The Beat’s Best Comics of 2025
The Beat staff has come together once again to compile its annual, wide-spanning list of the best comics of 2025.
The Marvel Rundown: ULTIMATE WOLVERINE #12 is a gripping lesson in life and pain
This week's Marvel Rundown features Ultimate Wolverine #12, Amazing Spider-Man #17, The End 2099 #1, and Ultimate Spider-Man #23.
DC Round-Up: ABSOLUTE BATMAN #15 delivers that muscley Joker dinosaur thing you’ve seen all...
This week: The new Absolute Joker design went comics Internet viral a while back, and now we get the full story behind it in Absolute...
Wednesday Comics Reviews: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES #13 brings in an all-star new creative...
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #13 is this week's lead review in a Wednesday Comics column that also looks at Our Soot-Stained Heart, and more!
Horror Beat: THE OCCUPANT OF THE ROOM is an excellent mood piece on melancholy
The Haunted Season continues.
Top Comics to Buy for December 10, 2025: A strong mix of top-tier cartooning,...
This week's Top Comics to Buy for December 10 features great artists and some of the hottest franchises in the industry.
Beat’s Bizarre Adventure: FINDING MY VOICE with art
This week, Beat's Bizarre Adventure covers the works RULES FOR DATING TRASH, FINDING MY VOICE and NIGHT FRAGMENTS.
Classic Comic Compendium: SPAWN – THE DARK AGES is the same Spawn, different era
Spawn - The Dark Ages took the familiar elements of Spawn lore and placed them in a harsher time, plus story elements of crusades and knights.
Trade Rating: OUT OF ALCATRAZ is a prison escape thriller with something powerful to...
Out of Alcatraz a stellar read, a fun prison escape thriller that turns out to have a lot more on its mind that you may expect.
Horror Beat: The final season of STRANGER THINGS is remarkable for all the wrong...
Maybe kids age faster in the Upside Down.
Graphic Novel Review: NIGHT DRIVE delivers must-read Richard Sala source code
The new hardcover edition of Night Drive collects cartoonist Richard Sala's long out-of-print early works, with great supplementary material.
The Marvel Rundown: The new DOCTOR STRANGE #1 casts a forgettable spell
DOCTOR STRANGE #1 casts a forgettable spell, while Hulk Smashes Everything explodes, and Amazing X-Men concludes.
