Attention Supernatural Fans, Sam & Dean's Missing Chapter Drops Today

Published Aug 26, 2026, 11:09 AM EDT Nicolas Ayala is a Senior Writer for the Comics team at ScreenRant, with over five years of experience writing about Superhero media, action movies, and TV shows. Sam and Dean's story continues with Supernatural's new chapter, which brings the Winchester brothers together again for a new deadly encounter with a paranormal entity. Supernatural's fifteen-season run cements the Warner Bros. series as the longest-running live-action fantasy series in US television history, with a legacy built on a deep exploration of urban folklore and biblical mythology. Across 327 episodes, Supernatural introduced a vast menagerie of folklore creatures like wendigos, shapeshifters, djinns, vampires, and a uniquely corporate iteration of demons. Since Supernatural's polarizing 2020 live-action finale premiered, the franchise has migrated from television screens into the comic book medium to keep the Winchester mythology alive. Following the cancellation of the short-lived prequel series The Winchesters, Dynamite Entertainment breathed new life into the show's lore with the launch of a canonical, standalone Supernatural comic book line written by Greg Pak. This revival expanded heavily with holiday specials and a massive narrative event kicked off by Supernatural: Wayward Special #1, which places Sam and Dean on separate paths into twin solo spinoff series: Supernatural: Sam Winchester and Supernatural: Dean Winchester. While lead actors Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have voiced their interest in Supernatural's live-action season 16 or a streaming movie revival, their scheduling commitments to other high-profile franchises mean a television return remains on hold. However, the Winchester brothers' adventures won't stop anytime soon. The Winchester Brothers Discover Whether Sam Is Actually A Lichtträger Supernatural, Written By Greg Pak; Art By Daniel Scalisi & Ellie Wright As the Supernatural TV show expanded from a simple monster-of-the-week horror road trip into a sprawling epic, the overarching plot progressed through massive milestones, such as breaking the sixty-six seals, unleashing Lucifer, exploring Purgatory, and confronting the Nephilim. Ultimately, the Supernatural TV series culminated in a battle against God Himself. However, there's still plenty of mythological and mystical ground to cover. Dynamite's Supernatural #10 continues Sam Winchester's Lichtträger arc, finally revealing whether he's bound to become a living corpse, and pitting the brothers against one of the feared creatures. Greg Pak, Daniel Scalisi, and Ellie Wright's Supernatural #10 also shows the aftermath of John Winchester's graphic death, and it sets up Sam and Dean's eventual split ahead of Supernatural: Sam Winchester and Supernatural: Dean Winchester, both of which release in less than two months. While Sam and Dean's encounter with a Lichtträger ends up being less catastrophic than John predicted, it still sets the stage for a new, challenging era in the brothers' life. Supernatural's Comic Continuation Can Do Something That The TV Show Never Could Sam And Dean's New Adventures Can Be The Scale Of A Blockbuster Movie Although Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki aren't directly involved in the Supernatural comics, Dynamite's line capitalizes on the limitless boundaries of the illustrated page, which frees the franchise from the physical and financial real-world constraints that governed the CW show for fifteen years. While the live-action series had to work around a tight episodic budget, the comic book medium allows the writer and the artists to orchestrate ambitious concepts that would have given the show's VFX department nightmares. The comic book medium gives Supernatural a much grander sense of scale and horror right out of the gate. The visual freedom of the comics is most evident in Supernatural #9, which stages an unapologetically over-the-top war zone that the television network could only ever dream of filming back in the show's heyday. In this chaotic issue, the Winchester family finds themselves trapped directly in the crosshairs of an explosive collision between a horde of zombies and John Winchester's giant robots. This arc also features elements like burning meteorites streaking across the sky, characters with translucent skin, and brutal combat and death sequences that never break the story's immersion. What would you like to see in Dynamite Entertainment's Supernatural comics? Supernatural #10 is now available from Dynamite Entertainment Supernatural Created by Eric Kripke TV Show(s) Supernatural, ghostfacers, Supernatural: The Anime Series, The Winchesters Cast Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles, Misha Collins, Jim Beaver, Mark Sheppard, Mark Pellegrino, Alexander Calvert, Katie Cassidy, Lauren Cohan, Genevieve Padalecki, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Samantha Smith, Felicia Day, Kim Rhodes, Ruth Connell First TV Show Supernatural Latest TV Show The Winchesters First Episode Air Date September 13, 2005