What will 2025 bring? Lots of surprises! But in the comics world, creators are already teasing new projects. And yes, some are just tease of a tease, but we managed to get the details on some of them (thank you Amazon). So let’s get excited for new stuff from some of our favorite creators.
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• Ram V has an announcement coming today! We’ll update when it’s official.
• Alex Segura noted a new project for 2025 in his newsletter:
WHAT IN THE WORLD IS ‘THE FORGOTTEN FIVE’?
Can’t say much, but “watch this space” for whatever Sara Century, Pat Kennedy, and I are cooking up – which is vague, I know! But I did think it was high time to share a tease of a project that I’m going to be talking about a lot here. So, if you dig stuff like Chris Claremont’s X-Men and Jaime Hernandez’s Locas stories…this might be right up your alley. Lots more very soon.
X-Men + Locas is a tasty recipe…we’re invested.
• Ngozi Ukazu (Check Please) has a new graphic novel out this year….cover to be revealed NEXT week:
SO excited to talk about my newest graphic novel, coming out in September 2025. Cover reveal next week!! ✨
Okay we can spill more beans on this: it’s called FLIP, and it’s about body switching, a classic theme from manga done the Ngozi way:
SENIOR YEAR BUCKET LIST? SWITCH BODIES WITH YOUR CRUSH.
Chi-Chi Ekeh has one huge problem: She keeps having crushes on rich white boys who have no idea she exists. Enter Flip Henderson, the most popular boy at school, who receives Chi-Chi’s private video proposal to go to senior prom.
But when Flip rejects Chi-Chi in front of their entire class, what happens next is completely unexpected: Chi-Chi—shy nerd and scholarship student—switches bodies with Flip. Suddenly Chi-Chi is 6’1” and cool, while Flip gets a crash course on Chi-Chi’s life—that is, k-pop, hair- braiding, and being a poor kid of color at a rich white private school.
With graduation looming and their body swaps lasting longer and longer, Chi-Chi and Flip must form the most unlikely friendship their school has ever seen. But will they survive senior year? And, most importantly, can they find a way back to themselves?
From bestselling author of Check, Please! comes Flip, a thrilling and fantastical tale about self-acceptance, black girlhood, and how walking a mile in someone else’s shoes can teach you how to finally see yourself.
Looking forward to that cover!
• Lee Lai (StoneFruit) has a new book called Cannon coming from D&Q in September ’25, announced on Instagram with a preview:
Amazon has the scoop yet again:
We arrive to wreckage―a restaurant smashed to rubble, with tables and chairs upended riotously. Under the swampy nighttime cover of a Montreal heat-wave, this is where we meet our protagonist, Cannon, dripping in little beads of regret sweat. She was supposed to be closing the restaurant for the night, but instead, well, she destroyed it. The mess feels a bit like a horror-scape―not unlike the horror films Cannon and her best friend, Trish, watch together. Cooking dinner and digging into deep cuts of Australian horror films on their scheduled weekly hangs has become the glue in their rote relationship. In high school, they were each other’s lifeline―two queer second-generation Chinese nerds trapped in the suburbs. Now, on the uncool side of their twenties, the essentialness of one another feels harder to pin down.
Yet, when our stoic and unbendingly well-behaved Cannon finds herself―very uncharacteristically―surrounded by smashed plates, it is Trish who shows up to pull her the hell outta there.
In Cannon, Lee Lai’s much anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed and award-winning Stone Fruit, the full palette of a nervous breakdown is just a slice of what Lai has on offer. As Cannon’s shoulders bend under the weight of an aging Gung-gung and an avoidant mother, Lai’s sharp sense of humor and sensitive eye produce a story that will hit readers with a smash.
Lai has been talking about the follow up to Stone Fruit for a long time, but it should be worth the wait.
• Robbie Morrison and Charlie Adlard have a new book called Heretic coming out:
1/2: New year, new graphic novel: Here’s a look at Heretic, a historical thriller with supernatural overtones, written by me, drawn by Charlie (Walking Dead) Adlard, and described as “Sherlock Holmes meets The Name of the Rose”. Out now. Cover and Pages 1-3 below:
— Robbie Morrison (@robbiemorrison.bsky.social) 2025-01-08T11:51:43.362Z
This book, coming from Image, was announced a while ago:
Belgium, 1529: The city of Antwerp is ravaged by a macabre series of killings. Forced to investigate by the all-powerful Inquisition, knight, doctor, lawyer and reputed Occultist Cornelius Agrippa and his young pupil Johan Weyer are plunged into a maelstrom of murder, madness and magic.
Agrippa was a contradictory and controversial 16th century Renaissance polymath, a soldier and a scholar whose books of occult philosophy were widely influential and added impetus to the study of magic. The first man to successfully defend a woman accused of witchcraft, he was condemned as heretical by the Inquisition, and also features as an influence on Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shelley’s classic novel. Heretic weaves this real-life character into a tapestry of thriller intrigue to create a pulse-pounding historical fiction story perfect for fans of Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian and The Alienist.
Niiiiiice! Architecture.
• Every time Mark Millar puts out a newsletter he announces a slew of new projects. In his latest, he promises a few, including one with Valerio Giangiordano (Nemesis) which is “a huge epic I’m launching late Summer,” and a reunion with John Romita Jr. That’s right, the Kick Ass team is working on something new:
In the meantime, look out for the new book John Romita Jr and I are doing right now and coming your way slightly earlier in the summer months. This one is going to be mega and HUGELY controversial. Nobody will have seen this coming, but we’ve spotted a huge gap in the market we plan to fill.
Millar also has been plugging his upcoming vampire book, from Dark Horse with “Narwhal” (aka Per Berg):
Ya gotta admit, no one comes up with the high concepts as freely and flowingly as Mark Millar.
• It’s not a comic but The Public Domain Review has announced he Public Domain Image Archive.
https://bsky.app/profile/publicdomainrev.bsky.social/post/3lfandhp4cs2p
We were poking around and found a ton of images from W. W. Denslow’s original Wizard of Oz illustrations, so we’re just going to keep on browsing.
…..And that it’s for today but if you have a new project coming out let us know!
Which of these projects are you most looking forward to? Let us know in the comments!
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