Five Comics You Should Read (January 2026)Like this list

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• The Knives

  a Criminal Book

  Brubaker, Ed, 1966-

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  As well as being showrunner on the soon (please let it be soon!) to be released Criminal TV series Ed Brubaker (and co-conspirator Sean Phillips) has also found the time to put together a new Criminal book for your must-read pile.

• Absolute Batman. Vol. 1, The Zoo

  Snyder, Scott, 1976-

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  It was the biggest selling comic of 2025. Was it the best comic of 2025? Far from it. But you've got to give Snyder credit for really going for it with the big bonkers ideas, and Nick Dragotta's art is equally OTT (just wait 'til you see the new…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ice Cream Man. Volume One, Rainbow Sprinkles

  Prince, W. Maxwell

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  Eight years, and almost a dozen volumes, in and I've finally got around to starting on W. Maxwell Prince and Martin Morazzo's brilliant horror anthology series (Thanks to the cracking Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum series they've just concluded).…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• AVA

  Hickman, Jonathan

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  Marvel has been going hard-out recently with comics pitting the Aliens and/or Predator franchises against their own roster of heroes. I haven't taken much notice of them since reading the (pretty average) Wolverine vs Predator series that kind of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Kingdom Come

  Waid, Mark, 1962-

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  I remember what a big deal this was on its original release in 1996. Having been borrowed from by many books since (I'm looking at you "Jupiter's Legacy"), it's potentially lost a little of what made it so unique. But at the time this brought on a…Read moreRead more of this annotation