Comic Picks

What to Read This Month: The Best Comics of July 2025

by Carole
July 1, 2025

Between Marvel Omnibus, DC Omnibus, the Epic Collection, DC Finest, Compact editions, and everything else publishers put out, there’s always way there’s always more to discover! Launched this past March, What to Read This Month highlights each month’s notable releases. Here’s our selection for May, featuring some great stories from… And if you missed last month’s picks, you can find them here.

July’s Comic Picks

All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from the copy provided by the publisher.

Dr. Werthless: The Man Who Studied Murder (And Nearly Killed the Comics Industry)
By Harold Schechter and Eric Powell

After the award-winning “Did You Hear What Eddie Gein Done?”(go read it!), true crime author Harold Schechter and cartoonist Eric Powell take a look at another complex man who occupy a special place in pop culture. Dr. Fredric Wertham didn’t murder anyone, but he almost killed the comics industry.

Reviled by comic book fans as a witch-hunting zealot who stirred up a panic among the parents of America for his own self-promoting purposes, he was also a renowned psychiatrists who, among other accomplishments, opened a clinic in Harlem for disadvantaged African-American patients and played an important role in the desegregation of the nation’s schools. Believing that murder could be abolished through a proper understanding of the mental and social roots of criminal violence, he took a genuinely humane approach to some of the most notorious homicidal maniacs of his time, while simultaneously exploiting their stories for his own commercial ends.

What to Read This Month: The Best Comics of June 2025

by Carole
June 2, 2025

June’s Comic Picks

All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from the copy provided by the publisher.

Superman Adventures Compendium One
By Scott McCloud, Mark Millar, Terry Austin, Marie Severin, Rick Burchett, Mark Evanier, Paul Dini

With the release of the new Superman movie approaching, it’s a good time to be a Superman fan! DC Comics is putting out many classic and new stories in various formats, including the first Compendium volume of Superman Adventures, the beloved comic inspired by Superman: The Animated Series. My biggest wish is that DC wouldn’t take so long to release the next volume (as it usually does for Compendium).

Superman: The Animated Series defined the Man of Steel for a whole new generation of young viewers. Now go beyond the adventures from the screen in the acclaimed comic book series set in the continuity of the show with stories written by the original series writers and in the style of the animated series, witness Superman battle Doctor Fate and Lobo wreak havoc upon Metropolis. Relive the show that brought the Man of Steel to life.

What to Read This Month: The Best Comics of May 2025

by Carole
May 1, 2025

Between Marvel Omnibus, DC Omnibus, the Epic Collection, DC Finest, Compact editions, and everything else publishers put out, there’s always way there’s always more to discover! Launched this past March, What to Read This Month highlights each month’s notable releases. Here’s our selection for May, featuring some great stories from the Suicide Squad, Mickey Mouse, and more. And if you missed last month’s picks, you can find them here.

May’s Comic Picks

All title summaries are taken and/or summarized from copy provided by the publisher.

Suicide Squad by John Ostrander Omnibus Vol. 1
By John Ostrander

In a post-Crisis world, comics legend John Ostrander redefined the Suicide Squad for the modern age in this brutal tale of war and redemption. Still the most celebrated Suicide Squad run ever published, it is now collected in Omnibus!

When new threats emerge deemed too dangerous for the United States military, Batman, and even Superman, who is called in to answer the call of duty? Seems like a job for Task Force X, also known as the Suicide Squad. Led by the no-nonsense federal agent Amanda Waller, this band of notorious super-criminals are faced with a dilemma: accept these highly dangerous missions and stare death in the face to earn their freedom or rot forever in prison.

What to Read This Month: The Best Comics of April 2025

by Carole
Updated on May 7, 2025

Last month, we launched our new column, helping you navigate the overwhelming number of collected editions released each month. Between Marvel or DC Omnibus, the Epic Collection, DC Finest, Compact editions, and everything else publishers put out, there’s always way there’s always more to discover!

That’s why we’re back with a selection of notable releases for April, highlighting some great stories from members of the Batfamily, sci-fi stories, and an ecological tale.

Without further ado, here are our picks for April!

What to Read This Month: The Best Comics of March 2025

by Carole
Updated on May 7, 2025

While you can check out all the Marvel or DC Comics Omnibus announcements for 2025 or see the upcoming releases in the Epic Collection, DC Finest and DC Compact on the website, there’s still a lot more collected editions put out there every month by comic book publishers! So much in fact that sometimes, you’ll wish you could buy more than what’s reasonable. That cost adds up and the time is missing to read everything we want!

That’s why we are launching a new column, starting in March, to spotlight a selection of collected editions released each month we think would be great to have in our library (and yours by extension!).

Without further ado, here is our selection of comic books for March!