Next week is the 17th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics April 23 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics April 16 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Medieval Spawn’s origins, Supermassive one-shots collected, Dust to Dust’s mid-series mystery, Duke vs. Cobra Commander, Power Fantasy’s Second Summer of Love turns to hate, a silent Roadblock, a dull assortment of Crises, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: I can’t pick anything other than The Power Fantasy (2024) #8, not only because the series is embedded in my Top 12 of 2025 every damn week but because this is the second half of a hotly anticipated tale revealing more of the background of what makes this super-powered world history so different than our own.
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on April 23 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!
There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.
And now, onto Image Comics April 23 2025 new releases!
Image Comics April 23 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 April 23 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Criminal Vol. 5: The Sinners
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534347281 / digital)
The continued reprint of the original Criminal (2006) trades by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips continues with the first season the star-studded Amazon Prime adaptation streaming sometime soon.
Monolith Vol. 1
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534358577 / digital)
See Guide to Spawn. I just missed reading this three-issue mini-series from typically reliable McFarlane collaborator Sean Lewis when I came back to catching up on comics in 2024, so I caught up for this post.
They were bad. Like, baaaaaaaaaaaad. Like, bad enough to make you want to drop the entire Spawn line, because these people don’t know what the fuck they are doing. The book is full of overwritten captions that barely make sense and do little to add to a nothing story about how a deadly hulking Spawn fights the other final Spawn far, far in the future of the universe, but their fight eventually sends him back in time, where they fight more.
Seriously, unless you just page through Spawn titles as brutal picture-books, I cannot possibly give you a stronger stay away for your own good on this one.
The Moon Is Following Us Vol. 1
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534328273 / digital)
I find it curious to collect half of a 10-issue maxi-series that really didn’t have much to say until past the halfway point when Daniel Warren Johnson’s similar Murder Falcon simply hung on for a single trade collection. I’d say skip this and wait for the inevitable deluxe hardcover, unless you’re simply buying it digitally quickly catch up on the first five issues before jumping into reading it in singles.
Rifters Vol. 1
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534387607 / digital)
A time cop story from Brian Posehn (comedian and half of the writing team behind best Deadpool run in history) and Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy guitarist and burgeoning comics author) with artist Chris Johnson.
Supermassive Vol. 1: 2022-24
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534333574 / digital)
“Supermassive” has been the label for one-shot issues teaming up the various titular protagonists of the Massive-Verse – Dead Lucky, Inferno Girl Red, Radiant Pink, Radiant Red, and Rogue Sun – and, of course, the Massive-Verse’s flagship character, Radiant Black! This volume collects their first three team-ups.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics April 23 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics April 23 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Assorted Crisis Events (2025) #2 (digital) – Everybody loved the first issue of this anthology-style look at a world of regular people locked in a non-stop comic book crisis produced by Deniz Camp, Eric Zawadzki, Jordie Bellaire, Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou.
Everybody but me, that is. I could barely stay awake. Many yawns were had and I wandered away from the screen multiple times before I could force myself to finish the issue.
We followed one woman who could never tell the difference between there being a crisis of time and space unfolding outside of her brownstone or if it was just a film set shooting against the backdrop of a crisis-torn NYC.
My interest in that juxtaposition begins and ends with the sentence I just wrote. WHO CARES?! There wasn’t anything particularly interesting about the the character, who we never got to know. It was just 40 pages of unfortunate stuff happening to her before she was swallowed by an actual crisis.
Look, I get it. A crisis in a real world full of regular people with no superheroes to save them. Yes, it’s a very clever concept, but you’ve still got to find a story to tell inside of it and issue #1 simply didn’t.
That said, I was something like 1 in 50 when it came to people disliking it, so what do I know? Maybe a reader named “Krisis” just expects more from their assorted crisis events, or it could be my seething hatred of “anthologies stories in a spooky world” immediately rearing its head (ask me how I feel about Image’s Ice Cream Man).
I’ll read an issue #2 to see how this story pivots to another character and if there’s any big idea here other than “a crisis on anonymous background characters,” but if ask the most well-known Krisis With a “K” in comic I say this hit series is actually a big flop.
Bug Wars (2025) #3 (of 5) (digital) – Jason Aaron’s back yard bug war kicked off with a ton of family tension and microscopic lore in issue #1, which was a perfect comic for me. Yet, issue #2 felt like it felt back on familiar dull tropes of prisoners forced into a tournament of death.
Aaron’s at his best lately when he’s in hope-core mode. Putting an acne-ridden teenager through a grim journey to turn into some kind of microscopic warlord feels like a comic he could’ve written 10 years ago – and it would’ve been totally predictable and boring. I’m hoping as this mini-series hits the midway point we get a little bit more to the story than just an awkward teen’s barbaric fight to survive in the bug-level society.
Dust to Dust (2024) #5 (of 9) (digital) – See Guide to Giant Generator – an Image Comics imprint. As we reach the midway point of this nine-issue series, the twisted secrets of this depression era Dustbowl town are coming to light.
We’ve learned about the negligence of the now-shunned town Sheriff. Has the sinister thing that snatched a young girl right from under his nose years ago returned to stalk the town again? And, is that thing just a secret serial killer, someone deliberately sabotaging the town, or something supernatural?!
This book has deliberate set up close to a dozen distinct characters in the town across several different families and factions, and if it now tips into a slasher it will be intriguing to see who gets picked off. On the other hand, that feels a bit overt for a book that’s been subtle so far, so this might turn into more of a mystery of how this shadowy figure is connected to the town’s decline.
I love that we don’t exactly know which direction the book will take! I don’t care which way it twists, as the level of craft will likely continue to be outstanding no matter way.
G.I. Joe (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Energon Universe – G.I. Joe & Transformers! It felt to me like the plot of this Joe relaunch finally went from a simmer to a boil last issue with our Joes captured by Destro and getting into a major firefight to try to escape.
That leads to a faceoff between Duke & Cobra Commander in this issue – and it doesn’t get more toyetic than that!
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero – Roadblock (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to GI Joe – A Real American Hero (eventually… not long from now, but not this month, either). It’s the fourth of five silent missions homaging the original Snake Eyes story by Larry Hama back in the 80s.
This one centers on an all-time favorite Joe in Roadblock, who usually has a lot to say. Writer/Artist Andrew Krahnke steers the tale, who I’ve never encountered before.
Gunslinger Spawn (2021) #42 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. This title continues to move at a snail’s pace as it really feels like Toddfather might be out of plot ideas for the Gunslinger in the modern day. Last issue Gunslinger argued with an angel for a bit, and then visited some of his civilian acquaintances, and then got ambushed.
While I applaud getting three scene setups into a comic that sometimes manages just one, it feels like any semblance of plot in this book is more than arc behind us after a few months of Gunslinger meandering through a snowstorm.
Hornsby & Halo (2024) #6 (digital) – See Guide to Ghost Machine – an Image Comics imprint. I love the way Peter Tomasi writes teen characters, but I couldn’t hang with the complete absense of plot motion by the end of the first arc of this book.
Despite my obsession with a a good heaven-and-hell riff, but last issue was just our pair of protagonist kids running from their professed protector The Adjudicator for 20 whole pages. I felt that way about the first few issues, too. Only issue #4 really felt like anything of substance happened.
The one thing that might suck me back in is this issue promises The Adjudicator will reveal all to the pair of supernatural teens. Except… we as readers are already clued into the “all” of everything thanks to the prologue of the first issue, so that only sounds slightly tempting to me.
Medieval Spawn (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. Medieval Spawn is one of the coolest Spawn variants but also one of the most conflicted. Recently in The Scorched (2022) we’ve learned that the two halves of his identity are at war with each other – with his symbiote-driven, time-displaced Spawn self suppressing the consciousness of his modern-day host in fear that he’ll do the same to Medieval if they swap control.
Now, frequent McFarlane collaborator Rory McConville delves into the history of Medieval in his past with his original host – previously only glimpsed in the decades-past issues of the main Spawn (1992) title.
Monstress (2015) #57 (digital) – The Defiled seems to have an insurmountable upper hand as Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda Eisner-winning high fantasy tale continues.
Moonshine Bigfoot (2025) #1 (of 4) (digital) – The moment I saw the cover of this comic I knew I was excited for it. A bigfoot in a croptop and cutoff shorts who just wants to cruise in his sweet ride but is being stalked by armored crytpid-hunters? I’m in, baby! I don’t think I’m familiar with any creators on this team, so I’m trying going into this one with a blank slate based on the cover.
Nullhunter (2024) #7 (digital) – Michael Walsh’s cyberpunk, deep space version of the story of Hercules seems to be an ongoing series with no end in sight.
The Power Fantasy (2024) #8 (digital) – Last issue of Gillen & Wijngaard’s story of X-Men without the punching flashed back to 1989, with the introduction of a new superpower who tried to bring peace, love, and good vibes to Manchester in 1989. Now we get the second half, about how she nearly destroyed the Earth because her version of Utopia wasn’t perfect enough.
Rat City (2024) #13 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. Erica Schultz’s take on Spawn 2099 continues.
Universal Monsters: The Mummy (2025) #2 (digital) – See Guide to Skybound Entertainment (eventually). The first issue of this Faith Erin Hicks Mummy reimagining read less like a horror/suspense story and more like a YA book about a bunch of friends living in Egypt.
That makes perfect sense based on Hicks’s YA pedigree, but I was really hoping for something more surprising and suspenseful from her for this Universal Monsters line.
Witchblade (2024) #10 (digital) – See Guide to Witchblade (eventually). I am now free from the grasp of this incredibly dull series, which I dropped a few issues ago.
Youngblood Deluxe (2025) #1 (digital) – See Guide to Youngblood. This is not a brand new Youngblood #1, but deluxe edition of the original #1 from 1992! This is a re-scripted, re-colored, re-lettered version of the 1992 original issue’s artwork from Liefeld.
It looks like there’s at least three issues of this Deluxe version solicited, so maybe we’ll get past Rob’s tendency to get stuck on #1s and actually make it through a full story arc in this fully revised edition. Now if only he’d give us some collections of early Youngblood and other Extreme Studios properties!!! That’s what sickos like me are looking for.
That’s it for Image Comics April 23 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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