IGN's Most Anticipated Comics of 2025

2025 is here, and for comic book fans, that intends a full caller twelvemonth of awesome releases from publishers of each types. And it’s shaping up to beryllium a immense 1 for nan industry. Marvel will soon beryllium launching nan One World Under Doom crossover and expanding its massively celebrated Ultimate Universe line. Not to beryllium outdone, DC will beryllium adding respective books to its Absolute Universe statement and kicking disconnected nan sequel to nan iconic Batman: Hush storyline. And there’s plentifulness to look guardant to from smaller publishers arsenic well, including Image Comics’ Bug Wars, Dark Horse’s Bowling With Corpses, and IDW’s Star Trek: Lore War crossover.

Read connected to spot our astir anticipated comics of 2025, and beryllium judge to fto america cognize successful nan comments what you person connected your to-read database this year.

One World Under Doom

With Doctor Doom poised to make his MCU debut soon, it’s only fitting that Marvel Comics put nan spotlight backmost connected this iconic villain. One World Under Doom is simply a crossover successful nan vein of 2009’s Dark Reign. It explores what happens erstwhile Doom becomes nan caller Sorcerer Supreme and uses his powerfulness to state himself emperor of nan world. Naturally, nan Avengers won’t beryllium excessively pleased astir this move of events, but what do they do erstwhile it turns retired plentifulness of group are happier surviving nether Doom’s rule?

The halfway crossover will unfold successful Ryan North and RB Silva’s nine-issue bid One World Under Doom, which launches successful February. Look for nan effects of that communicative to spill retired into a number of Marvel titles successful early 2025. That includes some ongoing books for illustration North’s Fantastic Four and Joe Kelly’s The Amazing Spider-Man arsenic good arsenic dedicated tie-ins for illustration Thunderbolts: Doomstrike and Doom Academy.

Batman: Hush 2

The original Batman: Hush is undoubtedly 1 of nan astir iconic Batman comics ever published, arsenic it efficaciously established nan look and reside for nan franchise successful nan 21st century. So it’s a beautiful large woody that DC is yet getting astir to publishing a sequel 23 years later.

Granted, it’s not arsenic if DC hasn’t published stories featuring Bruce Wayne’s puerility friend-turned-bitter force Tommy Eliot successful nan years since Hush wrapped, but this is nan first 1 to bring backmost writer Jeph Loeb and creator Jim Lee. Hush 2 again puts Batman astatine nan halfway of a immense conspiracy orchestrated by Hush, 1 that besides involves galore of his closest friends and top foes.

As excited arsenic we are for Hush 2, we’re besides eager to spot what comes after. Hush 2 kicks disconnected successful March pinch Batman #158 and runs for six issues. That intends DC will beryllium debuting nan caller regular imaginative squad successful Batman #164 nan pursuing fall. Who’s qualified to travel up connected Loeb and Lee and return complete arguably nan biggest title successful nan comic book industry? We’ll find retired later this year.

Mike Mignola’s Bowling pinch Corpses

Even arsenic Mike Mignola’s beloved Hellboy and BPRD beingness continues connected done various one-shots and miniseries, Mignola himself has been engaged establishing other, caller shared universes pinch his collaborators. The upcoming schematic caller Bowling With Corpses and Other Strange Tales From Lands Unknown kicks disconnected Mignola and Ben Stenbeck’s fantasy-centric Lands Unknown universe. It’s not often we get an full schematic novel’s worthy of caller stories written and drawn by Mignola, truthful this is good worthy a look erstwhile it hits stores successful January.

The Ultimate Universe Expands

As we’ve precocious argued, nan Ultimate Universe is nan champion point Marvel is presently publishing, truthful of people we’re stoked to spot what nan statement has successful shop for america this year. The large news is that Marvel is adding a 5th monthly Ultimate title successful January - Chris Condon and Alessandro Capuccio’s Ultimate Wolverine. In this distorted type of nan Marvel Universe, Logan has go nan Winter Soldier, a pawn of The Maker’s Council. But tin moreover these shadowy overlords incorporate nan beast within?

Elsewhere, look for nan full Ultimate Line to proceed progressing successful real-time arsenic these books count down to nan inevitable return of The Maker. We’ll moreover spot nan first awesome Ultimate Universe crossover this summer, a storyline that’ll beryllium teased successful 1 of Marvel’s Free Comic Book Day specials successful May.

The Return of Vertigo

Comic fans nan world complete were crushed erstwhile DC folded nan hugely influential Vertigo imprint successful 2019, which is why it was truthful breathtaking to study that Vertigo is making a comeback successful 2025. Once again, nan Vertigo statement will service arsenic a haven for groundbreaking, mature readers-focused comics astatine DC. The only drawback is that we don’t yet cognize what books will comprise nan Vertigo line. So far, DC has only revealed that James Tynion IV and Álvaro Martínez Bueno’s The Nice House By nan Sea is retroactively being released nether nan Vertigo banner. Will we spot much creator-owned titles subordinate nan Vertigo line? Will classical franchises for illustration Swamp Thing and Hellblazer find a location here? We dream to study much soon.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

IDW relaunched their flagship Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic successful 2024 pinch rather nan star-studded imaginative team. But nan drawback is that nan caller bid debuted pinch a rotating squad of impermanent artists and a position quo that saw nan Turtles scattered and alone. Only now is nan family coming backmost together, arsenic writer Jason Aaron and new bid creator Juan Ferreyra floor plan nan adjacent awesome TMNT chapter.

It each starts successful January’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #6, arsenic nan Turtles yet reunite and return location to their classical stomping grounds successful New York City. But arsenic if nan psychological scars of their caller ordeals weren’t bad enough, nan Turtles person to contend pinch nan truth that NYC is now nether nan power of nan Foot Clan.

Deadpool/Wolverine

Deadpool & Wolverine is 1 of nan highest-grossing superhero movies of each time, truthful of people Marvel is going to utilization that business for each its worth. Logan and Wade Wilson are backmost successful action and joined astatine nan hep successful this caller ongoing series. Better yet, Deadpool/Wolverine hearkens backmost to nan X-Men’s Krakoan era arsenic it reunites nan X-Force imaginative squad of writer Benjamin Percy and creator Joshua Cassara. Expect a superhero comic that’s arsenic uproariously funny arsenic it is acheronian and violent. We’d expect thing little from these 2 anti-heroes.

The Absolute Universe: Wave 2

The Ultimate Universe whitethorn beryllium nan champion point Marvel is publishing, but it’s comberan some beardown title now successful DC’s Absolute Universe. DC launched this caller statement successful Fall 2024 pinch Absolute Batman, Absolute Wonder Woman, and Absolute Superman, books that fundamentally reworked galore of nan halfway tenets of these characters. Now readers tin look guardant to Round 2 successful 2025.

DC will beryllium debuting astatine slightest 3 caller Absolute comics successful 2025. March 2025 will bring pinch it a 2nd activity of releases, including Al Ewing and Jahnoy Lindsay’s Absolute Green Lantern, Jeff Lemire and Nick Robles’ Absolute Flash, and Deniz Camp and Javier Rodríguez’s Absolute Martian Manhunter. Those are terrific imaginative teams, and we can’t hold to spot really they reinterpret immoderate of DC’s astir iconic heroes for this breathtaking caller universe.

Bug Wars

As if penning TMNT and Absolute Superman weren’t enough, Jason Aaron is besides kicking disconnected his adjacent awesome creator-owned epic successful 2025. Even better, it reunites him pinch his Conan nan Barbarian collaborator Mahmud Asrar. Bug Wars is fundamentally Honey I Shrunk nan Kids by measurement of John Carter of Mars. When Slade Slaymaker is shrunk down, he finds his backyard has transformed into a fantastical realm afloat of warring insects, a warfare successful which he’s destined to play a cardinal role. Look for Bug Wars to footwear disconnected successful February 2025.

Star Wars: Legacy of Vader

Charles Soule has explored galore eras of nan Star Wars timeline successful his tenure astatine Marvel, but now he’s tasked pinch fleshing retired nan mysterious twelvemonth betwixt nan events of The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker. That’s the mounting of Star Wars: Legacy of Vader, a caller collaboration betwixt Soule and creator Luke Ross.

Legacy of Vader focuses connected Kylo Ren arsenic he solidifies his grip connected nan First Order successful nan aftermath of Supreme Leader Snoke’s assassination. But pursuing his latest brushwood pinch Rey and his last conflict pinch his uncle, Ben Solo is much tormented by nan past than ever. His first bid of business is to recreation to Mustafar and get backmost successful touch pinch nan shade of his grandfather (metaphorically, if not literally). We can’t hold to spot what caller layers this bid adds to Kylo Ren and nan events of The Rise of Skywalker.

New Gods

Technically, this bid already launched successful December, but we couldn’t not radiance nan spotlight connected what whitethorn good beryllium nan astir breathtaking book successful DC’s All In lineup. Writer Ram V and creator Evan Cagle are crafting a New Gods book for nan ages that channels nan bold weirdness of nan classical Jack Kirby era while besides blazing its ain trail, and it’s easy 1 of nan prettiest books connected nan stands correct now. It’s besides good worthy pursuing New Gods complete nan coming twelvemonth fixed really integral Darkseid and nan New Gods are to nan larger storyline fueling DC All In.

You Must Take Part successful Revolution

In galore ways, nan world of 2025 is simply a scary place, and it’s tempting to trust connected comics solely arsenic a intends of escapism. But there’s a batch to beryllium said for a book that tin thatch america really to navigate these troubling times. That’s wherever You Must Take Part successful Revolution comes in. This politically charged schematic caller is group successful a 2035 wherever nan US has devolved into a fascist dystopia and is locked successful a warfare pinch China complete power of Taiwan. Three friends must take wherever they guidelines and really champion to defy successful an property of authoritarianism. Written by journalist Melissa Chan and illustrated by activistic Badiucao, You Must Take Part successful Revolution hits stores successful March.

The Future of Venom and Carnage

With nan Venom War crossover having precocious wrapped up, Marvel is shaking up nan position quo successful a large measurement for some Venom and Carnage. First, Al Ewing and Carlos Gómez tee up a large enigma successful All-New Venom, which drags nan symbiote backmost to Earth and bonds him pinch a caller host. But who is it? Second, Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz research what happens erstwhile Eddie Brock virtually becomes his ain worst enemy successful Eddie Brock: Carnage. If you’ve been looking for a bully clip to jump connected committee pinch Marvel’s symbiote-themed comics, this is it.

Zatanna

Thanks to books for illustration Far Sector and Superman, Jamal Campbell has established himself arsenic 1 of nan champion artists successful nan manufacture today. We’re thrilled to spot Campbell flying solo connected a caller DC task featuring nan Mistress of Magic herself, Zatanna. This caller bid sees Zatanna effort to get backmost to basics arsenic a walking magician, only for her world to beryllium turned upside down by nan emergence of a caller force called The Lady White. This caller six-issue bid premieres successful February, and nan early creation is already looking stunning.

Star Trek: Lore War

One of 2025’s biggest and astir breathtaking crossovers involves neither nan Marvel nor DC Universes, but Star Trek. Lore War is an arena nan Star Trek statement has been building towards for years now, and it each comes to fruition successful March 2025. In Lore War, Data’s twisted copy relative has managed to destruct and remake nan beingness utilizing nan Orb of Destruction. The ramifications of that enactment will spill complete into some nan flagship monthly Star Trek bid and its companion, Star Trek: Defiant.

Can personification genuinely beryllium some man and god? That’s a mobility that’s been cardinal to IDW’s Star Trek statement lately, and it’s astatine nan bosom of Lore War.

The Amazing Spider-Man Relaunch

We mentioned that The Amazing Spider-Man is 1 of nan books straight affected by nan One World Under Doom position quo. Currently, nan bid is successful nan midst of “8 Deaths of Spider-Man,” arsenic Spidey receives a mysterious power-up from Doom himself to thief combat nan all-powerful Cyttorak. But what happens aft nan particulate settles and Spidey dies his last death?

The reply is that Marvel will relaunch ASM pinch a caller #1 issue. Writer Joe Kelly is sticking around, and he;ll beryllium teaming pinch artists Pepe Larraz and John Romita, Jr. to chronicle nan adjacent large shape successful Spidey's life. Even arsenic Peter Parker struggles to find a job, he'll beryllium dealing pinch nan return of galore iconic villains arsenic a mysterious mastermind manipulates Spider-Man into conflict pinch his foes.

Invincible: Battle Beast

Invincible fans person plentifulness to look guardant to successful early 2025. Not only is nan animated bid returning for a 3rd season, but Robert Kirkman and Ryan Ottley are reuniting for a caller bid group successful nan Invincible Universe. The prequel bid Invincible: Battle Beast follows nan titular characteristic arsenic he continues his quest to find an force beardown capable to conclusion him successful battle. We've been waiting years for Kirkman and Ottley to reunite, and we're stoked to spot that reunion return nan shape of caller Invincible comics.

More DC Compact Comics

DC really deed connected a winning look pinch nan Compact Comics line. These schematic novels reprint immoderate of nan astir seminal DC storylines of each time, each packaged successful a pocketable framework pinch a budget-friendly $10 value tag. If you’re willing successful reference classical DC comics but don’t cognize wherever to start, it’s really difficult to spell incorrect pinch these.

Thankfully, DC is expanding nan Compact Comics lineup successful 2025. Readers tin look guardant to caller editions of greats for illustration Kingdom Come, Y: The Last Man Book 1, Batwoman: Elegy, and V for Vendetta. This is simply a cheap, accessible format we dream each publishers commencement to prioritize going forward.

Death of Copra

One of nan champion superhero comics of nan past decade is reaching its conclusion this year. Michael Fiffe is yet ending nan Copra saga pinch nan appropriately titled Death of Copra. This four-issue finale bid kicks disconnected successful January. Copra has been a emotion missive to comics successful wide and John Ostrander’s Suicide Squad comics successful particular, and it’s decidedly bittersweet to spot nan bid ending now.

What's your astir anticipated comic aliases schematic caller of 2024? Cast your ballot successful our canvass and fto america cognize successful nan comments below.

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