Jeff the Land Shark: Friends and Rivals

Part of IT'S JEFF

Illustrated by Tokitokoro
Paperback
$15.99 US
On sale May 05, 2026 | 120 Pages | 9781302966942

Hot off his star-making appearance in MARVEL RIVALS, everyone’s favorite walking fish boy stars in his first series!

Join Jeff the Land Shark as he teams up with many of the friends he’s made over the years and outsmarts more than a few rivals along the way. And this time, he’s got some all-new abilities on his side! But a malevolent force has been set upon the world — a being of pure darkness who wants nothing more than dismay and destruction. Beware the evil known as…Shadow Jeff! Plus: Our selachian sensation stalks the dangerous corridors of Madripoor alongside Wolverine and Psylocke! Jeff co-creator Kelly Thompson and artist Tokitokoro sharpen the teeth of the undeniable star of the entire Marvel Universe!

COLLECTING: Jeff the Land Shark (2025) #1-5
Kelly Thompson has a degree in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art & Design and wrote the cult hit Jem and the Holograms for IDW. She published her first graphic novel, Heart in a Box, with Dark Horse in 2015 and has written two novels: Storykiller (2014) and The Girl Who Would Be King (2012). Thompson debuted at Marvel in 2015, co-writing Captain Marvel & the Carol Corps and A-Force. She has since made a name for herself on such books as Hawkeye, West Coast Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool and the Rogue-and-Gambit-starring Mr. and Mrs. X. Thompson’s Black Widow won the 2021 Eisner Award for best new series, and her Infinity Comic collaboration with Gurihiru, It’s Jeff! is a delight.

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Hot off his star-making appearance in MARVEL RIVALS, everyone’s favorite walking fish boy stars in his first series!

Join Jeff the Land Shark as he teams up with many of the friends he’s made over the years and outsmarts more than a few rivals along the way. And this time, he’s got some all-new abilities on his side! But a malevolent force has been set upon the world — a being of pure darkness who wants nothing more than dismay and destruction. Beware the evil known as…Shadow Jeff! Plus: Our selachian sensation stalks the dangerous corridors of Madripoor alongside Wolverine and Psylocke! Jeff co-creator Kelly Thompson and artist Tokitokoro sharpen the teeth of the undeniable star of the entire Marvel Universe!

COLLECTING: Jeff the Land Shark (2025) #1-5

Author

Kelly Thompson has a degree in sequential art from the Savannah College of Art & Design and wrote the cult hit Jem and the Holograms for IDW. She published her first graphic novel, Heart in a Box, with Dark Horse in 2015 and has written two novels: Storykiller (2014) and The Girl Who Would Be King (2012). Thompson debuted at Marvel in 2015, co-writing Captain Marvel & the Carol Corps and A-Force. She has since made a name for herself on such books as Hawkeye, West Coast Avengers, Uncanny X-Men, Amazing Spider-Man, Deadpool and the Rogue-and-Gambit-starring Mr. and Mrs. X. Thompson’s Black Widow won the 2021 Eisner Award for best new series, and her Infinity Comic collaboration with Gurihiru, It’s Jeff! is a delight.

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