Next week is the 9th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics February 26 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics February 19 2025 new releases.
This week in Image Comics: Monstress returns, a new jumping on point for Massive-Verse flagship Radiant Black, new arcs from Department of Truth and Nights, more nuance from Remender’s Seasons sisters, the aftermath of Destro vs. Cobra Commander, and more!
The Krisis Pick of the Week: My Image pull-list continues to be dominated by the spectacular Dust to Dust (2025) #3 from Phil Bram & JG Jones! It remains one of my Top 10 comics of 2025 and it really feels like they are creating a timeless classic right before our eyes.
This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on February 19 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 February 26 2025 new releases!
Image Comics February 26 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 February 26 2025 books today from a traditional bookseller they will still be pre-orders and will arrive in a few weeks.
Nights Vol. 2
(2025 paperback, ISBN 978-1534350809 / digital)
Despite bouncing off the first issue of this alternate supernatural history of Florida, I find myself thinking about it surprisingly often. I love the idea of low fantasy/horror where vampires and ghosts are casual roommates without too many spooky happenings, but they are heading towards an unavoidable future apocalypse. It feels very Buffy The Vampire Slayer for the 2020s.
Read on for summaries of Image Comics February 26 2025 single issue releases!
Image Comics February 26 2025 Physical Comic Releases
The Department of Truth (2020) #28 (digital) – James Tynion & Martin Simmonds’s take on American propaganda vs The X-Files is back after a brief hiatus. I generally find that this book works better when binged in arcs rather than read issue to issue, so I’m excited to catch up from where I left off.
Dust to Dust (2024) #3 (of 8) (digital) – Phil Bram & JG Jones are creating what is the first true breakout hit of 2025 for Rick Remender’s Giant Generator imprint.
This unflinching look at a single small town in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression contains multitudes despite being a small story. Also, Jones’s sepia-toned art is thrillingly photographic, which pairs well with the plot thread of a WPA photographer visiting the small town to document its way of life.
This book has been embedded in my Top 10 since its #1 issue and I don’t anticipate it’s going anywhere!
G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982) #314 (digital) – Heck yes, I love this classic Larry Hama book!
Last issue’s throwdown between Destro and Cobra Commander maybe dragged on a bit long with total focus, but that conflict has been simmering to a boil for over a year now.
I’m interested to see what becomes of the fragile truce between Destro and the Joes while they are stranded in the middle of Cobra’s city with Serpentor’s zombie hordes patrolling the streets.
Hornsby & Halo (2024) #4 (digital) – This Peter Tomasi & Peter Snejbjerg series from Rick Remender’s Giant Generator feels like an extra-mild version of Good Omens.
The art is lovely, even if it struggles a bit with quick-moving action, but the story of an angelic boy and a devilish girl doesn’t seem to be heading anywhere. Neither character is particularly interesting, either on their own or with each other. Unlike Tomasi’s family ensemble in The Rocketfellers (2024), there’s really no one to root for here and no hint of the stakes of them slowly coming into their heavenly and hellish lineage.
This will be my final issue before dropping the book unless Tomasi’s plot catches fire.
Monstress (2015) #55 (digital) – The Eisner Award-winning epic fantasy series from Marjorie Liu & Sana Takeda is back with an oversized issue after a half year of hiatus! It’s wild that this book has been around for a decade steadily pumping out a single arc per year.
I love the plot of this fantasy world filled with magic and barely-contained darkness, but Takeda’s art gives me a physical headache. She has a quirk where she textures every inch of her artwork as if its being drawn on a piece of parchment. The effect does something wild to my eyes. After binging the first four years of issues I had to swear it off for good.
Nights (2023) #13 (digital) – I was slightly befuddled by the casual conversation and timeline shenanigans of Nights (2023) #1 when I sampled it last month. Despite loving the concept of an alternate reality Florida full of supernatural roommates (and its apocalyptic future) I just couldn’t click the dialog.
Now that it’s pressing onward to a third arc – and, with a potential adaption to TV hinted – I’m tempted to jump into the deep end of this new issue to see if I like it any better. And, this issue’s solicits trumpets that it’s a perfect point for a new reader to jump in.
Radiant Black (2021) #31 (digital) – This Massive-Verse flagship book picks up after the big “Catalyst War” event, which means it’s good time to jump onto the series. We’re down to a single Radiant Black with a streamlined status quo.
The Scorched (2022) #38 (digital) – See Guide to Spawn. This is the Spawn team title, and it’s deeply embroiled in the heaven/hell war that dominates many of the Spawn books, That just took a major turn in Spawn (1992) last month, and this solicit for this issue tips that it will quickly respond to that change in status quo.
I think writer John Layman has been having some fun with this one, playing with some of the typical Spawn tropes of over-narration and constant repetition, but using them as misdirects. Last issue the entire issue read as if it was a recap of prior action, but everything was fresh – it was just a narrative device!
Usually Spawn books don’t aspire to a lot more than “hellish symbiote cool,” so I’m totally into this Layman team book having some additional layers. Plus, Stephen Segovia’s art has been great!
The Seasons (2025) #2 (digital) – This new Rick Remender Giant Generator series can’t quite decide what it wants to be – a charming Miyazaki riff focused on the magic of the everyday or a horror-tinged thriller about a quartet of slightly-spooky sisters.
Why not both? In issue #1, the lackadaisical pace of the Miyazaki riff felt like a breezy European graphic album more about vibe than narrative, but then it crammed in a plot-filled scene at the end.
Maybe the pace will even out as the series continues, because right now I’m confused about what it is… but it could be something good!
That’s it for Image Comics February 26 2025 new releases! What were you already pulling? And, did I convince you to check out anything new? Sound off in the comments below.