Mega Man: Bot in the Family — Official Mega Man Comic Col...

A new officially licensed Mega Man comic collection, Mega Man: Bot in the Family, has been announced by NF Publishing in collaboration with Matthew Taranto, creator of the webcomic Brawl in the Family. The project was unveiled on social media and is presented as an official Capcom-licensed product. According to the publisher’s campaign materials, the book will be a 200+-page hardcover that spans forty years of Mega Man, with a dedicated chapter for each mainline game in the Classic series. The Kickstarter campaign is scheduled to launch on August 4, 2026. NF Publishing and Taranto position the volume as a full-color anthology of short, strip-style comics rather than a single continuous narrative. The publisher describes the work as produced in full color and explicitly notes the art is hand-drawn by an actual artist. The campaign copy frames the book more like a hardbound Calvin & Hobbes-style collection — a dense volume of individual strips — rather than a standard comic book, and encourages fans to sign up for notifications to be alerted when the Kickstarter goes live. Mega Man: Bot in the Family follows a long history of Mega Man material in comics and manga. Notable past runs include the Archie Comics Mega Man series, which ran from 2011 to 2015 and was written by Ian Flynn. Udon Entertainment has also produced reprints and original Mega Man stories in recent years. Capcom has licensed the franchise to multiple publishers over time and continues to authorize official releases across media. For Nintendo-focused audiences, Mega Man has a substantial platform history on Nintendo systems dating back to the original NES and Game Boy releases; Capcom has also made Mega Man compilations available on contemporary platforms such as the Nintendo Switch. While this hardcover collection is a print product launching via Kickstarter, the announcement is likely to interest collectors and fans who follow Mega Man news through channels like Nintendo Direct and digital storefronts such as the Nintendo eShop. NF Publishing’s Kickstarter page and sign-up form remain the primary sources for campaign details and pledge information. With a scheduled August 4, 2026 launch date, fans and collectors have time to register for notifications ahead of the campaign.