There’s two perspectives that I want to offer on the DC Comics Fall 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations. The first is that this list is great. From a second compendium of Chuck Dixon’s Robin to a compendium of Red Robin; a New Titans omnibus; Keith Giffen’s Heckler(!); Spectre and Warlord; so much Swamp Thing; sensible-seeming DC K.O. collections; and DC Finest: Crisis on Infinite Earths collections that feel almost overstuffed, with Legends right behind.

Those DC Finest books are clearly killing it, from the Event books to Rachel Pollack’s Doom Patrol, to Harley Quinn, to rarely collected 1980s Green Lantern Corps and 1990s Catwoman. There’s a lot being offered here, from every era, and things like DC now publishing Rick Veitch’s once cancelled, once controversial Swamp Thing issues show me a DC braver and more comfortable with itself than it has been in decades.