The DC Comics November 2026 trade paperback and hardcover solicitations finish up the DC Fall 2026 catalog with December’s New Titans, but the big regular series standouts for me are January’s Superman Unlimited Vol. 3 and Supergirl Vol. 3, and Nightwing Vol. 4, Detective Comics Vol. 4, and Poison Ivy Vol. 8, leading respectively into the “Kingdom of Zod” and “Bad Seeds” crossovers respectively, as listed in the DC Spring 2027 catalog. That’s what I see for the beginning of my comics-reading 2027 — catching up on the Super-books and especially I’m behind on the ancillary Bat-books, so reading those before the crossovers.

No doubt comics shops and especially retail bookstores will have the Absolute Batman Vol. 1 Deluxe front and center. DC can make profit on successive volumes for a while; I do wonder, as I mention below, whether they would be able to sell these as well beyond the Big Three, or if just anything with Absolute on it flies off the shelves.