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After months of smooth sailing, Paramount’s $111 billion deal to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery is facing challenges from lawsuits at home and abroad. If that wasn’t enough, Oracle founder Larry Ellison — who took out margin loans using a huge portion of his personal fortune to back the deal — is facing financial pressure from unrelated market factors.

BOOM! Studios has announced its full programming schedule and exclusives for San Diego Comic-Con 2026, including a slew of limited day Something Is Killing the Children exclusives and more. The publisher will be at booth #2229 all weekend. Here are the details on what to expect from BOOM! Studios at SDCC ’26. BOOM! Studios SDCC ’26 limited day exclusives All exclusives will be available at booth #2229 while supplies last.

Jonathan Hickman, Nick Spencer, Mike del Mundo, and Mike Huddleston’s Three Worlds/Three Moons (3W/3M) universe continues to expand with the announcement of expands with a three-book series of 3 Worlds / 3 Moons sourcebooks, [SYSTEMS], [MAPS], and [HISTORIES] from Dark Horse.

Singer-songwriter Shaboozey will make his comics debut at San Diego Comic-Con 2026. Published by Range Comics, the comics and graphic novel imprint of Range Literary Publishing The Outlaw Cherie Lee & Other Western Tales is an expansion of Shaboozey’s upcoming album of the same name, which releases at the end of the month. SDCC attendees will get a first look at issue #1 of the three-issue comics series before it hits shelves in August.

This August, the second pre-order run for the AMERICAN* FUJO* anthology edited by Alexis Rippen (Butchverse Zine) & tshirt3000 (Yaoi Zine) will begin. With a promised pre-order window of “several months,” those behind the adult-oriented anthology hope that everyone who wants a copy will be able to get one. Here’s the official description of AMERICAN* FUJO* from the PR: “AMERICAN* FUJO* is Alexis Rippen & tshirt3000’s premier anthology on fandom culture, trans identity, and general overanalysis.

On Friday, a group of artists known as the Silver Sprocket Artists Collective released a public statement via Cartoonists United regarding concerns with Silver Sprocket’s business practices, alleging systemic accounting problems, financial miscommunications, poor treatment of staff, and lack of professionalism. The statement also claims royalty payments have either been late or have not been made at all, despite artists selling through multiple printings of their Silver Sprocket books.

Any movie with the word ‘exorcist’ in its title is destined to give a charged first impression. It evokes William Friedkin’s 1973 classic The Exorcist, widely considered to be the scariest movie ever made. It’s certainly what came to mind when I got tickets (courtesy of the Brooklyn Horror Film Festival and the New York Asian Film Festival) to see the Thai horror film Tha Rae: The Exorcist. A few minutes into the movie, though, made me change course in regards to these expectations.

Ahead of San Diego Comic-Con 2026, Joseph Illidge’s Illuminous has acquired its first client: Centaur Riders – Cataphract Legacy. The 64-page debut comic will soon hit Kickstarter. Centaur Riders: Cataphract Legacy is a dark fantasy epic created by Danny Potter, written by Charlie Brafman, and illustrated by Marco Turini.

Seven Seas Entertainment has announced the license acquisition of Ultraman by Kazuo Umezz: The Classic Manga Collection, just in time for the franchise’s 60th anniversary celebration. The release will be the first time Ultraman’s first-ever manga appearance will be published in English, introducing Kazuo Umezz’s classic to a whole new audience.

The annual Her Universe Fashion Show at San Diego Comic-Con has become a beloved tradition of the convention celebrating fandom, fashion, artistry, and design. The 12th annual show, taking place on Thursday, July 23, is DC-themed and challenges designers to create couture based on infamous superheroes and supervillains from the DC Universe. Today, The Beat can exclusively reveal the judging panel for the Her Universe Fashion Show 2026 Presented by Warner Bros.