Phantom 2040 & Other Comic Strips
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Future Funnies
The Ghost Who Walks is back, this time, in a future that feels all too close.
This week, Comics Kingdom launches Phantom 2040: A New Shadow—a brand-new webcomic that reimagines the world’s first costumed hero for the fractured year of 2040. If you know your comics history, you already know The Phantom’s pedigree: created by Lee Falk in 1936, he was the original masked hero, a pulp icon who paved the way for just about every crimefighter who followed.
Now, nearly ninety years later, the mantle doesn’t just get passed. it gets taken up by someone unexpected.
Comics Kingdom has introduced an all-new weekly vertical Phantom comic strip: Phantom 2040.
Creating the new Phantom are writers Alex Segura and Michael Moreci with John Amor supplying the art.
Season One of Phantom 2040: A New Shadow runs for 20 weekly chapters, dropping every Wednesday exclusively on Comics Kingdom. You can read the first four chapters free (with ads), or subscribe for unlimited access and new subscribers even get their first 60 days free.
It is unknown at this time if this story is in any way connected to the Phantom 2040 of the 1990s.
A little less far into the future is Molly and the Bear College Life.
Starting college is stressful. Starting college with an 800-pound, allergy-prone, anxious sidekick is another level of mayhem.
In this flash-forward fantasy, Molly tackles dorm living, classes, and social scenarios alongside Bear and her best friend, Harper. But between Bear’s… erm… unique expectations (let’s just say he’s crossing his fingers for a sock hop) and a touch of roommate drama, college is turning out to be as nerve-wracking as just about everything else in Bear’s world.
Nicole Kinning at GoComics tells us when Molly, maybe 10 years from now, going to college with Bear.
Beginning today, Sept. 22, “Molly and the Bear” kicks off a story arc that imagines what it would be like if Molly went to college (with Bear tagging along, naturally).
The story arc will run through Oct. 3. Stay tuned to see what happens! “Molly and the Bear” updates every day on GoComics.
Through the Past Darkly
Is Thatababy just The Infancy Diaries of Lio?
Henry gets a little in joke as, yes, it was 67 years ago this month that Gil Thorp began as Milford coach.
Walt and Skeezix, um, Mark and Cherry walk through the fall colors. Will it be an annual event?
Is that Zippy shedding a tear because he has just heard that Olivia Jaimes is leaving Nancy? Not hardly.
I don’t think any Nancy cartoonists after Ernie Bushmiller will get any compliments from Bill Griffith.
But I was surprised when discussing Nancy AND Little Lulu Bill didn’t name John Stanley.
I will acknowledge that a dairy is not the most pleasant territory for one’s nose, but it doesn’t bother me (much). What it does is take me back to my childhood when I was surrounded by cows (my dad and his brother owned a small dairy), or goats (a different uncle), or pigs (my mom’s side).
The fragrance is nostalgic for me.
Back Where We Started
About Phantom 2024. The new comic makes five titles starring The Phantom on Comics Kingdom:
Which almost matches Popeye‘s comics there:
And Thimble Theater makes six!
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