Comic Books I Loved in 2025

Since absolutely nobody demanded it, but I wanted to produce it, here's my list of my favourite monthly comics or floppies as they were once called from 2025.

Disclaimer: my list is purely subjective, and subject to my t⁷astes and reading habits. And, of course, I didn't ready every comic published last year (walk into any specialty/direct-market/comic-book store and you'll see why. Hundreds of monthly compete for your attention on the rack.

All of my picks I felt so strongly about that I purchased them.

Mini-Series

Late out of the Gate Debut 

Batman/Green Arrow/The Question: Arcadia (DC Comics)

Gabriel Hardman (writer/artist), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (artist)

A four-issue mini-series which debuted late November.

This noir comic showcases Hardman's gritty enjoyable style and pulpy but modern script, inspired by Mike Grell and Denny O’Neill from the 1970's and 1980's. The three loners (including my fave The Question) unite, in refreshing portrayals (such as disillusioned, single Oliver Queen picking up at a bar) to solve a corporate mystery.

Favourite Treatment of an Established Beloved B-character

Black Canary: Best of the Best (DC)

Tom King (writer), Ryan Sook (artist)

A six-issue mini-series.

King's heartful script toggles between Dinah Lance's past, enduring grueling training at her mother's hands that would shame Bruce Wayne, and now, in here highly publicized bout with Lady Shiva. Sook's kinetic, compelling, immersive art foot-sweeps readers. 

Well, that was a Weird-Ass Comic but Very Smart 

Godzilla: Monsterpiece Theatre 

Tom Scioli (writer/artist)

Three-issue IDW series.

Comics ingenue Scioli disarms with a rudimentary style while peppering and layering his absurd story with literary references and historical figures.

Favourite Reunion of Beloved Writer and Artist 

Batman & Robin: Year One (DC)

Mark Waid (writer), Chris Samnee (artist)

Twelve-issue mini-series.

Masterful neoclassical character writer Mark Waid, teaming with neoclassical artist Chris Samnee once again after their clever, sunny Daredevil tenure, answer the year-one foster care questions that fans didn't know needed answering. A triumph of storytelling, showing what comics are meant to be, and defiantly sunny, once again.

And That was a Weird-Ass Comic Too, but So Much Fun

Moonshine Bigfoot (Image Comics)

Four issues.

Mike Marlowe (writer), Zach Howard (writer, inker), Steve Ellis (penciler)

Ostensibly the tale of a Bigfoot and his hippie girlfriend getting into shenanigans, resplendent with pop-culture cameos in a zany action-filled script with much heart and ... muscle cars? It's a vastly overlooked book in terms of year's best list mentions, in my opinion.

New Ongoing Seriesa

One featuring one of my fave Contemporary Artists

Absolute Martian Manhunter (DC)

Denis Camp (writer), Zavier Rodriguez (artist)

It's the Martian Manhunter, but with a story that sees the protagonist able to see everyone's human condition. Rodriguez's next-level trippy art has pulled in a new generation of readers, according to the owner of my local, The Comic Book Shoppe. Panels warp, explode, pop. Pedestrian's anxieties and fears are laid visually bare. Ever since Rodriguez tripped me out with his two Defenders mini-series, about a motley crue of B-and-C-list antiheroes navigating cosmic conflict, and Time itself, penned by Al Ewing, I have been a devotee.

Assorted Crisis Events (Image Comics)

Denis Camp (writer) and Eric Zawadzki (artist)

In the year of Denis Camp, the writer takes the premise of worlds ending and focuses right down to the individual level. It's Ray Bradbury with harsh nihilism or Crisis on Infinite Earths for the everyperson. Zawadzki messes with panels, with splash pages, with, well, the whole medium. Sci-fi at a criminally cerebral and humanistic level.

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FML (Dark Horse Comics)

Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer) , David Lopez (artist)

DeConnick's thinly veiled self-portrayal, intergenerational Stranger Thingsesque drama, and 'zine culture promulgation in the back matter is well matched my Lopez's at once realistic and then bombastically expressive and cartoony pencils. This one speaks to me personally like no other comic has about parental angst, being young, getting into trouble, and a yearning for supernatural shenanigans.

One Shots of Note
Batman Deadpool (DC)

Grant Morrison (writer) et al.

An mixed antho, but Morrison's titular match-up is intertextual, metatextual and metafictional and, really, quite fun, trumpeting his return to comics.

DC's Zatannic Panic! 

(A Halloween Special that arrived a few weeks late, really)

Various contributors

It's another mixed antho, but wondrously populated with DC's macabre characters. Batman is the sole A-lister. Ambush Bug, Raven, The Demon, Plastic Man, Swamp Thing, and Zatanna tussle with supernatural beasties. 

Andrew MacLean had the audacity to write, draw and letter the stand-out spooky tale, "What A Horrible Night to Have A Curse", a clever yarn featuring my faves John Constantine and Swamp Thing. A werewolf maims the shifty bi street mage. MacLean's opener swept me away, yet drew me in. So stylized. Got some serious Samurai Jack vibes. Will look for more of MacLean's work now. Lee Bermejo's drop-dead outré and gorgeous cover features an unusually chaste Zatanna.