Image Comics has eight debut comics launching in August 2026. What’s on the way? Here’s our big preview.
From a new series from Ms. Marvel herself, Iman Vellani, to spinoffs of beloved series and all new adventures, we’ve compiled every new Image Comics series debut hitting shelves in August 2026.
We’ve scoured through all of Image’s August 2026 solicitations and listed every new series launching down below. Let’s take a tour.
Death Vigil #1
Release date: August 5
Writer/Artist: Stjepan Sejic
Official description: NEW STORY ARC The smash hit series is back! Bad news: You’re dead. Good news: You can join a band of Death Knights and help protect the world from necromancers and cosmic horror. The pay’s not great, but you’ll love your co-workers. So grab your spirit weapon and prepare for battle against the Primordial Enemy—join Death Vigil today! From critically acclaimed creator STJEPAN ŠEJIĆ (STJEPAN ŠEJIĆ, RAVINE, APHRODITE lX, WITCHBLADE, Harleen) comes the exciting return of his creator-owned series DEATH VIGIL! The story of modern age Death knights locked in an ongoing war against the ever-growing power of the ravenous primordial Elder Gods. The only catch is you have to die first. Become a corporeal immortal Death Knight, and obtain reality-altering weaponry in the never-ending battle between good and evil!
Chachu #1
Release date: August 5
Writer: Iman Vellani | Artist: Marianna Ignazzi, Jordie Bellaire
Official description: 1979. Leila, a 19-year-old Pakistani-Canadian girl, stands on the cusp of adulthood, eager to experience the “real world” for the first time. With a head full of Hollywood dreams and a penchant for pulp novels, she ventures to California to connect with her estranged uncle—her “Chachu”—a middle-aged, semi-retired private eye who gained brief fame after marrying the starlet he was initially hired to find. But when Chachu’s wife goes missing once again, the two are forced on an impromptu road trip to track her down—with Leila navigating young adulthood and Chachu confronting his own mortality and regrets. Inspired by her own coming-of-age experiences in the entertainment industry, CHACHU is the solo writing debut of superstar IMAN VELLANI (Ms. Marvel), a reinterpretation of the classic neo-noir private investigator story brilliantly illustrated by MARIANNA IGNAZZI (EXQUISITE CORPSES) and colored by JORDIE BELLAIRE (Absolute Wonder Woman).
Regicide #1
Release date: August 12
Writer: Patrick Kindlon | Artist: Ludovic Lalliat
Official description: SERIES PREMIERE A DOOMED MARCH THROUGH TRANSYLVANIA… A farmhand lives a simple life until village elders insist he set out for the capital with a dangerous stranger. Their mission? Kill the murderous viceroy of Transylvania! It’s Dracula meets BERSERK in this dark fantasy series full of sexy entities and betrayal.
YUMI: 00EX #1
Release date: August 12
Writer: Doug Wagner | Artist: Hoyt Silva
Official description: Yumi is in love. Yumi is lethal. When her MI6 boyfriend disappears, Yumi storms the agency – hacking their network, dismantling their operatives, and setting everything on fire. There she finds her first ally… a fully AI Lamborghini that’s built less like a car and more like a WMD. The anti-spy thriller begins here. From the writer of NARCO, PLASTIC, and I WAS A FASHION SCHOOL SERIAL KILLER.
The Last Driver #1
Release date: August 19
Writer: Sean Murphy | Artist: Sean Murphy, Simon Gough
Official description: AMERICA, THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE—NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO DRIVE…EXCEPT FOR HIM! As technology in America advanced, cities began creating the GRID—a robotic transportation system that not only made cars obsolete, it made them illegal. But an outlaw named “Clutch” has no choice but to get behind the wheel one more time. What starts out as a race to save his granddaughter’s life quickly turns into a rebellion against technology, fascism, and the future of a divided America. Superstar artist and longtime gearhead SEAN GORDON MURPHY (Batman: White Knight, TOKYO GHOST, Punk Rock Jesus, The Wake) writes and draws this highly anticipated ongoing series.
Bug Wars: The Coming of Wardoom #1
Release date: August 19
Writer: Jason Aaron | Artist: Mahmud Asrar, Matthew Wilson
Official description:The backyard battlefield heats up and it’s even more brutal and bloodier than before. Superstar creators JASON AARON & MAHMUD ASRAR return to the savage suburban epic that feeds Honey, I Shrunk the Kids through a war grinder and marinates it in Conan-flavored myth and mayhem. Six months after the Yard ran red with insect blood, uneasy peace is shattered as ancient enemies rise from the Woods, corporate extermination forces close in, and Slade Slaymaker is dragged back into a brutal world where roach knights ride, squirrel armies gather, and survival means choosing your side in a war no human was meant to fight. Welcome back to BUG WARS: THE COMING OF THE WARDOOM.
Hammerfist #1
Writer: Rick Remender | Artist: Matt Hollingsworth, Steve Epting
Release date: August 26
Official description: Meet MIKE DENTON: a dirtbag hitman, junkie, and absentee father who’s spent his life chasing the easy fix—drugs, cheap sex, and murder for money—while failing the one person who still believes he can be better: his daughter. Now, on the eve of BLACK NOON—an ancient darkness that erases the light in all things—Mike has to drag himself out of the gutter, awaken a supernatural weapon powered only by love, and fight his way through the living embodiment of evil to save her. Reservoir Dogs collides with Evil Dead in a filthy crime story that mutates into a savage splatter-horror nightmare from New York Times bestselling author RICK REMENDER (ESCAPE, Captain America) and acclaimed artist STEVE EPTING (VELVET, Captain America) about an unredeemable killer forced to do the one thing he’s avoided his entire life: stand for something other than himself.
Witchblade/Vampirella #1 (One-Shot)
Release date: August 26
Writer: Marguerite Bennett | Artist: Gibran Ferdian, Laura Braga
Official description: Detective Sara Pezzini is no stranger to things that go bump in the night, but she gets more than she bargained for when a mutated vampire comes to town, wreaking havoc. With no hope for an end to the bloodshed and terror, lucky for Sara, an expert in all things Nosferatu is hot on its trail – the legendary Vampirella! But with Sara infected from the mutant bloodsucker’s bite, will Vampi stake first and ask questions later? Two titans of comics clash in this oversized issue featuring two comics icons who must work together to battle a terror greater than themselves! From WITCHBLADE series writer MARGUERITE BENNETT (ODIN, Bombshells, Batwoman) with WITCHBLADE fan favorite artist and alumni LAURA BRAGA (Future State: The Next Batman, Captain Marvel, Dazzler) returns to bring these two warriors together in an epic one-shot!
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