After a few quiet weeks, this edition of Comics Disassembled has some major headliners, so let’s get into those and more as I share ten things I liked or didn’t like from the week of comics, led by details of the next Big Two crossover being revealed.

The DC Side of Superman/Spider-Man, Revealed

It feels like these Big Two crossovers are coming constantly now, as the creative teams and stories from the DC side of 2026’s Superman/Spider-Man crossover now stand revealed, with this one-shot hitting just under five months after its Batman/Deadpool comic arrived. It’s a phenomenal list of creators and comics, one made all the more impressive by there being zero overlap between this release and the lineup found in Batman/Deadpool.

It’s headlined by a main Superman/Spider-Man story from Mark Waid and Jorge Jimenez, but it only gets weirder from there, and in a good way. Tom King and Jim Lee are tackling…a Mary Jane Watson and Lois Lane story?? Matt Fraction and Steve Lieber are telling a Jimmy Olsen and…Carnage tale??? It’s all funky, really, and I enjoy that. Sean Murphy goes with Superboy (from the Legion) and Spider-Man 2099, Gail Simone and Belén Ortega pair up Power Girl and Punisher because sure, Christopher Priest and Daniel Sampere have black suit Spidey and Superboy Prime meet, Jeff Lemire and Rafa Sandoval do a Pa Kent and Uncle Ben story, and, lastly, Greg Rucka and Nicola Scott find the Daily Bugle and the Daily Planet squaring off. That is…awesome. And refreshing. And weird. And delightful. I’m a big fan of that. It feels like creators doing oddball stories they want to do rather than, “How do we pair the highest selling toys together?”

Is it still $7.99? Yes. Is it still going to cause confusion later in the year when Spider-Man/Superman comes? Also yes. Are there eight billion variant covers that will bewilder as much as they excite? Uhhh…yeah. Those are all true, but in isolation, this release gets the most important thing right: it seems like it’ll be a good time. And that’s what you want out of something like this.

Free Comic Book Day, Coming in 2026

Rumors of Free Comic Book Day’s demise proved to be greatly exaggerated, as 2026 will have another edition on the first Saturday in May. While it’s exactly that simple in theory, the reality of what it will look like is convoluted enough you’d think it might have been run by whoever decides what to do with the NBA All-Star Game each year. Here’s how it works.

Free Comic Book Day will be a thing, and it’ll be a joint effort between Universal Distribution (who owns the name and assets associated with FCBD), Lunar Distribution, and Diamond UK, as they will collaborate to distribute free releases from Archie Comics, DC Comics, Dynamite Entertainment, Image Comics, Mad Cave Studios, Oni Press, Titan Comics, Udon Entertainment and Vault Comics.

You might have noticed some names missing in there. There’s no Marvel or BOOM! or IDW, amongst others, as those publishers are exclusively distributed by Penguin Random House. They will be participating, though. They’ll just be doing their own thing called Comics Giveaway Day on the same day that they swear is different and I’m certain comic shops won’t just fold into the rest of the FCBD activities *wink* *wink* *wink*. It seems that while agreements were made between the former trio of distributors, PRH was like “Nah” to all that team-up business for reasons that are unknown to us, all of which might be valid but also make the whole matter a bit more confusing than necessary.

That said, shouts to Universal and the rest of that crew for doing something smart here that fulfills a promise its head in Angelo Exarhakos once made in an ICv2 interview. It seems the Universal/Lunar/Diamond UK side will stretch into game stores, expanding beyond comic shops in an attempt to connect comics with fans of complementary nerd material. That’s made easier by Universal already distributing to game stores, both through its own channels and its acquisition of Alliance Game Distributors as part of the Diamond bankruptcy sell-off. Honestly, as convoluted as the rest of this event is, the expansion into game stores makes it all worth it, because that could be a tremendously fruitful crossover. I’m excited to see how it works out.

Oh, and Oni revealed their Free Comic Book Day release, and it’s a double-shot of insanity from cartoonist Matt Kindt, as his Flux House imprint drops a release featuring tales from MIND MGMT and Fort Psycho, his upcoming collaboration with artist Brian Hurtt. It looks fun!