Absolute Catwoman is no longer stopping at six issues. Selina Kyle’s series has been extended by another six installments, taking its planned run through Absolute Catwoman #12 in 2027. The extension also marks a clear creative handoff: Scott Snyder will finish his co-writing role with issue #6, while Che Grayson will write issues #7 through #12 with Bengal continuing as artist.

That is a meaningful vote of confidence in a title initially framed as a six-issue project, but it is not merely more room added to the end of the book. The final three initially announced issues position Selina at the center of a race for the Yarn, an artificial intelligence described as the world’s most powerful supercomputer. The stakes involve the Calicos, Cassandra Cain, the League of Shadows, Holly Robinson, and Selina’s own uncertain future. With the series now continuing beyond that confrontation, the resolution of the first arc appears set to become a launch point rather than a finish line.

A six-issue finale becomes a 12-issue runway

Comic solicitations often use “of” numbering to indicate a planned limited series. In this case, issues #4, #5, and #6 are each labeled “of 6,” confirming that they were presented as the end of the original run. The extension does not change the listed numbering of those issues; instead, it carries the title forward with #7 through #12.

For readers, the important distinction is that the book is continuing as the same series rather than restarting with a new first issue. That makes the upcoming #6 especially significant. It is the issue that concludes Snyder and Grayson’s co-writing partnership on the title, while also serving as the bridge to Grayson and Bengal’s next six issues.

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Grayson has said the continuation will strengthen Selina’s ties to Gotham and reach beyond it. That is a broad promise, but it fits the immediate material: the solicited story already moves through Central City and China before returning to questions that are personal to Selina. The expanded run gives the creative team more space to explore the fallout of those events rather than requiring every thread to be settled at the end of #6.

“Where we take Absolute Catwoman next will deepen her ties to Gotham and beyond,” Grayson said of the extension.

Bengal will remain the series artist for the newly added issues. Continuity on the art side matters here because the title is not simply changing writers at a natural relaunch point. Bengal’s work will visually connect the original six-issue story with the next phase, maintaining a consistent presentation for Selina and the supporting cast as the narrative shifts into its post-#6 status quo.

What the remaining first six issues establish

The next three solicited issues lay out a structured escalation around the Yarn. In plain terms, the Yarn is an artificial intelligence, or AI: a computer system presented here as having extraordinary strategic power. The book’s description calls it a supercomputer and says control of it could let its owner rewrite their place in history. Whether that phrase is literal, political, technological, or some combination of the three remains a story question, but the stakes are unmistakably larger than a routine theft.

Absolute Catwoman #4, dated November 4, 2026, sends Selina and the Calicos on one last heist in Central City. They are trying to locate the Yarn before Cassandra Cain and the League of Shadows can claim it. A heist is a theft story built around planning, access, security, and escape; pairing that structure with a supercomputer suggests that gear and preparation will be part of the challenge, though the solicitation specifically warns that advanced equipment alone will not be enough.

The Calicos are central to that mission. Their alliance with Selina is not incidental background, since the book positions them alongside her in the hunt for the Yarn. This makes #4 a key setup issue for the title’s larger conflict: Catwoman is working with a group while facing an organized adversary, and the object both sides seek is powerful enough to alter the future of everyone involved.

Absolute Catwoman #5, dated December 23, 2026, moves the race forward following a heist in China. Selina and the Calicos remain opposed by Cassandra Cain and her League of Shadows. The wording presents both sides as racing to secure the AI first, so the suspense is not only whether the Yarn can be found but who reaches it in time and what they intend to do with it.

The League of Shadows is described in the solicitation as Cassandra’s organization, making Cassandra an active force in this story rather than a detached cameo. The conflict therefore has two dimensions: the practical race to obtain the Yarn and the collision between Selina’s group and a rival faction with its own ability to pursue the prize.

Absolute Catwoman #6, on sale January 27, 2027, is framed as Selina’s turning point. The Calicos’ return to her life is tied to Holly Robinson’s pursuit of the Yarn, and the issue asks whether Selina will return to the path she once envisioned or choose a different direction. That makes the first arc’s climax more than an AI chase. The Yarn is also the pressure point that brings unfinished relationships and identity-defining choices to the surface.

Why the creative transition matters

Snyder’s exit after #6 should not be mistaken for a complete break from the story’s existing direction. He has said that the events connected to Absolute Batman #25 were part of the larger plan from the original series pitch and were considered in planning for Absolute Catwoman as well. A series pitch is the foundational proposal that establishes a comic’s central premise, direction, and major elements before the finished issues are made.

In other words, Snyder is presenting the crossover-adjacent development as planned architecture, not an after-the-fact addition designed solely to extend the series. However, he has also warned that readers should not assume they can predict what follows merely because the broader connection existed early on.

That is the key context for #7 through #12. Grayson and Bengal inherit a story with deliberately planted connections to the wider Absolute Gotham setting, but they also have room to push Selina into new territory. Snyder characterized their 2027 plans as taking the character to greater heights, while Bengal described the book as a vibrant, action-driven adventure in the Absolute universe.

For a continuing character series, that kind of succession can be more interesting than a full creative reset. Grayson already knows the first six issues from the inside as co-writer, and Bengal has been drawing the series from the start. The incoming creative structure retains the people most directly responsible for the current book’s voice and visual identity, even as Snyder steps away from scripting.

Absolute Batman #25 is a setup point, not a substitute for Catwoman’s story

The connection to Absolute Batman #25 gives readers of the broader line an additional point of interest, but the available details do not specify the exact nature of its final-page development. The safest reading is simply that it establishes something relevant to Absolute Catwoman’s next phase. It should not be treated as a detailed preview of every event in #7 through #12.

That restraint matters. Shared-universe comics regularly plant story material in one title that pays off in another, but a connection does not necessarily mean a reader must understand every aspect of one book before enjoying the other. What is firmly established is that the Catwoman team has been building toward a larger Absolute Gotham framework from early in the project.

The extension also ensures that Selina has time to remain the lead of her own story. Her arc has immediate emotional weight through the Calicos and Holly Robinson, a concrete antagonist in Cassandra Cain’s League of Shadows, and a high-concept object of conflict in the Yarn. Those ingredients give the series a self-contained engine even while it relates to a larger Batman-linked setting.

Release schedule and what readers can track

  • Absolute Catwoman #4 — November 4, 2026 — Written by Scott Snyder and Che Grayson; art and cover by Bengal; listed at $4.99.
  • Absolute Catwoman #5 — December 23, 2026 — Written by Scott Snyder and Che Grayson; art and cover by Bengal; listed at $4.99.
  • Absolute Catwoman #6 — January 27, 2027 — Written by Scott Snyder and Che Grayson; art and cover by Bengal; listed at $4.99.
  • Absolute Catwoman #7-#12 — 2027 — Written by Che Grayson with art by Bengal. Individual issue dates and pricing were not detailed here.

The immediate reading path is therefore straightforward: issues #4 through #6 complete the existing Yarn storyline and Snyder’s co-writing run; issues #7 through #12 continue from the consequences. Readers interested in the wider context can also watch how the setup from Absolute Batman #25 develops, while keeping expectations measured until more specific plot and release information for the added six issues is available.

The practical takeaway is simple: Absolute Catwoman has gone from a defined six-part project to a 12-issue series with its core writer-artist team intact after the first arc. Selina’s battle over the Yarn will resolve into a new direction, not a closing curtain—and the book has another half-year of issues to show what that direction means for Gotham, its surrounding world, and Catwoman herself.