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Five Comics You Should Read (January 2026)

Happy new year folks. You know the drill by now, here's... the pick of the comics I've read in the past few weeks.

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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.
    Graphic Novel, 2025Portland, Oregon : Image Comics, [2025] — GRAPHIC NOVEL
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2025Burbank, California : DC Comics, [2025] — GRAPHIC NOVEL
  • 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).…
    Graphic Novel, 2018Portland, Oregon : Image Comics, Inc., [2018] — GRAPHIC NOVEL
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2025New York : Licensed Publishing, [2025] — GRAPHIC NOVEL
  • 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…
    Graphic Novel, 2019Burbank, California : DC Comics, [2019] — YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVEL