New Adult Graphic Novels (2025)

Updated January 22, 2026
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New Adult Graphic Novels (2025)

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Absolute Batman. Vol. 1, The zoo
Snyder, Scott
Paper Book
Without the wealth, without the cave, he's still the Absolute Dark Knight! Meet Batman as you've never seen him before, reimagined with a modern origin story at the hands of superstar creative team Scott Snyder and Nick Dragotta! An astonishing new version of DC's...
Absolute Martian Manhunter. Vol. 1, Martian vision
Camp, Deniz
Paper Book
Beyond Mars, beyond physical form, beyond human understanding...what's left is the absolute Martian Manhunter! Brought into the Absolute Universe by Deniz Camp and Javier Rodriguez, Absolute Martian Manhunter reinvents the Justice League's resident Martian from top to bottom, taking him on...
Absolute Superman. Vol. 1, Last dust of Krypton
Aaron, Jason
Paper Book
Without the fortress, without the family, without a home...what's left is the Absolute Man of Steel! Spiraling out of the catastrophic events of Absolute Power, a new side of the DC Universe is born-the Absolute Universe! In a different, darker world, Kal-El landed...
Batman: Full Moon. Volume 1
Barnes, Rodney
Paper Book
An apex predator is stalking the moonlit streets of Gotham City - and it's not Batman! When the Dark Knight finds himself the victim of a grisly bite thanks to a terrifying supernatural creature, he's forced to reckon with the darkest parts of himself and the most iron-clad parts of his moral...
Castle swimmer. Volume one
Martin, Wendy (Comics creator)
Paper Book
In the gorgeous first installment of the hit Webtoon series Castle Swimmer, two young mermen reject their destinies and embark on an epic adventure full of romance and danger, featuring exclusive bonus material. "Castle Swimmer hooks you from the start and doesn...
Castle swimmer. Volume two
Martin, Wendy (Comics creator)
Paper Book
Two mermen reject their destinies and embark on a raucous adventure as big and unpredictable as the ocean itself-and a romance that nobody could have predicted-in the stunning second installment of the hit Webtoon series Castle Swimmer. The sharks want Kappa dead, and time...
Checked Out
Fricas, Katie
Paper Book
In which a queer library worker searches for love, artistic validation in New YorkCity, and the perfect book An aspiring cartoonist and book lovin' lesbian, Louise works a dead-end day job at a shoe store, where she spends most of her time brooding over a coworker who will...
Exquisite Corpses Volume 1
Tynion IV, James
Paper Book
2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS * AMAZON COMIXOLOGY BEST OF 2025 "Exquisite Corpses combines the elements of a classic mystery with a to-the-death struggle in the vein of The Purge or Hunger Games." --FORBES ...
Falling in love on the path to hell volume one
Duggan, Gerry
Paper Book
The sun set on samurai and gunslingers at roughly the same time, but our two leads didn't die off quietly. In the East, a samurai would rather die with her weapons than surrender them to a sword hunt. In the West, the gunslinger follows his revenge to the...
Fishflies
Lemire, Jeff
Paper Book
2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS "A beautiful, unsettling, and ultimately touching story about connection, transformation, and the possibility of moving forward in life, despite the burden of an unresolved past." --Library Journal (starred...
Gaysians
Curato, Mike
Paper Book
Kirkus Best Fiction of the Year * From the acclaimed author of the young adult graphic novel Flamer comes a heartwarming story following four gay Asians navigating love, identity, and friendship--a celebration of queer chosen family.​ When AJ moves to...
Geiger 1
Johns, Geoff.
Paper Book
The critically acclaimed team of writer GEOFF JOHNS andartist GARY FRANK unites with superstar colorist BRAD ANDERSON to bring theirfirst creator-owned hero to Image Comics! Setin the years after a nuclear war ravaged the planet,...
Geiger. Vol. 2, The nuclear knight
Johns, Geoff
Paper Book
Picking up after the events of the first hit series, Tariq Geiger leaves his home behind and now walks the radioactive roads of the
George R. R. Martin Presents Wild Cards: Ante Up: A Graphic Novel
Murphy, Kevin Andrew
Paper Book
A young ace must unmask a modern-day Robin Hood in this original graphic novel set in George R. R. Martin's shared-world universe, Wild Cards. An alien virus ravages the world, with effects as random as a hand of cards. Those infected either draw the black queen and die, draw an...
Grommets
Remender, Rick
Paper Book
2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS "This throwback gem offers rewards for readers well beyond the Thrasher set." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Grommets captures the raw feeling of being an outcast kid in the 1980s,...
Hauntress
Mochizuki, Minetaro
Paper Book
A seminal work of horror from 1993, this classic from the author of Dragon Head is finally appearing in English for the first time. Incorporating elements of psychological horror and urban legend, and credited with introducing the idea of stalking to Japan, Mochizuki's early masterpiece...
Heartcore
Jislová, Štěpánka
Paper Book
What is at the core of romantic attachment? Does our upbringing play a part, or is falling in love a magical, uncontrollable process? Are we doomed to repeat the same mistakes over and over, or can we break unhealthy cycles and learn new ways to love? These are the questions asked in...
Helen of Wyndhorn
King, Tom
Paper Book
Following the tragic death of her late father C.K. Cole, the esteemed pulp writer and creator of the popular warrior character Othan, Helen Cole is called back to her Grandfather's enormous and illustrious estate, Wyndhorn House. Scarred by Cole's untimely passing and lost in a new, strange world,...
The hunger and the dusk. Volume 1
Wilson, G. Willow
Paper Book
Hugo- and World Fantasy Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson and all-star artist Chris Wildgoose invite readers to experience love on the brink of extinction in their high fantasy tour de force! In a dying world, only humans and orcs remain--mortal enemies battling for territory...
Invincible Universe: Battle Beast Vol. 1: Heart of Glory
Kirkman, Robert
Paper Book
Superstars ROBERT KIRKMAN and RYAN OTTLEY return to the INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE with the first-ever BATTLE BEAST series!  FROM THE PAGES OF INVINCIBLE & THE HIT ANIMATED SERIES ON PRIME VIDEO!  Cursed with an unquenchable thirst for violence that threatens his...
Ionheart
Kummer, Lukas
Paper Book
This head-spinning, time-bending graphic novel is a nuclear fusion of fantasy and science fiction whose every page glows with an eerie light. Will you survive the blast? Pursued by a terrifying demon, a young knight flees across the radioactive ruins of a fairy-tale land. His...
Justice League Unlimited Vol 1 Into the inferno
Waid, Mark.
Paper Book
The League is back and bigger than ever, as writer Mark Waid and artist Dan Mora helm the flagship series of DC's bestselling, new-reader-friendly All In initiative! In recent years, the Justice League had disbanded-but now, following the events of the DC blockbuster event...
JLU: World's finest: We are yesterday
Waid, Mark.
Paper Book
The current-day adventures of Justice League Unlimited meet the past heroics of Batman/Superman- World's Finest in the first crossover of the DC All In era, We Are Yesterday! The sinister psychic powers of the devious Gorilla Grodd have the Man of Steel and the Dark...
The knives : a criminal book
Brubaker, Ed
Paper Book
THE BEAT BEST COMICS OF 2025 "This ambitious and elegiac crime thriller is among the best of Brubaker and Phillips's highly acclaimed collaborations." --Library Journal (starred review) THE FIRST NEW CRIMINAL BOOK IN FIVE YEARS! ...
The Whitestone chronicles : Ripley.
Nijkamp, Marieke
Paper Book
Tragedy strikes the renowned de Rolo family of Whitestone when they re massacred by the vicious Briarwoods. Luckily for Dr. Anna Ripley, the bloodshed and regime change presents the perfect opportunity for her to further her own dark plans in service to Whitestone s new ruling family. But just how...
Lore Olympus: Volume Nine
Smythe, Rachel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Scandalous gossip, wild parties, and forbidden love--the Greek tale of Hades and Persephone gets a romantic modern update in the gorgeously illustrated, Eisner Award-winning Lore Olympus, including a brand new bonus short story! "The...
Love languages
Albon, James
Paper Book
Two foreigners in France reach across language barriers and turn each other's lives upside down in this stunningly beautiful queer romance graphic novel painted in dazzling watercolor. Sarah Huxley has moved from London to Paris, only to find a lonely life of corporate drudgery...
Minor Arcana Vol. 1
Lemire, Jeff
Paper Book
Theresa's mother has fallen ill, and as a young bitter misanthrope, returning to her hometown to take care of her phony psychic of a mom is the last thing on Theresa s bucket list. But when Theresa finds out these abilities might be real after all, it will up to her to reconcile with her ailing...
Monstress Volume 10
Liu, Marjorie
Paper Book
The tenth volume of the multiple Eisner, Harvey, Hugo, and British Fantasy Award-winning series. The Defiled, a group of Monstra long confined to the prison planet Golga, have slipped through a rift between worlds and possessed anyone who has ever held the Mask of the Shaman...
Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the sower
Duffy, Damian
Paper Book
The follow-up to Kindred, the #1 bestseller, comes Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel In this graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower, by Damian Duffy and John Jennings, the award-winning team behind the #1 bestseller Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation,...
Parable of the Talents: A Graphic Novel Adaptation
Butler, Octavia E.
Paper Book
This powerful graphic novel adaptation of Octavia E. Butler's groundbreaking dystopian novel stands beside the acclaimed previous graphic novel adaptations, Kindred, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and Parable of the Sower, winner of the Hugo Award Octavia...
Peacemaker Presents the Vigilante/Eagly Double Feature!
Seeley, Tim/ Ogle, Rex/ Lolli, Matteo (ILT)/ Gerads, Mitch (ILT)
Paper Book
A no-holds-barred, laugh-out-loud action extravaganza featuring Peacemaker, Vigilante, and the most badass bird in comics-Eagly! When Peacemaker mysteriously disappears, Adrian Chase goes on a rampage to "save" his best friend...even though Peacemaker is just on vacation....
The Power Fantasy Volume 1: The Superpowers
Gillen, Kieron
Paper Book
2025 NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY BEST NEW COMICS FOR ADULTS "A rich and rewarding story about existential questions when super-powered gods walk amongst us." --AIPT It's 1999. Six indescribably powerful people each have the destructive capability of...
Rare flavours
V, Ram
Paper Book
'Peppered with myths, culinary history, and recipes, this is a terrifying trip to savor. '- Publishers Weekly Starred Review 'Ram V and Filipe Andrade cook up a tale worthy of Gaiman or Bourdain.' - ComicsOnline 'With wondrous depictions of simple recipes, deep-seated emotional experiences, and a...
Saint Catherine
Meyer, Anna
Paper Book
In this debut graphic novel, a young woman skips Sunday mass for the very first time and is forced to confront a lifetime of Catholic guilt...as well as the demon hell-bent on possessing her. In her twenty-something years of existence, Catherine never skipped mass once. As a...
Superman : the last days of Lex Luthor
Waid, Mark
Paper Book
The superstar creative team of Mark Waid and Bryan Hitch tell a DC Black Label story exploring a dying Lex Luthor, his relationship with Superman, and a quest to save the greatest criminal mastermind of our time. Superman learns Lex Luthor is dying, and he wants the Man of Steel...
The Three-Body Problem, Vol. 1 (Comic): The Comic Edition
Liu, Cixin
Paper Book
Beijing, 2007. A series of inexplicable suicides by prominent physicists has sent police officials into confusion and the public into a swirl of rumors and panic. When nanotech engineer Wang Miao is tasked by the military to infiltrate a secretive organization known as the Frontiers of Science, his...
Tokyo alien bros., vol. 1
Shinzo, Keigo
Paper Book
Aliens walk among us--but they're just two bros hanging out in Tokyo. Oh, and they're on a mission to colonize Earth. Fuyunosuke Tanaka is a perfectly ordinary college student, except for one thing--he's secretly an alien. He and his brother Natsutaro have traveled across the...
Tokyo alien bros., vol. 2
Shinzo, Keigo
Paper Book
Aliens walk among us--but they're just two bros, hanging out in Tokyo. Oh, and they're on a mission to colonize Earth. Fuyunosuke Tanaka is a perfectly ordinary college student, except for one thing--he's secretly an alien. He and his brother Natsutaro have traveled across the...
Tongues. Book 1
Nilsen, Anders
Paper Book
From the revered graphic artist and writer Anders Nilsen, Tongues collects together in one volume for the first time Nilsen's cult comics and their retelling of the myth of Prometheus 'Mindbendingly good. It's up there with Maus, Fun Home, Persepolis, Jimmy...
Witchcraft
Otero, Sole
Paper Book
Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1768. It is a dark and foreboding night when the boat arrives from Europe, bringing three shadowy figures to shore. Before long, the Maria sisters will take the New World by storm. In the coming years, they wend their way from town to town, assisting women in need and...
Wolverine. 1, In the bones
Ahmed, Saladin
Paper Book
From the ashes of the Krakoan era, Wolverine sets out on what could be his most perilous journey yet! There's a killer in the woods - and as Wolverine's attempt at piece is shattered, an old enemy will re-emerge and a new villain threatens to bring Logan to the brink of his berserker rage. Before...
Zatanna : bring down the house
Tamaki, Mariko
Paper Book
Zatanna's past and present collide in a brand-new series by Eisner Award-winning writer Mariko Tamaki (Harley Quinn- Breaking Glass, I Am Not Starfire) and Javier Rodriguez! After a deadly mistake left her terrified of her own abilities, Zatanna found a home for herself in Las...
Crema : a haunted romance in three chapters
Christmas, Johnnie
Paper Book
#1 New York Times Bestselling cartoonist Johnnie Christmas and Prism Award Nominee Dante Luiz bring you a haunted tale of love, ghosts, and coffee beans. Esme, a barista, feels invisible, like a ghost... also, when Esme drinks too much coffee she actually sees ghosts. Yara, the elegant heir to a...
Harley Quinn. Vol. 3, Clown about town
Howard, Tini
Paper Book
The madcap hijinks of Gotham's Clown Queen Of Crime are nonstop! Harley Quinn's adventures continue in her ongoing solo series, featuring new and familiar faces all across the weirdest and most wonderful corners of the DC Universe! Harley is going back to her roots! She's...
Les NormauxVolume one
Janssen, Janine
Paper Book
"Les Normaux is one of my favourite webcomics of all time. Featuring a gloriously diverse cast of characters, this story is a celebration of love, friendship, community, and self-expression." -- Alice Oseman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Heartstopper series "A...
Paradise logic
Kemp, Sophie
Paper Book
'George Saunders meets Ottessa Moshfegh' OBSERVER 'Smart, jarring and wickedly funny' GUARDIAN 'The excavation of heterosexual desire our age deserves' LITHUB 'Imagine Vladimir Nabokov as a manic pixie dream girl,...
Rockstar and Softboy
Grace, Sina
Paper Book
Sina Grace returns to writing and drawing for the firsttime in five years to deliver a frenzied story about two best friends and theirantics in Hollyweird, CA! Rockstar plans thegreatest house party ever as a means of lifting roommate...
Spectators
Vaughan, Brian K.
Paper Book
"It's an eye-popping show." --Publishers Weekly "A visually ambitious, thematically daring, and powerfully unsettling supernatural romance that veers into incendiary social critique." --Library Journal A gripping and provocative graphic novel...
Star Trek: Voyager Omnibus
Baker, Dave
Paper Book
Join Captain Janeway and the Voyager crew in four tales of adventure and intrigue! First, in Seven's Reckoning, a chance encounter with a reptilian alien race draws Seven of Nine and the rest of the U.S.S. Voyager crew into an ancient class conflict that's on...
Creature from the black lagoon lives!
Watters, Dan
Paper Book
A NEW HORROR DREAM TEAM RESURRECTS ONE OF THE MOST ICONIC MONSTERS Acclaimed creators Dan Watters (Home Sick Pilots, Lucifer), Ram V (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Batman: Detective...
The Witcher, Vol. 9: Corvo Bianco
Sztybor, Bartosz.
Paper Book
Enjoying the fruits of his labour, Geralt acquires a taste for a simple life-good wine and good company. With Yennefer at his side, the routines of a witcher are eclipsed. But when a claim to the vineyard is made from a descendant of the original owner, Geralt must make a choice: take what he can...
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