I mention it was perfect-bound??? It’s like they’re making this just for me.

Absolute DC, Expanding and Contracting

With its second year on the horizon and the All-In Era getting its first event, it only made sense that we’d be getting an Absolute DC title announced at San Diego Comic Con. And you know what? We did, as writer Pornsak Pichetshote and artist Rafael Albuquerque will be launching Absolute Green Arrow in Spring 2026. What’s it going to be about? Well, that’s pretty simple. So far it just sounds like a Green Arrow comic, as Oliver Queen is a rich guy who abhors other rich guys and then decides to fight crime using a bow and arrow. The foundation is very Green Arrow-y. That doesn’t mean the final result won’t take the character and title in interesting directions. I suspect that is certain, but given that the series is quite a ways away, the publisher probably isn’t all that interested in revealing too much at this time.

The big deal part of it is its creative team, anyways. Pichetshote is an exceptional writer and Albuquerque is a boss. That’s a great team. The only concern creatively is Albuquerque just launched Superman Unlimited, so the natural fear becomes, “Will he stick with the series?” I sure hope so, because one of Absolute DC’s greatest strengths is how consistent and exceptional its art is. A good example of that can be found in this week’s other Absolute news, as DC also revealed that the line would be getting its first crossover, with Absolute Wonder Woman #15 taking that character to Gotham City and a chance meetup with Batman. That issue has a cover by Hayden Sherman that features both lead characters, and it’s gorgeous, as is every cover by Sherman — and they’ve drawn all of them. Albuquerque has that gear in him, and I truly hope to see him stick around on the book awhile.

This isn’t Absolute related, but on the subject of DC and great art, good job by the publisher by snatching victory from the jaws of defeat by casting Dan Mora as the artist of the upcoming DC K.O. tie-in series Knightfight. It’s about Batman fighting a bunch of variations of Robin from different universes that had become The Dark Knight himself, and it’s written by Joshua Williamson. It’s a fun sounding comic, but one I’d pass on with so so art. Instead, they went with Mora, so it’s an easy read. That guy is incredible, and not just because he’s good! He’s drawing everything! It’s unreal!