[SPEAKER_00]: D.C. Universe expands.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dark Wars adapts classic Witcher story.
[SPEAKER_00]: X-Men Messiah trilogy to get collected.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is comic book club news for December 5, 2025.
[SPEAKER_00]: D.C. Universe Infinite is continuing to pay out on the promise of its name by expanding into eight new countries.
[SPEAKER_00]: It may not be infinite yet, but oh, it's closer than ever before.
[SPEAKER_00]: Starting this week, the D.C. Comics Digital Comics subscription service is available in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and Sweden.
[SPEAKER_00]: The D.C. UI platform is English language, and includes classics like Batman.
[SPEAKER_00]: hush and all star superman reformatted for vertical scrolling alongside digital exclusives like nothing but nightwing and redessance of raven.
[SPEAKER_00]: And new titles are added one month after release including the best selling absolute universe titles.
[SPEAKER_00]: As part of the launch, new subscribers and every country listed except Denmark, who's signed up for the annual Ultra Tier in the first month, get a 15% discount which can keep for the life of your annual Ultra subscription.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry to Denmark, yet another reason for Dane's to be melancholy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dark Horse Comics is adapting the classic witcher story that introduces sorceress Yennefer of Venguber titled Andre Cipkowski is the witcher the last wish.
[SPEAKER_00]: The book is presented as a hardcover and finds Dandelion, better known as Yaskir to fans of the Netflix series, breaking a magic seal and unleashing a genie.
[SPEAKER_00]: So Geralt, aka the witcher, recruits Yennefer to help.
[SPEAKER_00]: For a press release from Dark Horse Quote, despite her beauty grace and seal, can she be trusted with the Jin's set loose, Geralt is at the mercy of magic.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as a struggle for power and control begins, wishes are made, but who's are being granted?
[SPEAKER_00]: The book is 72 pages long, cost 1999, and hits comic shops at August 12, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: The X-Men Messiah trilogy is getting collected in one omnibus.
[SPEAKER_00]: For ICV-2, the 1112 page collection will include the three part story line that ran in multiple X-Men titles, including, naturally, X-Men, uncanny X-Men, new X-Men X-Men.
[SPEAKER_00]: X-Factor X-Force in Bohr.
[SPEAKER_00]: Written by among others at Brubaker and Matt Fraction, three part story line includes Messiah complex, Messiah War and Second Coming, which detail the birth of Hope Summers, Bishop pursuing her and cable through the future, and the end of the story when Hope and Cable returned to the present.
[SPEAKER_00]: However, the on the bus only includes cable 11 through 15, which is a bit of a shame.
[SPEAKER_00]: As the full excellent 25 issue run by Dwayne Swersinski is arguably the best part of the whole storyline.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's also a very difficult run to read in trade as previous collections have jumped all over the place thanks to the crossovers collected in the aforementioned on to bus, interrupting and weaving into the storyline of the cable title.
[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless, if you want to pick up the on to bus, it'll hit stores on June 23rd, 2026.
[SPEAKER_00]: We just recommend picking up the cable trades as well.
[SPEAKER_00]: For comic book club news, I'm Alex Zeldin.
[SPEAKER_00]: And a fun little joke I'd like to tell to myself is Yennefer of Venga Bus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pretty funny, right?
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