Jason Latour’s short comics work is getting collected into Super Ego: The Short Comics of Jason Latour, hitting shelves May 6th, 2026 from Image Comics. Latour co-created Spider-Gwen for Marvel and Southern Bastards with Jason Aaron, so his name carries weight. This collection pulls together his solo work into one trade paperback.
Super Ego blends satire, superheroes, and slice-of-life storytelling. Latour describes it as a solo comics variety show, which makes sense given the range of styles and subjects in the preview pages. The collection pulls from different influences including Sunday Funnies, Mad Magazine, and Spider-Man comics.
Latour mentioned this is the most fun he’s ever had making comics. Every line and mark is an effort to put his love for the medium on display. That kind of statement from someone who’s worked on major Marvel properties and critically acclaimed indie books says something about how personal this collection is.
The trade paperback drops at comic shops on May 6th and hits independent bookstores, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-a-Million, Indigo, and Waterstones on June 2nd. Digital versions are available on Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, Google Play, and Omnibus.
Latour’s work on Southern Bastards showed he could write brutal, character-driven crime stories set in the rural South. Spider-Gwen proved he could take a concept from a single moment in a crossover event and turn it into a sustainable ongoing series with its own identity. Super Ego shows another side of his work that doesn’t fit into ongoing series or big publisher constraints.
Short comics let creators experiment without committing to long-form narratives. You can try different art styles, play with genre, test ideas that might not sustain 100 issues but work perfectly in six pages. Collections like Super Ego preserve that work and let readers see the range of what a creator can do when they’re not locked into monthly deadlines or editorial mandates.
The preview pages show variety. Different approaches to paneling, different art styles, different tones. That’s what makes short story collections interesting. You’re not getting one 200-page story. You’re getting multiple glimpses into different corners of Latour’s creative process.
Spider-Gwen launched in 2014 and became one of Marvel’s most popular new characters of the 2010s. Southern Bastards ran from 2014 to 2018 and won an Eisner Award. Latour’s established enough that a collection of his short work matters beyond just completists wanting everything he’s done.
The ISBN is 9781534331013 if you’re ordering through bookstores or need to track it down specifically. Comic shops can order it through their distributors using standard ordering systems. If your shop doesn’t carry it automatically, ask them to order a copy.
Collections like this fill gaps in a creator’s bibliography. Latour’s probably done short stories for anthologies, webcomics, promotional pieces, and experimental work that never got wide distribution. Super Ego gathers that scattered work into one place where people can actually find and read it.
May 6th for comic shops, June 2nd for bookstores. Super Ego: The Short Comics of Jason Latour from Image Comics. If you’re into Latour’s other work or you just like seeing what creators do when they’re working outside their main projects, grab it.
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