2025 Favorites of the Year and Holiday Guide — GamingTrend Comics & Manga
2025 is coming to and end, and wow, there were a lot of comic books this year!
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As we wind down the 2025 year, us in the Comics & Manga portion of GamingTrend wanted to pass along our favorites of 2025. This is also a great place to find some gifts for those Comics & Manga friends and family in your life! You might also find some stories you've not read yet!
Included will be the title of the comic with the publisher, our review/impressions, and the link to the website to purchase the product! These are in no particular order, so don't be sad if your favorite isn't at the top.
From Myself, Tim Jenkins, and Shawn Taylor – we thank you for following this new chapter of the GamingTrend Saga and for a fabulous year! We're so excited for the rest of 2025 and start to 2026!
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins I – Dark Horse Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins I #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
Join familiar faces from Critical Role’s smash-hit first campaign in Critical Role: Vox Machina Origins!Roguish twins Vax’ildan and Vex’ahlia investigate a curse afflicting the impoverished citizens of the port city of Stilben. Things are not what they seem for the adventurous siblings…between fighting shark-riding fish men and black-clad assassins, they meet an antlered, shape-shifting magic user with her own theory about the curse.• The original Vox Machina digital seriers, in print for the first time, just in time for the 10th Anniversary of Critical Role!• See how the legendary team of Vox Machina comes together in these prequel comics!• Six issue series.
Conan the Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone – Titan Comics – Tim Jenkins 2025 Selection
Conan the Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone review — A legendary team-up of Robert E. Howard’s legendary characters
An epic adventure for long-time fans of Conan or newcomers to the Barbarian.
Tim Jenkins
Conan the Barbarian: Battle of the Black Stone @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Jim Zub
Dopeman – Titan Manga – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Dopeman @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Ryo Yoshigami
The Amazing Spider-Man: Torn – Marvel Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Amazing Spider-Man: Torn (2025) #1 | Comic Issues | Marvel
Browse the Marvel Comics issue Amazing Spider-Man: Torn (2025) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Ashes of the Academy – Dark Horse Comics – Tim Jenkins 2025 Selection
Avatar: The Last Airbender: Ashes of the Academy review — Not all traditions should be continued
We survived the comet, now can we survive the Royal Fire Nation Academy?
Tim Jenkins
Avatar: The Last Airbender--Ashes of the Academy TPB :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
An all-new stand-alone Avatar: The Last Airbender graphic novel!Kiyi, half-sister to Fire Lord Zuko, enrolls at the Royal Fire Academy for Girls! Known for its strict curriculum and even stricter instructors, Zuko worries for Kiyi. When things take a turn for the worse and a seed of doubt about the new headmistress is planted, Zuko takes action by installing one of the people he trusts most, Mai, as an academy teacher. Can Mai keep a watchful eye over Kiyi and keep her on the right path, or will the academy’s cruel culture shape her footsteps into those of her other half-sibling, Azula? Faith Erin Hicks, Peter Wartman and Adele Matera are back with another new adventure in the word of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Written in consultation with co-creators Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko!
Somali and the Forest Spirit – Titan Manga – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Somali and the Forest Spirit @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly – Dark Horse Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
The Witcher: The Bear and the Butterfly #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
Geralt travels to a remote town where a vampire is rumored to be killing the townspeople. The bounty has amassed all manner of monster hunters—and among them is another witcher, from the school of the Bear, a fierce competitor for the reward. • Written by Simon Spurrier (Coda, Damn Them All, Legion of X, John Constantine: Hellblazer) with art by Stephen Green (Sea of Stars, Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.: 1957–Forgotten Lives, Lobster Johnson: Garden of Bones)!• Four issue series.
Marvel Zombies – Marvel Comics – Shawn Taylor 2025 Selection
Marvel Zombies: Red Band (2025) #2 | Comic Issues | Marvel
Browse the Marvel Comics issue Marvel Zombies: Red Band (2025) #2. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!
Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring – Titan Comics – Tim Jenkins 2025 Selection
Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring Vol. 1 review — Can Robert E Howard’s holy warrior survive the quest for Thoth-Amon’s legendary ring?
How will the Sword of Vengeance fare against the children of Set?
Tim Jenkins
Solomon Kane: The Serpent Ring @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Star Wars: Boba Fett - Black, White & Red – Marvel Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Star Wars: Boba Fett - Black, White & Red (2025) #1 | Comic Issues | Marvel
Browse the Marvel Comics issue Star Wars: Boba Fett - Black, White & Red (2025) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!
Saint Seiya: Dark Wing – Titan Manga – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Saint Seiya: Dark Wing @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Kenji Saito
Spider-Man '94 – Marvel Comics – Tim Jenkins 2025 Selection
Spider-Man ’94 #2 review — Spidey finds himself up against his deadliest foe yet
The 90s are long behind us, but Peter’s problems never are
Tim Jenkins
Spider-Man ’94 (2025) #1 | Comic Issues | Marvel
Browse the Marvel Comics issue Spider-Man ’94 (2025) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!
Huck: Big Bad World – Dark Horse Comics – Shawn Taylor 2025 Selection
Huck: Big Bad World #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
Huck is an autistic man with extraordinary powers who tries to do one good deed every day. Now he’s back in a sequel where a mysterious man tells him he and his mother aren’t the ONLY super-people out there and there are others in hiding just like them.• All-new series from Mark Millar!• Six issue series.
Unbreakable X-Men – Marvel Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Unbreakable X-Men (2025) #1 | Comic Issues | Marvel
Browse the Marvel Comics issue Unbreakable X-Men (2025) #1. Learn where to read it, and check out the comic’s cover art, variants, writers, & more!
Caesar's Spy – Titan Comics – Tim Jenkins 2025 Choice
Caesar’s Spy Vol. 1 review — A vengeful gladiator finds himself embroiled in the fate of Rome
A twisting tale set within the final days of the Roman Republic
Tim Jenkins
Caesar’s Spy @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Jean-Pierre Pecau
FML – Dark Horse Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
FML #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
From the Eisner award-winning creators who brought you Captain Marvel, Bitch Planet, and Wonder Woman: Historia comes this genre-busting, apocalyptic odyssey about a group of metal kids who face a medley of bizarre foes and encounters in Portland, Oregon during a worldwide pandemic. Riley is a teen that sketches out his heavy metal future with a ballpoint pen between monster movies and band practice. But musical stardom needs to compete with high school, the temper of a former Riot Grrrl mother, the morbid obsessions of a goth sister, and the eccentricities of bandmates that threaten to drive him and everyone around him insane. The balance gets harder after a ritual during a party in Portland’s Forest Park causes him to wake up one day to discover that the creatures, witchcraft, and metal world he’s obsessed with may be a bit closer to home than he preferred. • A brand-new creator owned series from the team that brought you Captain Marvel!• Features bonus material exclusive to the single issues only, such as essays on music, true crime, interviews, and more!• Eight issue series.
Dead Space, Dead Space: Liberation, Dead Space: Salvage – Titan Comics – Adam Moreno 2025 Selection
Dead Space @ Titan Comics
Titan Comics is a bold new publishing initiative from Titan Publishing, offering readers the best new stories from new and established comics creators, and offering those creators a great deal to bring their stories to a worldwide audience.
Antony Johnston
Los Monstruos – Dark Horse Comics – Shawn Taylor 2025 Selection
Los Monstruos #1 :: Profile :: Dark Horse Comics
The time is the 1950s and the place is a very unique American city. Los Monstruos is entirely populated with classic monsters from movies and folklore. Vampires, Man-Monsters, Werewolves, Mummies, and many other fantastic creatures. Perry Cutter, werewolf P.I., has just foiled a gill-man kidnapping when another case falls into his lap. The case: finding a missing vampiress, seems simple enough, until Perry realizes he must walk a razor’s edge between crime-boss and pyramid casino owner Ramses and the hardboiled team of vampire cops known as the Night Shift. Perry is reminded, yet again, that nothing in this city is simple. Come visit Los Monstruos, a wild, wonderful city full of monsters and mystery.• A brand-new horror series by James Robinson and Jesus Merino!• Four issue series.
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