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New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Image Comics – April 2 2025

March 29, 2025 by krisis

Next week is the 14th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Image Comics April 2 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Image Comics March 26 2025 new releases.

This week in Image Comics: The return of silent American Heroes, Nyx’s past unravelled, Rook & Rat collected, a serial obsession with serial killers, a big reveal for Hornsby & Halo, a pair of loser devils get gluttonous, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: This isn’t the strongest week of Image for me, but I think I’m the most psyched to read Hornsby & Halo (2024) #5. Read more below on why I feel like issue #4 finally delivered on the promise of the series to understand why I’m looking forward to this new issue.

This post includes every comic out from Image Comics this week on April 2 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 2 2025 new releases!

New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: DC Comics – April 2 2025

March 28, 2025 by krisis

Next week is the 14th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers DC Comics April 2 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering DC Comics March 26 2025 new releases.

This week in DC Comics: Absolute Al Ewing strips down the Lantern myth, a return to the original Elseworlds, Ram V’s rebirth of Resurrection Man, Atom Project blows up, a perfect Finest Peacemaker, Poison Ivy chooses between man and marsh, Secret Six’s strained queer relationships, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: This might be a bit of a dark horse pick over new Absolute books, a new arc of Birds of Prey, and the return of Resurrection Man, but my pick this week is Secret Six (2025) #2! Actor turned DC author Nicole Maines really captured my imagination with her first issue and Stephen Segovia is on a continued hot streak of arc after his recent work in the Spawn Universe. More below on why I’m so enamored with this book based on it’s first issue.

This post includes every comic out from DC Comics April 2 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every in-continuity series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for most new releases, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to DC Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

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New Comics & Collected Editions Releases: Marvel Comics – April 2 2025

March 27, 2025 by krisis

Next week is the 14th new comic book day of 2025! This post covers Marvel Comics April 2 2025 new releases. Missed this week’s releases? Check out last week’s post covering Marvel Comics March 26 2025 new releases.

This week in Marvel Comics: All-New Venom revealed, Thor goes to Utgard, Miles’s God War begins, Epic Siege of Darkness, Avengers vs. Avengers, Marvel Rivals in print, Sentry gets another reprint, Old Man Daredevil, a West Coast Masterwork that pisses me off, and more!

The Krisis Pick of the Week: Is this really happening… am I picking Deadpool (2024) #13 for my pick of the week!? You’re damn right I am! As Cody Ziglar heads into Year Two of this run he is hot off a smashing success with his Deadpool/Miles crossover. With truly funny quips, an outstanding supporting cast, and Rogê Antônio rotating back in on art I’m expecting major fun from this issue.

This post includes every comic out from Marvel Comics April 2 2025, plus collected editions in omnibus, hardcover, paperback, and digest-sized formats.

This isn’t the typical comic releases post you can find on other sites. Why? I explain each collection and review every series with a new issue out this week. Plus, for every new release, I’ll point you to a personally-curated guide within the Crushing Comics Guide to Marvel Comics to find out how to collect that title in full!

There’s no other website on the internet that can claim that.

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Debating our list of Evergreen Wolverine Stories – LIVE on Near Mint Condition

March 27, 2025 by krisis

Are you ready to rumble? Today – March 27, I’m live with Near Mint Condition to share my list of Evergreen Wolverine stories – that means the Wolverine stories should never go out of print!

I’ll be co-hosting this debate with Uncanny Omar of Near Mint Condition and a panel of amazing guests. We will each share our picks for Wolverine evergreen stories… and then we’ll fight tooth and nail over our officially endorsed final list of Evergreen Wolverine Stories.

It’s the stream that is half serious recommendations, half a cut-throat game show of all of us trying to block other people’s recommendations so that all of our own make the list.

(Watch on YouTube)

Guide to Giant Generator – Rick Remender’s Image Comics Imprint (New for Patrons!)

March 26, 2025 by krisis

Today I’m back with a different kind of guide for Patrons of CK – one that I’ve been considering for well over half a decade and finally decided to buckle down and complete. And, let me tell you, this is not the one I ever expected to be the first example! But, after an entire quarter of reading almost every comic out in the Direct Market, there’s one imprint that has been sticking out to me for generating non-stop positive reactions from readers with a wide array of comics. Some of them have even hooked me, noted curmudgeon. And, that’s why today I’m bringing you my first ever guide to a creator-centric imprint with my Guide to Giant Generator – an Image Comics imprint helmed by Rick Remender!!

Guide to Rick Remender’s Giant Generator

This guide is available exclusively to Patrons and will be available to the public later this year with the release of Giant Generator’s recently teased Wave 3 of comic titles.

Choosing Giant Generator as my first creator-centric guide was genuinely a big shock to me. Back in 2012 when Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force (2010) wrapped up I was sure that he was one of my favorite comic writers. But, after reading almost all of what he has recently deemed “Wave 0” of his creator-owned Giant Generator titles like Black Science (2013), Deadly Class (2014), and Low (2014) I felt like I wasn’t vibing with Remender all all?

So, what changed?
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