My Favorite Comics of 2025

 Most of my comics reading in 2025 was of DC in the early 80s for my ongoing series on my other blog. I did manage to continue to follow I number of series I have enjoyed beyond this year: Batman/Superman: World's Finest (DC), Batman & Robin: Year One (DC), G.I. Joe (Energon Universe, Skybound), W0rldtr33 (Image), and Frieren: Beyond Journey's End (VIZ). I also checked out a number of other series, limited series, and graphic novels.

Listed here are my favorites. Some will be whole limited series; some will be individual issues. They are in no particular order other than when they occurred to me.

Batman/Superman: World's Finest (2022-) #44: This is another Robin/Supergirl team-up, a rare but recurring feature in the title, but always welcome. The interaction of the two junior heroes is always humorous in Waid's rendition of the characters.

Absolute Martian Manhunter #1: While this whole series has been good so far, the first issue was such a pleasant surprise it deserves special mention.

Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 3: The Secret of the Saucer: This might be my least favorite installment of this series, but it's such a good series that it makes this list. This one is told in reverse essentially, so that the main characters memory mental dislocation caused by exposure to an alien "spacecraft" can be to a degree experienced by the reader. It makes catching the flow of events and picking up the plot threads related to the deeper mysteries of Hobtown that much harder, though, so I'm not sure it was the best choice. Still a great read.

Drome: I've talked about this graphic novel by Jesse Lonergan before, so I won't repeat that all here, but it's great.

Bug Wars: I really enjoy "small hero" stories and genre works with good worldbuilding. This has both!