Jeff the Land Shark #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeJeff the Land Shark #4 is part of Jeff's debut print limited series — the character's first sustained narrative in the traditional single-issue format after years of wordless, gag-driven Infinity Comics — marking a genuine creative milestone in the evolution of one of Marvel's most organically grown fan-favorite characters. The five-issue miniseries of which this is the penultimate chapter was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication at the 2026 ceremony, a recognition that validates Jeff's transition from a digital novelty to a legitimately award-competing print property. Thematically, issue #4 deepens the serialized 'Shadow Jeff' plotline and demonstrates that Kelly Thompson's ambition for the character in print — 'more complex Jeff stories,' as she put it — is being realized through genuine narrative momentum rather than episodic gags.
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Jeff the Land Shark was conceived by writer Kelly Thompson after a particular baby landshark drawn by artist Stefano Caselli in West Coast Avengers vol. 3 #1 (2018) caught her eye; she built a distinct character around that image, drawing inspiration from her own pet cats. Jeff was formally named and adopted by Gwen Poole in issue #7 of that series, with art by Daniele di Nicuolo. After years of popularity through Thompson and Gurihiru's Eisner Award-winning Infinity Comics series and a high-profile debut as a playable character in the video game Marvel Rivals in December 2024, Marvel greenlit this first-ever print solo limited series — announced at ComicsPro in early 2025 — pairing Thompson with artist Tokitokoro. The series was explicitly described by Thompson as an opportunity to tell the kind of structurally complex, multi-issue narrative that the short-form Infinity Comic format could not accommodate.
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- Released September 24, 2025 (cover-dated November 2025); the fourth chapter of a five-issue limited series, making it the penultimate issue.
- Written by Kelly Thompson (Jeff's co-creator) with interior art by Tokitokoro and colors by Jim Campbell; cover A by Gurihiru.
- The issue is set in the Savage Land — Marvel's prehistoric Antarctic preserve populated by dinosaurs — continuing the series-wide 'Shadow Demon' pursuit storyline that began in issue #1 when an accident in the Sanctum Sanctorum created an evil duplicate of Jeff.
- Elsa Bloodstone, the monster hunter and a character Thompson previously featured in her 2020–2021 Deadpool run, appears as Jeff's primary in-story ally in this issue, reconnecting two Thompson-created character threads.
- Luna Snow (the K-pop-powered hero) is prominently featured in solicitation copy and on variant covers, including a NetEase Games/Marvel Rivals-themed variant; her precise role in the interior story versus Elsa Bloodstone's is a point of partial ambiguity across sources.
- A key plot development sees Jeff gain the ability to actively control and summon portals himself (rather than simply tagging along through the Shadow Demon's portals), representing a meaningful expansion of Jeff's established power set within this miniseries.
- The issue carried a 1:25 incentive variant by Dave Bardin, a Tokitokoro variant, a Mitsuhiro Arita variant, and a NetEase Games/Marvel Rivals variant featuring Luna Snow — reflecting the multi-variant publishing strategy Marvel applied to the entire series.
- The broader series (vol. 1, 2025) was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication at the 2026 Eisner Awards, and is collected in a TPB edition.
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Reprinted in Jeff the Land Shark: Friends and Rivals #[nn] (2026)
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