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Here’s the trailer for Cullen Crawford’s new animated Netflix comedy Strip Law.
Via Netflix:
Uptight lawyer Lincoln Gumb, who is too boring to win cases in Vegas, teams up with local magician/hedonist Sheila Flambé to bring some flash and pizzazz to the stupidest cases the city can throw at them.
I am one of the writers for this show and it is the best job I have ever had. It took some of the smartest, funniest, most good-hearted people on Earth to make something this unapologetically weird and funny and unflinchingly human and all I can compare it to is the earlyish seasons of The Simpsons that inspired us (among other things, like other great comedy and life’s daily punishments and horrors).
I’ve known and worked with Cullen for twentyish years (oh no), and he is the secret or not-secret mind behind much of the comedy you’ve enjoyed in that time — and this is what it’s all been building toward.
Strip Law drops February 20, 2026. Click here or search ‘STRIP LAW’ on Netflix to set your reminders now. And if you’re reading this in the future, which literally all of you are, after you watch Strip Law, click “RATE THIS TITLE” and the double-thumbs-up “LOVE THIS!” icon to tell Netflix’s algorithm you want season two.
Unbelievably, I am not joking. This is important.
DO NOT GIVE STRIP LAW A ONE-THUMBS UP. This is not a joke. For reasons that were not made clear to us, but are real, ONE thumbs up is actually bad for the show’s metrics. TWO is good. Am I supposed to be revealing this information? Unclear. Does it matter? Not really, because Strip Law is going to be your new favorite television program and you’re going to want to give it as many algorithm-boosting thumbs up as possible.
Just Announced:
MAD About DC
Ask your Mom to take you to the grocery store, because Mad Magazine is back — in D.C. Comics form.*
Cover by Chip Zdarsky
When I received an e-mail from Chip Zdarsky with the subject line “MAD!!!” — I assumed he was mad. Either at me, for the many horrible things I’ve said about him over the years and the ways I’ve quietly worked to impede his career. Or, alternatively, that he had gone “mad” the way King George was mad —mentally unstable and peeing blue according to a movie I saw in grade school.
It turns out it was a little of the latter, because Chip had just been named the editor (sort of like a “king”) of a new Mad Magazine send-up of D.C. comics and he wanted me to script a story for it. I did not end up finding out what color his urine was.
I was not a Mad Magazine reader growing up (more of a Disney Adventures kid), but I am a comics and cartoonist fan/dork so it’s only a matter of time before I point my face down into the exploded Chernobyl reactor that is Mad Magazine’s history of showcasing creators like Al Jaffee, Sergio Aragonés, Wally Wood, and their professional peer starting now — me.
Mind you, I did not draw this comic story myself, and I’m not sure I’m allowed to say who did, but if you’ve been following my other comics output, you won’t be surprised or disappointed. You might, however, be angry (MAD?) that it was limited to one page, because — Jesus Christ, look who all they got for this thing:
Via D.C. Comics:
DC is proud (and slightly concerned) to announce MAD About DC, a 64-page one-shot arriving April 1, 2026. Yes, April 1. And no, this isn’t a prank—unless you count letting Chip Zdarsky run this thing as its Guest Editor a prank on the DC Universe itself. You’d have to ask Chip.
“They say at DC there’s nowhere to go but down after writing Batman, and, yeah, it’s true,” said Zdarsky. “It’s very true.”
MAD About DC brings together an all-star lineup of writers and artists to lovingly roast, parody, and generally make a mess of the characters fans hold dear.
“This project embraces the spirit of MAD Magazine in the best possible way,” said Marie Javins, DC’s Editor-in-Chief. “MAD has a long tradition of sharp, fearless satire, poking fun at everything, including DC, with real wit and craft. When Chip pitched a project that would roast the DC Universe, it was clear he could assemble the right team. These creators know our characters inside and out, which is why they can twist them in ways that feel both surprising and smart. That kind of playful irreverence is what MAD does best.”
Inside MAD About DC, readers will find:
• Sergio Aragonés with “A MAD Look at Comic Book Stores”
• Jim Zub & Ramon Perez teaming for “Guy vs. Spy”
• A brand-new DC Fold-In by Charles Soule & Ryan Browne
• A parade of MAD-style parodies skewering the DC comic books you love, and a few you’ve always hated anyway, from Kyle Starks, Dave Johnson, Tini Howard, Mattie Lubchansky, Mark Waid, Ty Templeton, Rainbow Rowell, Vita Ayala, M.L. Sanapo, Mark Russell, Steve Lieber, Jeff Parker, Lukas Ketner, Gerry Duggan, Scott Aukerman, Mitch Gerads, Joanne Starer, Joe Quinones, Scott Snyder, Josh Williamson, Deniz Camp, Gail Simone, Colleen Doran, Joe Kelly, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Valentine De Landro, Ryan North, Erica Henderson, Tom Taylor, Bruno Redondo, Mariko Tamaki, Riley Rossmo, Al Ewing, PJ Holden, Shannon Wheeler, Leah Williams, Isaac Goodhart, Cody Ziglar, Daniele Di Nicuolo, Daniel Kibblesmith, Brandt & Stein, Casey Gilly, J. Bone, Skottie Young, Andrew Wheeler, Stephen Byrne, Colleen Coover, Benjamin Errett, Matt Fraction, Kagan McLeod, Lee Gatlin, Joseph Starkey, Graham Roumieu…and more?!
Whether you’re a lifelong MAD Magazine fan, a DC diehard, or simply someone who enjoys watching respected creators make questionable choices, MAD About DC promises to fulfill your every comic book dream…or at least three or four of them.
MAD About DC goes on sale April 1, 2026, wherever comics are sold. No whoopee cushions included. The issue features a main cover by Dan “MAD About Gluten Labeling Because It Should Actually Be Clearer or Else What’s the Point” Panosian ($7.99 US), cardstock variants by Simon Bisley and Chip Zdarsky ($8.99 US), and a foil variant by Panosian ($10.99 US).
Call your local comics shop to reserve a copy now — and/or find one to start patronizing regularly, it’s good for the community, the arts, the business I’m in, and the soul.
On Sale Now!
Rick And Morty: The End!
On sale now from Oni Press — the epic six-part conclusion event to the Rick And Morty Oni Comics Universe! Will this be THE END of RICK AND MORTY? YES! That is LITERALLY the TITLE!
Cover by Dave Bardin
The incredible artist Jarrett Williams and the whole Rick And Morty Vs. The Universe team follow-up the first ever Rick And Morty comics event with the last ever Rick And Morty comics event!
Via Oni Press:
OUT OF THE SMOKING RUINS OF RICK AND MORTY VS. THE UNIVERSE, THE OMNIVERSE’S MOST DYSFUNCTIONAL PAIR OF SCIENCE ADVENTURERS IS ABOUT TO FACE THEIR BIGGEST, MOST INESCAPABLE ADVERSARY OF ALL TIME: THE END OF ALL THINGS . . . AND EACH OTHER! Rick Sanchez, the most wanted man in this and every other universe, is on the run. With a bounty on his head, every government, military, pirate, mobster, bounty hunter, bail bondsman, religious institution, theater troupe, circus clown, and endangered species is on the hunt to bring in Rick—DEAD OR ALIVE. The only one who can bring Rick in warm is the one person who knows him best: Morty Smith. But Morty’s not the only Smith hot on Rick’s trail . . . "Space Beth" Smith is determined to bring Rick in, and she doesn’t particularly care how. Now it’s just a question of who can get to him first! THIS TITLE IS NOT SOME KIND OF ARTFUL METAPHOR, FOLKS! After 10 years and 100+ issues, the beginning of THE END starts here as cosmic annihilators Daniel Kibblesmith (Loki) and Jarrett Williams (Speed Force) prepare to unleash a fantastically fatal finale for RICK AND MORTY!
Available here or from that comic shop near you that you just discovered. Rick And Morty: The End (4 of 6) hits stands February 4th, 2026.
Also Still On Sale!
And the 144-page, illustrated hardcover handbook from Chronicle Books — So You’ve Been Bitten By A Radioactive Spider: How To Survive The Marvel Universe.
Cover by Kyle Hilton.
—all available digitally or from a local comic shop near you.
Currently Reading
This Year by John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats. One song/chapter per a day as a little ritual. If I recall from the introduction, this is not a strict prescription, but how often are you invited to experience art this way, outside of a Far Side calendar?
*See, I wasn’t kidding about the Simpsons influence.
