Smile: Any Given Smile (2026)

The AAL Football Championship is days away—and quarterback Max Dupree is cracking under the weight of it. The pressure to win, the whispers from the sidelines, the sense that something bigger than just the game is at stake…it’s starting to cost him more than his focus.Across town, St. Augustine Tribune reporter Rita is chasing a lead no one else will touch—a string of suicides with a chilling connection to the AAL. The deeper she digs, the clearer it becomes: This isn’t coincidence. It’s a pattern. And each and every one of the deceased died smiling…As Max spirals and Rita closes in, the truth behind the city’s gambling underworld threatens to surface. And it could cost them both everything.The clock is ticking. The game is fixed. And someone is going to lose far more than the championship in issue #2 of Any Given Smile, based on the critically acclaimed film franchise.

January 1995. All eyes are on the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The Sharks gear up for the most significant event in the AAL’s 20-year history, and Maximillian Dupree—their sudden-star backup quarterback—is feeling the pressure from his teammates, his fans, and his debts to the city’s gambling underworld. A string of suicides hits the community hard, drawing a desperate sports journalist to examine their connection to the big game. No one can trust anything they see as a mind-bending entity and its frightful visions threaten their payouts, their sanity, and their lives… Based on the critically acclaimed Smile film franchise, writer Stephanie Williams (Nubia, Roots of Madness) and GLAAD Media Award–winning artist Pablo Collar (Avengers Academy) are sure to run fear across the goal line. Time to place your bets. Kickoff approaches for a Sunday ritual that will have you ready to win…or die smiling.