Best of Lists

As I’m now in year two of “All I do is read and recommend great comics,” I’ve begun to notice some trends. The first of which is that April, aka the start of Q2, tends to be absolutely LOADED with phenomenal new graphic novels. We’ve had our chance to catch up on the best of last year, and now it’s time to fully move into a 2025 full of new comics. In general, I seek to hit right around 10 new favorite comics to recommend each month, but for April, I’m easily pushing 15. I’m holding back recs I have so many! It’s such a challenging environment to make any kind of art right now, yet all these beautiful people keep making great comics. It’s wonderful!

You can find the full 2025 list of all my favorite comics this year. I’m over 30 for the year! Don’t hesitate to let me know any of your favorites I may have missed via dave@comicbookherald.com!

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This month, a new Pantheon graphic novel is swinging for the All-Time Greats, and old favorites like Kaya, Ultimate Spider-Man and Chainsaw Man are back among the best!

Don’t hesitate to let me know any of your favorites I may have missed via dave@comicbookherald.com!

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The comic bug bites again! I OD’d so hard on Marvel Rivals that I finally shook off my disinterest in reading all the latest and greatest comics! Doesn’t hurt that 2025 is off to a roaring start with must-read graphic novels from the likes of Kieron Gillen, James Tynion IV, Jeff Lemire, Juni Ba… oh just read the list of my favorite graphic novels of Feb 2025!

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For those who were wondering, it turns out I read so many comics last year primarily because I wasn’t spending every free hour playing Marvel Rivals or The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (or even reading a *gulp* prose novel, Cloud Atlas!). Video games are simply winning the “Would you rather?” battle right now, which means my “to-read” pile is growing concerningly large, and hauntingly ornery. Should to-read piles be yelling like this? I’m going to call an exorcist, but in the meantime, these are the great comics I *did* make time for this month!

You can find the full 2025 list of all my favorite comics this year at Bookshop: Don’t hesitate to let me know any of your favorites I may have missed via dave@comicbookherald.com!

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