Griffin’s Picks for the week of 2/11/2026
1: Marc Spector: Moon Knight #1 - Marvel
After a couple months in between series, Moon Knight is back. Still with prolific Moon Knight writer, Jed MacKay writing the series and now with Devmalya Pramanik on the art.
Marc Spector has been kidnapped by a criminal organization called the Agence Byzantine and is being held hostage until he coughs up some piece of information still unknown to the reader at this point in time. However, in order to keep him passive, longtime Daredevil villain Mr. Fear is employed to continuously pump him with drugs to prevent any violent outbursts.
It’s still too early to tell where this series will compare with the other Moon Knight volumes written by Jed MacKay but it’s off to a promising start so far. One of my favorite things that MacKay has done is bring in villains like Mr. Fear or Waxman, who have mostly been lost to the annals of time, it really makes MK’s rogues gallery feel more fleshed out. I'm sure there will be some tie-ins to the previous runs as the series goes on but this would be a good place to start if you haven’t been reading the character previously.
2: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #15 - IDW
Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams III are beginning to hit a stride with their third issue of the TMNT, which is great considering where the bar that was set with Jason Aaron’s run last year.
After returning from the dead, Splinter and the Turtles have reunited and it seems like things couldn’t be more ideal. But they’re attacked by a new enemy named Shinigami (which means death spirit), a mystic witch type character who’s after Splinter’s blood. During this conflict it’s revealed to the turtles that Splinter is Ujigami, another new foe that’s been killing the turtle's enemies for them.
Gene Luen Yang’s start to his run on TMNT has been impressive so far, although I do wonder what the long-term repercussions of this story will be. Sometimes bringing a character back from the dead works out in the long run (Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier), sometimes it’s a good idea for one story and then returns begin to diminish quickly (Jason Todd/Red Hood) and sometimes it shouldn’t have been done at all (Kraven the Hunter). But that all remains to be seen and for the time being, if this story sounds interesting, new readers can jump in at #13.
3: Bleeding Hearts - Vertigo (DC)
It’s no secret that I’m a Deniz Camp shill, so I’ve been looking forward to this new series from him and Stipan Morian (the same team as 20th Century Men). But simply saying new series isn’t enough because it’s the first new title from DC’s relaunch of the Vertigo imprint – and yes I know that Nice House by the Sea was technically first but that’s a sequel and it started out as a Black Label series.
Since this is the first issue, there’s a lot of exposition going on, so I’m only going to give the broad strokes for now. But going in, what you need to know is that there’s been a zombie apocalypse and the zombies have all but ‘won’ and have their own culture and ability to communicate with one another. Our protagonist is Mouse-Pokes-Golfball-Out-of-Head-Hole or Poke for short, whose heart has begun to start beating again, giving Poke a whole new wave of emotions to deal with and a secret to hide from the others.
Similar to my first pick of the week, there’s not too much to say other than I’m excited to see where the series is going after this initial set up because I have no idea at the moment. Based on the premise, I’m curious as to how this will function as an ongoing, since the idea sounds more like a mini-series at face value. There’s not usually have enough time in my weekly reviews to give praise to anyone other than the writer and artist but I have to say that Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou’s lettering adds a lot to the tone of the book and reminds me of the lettering style in underground comix from the 70s in the best way.