WEBTOON transforms autumn into a meeting point for fans of superheroes, horror, and comics: the platform announces a new DC series set in Gotham, confirms the return of the Bat-Family, and prepares the arrival of Power Rangers in its catalog. Marvel occupies a distinct place with a reading app expected on November 16, 2026.
- October 19: launch of Gotham By Daylight, a horror series imagined by Mike Birchall.
- October 31: start of My Dear Watson, a thriller where the heroine travels back in time after her death.
- November 16: scheduled arrival of the Marvel Comics reading application developed with WEBTOON.
The announcements made at New York Comic Con, held from October 8 to 11, therefore mix new creations, renewed series, and digital comics already published elsewhere. To understand this program, let us distinguish narrative projects from platform changes: not all partnerships announce a new original series.
Gotham By Daylight: the DC horror series that changes Gotham’s face
The most immediate novelty is Gotham By Daylight, an exclusive WEBTOON series set to launch on October 19, 2026. Created by Mike Birchall, known for his webcomic Everything Is Fine, it overturns Gotham’s traditional imagery: the city no longer lives in the familiar darkness of Batman’s stories but under a permanent and threatening light.
This light is linked to a supernatural entity called The Daylight. The sun, usually associated with safety and visibility, here becomes a danger from which residents cannot escape. The idea is simple to understand and rich in possibilities: when shadows no longer offer any refuge, streets, houses, and public places turn into spaces of tension.
The choice of perspective also distinguishes the project from a classic Dark Knight adventure. The story focuses mainly on ordinary citizens trying to organize and survive amid extraordinary events. Duke Thomas is among the central characters mentioned, while Damian Wayne and Mr. Freeze are also associated with the first elements communicated around the series.
This shift in viewpoint raises an interesting question: what becomes of Gotham when its inhabitants cannot count on heroic intervention at every moment? A family must find shelter, neighbors may have to share their resources, and an ordinary day can turn into a survival journey. These situations give a human scale to a disaster that might otherwise remain just a spectacular backdrop.
An announced format of 45 episodes would give Mike Birchall the space needed to develop the consequences of the crisis. Such a length can follow behavioral changes, fragile alliances, and the ways familiar places are reinterpreted. For readers on phones, episodic publication can also enhance suspense by separating revelations at specific moments.
This approach fits into a trend where known licenses serve as grounds for new genres. Here, DC Comics retains its characters and setting while favoring horror and everyday life over an investigation led exclusively by Batman. The contrast between constant light and the reflexes associated with Gotham gives the series its strongest signature.
The project will naturally find its place with readers attracted to unsettling atmospheres. Those who follow horror stories on screen can also discover a horror thriller that marked Netflix, while fans of franchise crossovers will find another example of playing with genre codes in these Fortnitemares horror crossovers. In Gotham, the threat does not come from a night that never ends, but from a day that never ends.
Batman: Wayne Family Adventures returns with a fifth season
Alongside this new dark series, WEBTOON confirms a fifth season of Batman: Wayne Family Adventures. The contrast is clear: Gotham By Daylight turns the city into a supernatural trap, while this production focuses on Bruce Wayne’s family relationships and life scenes that unfold far from spectacular confrontations.
The series follows Bruce in a role that goes beyond Batman. He has to juggle his responsibilities as a vigilante and his place with adopted, foster, or biological children. This situation allows exploring the ties between Bat-Family members through dialogue scenes, disagreements, and moments of complicity rather than a succession of battles.
For a reader mostly familiar with Gotham’s major sagas, this perspective changes the way characters are viewed. A training session, a shared meal, or a discussion about house rules can reveal tensions as telling as a confrontation with a criminal. Humor often comes from the gap between the heroes’ impressive reputation and the very ordinary problems they have to solve together.
The Wayne family thus provides an accessible entry point for people who do not follow every DC Comics event. It is not necessary to know all past battles to understand that a parent may struggle to communicate, that a teenager seeks autonomy, or that several siblings do not react the same way to a rule. Masked identities add a particular color to these topics without making them incomprehensible.
No return date for season 5 has been announced in the materials presented at the convention. The Court of Owls was mentioned as a possible antagonist, but the main announcement does not detail the plot enough to make it certain. We can therefore note the renewal and wait for further information before assigning a precise role to this organization.
The success of the formula lies in the balance between familiarity and lightness. Readers find known characters but in situations that do not always require mastering the complete comic chronology. The vertical format also favors short exchanges and visual expressions, which suits group scenes and chain reactions in a large family.
To measure the diversity of the announced offer, here are the main deadlines and confirmed elements at this stage:
| Project | Information announced | Known date |
|---|---|---|
| Gotham By Daylight | Exclusive horror series on WEBTOON | October 19, 2026 |
| Batman: Wayne Family Adventures | Renewal for a season 5 | To be specified |
| Mighty Morphin Power Rangers | Arrival of a 122-issue comic | To be specified |
| Marvel Comics | Launch of a reading application | November 16, 2026 |
This return reminds us that geek adventures can also focus on heroes’ intimacy. After disputes and reconciliations in the Wayne manor, the program turns towards a franchise whose story is precisely based on team solidarity: Power Rangers.
Power Rangers on WEBTOON: a 122-issue comic in mobile format
The arrival of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers on WEBTOON results from a partnership with BOOM! Studios. It is important to distinguish this operation from an original creation: the title concerned is the comic written by Kyle Higgins and published starting in 2016, now intended to join a digital reading platform in an adapted form.
The story draws inspiration from the classic TV series but picks up at a moment charged with consequences. Tommy Oliver has just escaped the mind control exerted by Rita Repulsa and joins the other Rangers. His liberation does not resolve everything: the acts committed under influence continue to weigh on him, and the team must learn to trust him while facing approaching threats.
This basis allows giving the character a trajectory more complex than that of a simple new member. Tommy must find his place within the group and live with the memory of having been used against his future allies. For long-time fans, the starting point reactivates a famous franchise turning point; for new readers, it provides an easy-to-follow personal conflict before the plot widens.
The series counts 122 issues, a substantial volume that explains the interest in episodic publication. A reading broken into episodes can make this long adventure easier to approach on a smartphone, during commutes or short breaks. It also allows regularly resuming the story without buying or carrying a complete physical collection.
The comic progressively goes beyond one team and one era. Lord Drakkon becomes a major threat, while events linked to different temporalities and timelines give the story a multiversal dimension. This expansion can attract readers who like to see the consequences of a choice spread beyond an isolated battle, even though it requires following several narrative threads.
The precise details of the reformatting have not been communicated, and no release date has been announced. We therefore know what content will arrive but not yet according to which schedule or publication pace. It is better to present the announcement as a catalog transfer, rather than an original sequel specially created for WEBTOON.
This change of medium highlights the ability of digital comics to make already established series accessible. A reader discovering the universe through the platform can then explore characters, alliances, and conflicts without starting from a hard-to-find paper edition. Conversely, collectors can rediscover a known story in a different reading mode.
Such an arrival fits with an offer that is not limited to superheroes: WEBTOON seeks to coexist historical franchises, auteur works, and creations designed for vertical scrolling. The case of the Power Rangers especially illustrates the interest of a distribution partnership, while the Marvel news announced at the convention concerns the creation of a distinct reading tool.
Marvel and WEBTOON: a reading app planned for November
The collaboration between Marvel and WEBTOON mainly concerns a new Marvel Comics app, the launch of which is planned for November 16, 2026. At New York Comic Con, visitors got to discover a beta version in early access and pre-register at the booth dedicated to the project. The announcement thus concerns a new gateway to Marvel works, not an original series comparable to Gotham By Daylight.
This distinction matters to understand the autumn programming. DC presents an original series, Power Rangers moves with a comic already published, and Marvel prepares an app dedicated to reading. These initiatives complement each other but do not offer the same experience: on one side, stories integrated into the WEBTOON platform; on the other, a service designed around the Marvel catalog.
Titles related to Marvel and other universes had already been announced in WEBTOON’s offer. Among them is the 2015 series Spider-Gwen, written by Jason Latour and drawn by Robbi Rodriguez. The manga adaptation of Star Wars: Rebels by Akira Aoki, as well as Once Upon a Dream, also are part of the projects cited in this broader programming.
For readers, the practical challenge will be understanding how the works will be organized and accessible in each environment. A dedicated app can ease finding Marvel stories, while a generalist platform allows more direct switching from one genre to another. Navigation ease, release rhythm, and episode presentation will determine much of the actual experience.
The schedule adds a concrete data point: the app must arrive after the launches of Gotham By Daylight on October 19 and My Dear Watson on October 31. Pop culture fans can thus go from a horror series to a thriller, then to a reading space dedicated to Marvel comics. This proximity illustrates an autumn where new releases follow each other on different media.
For those who want to explore the universes associated with these licenses, Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes offers another example of digital extension of a sci-fi franchise. This type of spin-off does not replace reading a comic book but shows how major sagas circulate through several formats and audiences.
The app announcement is not enough to describe all its functions, and it would be premature to infer precise modalities that have not been exposed. The reliable marker remains the planned launch date and the project’s nature: a Marvel reading service developed in collaboration with WEBTOON. To appreciate this partnership, it will be necessary to observe how it makes the catalog accessible in daily life.
Other new WEBTOON autumn releases: thrillers, returns, and reading records
The announcements linked to DC Comics, Marvel, and Power Rangers do not sum up the entire programming presented by WEBTOON. The platform also highlights original works and renewed series, a sign of a strategy that combines known licenses with stories created for digital. For readers, this diversity avoids reducing the offer to only superheroes.
My Dear Watson, a thriller signed heiMO, is set to begin on October 31, 2026. Its heroine, Cat Chen, can travel back in time each time she dies, a mechanism that turns death into a starting point rather than an end of the journey. The idea imposes a particular tension: each return can bring new information, but a price must first be paid.
The story takes place in a Manhattan marked by crime and focuses on a heroine confronted with extreme situations. The temporal rule offers an immediately understandable narrative engine, while leaving room for moral choices: how far can Cat go to prevent an event, and how many times can she restart without being changed by the experience? The series received the Most Gripping award at the WEBTOON Webcomic Legends 2025 contest.
Belle Morte offers a very different register, around a world where vampires have become celebrities. Humans give them their blood in exchange for payment, turning a traditionally feared creature into a media and commercial figure. The premise plays with power relations, public fascination, and exploitation of people seen as different.
Two series return with a second season. The Egg Project, whose first season reached 18.7 million views, will reunite with its readers; Cuffing Cupid, credited with over 11.4 million views, also continues its course. These figures provide an indication of the works’ cumulative audience, without meaning that every reader followed all episodes or that the numbers represent unique subscribers.
The expected return of Omniscient Reader in autumn completes this selection. The series is associated with more than three billion views over about 300 episodes, placing it among digital titles that have known a particularly large distribution. These totals reflect repeated consumption of episodes on the platform scale; they mainly serve to measure the extent of the encounter between the work and its audience.
By bringing together these returns and launches, WEBTOON organizes its calendar around several reading habits. Some readers will look for a story to follow from its first publication, others will prefer to pick up an already established series, and others still may discover a known universe in a new form. Vertical formats facilitate this circulation, since an episode can be read on a phone without requiring as much time as a full volume.
This programming gives autumn a particular color: Gotham offers horror, Cat Chen time travel, Belle Morte subverts vampire codes, and Power Rangers bring an action saga already rich with 122 issues. The announcements do not all come from the same partnership or the same type of novelty, but they share a clear goal: to attract varied audiences to geek adventures and digital comics.
