2025 was a triumphant year for DC Comics – can it sustain its momentum in an uncertain future?

By Will Salmon

2025 has been a very good year for DC Comics. In fact, I'd go so far as to say it was looking like a genuinely great one until the sudden Netflix of it all these last few weeks. The streaming giant made headlines earlier this month when it was announced that it intends to buy Warner Bros., the multinational that owns DC. That has ended the year on a note of uncertainty about what the implications may be for everything from HBO Max, to James Gunn and Peter Safran's nascent DCU, to DC Comics itself.