Next week is the 14th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics April 2 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics March 26 2025 new releases.
This week in Marvel Comics: All-New Venom revealed, Thor goes to Utgard, Miles’s God War begins, Epic Siege of Darkness, Avengers vs. Avengers, Marvel Rivals in print, Sentry gets another reprint, Old Man Daredevil, a West Coast Masterwork that pisses me off, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: Is this really happening… am I picking Deadpool (2024) #13 for my pick of the week!? You’re damn right I am! As Cody Ziglar heads into Year Two of this run he is hot off a smashing success with his Deadpool/Miles crossover. With truly funny quips, an outstanding supporting cast, and Rogê Antônio rotating back in on art I’m expecting major fun from this issue.
This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics April 2 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 series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel 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 Marvel Comics April 2 2025 new releases!
Marvel Comics April 2 2025 Collected Editions
Marvel collected editions tend to hit the bookmarket on the same day as the Direct Market (or one day prior), so all of these Marvel Comics April 2 2025 collected editions should also be available from your local bookseller next week!
The Defenders Epic Collection Vol. 3: World Gone Sane
(2024 paperback, ISBN 978-1302960544 / digital)
See Guide to Defenders. Now that Marvel has collected to the end of the run of Defenders (1972) in Epic Collections before the Masterworks could get there and have broken ground on early Defenders in omnibus, they’re finally letting the Epics touch that early material.
Right now the pair of Defenders omnis cover through Defenders (1972) #41, and this Epic Collection ends at… hey, would you look at that, it ends at issue #41! And both Epic Volumes 2 and 3 came out after the second omni. It’s almost like Marvel plans this stuff!
We previously got the Defenders omnis two years apart, but I can appreciate Marvel’s hesitance on a third volume. They weren’t massive sellers, they have no MCU tie-in, and Marvel in general seems to be trying to get out of the business of selling books with volume numbers on them unless they are X-Men or Spider-Man.
What does that mean for us? Will the risk-averse Marvel hold off on Omnibus Volume 3 indefinitely, which also means holding off on completing the Epic line with Volumes 4-5? Or, will they simply plunge ahead to complete the Epic line, since it has its own base of buy-everything fans (like me) and deal with the problem of what to name an omnibus containing Defenders (1972) #42-91 sometime later.
(My money is on getting the Epics first. I think Marvel was too quick on the draw on that second Defenders omni and are in no rush to repeat that mistake again.)
Ghost Rider: Danny Ketch Epic Collection Vol. 6 – Siege of Darkness
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302964085 / digital)
See Guide to Ghost Rider. I find it mildly amusing that the Epic line leap-frogged over four potential Epic volumes to reach this somewhat bloated crossover.
There’s a reason it makes sense – and it’s not even due to the marketing potential of appearances from Doctor Strange and Scarlet Witch, who aren’t even on the cover! No, it’s because Marvel’s initial pair of Ghost Rider omnibuses trail off just prior to where this run picks up. That lets them both sell independently of each other and begins cracking into getting the files ready for a third omnibus, since virtually none of this Ghost Rider (1990) run has been collected before.
I personally enjoy almost all of 90s Ghost Rider, but I think you have to go into this with the caveat that some of the other Midnight Suns books in this crossover had the absolute worst art at Marvel at the time. They were going for an edgy Vertigo-esque vibe, but instead just got art with a lot of rough edges. Still, this is possibly the single biggest crossover event of Marvel’s spooky characters in the company’s history!
Fantastic Four by Chip Zdarsky: Fate of the Four
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302961497 / digital)
See Guide to Fantastic Four. This is the first time all of Zdarsky’s run on Thing & Torch teaming up in the wake of Secret Wars (2015) has been collected in a single paperback. Originally, Marvel 2-in-One (2017) was collected in two volumes or a single oversize hardcover.
This run started very clever, with Zdarsky dealing with Ben and Johnny’s grief over the entire Richards family seemingly perishing in the major almost-world-ending event. That leads them to face off against Doom, and it felt like this series was headed somewhere really interesting.
And then, just as suddenly, it wasn’t. I think that’s because it became clear that Dan Slott would be jumping onto the return of the Fantastic Four in the musical chairs of Marvel Fresh Start rather than Zdarsky, so all of the connections that Zdarsky was teasing were ultimately moot. Slott is gonna Slott. Plus, it led to us getting Zdarsky’s Daredevil!
I think this is still a fun read, but it lacks the looming excitement of reading it at the time, thinking it would lead to the return of the rest of the family.
Marvel Masterworks: Avengers West Coast Vol. 1
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1302962197 / digital)
See Guide to Avengers West Coast. While I’m happy to see this material in a Masterwork, I also think it’s a fool’s errand. This dinky first volume isn’t even 400 pages and only collects 10 issues! At this rate, it’s going to take over 10 years of annual volumes to get through this entire series of 102 issues, 8 annuals, and four linked mini-series in Masterworks. We’re not even going to get through just the “West Coast Avengers” part of it that takes us through 1989!
Meanwhile, we only need one more Epic Collection or two more omnibuses to complete this line in existing formats.
And… AND… this doesn’t even collect the original 1984 mini-series!!! Because it’s already collected in the Avengers Masterworks line!
This book really frustrates me (in case you can’t tell). It is incredibly stupid to break ground on a new Masterworks line, especially a second Avengers line, when this is a line that may never see completion and there are still a handful of 70s lines that need more volumes. Plus, not to be that person, but not everything needs a Masterworks. I really think they should not start Masterworking new series that mostly exist after the end of the Bronze Age.
Anyhow, buy it if you want, but I’m telling you now it’s smarter to pick up the Epics.
Secret War by Brian Michael Bendis Omnibus
(2025 hardcover, ISBN 978-1302963828 / digital)
See Guide to Marvel Universe Events – Secret War. This is such a peculiar omnibus. At 376 pages, it’s barely more than a standard oversize hardcover. That’s because this 2004 Brian Bendis mini-series is just five issues, for which they’ve managed to scrounge together a stunning five tie-in issues to fill this out.
Really, it feels like this could have been entirely combined with Bendis’s run on The Pulse (2004) – especially since 4 of 5 of those tie-ins are from that series, which only ran for 14 issues and a special. So, this “omnibus” collects 26% of that other series by Bendis which is also too short to be an omnibus on its own.
ARGH.
I’m sure this will sell some copies because it has been out of print for 20 years (except for in the Secret Wars box set – another place it didn’t belong!), but this collection feels like a pretty stupid packaging of it even if it is “only” $75 for an official omnibus.
The Sentry
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958718 / digital)
See Guide to Sentry. This original 2000 Sentry mini-series by Paul Jenkins gets a third reprint (and, honestly, I suspect it may have head a stealth extra printing with the same ISBN between 2005 and 2018).
It’s not that Sentry is so essential to the modern Marvel Universe. Actually, it’s completely the opposite! Paul Jenkins gave us the first perfect modern retcon weaving a newly-devised character deeply into existing continuity. There have been so many imitations of this over the years from Marvel, DC, and Image that it’s gone beyond being a a trope to become just… comics.
Personally, I wouldn’t call this an essential read, but it still holds up.
Anyhow, Sentry is about to pop up in the MCU, so it’s time for yet another printing!
Spider-Man: Black Suit & Blood Treasury Edition
(2025 oversize “treasury” paperback, ISBN 978-1302960131 / digital)
See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). An anthology of retcon stories of Spidey’s black suit era.
Venom War
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1302958695 / digital)
See Guide to Venom. This big showdown between Eddie Brock and his son Dylan wasn’t very fun at all as it turned from a wrestling match between the two of them for control of the symbiote to a full on zombiote invasion of New York. At least it put an end to the equally un-fun Al Ewing run on Venom (2021). I can’t think of any reason to recommend this to anyone.
Read on for a summary of all of the Marvel Comics April 2 2025 single issue releases!
Marvel Comics April 2 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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All-New Venom (2024) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Venom. Apparently this is it – the big reveal of who has been hiding beneath that snazzy new symbiote suit.
The reveal couldn’t come a moment too soon, as the non-Venom scenes of this comic are sucking all of the joy out of it compared to giddy kinetics of Carlos Gómez & Frank D’Armata illustrating this beefy new Venom.
Early speculation had the person beneath the suit as Luke Cage (one of the actual suspects in the book) or Bob Reynolds AKA Sentry based on the yellow/gold motif of the suit and the book’s logo. The typically stoic (and currently-dead) Reynolds seems like a left-field choice, but he’s about to be in a movie with no supporting comic and there’s a collection reprint out for him this week. Marvel’s not exactly known for their subtly.
Last issue ruled out Rick Jones, one of the other prime suspects in the book, who turned out to have his own symbiote get-up. A rising internet counter-insurgency has suggested it’s actually the Astonishing Paul – the man who launched 10,000 posts worth of wining on social media from Spider-Fans over the past 3yrs.
I would be absolute delighted if it was Paul beneath the suit just for the A-level trolling from Al Ewing. However, what I don’t want is some other random Spidey-Cast civillian under there – like one of the Robertsons.
Luckily, Spidey doesn’t have too many civillian friends these days, so unless this is someone totally out of left field it feels increasingly likely that it could be be Cage, Sentry, or Paul – all of whom would be pleasing in their own way.
Concert of Champions (2025) #1 (one-shot) (digital) – See Guide to Dazzler. Oh, my darling Dazzler. I want to get hype for every appearance she makes, but the otherwise charming Jason Loo absolutely crashed and burned on her limited series last year… probably killing our chances of another solid Dazzler series for at least another five years.
Anyway, here’s Loo back for a sone-shot encore on this book with zero “X” branding that will co-star Luna Snow.
Daredevil: Cold Day in Hell (2025) #1 (of 3) (digital) – See Guide to Daredevil. This is more or less an “Old Man Daredevil” story from his 2016-2019 author Charles Soule along with Old Man Logan co-creator Steve McNiven.
Deadpool (2024) #13 (digital) – See Guide to Deadpool. Deadpool & Co. emerged from the “Pools of Blood” crossover with Miles Morales stronger than ever before! That’s true both of the quality of this comic and the confidence of the Deadpool + Daughters team-up … which means they’re probably headed for disaster.
Cody Ziglar’s run on this book has gotten stronger and stronger with every passing month. But, now he’s got to walk a careful tightrope of plot. Can he return to the overarching villain drama of his relatively weak initial arc but infuse it with the madcap energy he’s brought to the title since then? Or, are things going to get duller as we pivot away from a heavy focus on Ellie and back to a less-interesting conflict with Deadpool’s new undying nemesis?
My money is on Ziglar making it work. This guy has exploded with amazing plots over the past year. He’s really got a knack for mining past elements of continuity for fun developments in the present. Now he gets to do that, but with his own continuity.
I think the place to pick this up is issue #10, which is a good primer on where everything stands.
Deadpool Kills the Marvel Universe One Last Time (2025) #1 (of 5) (digital) – See Guide to Deadpool. Cullen Bunn is back to his old hijinks on Deadpool! Bunn’s non-canonical version of will blaze a trail through previously-unkilled corners of the Marvel Multiverse to find more familiar characters for Wade to slaughter his way through, as drawn by artist Dalibor Talajić.
Hellverine (2024B) #5 (digital) – See Guide to Daken – Akihiro (eventually). I keep getting more and more hype for this “Daken as Ghost Rider” title because with each issue it feels less like an anonymous vengeance book and more like something deeply rooted in his own character history.
Also, art from Raffaele Ienco helps a lot!
Last issue Ben Percy kept things compressed, moving from Daken’s sorrow at having to kill a demon version of his mother to him revisiting the site of his own death at the hands of his father in the new AI-driven version of Genosha. Genosha is now haunted by the echo of Akihiro’s drowning… which means another very personal confrontation with his own inner demons if he wants to drive these outer demons away.
All of that comes to a head in this arc-ender, plus Mephisto!
The Immortal Thor (2023) #22 (digital) – See Guide to Thor – Odinson. After an unsteady run through the teenaged issues of this Al Ewing Immortal title, it feels like we’re entirely back on track after the past two issues. Thor is trekking into Utgard with Executioner at his side while haunted by Thanos as a looming specter of his own impending death.
I loved last issue’s Thor vs The Executioner fight over who has the right to live and die as “Thor.” Ewing introduced the narrative concept that Executioner often makes the sacrifices that Thor ought to make as a hero.
That makes sense! It’s rooted in well-known existing continuity, so it helps to lend some heft to Ewing’s meta-narrative about Thor only being alive as his stories. If someone else is standing in for him as a hero in his own stories, then how alive could he be?
I’m once again intrigued to see where Ewing might take this story and to learn what the Immortal adjective means for this series, since it’s clearly something different than the undying body horror on Hulk.
If you want to climb aboard this title, do it at issue #20!
Ironheart: Bad Chemistry (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Ironheart (eventually). I’ve always loved Riri Williams as a character, so I’m excited for her to get some time in the spotlight with her own Disney+ show coming up in a few months. This is just a one-shot story of her solo adventures in Chicago by John Jennings, Jethro Morales, & Andrew Dalhouse, so I’m hoping Marvel has more up their sleeves!
Marvel Rivals (2025) #1 (digital) – This non-continuity one-shot collects the six digital chapters by Paul Allor and Luca Claretti released on Marvel Unlimited over the past two months.
Even as a non-player of the smash hit Marvel Rivals, I enjoyed the comic. It did a good job of explaining the conceit of the game and using the cast in fun, funny ways that also showed off their combo moves. However, as single issues go, I think this is only a buy if you’re a big Marvel Rivals player and want to see a comic set in that sandbox.
Miles Morales: Spider-Man (2022) #32 (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Miles Morales. Fresh from a huge confrontation with his local archenemy Agent Gao in the “Pools of Blood” crossover with Deadpool, Anansi the spider trickster god pulls Miles into a contest of the gods against Ares!
Cody Ziglar has been on fire on this title for a whole year now, so he has my complete trust heading into this arc with artist Marco Renna. The only thing holding this bad has been an occasional bad fit on art, but Renna was just a breath of fresh air on Phoenix (2024) as a reliever.
I think this will be a fine place to pick this book up, since we didn’t really learn too much new about Miles in “Pools of Blood” – it was mostly a fight scene!
Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur 10th Anniversary Special (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Moon Girl & Devil Dinosaur. Moon Girl’s co-creators Brandon Montclare & Natacha Bustos return for a one-off romp against Impossible Man as a few-months-early celebration of her 10-year anniversary.
(Not to be a hater, but… I like Moon Girl so much better as a cast member in Avengers Academy right now than I ever did in her solo title, so I am not over the moon (see what I did there) about her original creators writing her again.)
Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (2024) #7 (digital) – See Guide to Moon Knight. Jed MacKay is really on a roll with the plot of this book! As much as I was sad to see the Midnight Mission go a few months ago, narratively it has supercharged this title because all of the supporting cast has a reason to be more active.
Plus, MacKay has been digging into Marc’s multiple personality psychology in a way that has been intriguing and hasn’t felt like punching down at the idea that he is mentally ill.
I dig Domenico Carbone’s art, though I’m not sure he’s the right artist to alternate with Devmalya Praminik, whose figures are just a bit cleaner, bigger, and bolder.
This series’ issue #o is still the best mid-run starting place for MacKay’s Moon Knight.
Psylocke (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes (2024 – Present). I always get worried when am X-Men supporting series switches to bi-weekly release, but it seems like this is maintaining a month schedule after this quick turnaround from March.
I’m really rooting for this Alyssa Wong Kwannon ongoing because I think they have the right voice for Kwannon and the art has been (mostly) remarkably strong. However, there are hints that this new arc is going to be a whole “splintered psyche / identity issues” focus and I rebuke that as a plot for this character.
We don’t need it. Add something new to her continuity instead of retreading her greatest hits again for increasingly diminishing returns.
Spider-Boy (2023) #18 (digital) – See Guide to Spider-Man – Peter Parker (2018 – Present). I regret to inform you that Dan Slott, frequent social media name-search, inveterate troll, and occasional comic book author, is ending this absolutely delightful series with issue #20. Slott has never been one to write more than one ongoing title for very long, and he appears to be onto bluer boyscout pastures writing Superman for DC.
That bums me out. Slott may not be my favorite writer, but when he gets into a series you know he’s going to keep it running forward month after month whether you like it or not. I always liked it on Spider-Man, less so on Iron Man, and absolute not at all on Fantastic Four. But, Spider-Boy is a new enough character that Slott’s name and experience was a huge part of what has been making him so memorable and delightful.
It seems obvious a relaunch would get handed to Steve Foxe, since he writes so much YA Spider-Content for Marvel outside of the Marvel-616, but Foxe hasn’t showed any staying power for an ongoing series to date. Plus, I’d rather this character go to someone who knows how to blend in a bit of darkness and horror into their YA title, which Slott did very well with Bailey Briggs being forgotten by his own mother and then having to make peace with his Boy-Spider genetic brother.
Alex Paknadel struck a very similar vibe on his short-lived Red Goblin (2023), but if I’m being honest it feels like Gail Simone would have a blast on this sort of kid-oriented title with a slightly scary twist.
Ultimate X-Men (2024) #14 (digital) – See Guide to Marvel Ultimate Universe. This Peach Momoko manga-influenced Ultimate book is back after just two weeks!
That’s a pretty fast ship schedule for an Ultimate Universe book, but based on the release dates of the next few issues it looks like it’s simply a move to pull this book up to an earlier week in the month so it doesn’t overlap other Ultimate Universe release weeks as often.
West Coast Avengers (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Avengers West Coast. Last issues one-off fight against Flagsmasher brought the humor back to this Gerry Duggan run alongside the action. That was partly down to Duggan’s script, but it was also due to artist Danny Kim leaning away from overcomplicated page layouts to deliver solid action and delightful character acting that furthered plots for Ultron, Firestar, and Blue Bolt.
Plus, Duggan writes Jessica Drew so darn good.
This issue is drawn by guest artist Ton Lima (still colored by series colorist Arthur Hesli) beginning a new arc of outside conflicts for Iron Man’s erstwhile team. First, Captain Marvel’s main squad of Avengers comes to pay Tony’s squad a visit. Then, next month Danny Kim is back for a confrontation with Wonder Man.
While I sometimes rail against bringing in a series of guest players to spice up the support for a side book, in this case I feel like Duggan, Kim, & Hesli paid their dues across the first five issues in setting up this team and its internal dynamic. A second arc is a perfect place for some guest spots.
I think it still makes sense to pick this series up from the start to catch its vibe rather than leaping right into the conflict here.
X-Men (2024) #14 (digital) – See Guide to X-Men – From the Ashes (2024 – Present). Last issue Jed MacKay made an “X-Manhunt” tie-in work in his favor with a terrifically fun throwdown between Cyclops’s team and storm with brilliant art from Netho Diaz.
However, from the solicit it sounds like this issue is back to the drudgery of the titles early issues with conflict in their Alaskan town and their boring new enemies “the 3k” lurking in the shadows as illustrated by Ryan Stegman.
It hasn’t escaped my notice that every time this book makes me perk up and take interest it either (a) isn’t about the enemies and plots introduced in the first arc and/or (b) not drawn by Ryan Stegman. In this case, I get it. There’s got to be some base-level anti-mutant nonsense to make this book feel flagship-y and Stegman has a big fanbase (even if I think Diaz has been far better on this series).
If you want to pick up this series, start from the alien invasion two-parter with issues #11-12.
That’s for Marvel Comics April 2 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.