Next week is the 13th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics March 26 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics March 19 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Many new #1s – including true crime getting too true, the next generation of mad science, a surprising mummy, and swingin’ 60s Bitter Root! Plus, Cobra Commander’s fate, Department of Truth does a Deep Throat, Feral cats back for a new arc, Savage Dragon goes kid-friendly (😬), and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: There are several intriguing #1s this week, but the one I keep coming back to is You’ll Do Bad Things (2025) #1 from Tyler Boss. Not only do I love a title that’s a imperative sentence, but I’m very curious to see more of artist Tyler Boss as an author. But, I almost picked Universal Monsters: The Mummy (2025) #1 by Faith Erin Hicks!!! More on both – and other intriguing #1s – below!
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on March 26 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 and Image Comics imprints, 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!
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And now, onto Image Comics March 26 2025 new releases!
Image Comics March 26 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 26 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Black Cloak Vol. 2
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534331631 / digital)
This wraps up the second arc of Kelly Thompson & Meredith McClaren’s fantasy series about the last city on Earth and its varied magical denizens as they deal with the aftermath of the loss of the magical engines that kept the city humming along in perpetuity (which was the story told in the first arc).
McClaren’s art for me is reminiscent of Chris Bachalo at his most cartoonish, which for me could sometimes obscure the details of a substantial cast of characters and their action as driven by an always-witty Thompson script.
The Holy Roller
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534397323 / digital)
See Guide to Giant Generator. This collects the complete nine-issue series of the just completed The Holy Roller (2023), a story guided by Rick Remender but penned by SNL alum Andy Samberg and Fall Out Boy guitarist Joe Trohman. It tells the tale of a small town Jewish man who returns home after decades away to reconnect with his dying father and bring a touch of justice to his corrupt (and notably antisemetic) city.
Universal Monsters: Frankenstein
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1534361607)
The third book in Skybound Entertainment’s series of Universe Monsters comics, this was Michael Walsh’s re-imagination of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics March 26 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics March 26 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Bitter Root: The Next Movement (2025) #1 (digital) – This ongoing tale of an extended African American family of monster hunters beating back a plague of vampires from Chuck Brown, David Walker, and Sanford Greene jumps forward a whole generation, leaping from Harlem Renaissance 1920s into the swinging 1960s for this new series.
The Department of Truth (2020) #29 (digital) – Last month Department of Truth returned from a brief hiatus back with an issue that – to me – felt like it was totally lacking in content.
Maybe Lee and Huck did a Watergate. Maybe Matty is going to The Post with the story. Maybe Cole is losing his tenuous grip on reality.
Maybe Tynion is sometimes feeling like he has a touch of writer’s block and just turns in a bunch of faff.
For most series I’d give them some grace for an issue that was kicking off a new arc. But, in my experience DoT has an incredibly wide range of quality, transforming from a sizzling page-turner to a totally bore that can put me to sleep. I think that’s because it is the best idea in all of comics and has no problem maintaining sales, so Tynion is trying to stretch it out forever.
Doll Parts: A Lovesick Tale (2024) #4 (of 4) (digital) – The final issue of the Luana Vecchio comic that’s full of trigger warnings as a future serial killer is born.
Dust to Dust (2024) #4 (of 9) (digital) – See Guide to Giant Generator. This midwestern tale from the Great Depression has become a dust-covered murder mystery with a somewhat shocking plot development last issue.
For the issue focused on a viscerally shocking crime, it was unusually slow and perhaps a bit on the weaker side than the first two. Our sheriff has been shown to have some unerring instincts so the issue needed to rely on having other characters thwart his investigation, and the gaslighting got laid on thick.
Combine that with a scene of a snake-handling sermon and an ongoing subplot about a teen girl’s horny boyfriend, and it felt like the issue lacked some of the tight focus that made me fall in love with the series even as it reached an initial peak of plot.
Falling in Love on the Path to Hell (2024) #7 (digital) – Gerry Duggan adds some more brutality to his tale of a pair of star-crossed late-1800s warriors making their way of Purgatory with the introduction of The Butcher of Caledonia.
I really love the storytelling here, but the violence really put me off from this one – although, credit to Duggan for directing some sexual violence away from female characters for a change – something I always encourage male writers to do.
Feral (2024) #11 (digital) – Tony Fleecs, Tone Rodriguez, & Trish Forstner kick off a new arc of their kitty cats on the the run title, billed as a great jumping on point.
(Actually it’s billed as a “PURR-FECT” jumping on point, but you would know I was just parroting the marketing copy if I hit you with a pun that bad!)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982 / 2023) #315 (digital) – See Guide to G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (eventually… maybe sooner than you think). Last issue was the first installment of this Joe revival that I straight-up disliked, but that might be the opposite of the reaction of some of the regular audience for this long-running book.
During the IDW years of this title, it felt like Larry Hama made a hard pivot from focusing as much on Cobra-fueled drama to more ground, real-world inspired tales of counter-terrorism. Looking back, I wonder how much of that came from hands-off editing and artists more attuned to drawing low-sci-fi military action rather than a variety of Vipers and HISS tanks.
The first 15 issues of this revival run have gone totally in the opposite direction – plenty of Cobra and tons of extremely toyetic confrontations in the four-way fight between Joes, Cobra command, Destro, and Cobra-La. But, last issue was a very grounded one-shot with a small cadre of Joes being efficient killers as they infiltrated a terrorist strong hold.
I know the Joes are meant to be real armed forces professionals who all hold that skillset, but I prefer them to be on the more playful, fantastical side of things. A grounded issue just wasn’t as exciting as everything else that has happened so far in this book.
Happily, that one-shot appears to be a true one-off, because this issue has us focusing on Cobra Commander’s fate in the wake of his beat-down at the hands of Destroy in issue #313!
Gunslinger Spawn (2021) #41 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. The past few issues of this Todd McFarlane present-day Gunslinger story have been incredibly slight, getting through just a few minutes worth of plot each. But, Carlo Barberi has delivered at least one spectacular visual per issue, like last issue’s face-off against an angel.
I’m not sure a few delightful pages excuses a plot that feels almost totally stalled, but that seems to be par for the course when Todd McFarlane is handling scripting duties solo
Hornsby & Halo (2024) #5 was originally scheduled for this week, but was pushed back to April 2.
The Kids (2025) #1 (digital) – Part of the new “Ninth Circle” horror imprint, Garth Ennis and artist Dalibor Talajić deliver a magazine-sized tale of toddlers transformed into scary monsters – and no, we’re not just talking about their terrible twos.
Mirka Andolfo’s Sweet Paprika: Open for Business (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – Steve Orlando’s “everything but the pole” gay sex romp about a devil stuck in a desk job and addicted to angel intercourse hits its penultimate issue!
Monstress (2015) #56 (digital) – Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda’s Eisner-winning fantasy epic presses forward with its 10th story arc.
Nights (2023) #14 (digital) – Last month I had a major turnaround on this series, which I dropped after issue #1 but then fell in love with on standalone issue #13. You can hear my enthusiasm about the slick style of that one-shot flashback tale on The Pull list.
Was my love for issue #13 a fluke? Or, am I only going to love this book while it does a slowed-down flashback but will be just as annoyed with the modern day story and dialog as I was in issue #1?
I dunno, but I’m planning to read it – and, maybe also catch up on issues #2-12.
The Patchwork Girl of Oz (2025) #3 (digital) – Otis Frampton continues his adaptation of the L. Frank Baum novel.
Radiant Black (2021) #32 (digital) – Y’all, I sampled Radiant Black last month with its promised jumping-on point on issue #31 and discovered an intensely boring superhero series with a totally beige protagonist and no real plot to speak of.
That’s exactly how I remember this book from the first arc, so it went directly back into the “dropped” list. Apparently some really exciting stuff happened between my original drop of the book and issue #30, but I could barely stay awake long enough to finish it. Meanwhile. it’s Massive-Verse compatriot Rogue Sun (2022) hooked me immediately as did its recent jumping-on poin.
Savage Dragon (1993) #276 (digital) – See Guide to Savage Dragon. This issue promises to be “the first of four issues that stars one of the Dragon children” and it’s kicking off with nine-year-old Amy Dragon.
Given the fact that this book typically devotes at least a third of its page count to Amy’s mom being very explicitly naked, I am morbidly curious to see how Erik Larsen is going to pivot the tone of his longrunning title to be a kid comic for four issues.
Of course, Larsen has never shied away from combining youthful innocence and gore – he was Invincible before Kirkman’s Invincible existed. So, I’m sure there will still be plenty of shocking content to be found here. I just can’t imagine how he’s going to position the story.
The Seasons (2025) #3 (digital) – See Guide to Giant Generator. I might be at the point of dropping this whimsical Rick Remender series with artist Paul Azaceta & colorist Mat Lopes.
That’s a surprise, since usually I am begging Remender to be less cynical and more whimsical! So, what gives?
This series feels like it is trying to serve to many genres at once. There’s the Miyazaki-style whimsy of this band of four seasonal sisters, all of whom have a particular artistic talent. There’s the Indiana Jones style adventure that’s hinted for one of the sisters who has gone missing. And, there’s the creeping dread of a killer carnival visiting their city – probably the plot element that caused the solicit for #1 to promise horror.
That sounds like a standout book to me, but the first two scripts have been heavy on the Kiki’s Delivery Service vibe of that initial influence with very little of the other two. I feel like I’ve already run out of patience to read yet another issue to get to the point of this comic book. And yet… Remender’s Giant Generator output has been so strong the past few months that I feel compelled to hang on for just. one. more month. to see if something interesting develops.
Standstill (2024) #8 (of 8) (digital) – Lee Loughridge wraps his series with Andrew Robinson about a rogue asshole with a watch that stops time with a massive 64-page finale. I wasn’t in love with issue #1, but the temptation to read it all this week as a binge is strong!
Universal Monsters: The Mummy (2025) #1 (of 4) (digital) – The first books I ever read as a kid were abridged versions of classic horror novels like Dracula and Frankenstein, so I love Image doing comic adaptations of all of the classic Universal Monsters.
Have I read any of them? No. Do I have that Tynion/Simmonds Dracula book waiting on my shelf? Absolutely.
This book comes with a wild pedigree, with major league YA graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks writing and drawing the story with Lee Loughridge on colors and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou lettering. We’ve had Hicks’s webcomic The Adventures of Superhero Girl on our shelf for well over a decade at this point! It’s one of the earliest comics I ever read with Kid Krisis!!!
I’m intensely interested to see how the typically all-ages Hicks will play a deliberately scary series with this pair of modern indie comics pros.
We’re Taking Everyone Down with Us (2025) #1 (of 6) (digital) – I will always show up for a new #1 from Matthew Rosenberg, even if many of his series don’t ring for me in the longer run. That’s not just because his 4 Kids Walk Into a Bank with Tyler Boss was a perfect comic book (and about to be a major motion picture with Liam Neeson!) but also because we’re a similar age and share so many influences and references. If I’m being honest I just find myself rooting for him to finally have his true breakout hit after watching a few of his peers from 2015-2018 get huge.
Will this comic with artist Stefano Landini be the one? The concept sounds like it could be deadly serious or played for hilarity. The book follows the 13-year-old daughter of a supervillain scientist killed by a super-spy, and now her dear old dad’s robot’s bodyguard won’t leave her alone, so she has to decide if she is going to try to ditch it and lead a normal life or dedicate herself to revenge.
No matter which tone the series has, I’m rooting for you, Rosenberg.
You’ll Do Bad Things (2025) #1 (of 6) (digital) – I am very, very curious to see this series written by artist Tyler Boss with art from Adriano Turtulici. I really enjoyed the setup of Boss’s prior scripting effort Dead Dog’s Bite (2021) #1 – it had a particular style that felt influenced by his frequent collaborators but not imitative of them.
This book promises the story of a True Crime novelist with writers block whose new drafts seem to be reflected in real life crimes. I love that concept, and I’m feeling pretty warmly toward Boss after reading this week’s Out of Alcatraz (2025) with him on art for Christopher Cantwell’s script.
That’s it for Image Comics March 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.
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