Next week is the 11th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics March 12 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics March 5 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Violator ends and his beginning is collected(!), Camp’s very normal Crisis Events, Transformers teases an epic rivalry, an apocalyptic meal of Chew and East of West compendiums, Rogue Sun back for a new arc, things get nightmarish in Moon Is Following Us, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: In a major upset, I think I’m genuinely more excited to see how Marc Andreyko wraps up Violator: Origin (2024) #6 than I am for Deniz Camp’s Assorted Crisis Events (2025) #1 now that I know that will be an anthology series. Violator was also an anthology of single one-shot stories, but all of them with Violator and filling out the deep lore of the Spawn Universe. Plus, this week Alan Moore’s Violator is finally collected!!!
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on March 12 2025, plus collected editions. This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and comment on every series with a new issue out this week to help you figure out if they’re for you.
Plus, for some long-running series, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Indie 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 Image Comics March 12 2025 new releases!
Image Comics March 12 2025 Collected Editions
Note: Image Comics collections hit the direct market 2-3 weeks prior to when they ship to the book market, so if you order these Image Comics March 12 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Chew: The Nomnibus Edition
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534354371 / digital)
This massive paperback compendium collects all 60 issues of John Layman & Rob Guillory’s CHEW – plus Chew: Demon Chicken Poyo (2016) #1.
This is a whimsical book about a detective who can solve crimes by eating stuff, which takes some very morbid turns along the way considering what you might need to take a bite out of to solve a crime!
The Domain
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534364165 / digital)
The mad genius that is Chip Zdarsky collaborates with Rachael Stott, Enrica Eren Angiolini, & Jeff Powell to create the comic book his characters are writing in Public Domain – one of my favorite ongoing comic books!
You don’t have to read Public Domain to understand this, but you can see Stott’s pages of this superhero comic being “drawn” in the pages of Public Domain by the “real” characters there. Also, some twists of character and plot development here are telegraphed by the arguments between the creators in Public Domain.
It’s such a clever connection between the two series. I think that works int his book’s favor. I don’t find this to be incredibly exciting on its own. It has the anonymous feel of some mid-10s indie superhero stuff that wasn’t quite up to the snuff of Valiant’s Universe, like Lion Forge’s Catalyst universe.
But, that’s kind of the point – it’s a somewhat anonymous superhero book trying to figure out what to be! With the meta context of why these characters exist and act like they do from reading Public Domain, it gets much more interesting.
East of West: The End Times Compendium
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534328297 / digital)
Holy hunk of Hickman, Batman! This collects the complete Jonathan Hickman East of West series with Nick Dragotta, Frank Martin, and Rus Wooton. If you like Hickman playing with apocalyptic themes and huge good-vs-evil struggles this is a book for you.
(Personally, I found it to be a slow read in single trades, but I think it will be a fun binge in a Compendium!)
Feral Vol. 2: Cat Lady
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534328280 / digital)
The second story arc in this Tony Fleecs series that I’d describe as The Aristocats meets Walking Dead.
Apparently that’s the marketing line and I can’t remember if I came to that conclusion on my own or not, but I really think it’s accurate! It really has the look and feel of a Disney cartoon following the secret lives of pets, framing the horror of rabies (…or is it something else) through their innocent eyes.
Lady Mechanika Vol. 8: The Devil in the Lake
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534336308 / digital)
Both I and my dear friend Omnidog really dig this Joe Benitez series of a steampunk heroine. It truly has a feel of 90s Image, full of super-wordy dialog and even vertical double-page spreads! If you miss that 90s Image energy focusing on a solo heroine, I think this book comes the closest to having that energy as anything in comics right now.
Violator
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534347595 / digital)
See Guide to Spawn. This is a VERY BIG DEAL! It is the first reprinting of the classic Violator mini-series written by Alan Moore with art from Bart Sears (and colors by Steve Oliff)!
This was two years into Image Comics, so it certainly already had a lot of heat, but having Moore drop in for this mini (and Claremont on WildCATs) gave Image a lot of additional legitimacy in the eyes of skeptical fans.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics March 12 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics March 12 2025 Physical Comic Releases
Assorted Crisis Events (2025) #1 (digital) – IT’S A BOOK ABOUT ME, BABY! Deniz Camp applies a “Crisis on [everything]” lens to people’s real, non-superheroic lives along with artist Eric Zawadzki, colorist Jordie Bellaire, and outstanding letterer Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
God knows I’ve had plenty of crisis-level events these past few years for them to draw from!
Camp has been cannily marketing this book for months now alongside the rampant success of his run on The Ultimates (2024), so I think the market is primed for this to be a massive hit. One-shot anthology stories are working for Camp on Ultimate and they work for many Image series, including Ice Cream Man and Silver Coin.
Personally, I’m hoping this will have more connective tissue between issues than those – perhaps something closer to Johns on Hyde Street – although it already looks like this won’t have a consistent artist like Reis on Hyde Street.
Either way, I’m very curious to read this!
Death of Copra (2025) #3 / Copra (2012) #48 (digital) – Michel Fiffe’s indie take on Suicide Squad edges closer to its climax! To learn more about Copra, check out my Image Releases post with write-up on issue #1 – which Fiffe linked from his press page!
Since then I picked up the first of Fiffe’s oversize hardcover and it is so gorgeous. He said he’ll be continuing them after Death wraps up and I cannot wait.
Geiger (2024) #12 (digital) – The Ghost Machine flagship from Geoff Johns, Gary Frank, and Brad Anderson.
The Hive (2025) #2 (digital) – I checked out the first issue of this A. J. Lieberman & Mike Henderson series following mob-level crime plus… bees?
Henderson’s art looked incredibly sharp, but Lieberman’s narrative jumped around so much between characters and in chronology that it was hard to make heads or tails of it. It felt like a one-shot to me. I didn’t see a reason to keep reading without any engaging characters or big mysteries.
Also, I’m not sure covers with tons of negative space and a smattering of bees are the big sales hook these folks think they are.
The Moon Is Following Us (2024) #7 (digital) – This Daniel Warren Johnson & Riley Rossmo series is patently silly and dreamlike in a way that is perfectly fitting to its theme.
Now that we’ve turned the corner into the back half of the series and everything has been revealed, the pace of the series makes more sense to me. The first half was starting to get repetitive in service of withholding a big twist from us, and maybe ran an issue too long. Now it feels like we’re really moving, and I’m enjoying it for the amusing romp that it is.
Napalm Lullaby (2024) #9 (digital) – Rick Remender & Bengal’s Giant Generator series continues. The first issue was one of my least-favorite comics of 2024, so despite my newfound appreciation for Remender during his modern renaissance I won’t be checking this one out again.
Redcoat (2024) #10 (digital) – The Ghost Machine series of a turncoat British soldier with an eternal life continues, from Geoff Johns, Bryan Hitch, Andrew Currie, Brad Anderson, and Rob Leigh
Rogue Sun (2022) #25 (digital) – This Massive-Verse book from writer Ryan Parrott (now with co-writer Nick Cotton) is back from a quarter of hiatus with a fifth arc.
Snotgirl (2016) #19 (digital) – Bryan Lee O’Malley’s oddball fashion influencer mystery rolls onward with part two of its “Weekend II” arc making the return of the title after a lengthy hiatus.
Spawn (1992) #362 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. I couldn’t even tell you what last issue of this book was about now that we have Todd back full-time on scripting duties. Spawn died for a while and then argued with Nyx for a while and now all of hell and heaven’s powers are back. Hooray!
Oh, Todd. I want to like Spawn so much. I’m really trying here.
Transformers (2023) #18 (digital) – See Guide to Energon Universe (eventually) (soon!). This is the end of Daniel Warren Johnson’s third arc on Transformers, with one more to go. He’s been bringing in bigger and bigger players as the series has continue and this issue promises to have one of the biggest if I’m guessing right about of the recent hints. Even as a non-fan of Transformers, I have a sense of what’s coming.
If you’ve been waiting for a time to binge from issue #1 to present on a platform like GlobalComix, I think now might be the time to catch up!
Violator: Origin (2024) #6 (of 6) (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. This final issue of the mini-series was originally scheduled for February 19 but was pushed back to this week.
I’ve made no secret of how much I love this series of double-length, one-shot stories from Violator’s past from Marc Andreyko and a series of six artists. They’ve each felt weighty and dangerous, as they force us to side with Violator against the forces of both heaven and hell. Last issue found Violator reckoning with Lucifer himself on an abbreviated walk through Dante’s Inferno.
The solicit for this issue doesn’t give much of a hint of how things resolve, but it does hint Violator might not be an entirely reliable narrator.
I really think this book is the way forward of how Todd McFarlane ought to be extending his universe – giving quality creators a chance to play far outside of the center ring of current Spawn continuity.
Void Rivals (2023) #17 (digital) – See Guide to Energon Universe (eventually) (soon!). I keep dropping this title and coming back to it, because it tempts me with sweet, sweet Cobra-La characters and then just strings me along.
I think the thing to understand is that Robert Kirkman tells stories in arcs and there can only be two or three ideas per arc. That means the single issues simply don’t stand up as individual units – they can’t, because there isn’t enough story to drive them. This is a book that is much more satisfying to read in trade than singles.
This arc seems to be mostly about Pythona tickling the edges of this space empire, the Void Rival man arguing with (and trying to undermine) his father, and the Void Rival woman groping about in the dark in the mysterious center of her world in search of Zerta.
Last issue had all three of those plots, each repeating beats from the prior issue. With the arc ending next month, I’d expect this issue to have more of all three, but hint that some of them are reaching resolution. That’s just the way Kirkman does things!
Witchblade (2024) #9 (digital) – See Guide to Witchblade (eventually). I had to drop this book due to the amount of psychic damage each issue was causing me. You have to work hard to make Witchblade this boring. Barely anything happens in every issue! For more of my complaints, see three minutes of my seething rage on my Pull List show last month.
That’s it for Image Comics March 12 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.
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