Comicon’s Best Comic Book TV Shows Of 2025

As an adjunct to our Best of the Year Awards, Comicon would like to also recognize the best in TV shows based on comic books in the past year. In 2025, the Big Two dominated the field again with only one outlier whose source derives from an outside publisher. But, in a way, it is also a sign of nature healing. DC Comics proves, again, that it’s characters thrive in the episodic format. Marvel, meanwhile, is finding strength when it does not need to service the feature films’ meta-arc. In fact, you’ll see that is the weakest element to Marvel Studios on television. Nonetheless, both of its live action efforts proved worthy in their ways as did one of their animated offerings. All of it, though, still suggests the right trajectory for the sorts of stories television is suited to tell.

The following are Comicon’s Best Comic Book Television Shows of 2025.

5. Ironheart, executive produced by Chinaka Hodge, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Robert Kulzer, Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Zoie Nagelhout; starring Dominique Thorne, Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, and Anthony Ramos; available on Disney+

While this series feels like a refugee from a different Marvel vision — partially because it is — Ironheart‘s middle episodes proved there is something to Riri Williams (Thorne) and her drive to be the next Iron Man. In fact, this show felt like a better introduction to the character than her baffling inclusion in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.  It’s probably no accident, then, that its weakest episodes (the first and the last) work so hard to include Riri in the larger Marvel world instead of focusing on her corner of it and her unique predicament. Nonetheless, Thorne is a good lead and Ross — despite being creepy as a friendly AI — steals damn near every scene she’s in. I also enjoyed the strange crossover between the tech of Riri’s suit and the mystic arts. Sadly, though, I expect this is the last time we’ll see this group of characters. And that’s a shame as the bulk of Ironheart‘s runtime proved to be a good showcase for the lot. Okay, not Mephisto (Sascha Baron Cohen). Why would anyone think to introduce him here?

4. Eyes of Wakanda, executive produced by Todd Harris, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Kalia King, Ryan Coogler, Zinzi Coogler, Sev Ohanian, and Dana Vasquez-Eberhardt; starring the voices of Anika Noni Rose, Winnie Harlow, Larry Herron, Jacques Colimon, and many more; available on Disney+

Marvel animation quietly chugs along while the rest of Marvel Studios recovers its focus. Eyes of Wakanda, though, it is different as it takes place in the Sacred Timeline of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The others are elsewhere in the Multiverse. Despite needing to adhere to MCU continuity, Wakanda does a great job expanding the history — the leader of the Sea Peoples was Wakandan, for example — and offering more of that compelling Afro-futurist appeal that helps make the Black Panther series so strong. The only shame: it was devised to be just four half-hour episodes. With such startling glimpses of the Trojan War, the Italian invasion of Ethiopia, and that screwed up future in the final segment, there is a lot for a second season to do while still giving us new, intriguing characters and a broad survey of MCU history.

3. Daredevil: Born Again, executive produced by Dario Scardapane, Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead, Brad Winderbaum, Sana Amanat, Jesse Wigutow, Chris Gary, Matt Corman and Chris Ord; starring Charlie Cox, Vincent D’Onofrio, and Jon Bernthal; available on Disney+

To an extent, this is a default position for Born Again. On the whole, it was an enjoyable run of episodes with Matt (Cox) trying out a different life and Fisk learning that it’s tough to be the mayor. Hell, I really liked the episode in which Matt was stuck at the bank with Kamala Khan’s (Iman Vellani) father. Nevertheless, the difficult production trickles through and the inclusion of Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson as Karen Page and Foggy Nelson, respectively, just to write them out of the series left a pall over everything. Sure, we got Karen for a little bit of time subsequently, but it only goes to show how much she and Foggy matter to this version of Daredevil. Hopefully, the arrival of another Defender in Season 2 will continue to take the sting out of the choice to removed the latter off the board (although, he will reportedly return as well, somehow). Matt is only as strong as his friends, after all. At the same time, the show is a quality production and worthy of inclusion here.

2. Gen V, executive produced by Michele Fazekas, Eric Kripke, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Neal H. Mortiz, Jason Netter, Michelle Starr, Garth Ennis, and Darick Robertson; starring Jaz Sinclair, London Thor, Derek Luh, Lizze Broadway, Maddie Phillips, Asa Germann, and Hamish Linkalter; available on Prime Video

I’ll be honest, I didn’t want to give the Boys spinoff a chance despite it’s strong cast of young actors. But when I finally sat down to watch both seasons in a marathon binge session, it really surprised me by its choice of focus, the way it explores its ideas, and how it found new ways to make blood a punchline — something really difficult to do in the what I’ve taken to calling the Vought universe. Through it all, though, the talent of the main cast and the characters themselves proved compelling. So much so, in fact, that I’m glad to see them in the final season of The Boys. I just hope Kripke and his collaborators can figure out a way to return them to Godolkin University for their junior year.

1. Peacemaker, executive produced by James Gunn, Peter Safran, and Matt Miller; starring John Cena, Jennifer Holland, Danielle Brooks, Steve Agee, Freddie Stroma, Tim Meadows, Frank Grillo, and Robert Patrick; available on HBO Max

Honestly, Peacemaker is a magic trick. Last season, it turned the cheesy inspiration for Watchmen‘s comedian into a fully-fledged person. This time, Christopher Smith (Cena) not only became more realized, but earned a romantic possibility with Emilia Harcourt (Holland) — a plot development I thought impossible during Season 1. Additionally, Gunn made the Multiverse worthwhile thanks to a trip to Earth-X and the Checkmate payoff was worth the wait. Although he claims there are no plans for a third season at the moment, I want to see how the rest of the team carries on without Chris. Or, maybe, that’s the real plan and a Checkmate series will eventually find its way to this list. But the plot happenings also underscore just how deeply real these character feel and Checkmate is just a name to apply to this found family of misfits, weirdos, and bird-blind people. I could easily watch them interact for another five seasons at least.