Next week is the 10th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics March 5 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics February 26 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Horror on Hyde Street, the complete Hellspawn, penultimate Juvenile, Moon Man’s lost seven minutes, Redcoat collected, another batch of Monkey Money, Strange Girl’s anniversary, hardcover Fishflies and Savage Dragon, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: This is a sparse week of Image for me – it’s full of books I don’t read or strongly dislike! I guess that means it might be a chance to play catchup, in which case my pick would be The Tin Can Society (2024) #6. The quality of non-Remender books from Rick Remender’s Giant Generator imprint have been surprisingly high, so this indie Iron man riff might be up my alley (and it’ll certainly be better than the current Iron Man (2024) run at Marvel!) But, I’m also eager to catch up on the collected edition of Convert (2024)! More on that, below.
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on March 5 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 5 2025 new releases!
Image Comics March 5 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 5 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Convert
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534344563 / digital)
A 2024 mini-series from longtime Hellboy Universe writer John Arcudi, it tells the tale of an astronaut stranded alone on a lush but deadly planet.
As I prepped this post I checked out the preview pages and quickly fell in love with artist Savannah Finley lush, haunting alien world. This just leapt to the top of my “2024 reads I need to catch up on” list!
Fishflies Deluxe Hardcover
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1534395176
A deluxe version of Jeff Lemire’s seven-issue tale of a crime that rocks the small town of Belle River, Ontario.
Hellspawn: The Complete Collection
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534379909 / digital)
See Guide to Spawn. This is a long-awaited paperback reprint of Hellspawn (2000) #1-16, last collected back in 2010!
Launched by Brian Bendis at the same time he was writing Ultimate Spider-Man and Daredevil and later written by Steve Niles, this offers a very different take on Spawn and Violator than McFarlane’s main series.
Invincible Vol. 8 [New Edition]
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534396807)
This collects Invincible (2003) #42-47, originally billed as a great point to jump into the series as multiple parties from space head to earth on a collision path with Invincible.
Kaya Book Four
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534329454 / digital)
I’m utterly transfixed by Wes Craig’s fantasy fairytale of the last human princess (with an unbreakable metal arm) and her little brother (who may be a magical messiah) as they navigate a world where lizard-people are their only allies in a war against and evil axis of mutants and cyborgs who slew their parents. Every issue is total perfection, from character voices to cartooning.
This one has my strong recommendation. I wish they’d get Volume 1 back into print so I could pick up the whole set for me to read with the kid!
Redcoat Vol. 1: Einstein & The Immortal
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534373181 / digital)
The first collection of Geoff Johns & Bryan Hitch inventing their own version of a mystical and somewhat hapless Logan… a less-than-dedicated British redcoat who stumbles into an arcane ritual meant for Ben Franklin and emerges with immortal life. Hitch’s art hasn’t looked this good in years, and if you’re into historical fiction this has some very fun beats.
Savage Dragon Ultimate Collection Vol. 3
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1534356382 / digital)
See Guide to Savage Dragon. After skipping a release year in 2024 this premium hardcover line is back with another 14 issues of Savage Dragon (1993), taking us through the start of 1997 to issue #34 (which has a guest-appearance by Hellboy)!
Strange Girl 20th Anniversary Deluxe Hardcover
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1534344006)
Rick Remender’s original breakthrough comic about a girl stuck on Earth a decade after the rapture.
I’ve had a copy of the original deluxe hardcover gathering dust in my garage for a decade now. You know I’m a sucker for angel/demon, heaven/hell, apocalypse-on-Earth type stories, but I simply couldn’t get past the art to appreciate the story. This came out in 2005-2007 and it is very much an indie comic of that era. The art varies between post-2000 Manga imitation and heavily inked blocky characters derived from early Walking Dead issues.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics March 5 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics March 5 2025 Physical Comic Releases
Hyde Street (2024) #4 (digital) – Geoff Johns’s continues this devilish look at a supernatural side street where everyone is tempted to make their worst decisions and pay for their biggest mistakes.
Juvenile (2024) #4 (of 5) (digital) – It’s the penultimate issue of auteur Jesús Orellana’s solo turn on teens realizing they have secret super powers being suppressed by a society convinced they will lead to their death – or, to the end of the world.
This series had a strong start for me, but as it has rushed more and more through its storyline it has gotten less assured and less interesting for me. The problem with this book is never a lack of ideas. It’s that it’s trying to tell an entire world’s worth of story within just five issues and about two days of story time. Hear more about my reaction to issue #3 on Crushing Krisis Live.
Knights vs Samurai (2024) #6 (digital) – David Dastmalchian’s “Shogun plus dragons” series from McFarlane Productions continues.
Mirka Andolfo’s Sweet Paprika: Open for Business (2024) #4 (of 5) – This was scheduled for this week, but pushed back to March 19.
Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch (2025) #1 (digital) – More of Juni Ba’s fantastical anthology about the evil Monkey Meat Company and all of the grim capitalist nightmares they have unleashed on the world. And also demons.
It was utterly incomprehensible to me – both story and art, but I know a lot of folks who enjoyed Ba’s absurdist take on social commentary.
Moon Man (2024) #7 (digital) – I continue to feel the allure of catching up on this Kyle Higgins & Kid Cudi sci-fi comic about a mysterious lost seven minutes in a private space mission. The art was far too vague for my liking, but I can’t deny that the story got its hooks in my brain. Perhaps I’ll catch up over the weekend in time for Crushing Comics Live next week!
Sam and Twitch: Case Files (2024) #11 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. Look, I am really rooting for the Spawn Universe and everything that the Toddfather wants to do with it. But… the LITERAL FIRST WORD of last issue spelled wrong.
Or, should I say, “WROUNG.”
(Oh, Todd. Hire me, please. Or any editor. I am begging you.)
This second arc of the NYC detectives with a tangential connection to Spawn’s world is a ho-hum police procedural with McFarlane’s typical failure to launch. The idea that Twitch may have murdered a man who was already dead is a terrific plot hook. It made me want to recommend this book to readers. But, that was a few issues ago now. Did we need a whole extra issue of standing around talking about if it was Twitch’s fault or not? Nothing of any substance actually happened in issue #10.
I don’t know how many more months I can stick around for this series between the rampant editing problems, the sluggish pacing, and the knowledge that the first arc sputtered as hard as it did.
The Tin Can Society (2024) #6 (of 9) (digital) – This indie take on Iron Man from Rick Remender’s Giant Generator continues from Peter Warren, Francesco Mobili, & Chris Chuckry.
Ultramega (2021) #8 (digital) – I read the first issue of this Skybound Entertainment kaiju book from writer/artist James Harren back in 2021. I found it to be a deeply unpleasant male power fantasy about women being useless hosts of evil infection. Plus, lots of viscera.
That might be exactly your kind of thing, though! It’s been back for a second arc since September after a three year break, which is pretty wild for a series that was just four scant issues in its first run!
The Walking Dead Deluxe (2020) #108 (digital) – This issue of the colorized Walking Dead series was the final installment of Vol 18: What Comes After.
That’s it for Image Comics March 5 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.