Valentine's Day 2025 with comics
Word Balloons #1255: Looking for love in the panels
With it being Valentine’s Day, here are a few suggestions for comics to read that connect in some way with the love theme of the holiday.
The Archie’s Valentine’s Spectacular features the return of the magical Valentine's Day imps — Hearts, Flowers, and Candy. The mischievous imps return to Riverdale to intercede with Archie and the gang in a new story by Jamie Lee Rotante and Holly G!, leading a collection of seasonal reprints.
DC Comics’ Valentine’s Special this year, under the title “Lex and the City” is an anthology with eight tales of metropolitan romance, including Lex Luthor, Riddler, Robin, Harley Quinn and many more.
Want your Valentine’s a little more slashery? American Mythology has released “Valentines Bluffs: Massacre Remembrance #1 from writers G.O. Parsons and James Kuhoric and artist Ev Cantada.
Here’s how American Mythology describes the issue:
When the sleepy mining town of Valentines Bluff decides to host its first Valentine's dance in years, the festivities are cut brutally short by a masked figure wielding a deadly pickaxe. As the partygoers are hunted through the blood-soaked gymnasium, an unearthed time capsule from decades past reveals a horrifying truth about the town's dark history. Secrets long buried resurface with deadly consequences. Fast-paced, terrifying, and soaked in gore, Valentines Bluff Massacre: Remembrance is the ultimate slasher comic for horror fans craving carnage and chaos!
From the back issue bins, consider seeking out the series “Strangers in Paradise.” The series kicked off with “Strangers in Paradise” Vol. 1, #1 (1993).
Friends Katchoo and Francine face a crisis when Francine catches her fiance with another woman. This kicked off a 13-year series that began as an offbeat romantic comedy that evolved into even more under the pen of writer/artist Terry Moore.
Hope you enjoy your Valentine’s Day with these or other comics or doing something else you love!
Matthew Price, matthew@matthewLprice.com, has written about the comics industry for more than two decades. He is the co-owner of Speeding Bullet Comics in Norman.