New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: DC Comics – February 26 2025

Next week is the 9th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics February 26 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics February 19 2025 new releases.

This week in DC Comics: Absolute Wonder Woman wraps up an arc, Taylor’s Batman gets more entangled, Morrison & Millar’s Flash goes Deluxe, Harley Pygs out, Spurrier’s very hard Hellblazer, Lois Lane is a super time-traveller, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: Joshua Willamson’s Superman (2023) #23 had reached the rare point that I’m thinking about the book randomly during unrelated moments of my day, wondering where he will take things next. I’m a sucker for a Doomsday story, especially one that plays with his origins and purpose. This is about as fun as Superman gets for me! However, it was a very close call between picking this and Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween (2024) #5 (of 10) – featuring The Joker as rendered by Bill Sienkiewicz.

This post includes every comic out from DC Comics February 26 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every in-continuity series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for most new releases, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to DC Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

And now, onto DC Comics February 26 2025 new releases!

DC Comics February 26 2025 Collected Editions

Batman / Superman: World’s Finest Vol. 5: Secret Origins
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500315 / 2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500339 / digital)
This collection was delayed from two weeks ago, when I originally covered it.

I’ve been tough on this Mark Waid nostalgia title, and this volume contains some of the best and the worst of its second year. I loved the two-parter in issues #18-19 with art from Travis Moore exploring the original Bruce & Clark team-up. However, I really hated the similar Luthor/Joker A-Story in issue #25 and the scattershot 2024 Annual full of unremarkable stories.

I think what grates for me so badly on this series is that it purports to be a way for anyone to enjoy classic stories, but for me many of the tales seem insignificant without understanding their original context. Maybe this is just down to how my brain is wired, but if each issue included an endnote detailing where in DC history the events might have taken place they would click for me much better. And, you know Mark Waid has done his research on this – he was the one that did similar (with editorial aid) on History of the Marvel Universe (2019).

Even for the lovely story in issues #18-19 I would have loved a note that said, “This assumes that Clark and Bruce must have had an out-of-costume run-in prior to the classic story in issue [BLAH], given their seeming familiarity with each other at the end of issue [BLAH].”

The Flash by Grant Morrison and Mark Millar: The Deluxe Edition
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500421)
See Guide to Flash. This is a tidy deluxe edition of a year of Morrison & Millar acting as an intermission during Mark Waid’s lengthy run on Flash. It resolves the question of how Waid’s omnibus line will collect this material – it’s just skipping it!

I think this is a fine solution for DC’s trend of keeping creator-specific omnibuses truly creator specific. The problem is that not every run skips over material with the Morrison/Millar pedigree (before their infamous falling out).

Green Lantern Vol. 2: Love and War
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500506 / digital)
See Guide to Green Lantern – Hal Jordan. This is where I slowly started to come around on the current Jeremy Adams Lantern run – as he broadened the scope of the book from just Hal to a wider cast of Lanterns and a bigger conflict off of Earth. If you’ve been waiting for a resurgence of the Green Lantern Corps, here’s where it starts to happen.

John Constantine, Hellblazer: Dead in America
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500438 / digital)
See Guide to Hellblazer – John Constantine. This volume collects the entire 11-issue run of Si Spurrier, Jim Campbell, & Jordie Bellaire’s second go at Constantine.

Unfortunately, this one just wasn’t as tight and vicious as the first, despite it having the added bonus hook of being a genuine sequel to Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman in every way that counts (including Dream, a trip to hell, and an ambiguous appearance from Death.

Spurrier tackling the American idiom felt like it lacked a step compared to him riffing on British folk myths, which made a lot of these issues a chore to get through. I still highly recommend that original 2018 series, but this one is for massive fans of Hellblazer or Spurrier only.

Justice League International Book One: Born Again
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500568 / digital)
See Guide to Justice League. Collects a huge hunk of the first two years of the acclaimed and beloved Justice League (1987) &
Justice League International (1987) by J M Dematteis, Keith Giffen, & Kevin Maguire.

It’s hard to explain the vibe of this Post-Crisis League to you if you’ve never read it! The team is comprised entirely of characters a modern reader might consider “second stringers” since Superman and Wonder Woman were engaged in their new Post-Crisis origins and off-limits for a team-book. The run made light of its fallible characters, sometimes through their failure and conflict and other times through the humor inherent in their tentative truces with each other. It also worked to integrate several heroes who previously occupied other Earths prior to Crisis, including Shazam, Doctor Fate, and Blue Beetle.

The Penguin Vol. 2: All Bad Things
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500520 / digital)
See Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). This is the second half of the Tom King series that spun out of backups at the start of Chip Zdarsky’s run on Batman (2016).

Power Girl Vol. 2: More Than a Crush
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500513 / digital)
This second trade of Leah Williams’s run on Power Girl (2023) is fine but slightly mild. She finds some fun in being an inessential tie-in to the “House of Brainiac” story, but this still feels like a book that could be about any Supergirl, and not Power Girl in specific.

Titans Vol. 2: The Dark-Winged Queen
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1799500537 / digital)
See Guide to Titans & Young Justice. DC fit Tom Taylor’s entire run on Titans (2023) into just two hefty trades, split down the middle by his “Beast World” event. This collects through the end of his run at Titans (2023) #15.

This is one series where you’ll want to start at the start, because Taylor builds this Raven mega-arc from his first issue (and through “Beast World”) and it pays off in a major way here. Plus, every damn issue is so gorgeous thanks to art largely from Lucas Meyer.

Absolute Transmetropolitan Vol. 3
(oversize slipcase oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1799500544)
It’s the very long-awaited reprint of the final volume of Warren Ellis & Darick Robertson’s much-loved Vertigo series. The original YEAR edition of this went for ungodly amounts of cast on the aftermarket for a long while before this was finally announced.

Read on for a summary of all of the DC Comics February 19 2025 single issue releases!

DC Comics February 26 2025 Physical Comic Releases

Absolute Wonder Woman (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to DC Absolute Universe. I am feeling surprisingly mild about this Kelly Thompson & Hayden Sherman comic as it heads into the final issue of its first arc… and that’s exactly because this first arc has stretched five issues.

When you’re launching a high profile new universe, making readers sit through a five-to-six issue single story about a character is just too slow. Any momentum this title had after the first two rapturously-received issues is long since squandered.

It’s not just me – a pedantic asshole – saying that. I’m seeing a lot of chatter that folks are worn out on this comic in a way they aren’t on the inferior Absolute Batman (2024) and the “best in comics” Absolute Superman (2024). That’s because Batman is doing an opening arc but issues are pleasingly compressed and one-shot and Superman is doing single stories.

Meanwhile, all of the present day action in issue #3 of this series was about getting ready for a Kaiju to scream, and then all of this issue was about finding ingredients to help heal Diana in the middle of the fight.

I think this book certainly reads better than King’s own bloated Wonder Woman series. And, for people not immersed dozens of series deep into the DC line – or all of comics – it’s probably landing just fine because Kelly Thompson remains an extraordinary writer even at this decompressed pace. However, if I’m being highly critical, this series is risking heading into Ultimate Black Panther (2024) territory, where it’s hard to explain what even happened in each issue other than a conversation.

Batman: The Long Halloween – The Last Halloween (2024) #5 (of 10) (digital) – See Guide to Batman (1986 – Present). It might seem like a thankless task to do a second sequel to Long Halloween, especially without the imitable talents of the dearly departed Tim Sale. And, you might be justifiably skeptical of Jeph Loeb doing any kind of “tribute” book given how that has sometimes gone in the past.

As someone who worships Long Halloween, I’m here to tell you that this calendar-spanning “Year Three” redux is even better than it has any right to be. Loeb hasn’t lost a step when it comes to continuing the tone of this noir story now told across four decades. And, the merry-go-round of artists have so far illustrated this book with loving touch that doesn’t imitate Tim Sale – just tribute him.

For me, the most intriguing part of this is Loeb including Robin in the story. By this point Batman’s origins have progressed far enough that Dick Grayson’s presence is unavoidable, but that doesn’t mean he had to be used in this series or that it would be a good idea to incorporate him. At first I bristled over Robin’s brightness in this noir book – both his personality and the pop of red, yellow, and green on otherwise muted panels. However, as we reach the halfway point I realize this is a book about generations – of the Falcone family, of Gordon and his children, and of Batman and Robin.

If you’ve loved Loeb & Sale’s rich history of Batman, I think this is sure to please. And if you haven’t read it before, now is the time!

Black Canary: Best of the Best (2024) #4 (digital) – Tom King’s Black Label wrestling series continues.

Detective Comics (1937 / 2016) #1094 (digital) – See Guide to Detective Comics (1987 – Present). We’re into the “expository middle chapter” zone of this opening arc from Tom Taylor and Mikel Janin focused on Batman confronting his mortality.

Last issue the extended BatFam collected a bunch of kids into their protection. We already know Taylor writes the BatFam extraordinarily well, so this was not exactly revelatory. Meanwhile, Batman continues to strike out both in protecting kids and in being a good judge of character as he gets more involved with the woman who is most-likely our main villain.

I absolutely have a “watching Batman fail” kink, so I’m enjoying this – perhaps a lot more than the typical reader. Taylor is up to his typical tricks of punchy, quick-to-read issues with small slices of plot. You can get away with for an artist as fast as Bruce Redondo on their Nightwing run, but I feel we might be burning through the astounding talents of Mikel Janin a little too quickly.

I’m certain Taylor isn’t crafting this arc as a one-off with an easy solution. It feels like it’s going somewhere in the longer term, and I think my excitement is more for the tension it sets up for the longer term than the immediate reward in the next few issues.

The Flash (2023) #18 (digital) – See Guide to Flash. This West family adventure from Si Spurrier is ultra-fun, super-kinetic stuff.

Last issue had goofy family vacation vibes, Eclipso being a total “free love” dork, the Justice League trying to figure out how to defend against aerosolized hate, and Wally finally getting caught in his Multiple Man shenanigans because he’s trying to be in too many places at once.

I’m not sure if it will hit for all Flash fans, particularly those who love Flash as high sci-fi. For me, Spurrier is at his best when he keeps things light, punny, and full of commentary on the folly of human behavior. This arc has all of that without an over-large central plot that might collapse in on him before he can make it make sense.

Green Arrow (2023) #21 (digital) – See Guide to Green Arrow. I’m growing increasingly obsessed with this fresh Green Arrow run, equally thanks to Chris Condon’s writing and Montos’s art.

There’s a visceral thrill to the pages and despite being a sparsely-scripted book it doesn’t read too fast. There’s a serious mystery here for Ollie to unravel that goes beyond chasing down a suspect.

That is a book that lingers on my mind after I’ve read it – especially the vivid greens of Adriano Lucas’s coloring, which feel like they’ve soaked in past my eyes to burn their image into my brain.

Green Lantern (2023) #20 (digital) – See Guide to Green Lantern – Hal Jordan. After over a year of setup, it feels like Jeremy Adams is firing on all cylinders in his expanding Green Lantern universe as he spins off the Corps into their own adventure.

That leaves a big question about what Hal Jordan will be up to in this title. The Corps have their own title to populate, Star Sapphire is now an anchoring member of the League, and Hal’s potential antagonist The Sorrow seems to be the looming villain of the new Corps book for the moment.

From this issue’s solicit, it sounds like the solution to all of that is that this title will also feature the Corps and also include the hunt for Sorrow.

That makes me slightly nervous. I do agree that the massive cast of Lanterns was getting unwieldy to fit into one book. But, it’s never a good sign to have two similar titles and not be able to give a quick, highly-differentiated, single-sentence pitch for each of them.

Green Lantern: Dark (2024) #3 (digital) – See The Complete Guide to DC Elseworlds, Infinite Earths, & Alternate Realities. A Tate Brombal Elseworlds tale with Werther Dell’Edera on art – somehow fitting this in alongside his duties on Something Is Killing the Children.

Harley Quinn (2021) #48 (digital) – See Guide to Harley Quinn. I am 100% on board with Elliott Kalan’s approach to telling a series of one-shot capers about Harley trying to de-gentrify her new (old) neighborhood. Kalan brings the jokes, and artist Mindy Lee sets up and knocks down the punchlines with ease.

Last issue was perhaps the softest of the run so far. I didn’t see that as declining quality, but down to the choice of Clayface as a villain. Clayface is such a well-established entity in Batman’s Rogues’ Gallery (and, by extension, Harley’s Allies’ Gallery) that his presence made the story feel a little less specific to Harley’s neighborhood than the past few.

But, I get that appearances from those Rogues sell books – and Clayface is amongst my favorites – so I’m not exactly complaining about it! We’ll see how this issue goes with Professor Pyg as the half-ally, half-antagonist.

Justice League Unlimited (2024) #4 (digital) – See Guide to Justice League. After a bombastic opening pair of issues, Mark Waid & Dan Mora settled into a comfortable rhythm in issue #3, spinning out another one-off tale with tendrils of intriguing continuing plot. It also tied in to the many supporting League books right now, especially Justice League: The Atom Project (2025).

I think the strongest suit of this run is how it uses the Trinity (and Black Lightning) as anchors around which many less popular heroes can float. The danger there is that the book really isn’t about any characters in particular, and is just a shallow story of the League always reacting to something. I’m hoping that the character focus can go beyond just Airwave in future issues. One of the strengths of a good Justice League title is that it gives smaller characters who can’t sustain their own titles a place to develop their plots.

Metamorpho: The Element Man (2024) #3 (digital) – Your mileage may vary with Al Ewing light-of-heart but dense-to-read late Silver Age simulacrum.

I find Ewing lightly amusing on this series, but not laugh-out-loud funny. And, considering the book is all jokes, all the time, that has made these issues feel interminably long to me. They’re well made, but there’s not much going on. Last issue was… something about an AI-driven pop star? I think I must have napped through some of it, because I can only recall the beginning and the ending. But, I am always challenged by these whacky DC throwback books (see also: Jimmy Olsen) because my Silver Age grounding is with Marvel and not DC.

Of note, last issue confirms this timeless book is ostensibly in relatively recent continuity, with Vandal Savage in the GCPD.

Power Girl (2023) #18 (digital) – See Guide to Power Girl (eventually). After doing some meandering since its tie-in with “House of Brainiac,” it feels like Leah Williams has sharpened the point of this book a bit in the past few months. That was emphasized by the arrival of her X-Factor (2020) collaborator David Baldeón on art duties last issue.

Power Girl is still not much of a presence in her own book, which is a problem. BUT, it’s a problem that can be easily forgiven thanks to a terrific script that gives each supporting character something substantial to do.

Plus, I think issue #17 was the best thing I’ve ever seen Baldeón draw. Like… ever. Also, Becca Carey is such a great letterer!

I’m not sure how much more life this book has in it, especially since it still doesn’t feel like it has found specificity in its star character. But I think I’m going the enjoy the hell out of this arc with Baldeón on art.

Superman (2023) #23 (digital) – See Guide to Superman (1986 – Present). Joshua Williamson’s run on Superman has been a perfect mix of fizzy and tense, and this Doomsday arc is no exception.

Last issue had a lot of big action beats, but also a connection to the classic prestige series Hunter/Prey and the amnesiac Lex retaining some semblance of a memory (explored further in Lex Luthor Special (2023) #1). Also, I like Mora’s sketchier approach to art here, not everything has to be so perfectly high gloss.

With rumors that DC will be relaunching Superman with a new #1 at the end of this year to pair with the Superman film and their Batman relaunch, I wonder if Williamson’s pleasing run is almost at its end. Will this merely be a jumping off point? I’m not particularly excited about anyone else climbing aboard on Superman short of Waid (already writing action), but we’ll have to see what is revealed over the next few months.

That’s for DC Comics February 26 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.