Welcome to the first Fantastic Five of 2025! 2024 was an amazing year for comics, and if this first look at the best comics of the week for 2025 is any indication, the upcoming year will be as well. Let’s take a look at the best comics this week!
Best comics of the week of January 1, 2025
#5: Sam Wilson: Captain America #1
This issue kicks off the miniseries in grand style, with dynamic action, some deeply touching moments and a great new nemesis for Sam. If the action stays as furious and kinetic as this issue’s intro, we’re in for a fantastic ride.
Read Kevin Clark’s full review!
#4: Cable: Love and Chrome #1
Cable: Love and Chrome #1 gives Nathan Summers a new mission, a new love interest – and most importantly, it’ll give readers a new outlook on his character. If you’re looking for an entry point into the world of X-Men, or you dig time-travel romances, start the New Year off with this comic.
Read Collier Jennings’ full review!
#3: Absolute Superman #3
Absolute Superman #3 succeeds in offering a fresh perspective on Superman’s origin, with Jason Aaron crafting a deeply relevant narrative steeped in rebellion and class awareness. Supported by Rafa Sandoval’s breathtaking art, the issue delivers both heart and spectacle.
Read Dave Brooke’s full review!
#2: Shazam! #19
As far as conclusions go, it’s hard to pass up Shazam! #19. This arc has been truly entertaining with how Mr. Mind has thus far been incorporated, and the conclusion leaves us wanting more from the green worm of Venus. Emotionally resonant, held back from its traditional lightheartedness, and rife with love for the history of these characters, this series has not stopped being a joy to read.
Read Eric Thomas’s full review!
#1: Batgirl #3
Batgirl #3 is great. Very rarely can a single issue give me so much meat on the bone to chew on analytically that I barely even have to touch on the plot or cite personal experiences. If I did include everything from my usual checklist of review criteria, this would be twice as long, I swear – it just gave me that much to talk about. I love talking about this character almost as much as I love reading about her, and I am sooooo invested here. I was always in, but I am SO in. Please everybody buy a million copies so this doesn’t end in just six issues, I’ll cry. I swear I will! Don’t think I won’t!
