Marvel's NYCC TV panel finally put Disney+ on a calendar
Marvel's NYCC 2026 TV and animation panel announced Zodiac for 2028, three Marvel Zombies events through 2029, a January 13 date for Spider-Man Season 2, and Daredevil: Born Again's final season. Here is the whole slate sorted by date, and what it says about Marvel's TV plan.
Marvel Television and Marvel Animation used their New York Comic Con panel on Thursday to do something I have wanted from Marvel for years: put an actual calendar on the table. Brad Winderbaum announced Zodiac, a brand new live-action spy series for 2028, confirmed three more Marvel Zombies events running through Halloween 2029, dated Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Season 2 for January 13, and brought out three Defenders for Daredevil: Born Again's final season. Then the room got the first episode of VisionQuest, which premieres October 14 on Disney+.
Nobody at Dorkify was in the Empire Stage seats, so this is built from the people who were. I am keeping footage talk light. Marketing clips are fair game for a mention, but if you want to see them fresh, skip the paragraph after the table.
IGN's live blog has the headline items in order. Zodiac got a logo and a genre: a live-action spy thriller, with a logo that IGN thinks points toward S.H.I.E.L.D., shooting in London in the spring with casting in the coming weeks. Marvel Zombies returns as three two-part specials. X-Men '97 Season 3 showed footage. Daredevil: Born Again ends with Season 3, which IGN calls double confirmed on stage. Laughing Place's full recap adds the color: more than 3,000 fans in the room, Winderbaum now overseeing Marvel Comics as well as TV and animation, a fourth season of X-Men '97 already planned, and Mike Colter missing the panel but returning as Luke Cage.
The zombie line now has a longer runway than the street-level show that relaunched the Defenders. Sit with that for a second.
Marvel's Disney+ TV calendar, as announced at NYCC 2026
| When | Show | Format | What NYCC added |
|---|---|---|---|
| October 14, 2026 | VisionQuest | Live action | First episode screened for the room; closes the run that began with WandaVision and Agatha All Along |
| January 13, 2027 | Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, Season 2 | Animated | Firm date, first poster, a clip, and a symbiote tease |
| 2027 | Daredevil: Born Again, Season 3 | Live action | Final season; Cox, Ritter, and Jones on stage with a teaser |
| 2027 | X-Men '97, Season 3 | Animated | Footage shown; Season 4 planned |
| Halloween 2027 | Marvel Zombies: The Winter Soldier | Animated, two parts | First of three new zombie events, Bryan Andrews directing |
| 2028 | Zodiac | Live action | New series, spy thriller, London shoot in spring 2027 |
| Halloween 2028 | Marvel Zombies: The Fist of Khonshu | Animated, two parts | Second zombie event |
| Halloween 2029 | Marvel Zombies: The Last Guardian | Animated, two parts | The finale; the title character is a secret |
Every row comes from IGN and Laughing Place, cross-checked with Marvel's own recap. I sorted it by date because none of the panel recaps do, and once you line it up like this the shape of the plan jumps out. Animation carries most of the schedule. Of the eight dated slots, five are animated, and three of those are zombies. Live action gets VisionQuest now, Daredevil next year, and Zodiac after that. That is a much leaner live-action pipeline than the Disney+ flood of a few years back, and honestly, I think it is healthier.
On the footage, briefly. Laughing Place describes the Spider-Man clip as a gala that goes very wrong, with Peter's suit repairing itself in black. The X-Men '97 footage puts the Brotherhood back in play and ends at a wedding, and IGN says Deadpool is on the guest list. The Daredevil teaser opens with Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, and Danny Rand at a table being offered badges, and Jessica pointing out that there should be four. That one line did more for my excitement than any sizzle reel.
What I would actually circle
- VisionQuest on October 14. The only thing on this list you can watch this month. Paul Bettany and James Spader back together, with Terry Matalas running it.
- Spider-Man on January 13. The best date on the list for a family binge. Season 1 showed Peter learning the ropes; showrunner Jeff Trammell says Season 2 takes the training wheels off.
- Daredevil's final season. Charlie Cox joked on stage that fans should restart the Save Daredevil campaign. He was kidding. Mostly.
- Zodiac in 2028. File it under watch the casting news. Winderbaum told fans to study the logo, which is the most Marvel sentence possible.
Marvel's official recap has Winderbaum describing the zombie animatics as blood-splattering but beautiful, and joking that he cannot believe Disney+ lets them get away with it. I believe him. Halloween has quietly become Marvel Animation's night, and booking it three years ahead is a level of commitment I did not see coming.
If you are tracking Marvel on the movie side, Bart has been reading the box office tea leaves in our Endgame Encore weekend piece, and the Spider-Man connection runs through Jon Watts' move to the next Star Wars trilogy, since Watts directed Tom Holland's first three Spider-Man films. The TV side does not need the multiverse to sell itself right now. It needs that Defenders table scene and a January date for the kids' show, and it has both.
How we made this: researched and drafted with AI assistance. Sources are linked in the piece.
How we made this: researched and drafted with AI assistance. Sources are linked in the piece.
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