Next week is the 19th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics May 7 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics April 30 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Kirkman’s Blood & Thunder debuts, a new arc for Kaya, a final arc for Farmhand, the Moon is nearly done following us, recollected Invincible, Snake-Eyes goes undercover, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: Since I’m not caught up on Kaya (2022) I can’t pick the start of it’s new arc! Failing that, I think I have to go with Blood & Thunder (2025) #1, which sounds like a sci-fi take on Fairlady (2019) – on of my favorite Image books of the past decade.
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on May 7 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 May 7 2025 new releases!
Image Comics May 7 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 May 7 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Invincible Vol. 9 (New Edition)
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534328013)
This new edition collects Invincible (2003) #48-53, which means it is now fully a whole trade of material ahead of the original line (whose Vol. 9 ended with issue #47).
Lady Mechanika Vol. 6
(2025 oversize hardcover, ISBN 978-1534344907)
Both OmniDog and I love Lady Mechanika, a steampunk heroine with major 90s Image vibes. This HC collects a pair of mini-series – Lady Mechanika: The Monster of the Ministry of Hell (2021) #1-4 and Lady Mechanika: The Devil in the Lake (2024) #1-3. That hasn’t always been the case, as some past hardcovers have just recollected single mini-series from the initial-release paperbacks (which is what I’ve been collecting).
The Sacrificers Vol. 3: No Light Beyond
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534330870 / digital)
See Guide to Giant Generator – an Image Comics imprint. This third arc of Sacrificers is where the series really took a turn – a turn towards more action and towards more agency for its protagonists. I think for some folks it’s the burst of energy they’ve been waiting to break the building tension. For me, it was a somewhat sideways and unintentionally hilarious turn for a series that had been pretty gripping. Your mileage may vary.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics May 7 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics May 7 2025 Physical Comic Releases
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Adventureman: Family Tree (2025) #2 (digital) – I picked up the first issue of this Matt Fraction and Terry & Rachel Dodson series without catching up on the string of mini-series that preceded it. It completely worked for me. I love the sprawling clan of modern day family and friends and how the book was careful to name and define them all (along with their current crisis) and how they have an interesting synergistic relationship with a series of pulp fiction novels.
Also, as someone who doesn’t always love Dodsons’ round, bubbly characters, I really enjoyed his illustration and action in a very grounded scene of kung-fu fighting.
I have a special appreciation for books where you can jump in mid-stream and feel like you’re getting just as much enjoyment from the story as if you had caught up on everything. I think we’re in a real renaissance of Matt Fraction between this his return to ongoing Big Two comics with him writing Batman (2025) later this year.
Blood & Thunder (2025) #1 (digital) – From the solicit, this new sci-fi series sounds right up my alley. A future version of Earth with a wide range of alien inhabitants and a solo human woman as a bounty hunter policing this newly-integrated society? I’m into it, baby!
I don’t have any experience with writer Benito Cereno, who has occasionally written for The Tick and Invincible. He’s writing from a Robert Kirkman story, and I’m just glad it’s not Kirkman himself – a better idea guy than an author, for me.
Blood Squad Seven (2024) #8 (digital) – Y’all. Y’ALL. I love my 90s-style image bullshit. But, in the last issue of this Joe Casey throwback series. NOTHING HAPPENED. Nothing. Literally not a single thing. One director was a little bit worried about a member of the squad. A PR lady is worried about a haircut. We walk through a convention. That’s it. This issue promises a fight, but… who knows at this point!?
This has turned into a total fucking flop. And I’ll still be reading.
Farmhand (2018) #21 (digital) – I completely lost track of this Rob Guillory series after its first year… which was in 2019! It ran for an initial 15 issues, then went on hiatus until 2022 for another arc, and now it’s back for one final arc!
I found this series consistently charming, if not ever a top-of-pull book for me. It’s about an intergenerational family farm and its spin-off big business, but also small town politics, genetic engineering, plant-based artificial limbs, and also… a plant zombie infection?
I’d really have to do some catching up to remember more than that – and I’m intrigued to do it.
Free Planet (2025) #1 (digital) – A new sci-fi series from Aubrey Sitterson, Jed Dougherty, Vittorio Astone, & Taylor Esposito.
(I don’t eff with Sitterson, so ????)
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982 / 2023) #316 (digital) – I think both the positive and the negative of this long-running Larry Hama series is that it has accumulated so many toys to play with, which means there are many different pieces moving across the chess board.
On one hand, that makes for some huge crescendos of storytelling, like in issues #312-313. On the other hand, some of the connective issues in the middle of an arc can feel a little administrative in nature. Last issue, that represented itself as several pages inexplicably spent on navigating I-95 through NJ.
Of course, I have strong feelings about I-95 as a former Philadelphian, but that was maybe a little excessive. As the same time, it also included plot on the Artificial Intelligence takeover of Cobra Island – much more interesting.
I’d still highly recommend picking this up with issue #300. It’s been a page-turner from the start, especially as a binge.
Grommets (2024) #7 (of 7) (digital) – See Guide to Giant Generator – an Image Comics imprint. Rick Remender’s tale of 80s skate punk culture comes to a close. I love that this is a neighbor to something autobiographical from Remender, who I’ve really come around on in the past few years, so I’m really eager to catch up on this – but, maybe not all this week!
Kaya (2022) #26 (digital) – I am now about halfway through my catchup on Wes Craig’s Kaya, which means I’m still a few arcs behind this new arc kickoff. It remains one of my favorite reads of the past year of catching up on indie comics. He’s such an efficient storyteller and I love the clarity of the narrative.
It’s obvious Craig came into this with a long term plan, because this didn’t feel like a massive first arc and then a quick tail-off… it keeps getting bigger and more interesting.
Monkey Meat: The Summer Batch (2025) #3 (digital) – Juni Ba’s anthology series about the world-dominating monkey meat purveying super-corp continues.
The Moon Is Following Us (2024) #9 (digital) – As we hit the penultimate issue of this Daniel Warren Johnson & Riley Rossmo art jam I think its dream logic has finally worn me out. Last issue featured yet another wild dream creature used for yet another fruitless battle as the story leans out of the story of the daughter and into the bottled up trauma of the father.
I think the art in this book continues to be nothing short of spectacular, but it feels like it didn’t quite have enough plot for 10 issues. I think DWJ’s Murder Falcon (2018) had the right idea with a tight eight.
Sam and Twitch: Case Files (2024) #13 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn Universe. I really loved last issue of this book, and I think it’s no mistake that it happens to be the closest we’ve come to Sam and Twitch teaming up after a year of separation.
Sam’s dogged investigation of how Twitch had been set up to kill a man who was already dead is really crackling and I’m looking forward to more. There’s such an obvious X-Files-esque allure of having two skeptic beat cops rubbing up against the demonic world of Spawn. It feels like the book is finally leaning further into that.
The Scorched (2022) #40 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn Universe. I had been enjoying John Layman’s take on this Spawn supergroup, but over the past few issues it feels like the story has stalled out. We’ve spent two issues on some vague conflict within Medieval Spawn between his modern host body and his Spawn personality, but that aside there hasn’t been much narrative for a while now.
I wish I could say this is delivering on some delicious fighting by the Spawn Squad, or even some petty squabbling, but there hasn’t been anything happening for a while now. I’m surprised, because Layman is usually such a deft scripter – especially with his run on Titans
The Walking Dead Deluxe (2020) #112 (digital) – Walking Dead’s in-color reprints continue with the “March to War” story that leads to Rick and Negan’s confrontation in “All Out War.”
That’s it for Image Comics May 7 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.