IGN's Most Anticipated Comics of 2026

2026 is here, and comic publication fans person a full year’s worthy of breathtaking caller stories to look guardant to. Marvel volition beryllium ushering successful a caller epoch for the X-Men enactment and gathering to what looks to beryllium 1 of its astir consequential crossover events successful years, Armageddon. DC volition determination guardant from the DC K.O. crossover with a caller question of titles, adjacent arsenic they grow the fan-favorite Absolute Universe. And elsewhere successful the industry, we’ve got our eyes connected everything from Skybound’s Energon Universe to the caller Archie Comics reboot.

Scroll down to spot our astir anticipated comics of 2025, and beryllium definite to fto america cognize successful the comments what you person connected your to-read database this year.

IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

IDW’s TMNT publishing enactment has been successful apical signifier successful 2025, and we spot nary crushed wherefore that would alteration successful the caller year. If you’ve ever considered diving into this universe, present truly is the time.

The flagship TMNT comic precocious underwent a large evolution, arsenic the caller originative squad of Gene Luen Yang and Freddie E. Williams II conscionable took implicit the bid and introduced a large caller villain called Ujigami. Issue #13 delivered rather the twist connected that front, and we’re excited to spot wherever the bid goes from here. Plus, determination are each the worthwhile spinoffs similar TMNT: Casey Jones and TMNT: Shredder.

We’re besides hoping that 2026 volition bring much quality connected the aboriginal of the Last Ronin saga. We cognize that writers Tom Waltz and Kevin Eastman are moving connected a 3rd enactment of the Last Ronin trilogy. Could it spot merchandise successful 2026? Here’s hoping.

X-Men: Shadows of Tomorrow

Art by Stefano Caselli. (Image Credit: Marvel)

The X-Men franchise is rounding retired 2025 with the decision of a line-wide crossover lawsuit called Age of Revelation. Even though that crossover is acceptable a decennary successful the future, its ramifications volition widen backmost into the contiguous time arsenic the X-Men conflict to determination forward. That’s wherever the caller presumption quo, Shadows of Tomorrow, comes into play.

Expect plentifulness of caller titles and caller starting points for continuing books similar Wolverine, X-Men, and Uncanny X-Men. We’re particularly intrigued by Eve L. Ewing and Tiago Palman’s X-Men United, which seemingly deals with Emma Frost creating a psychic haven for mutantkind to regenerate the existent 1 they mislaid with Krakoa. Also connected our radar is Alex Paknadel and Roge Antonio’s Cyclops series, arsenic the indomitable mutant person breaks retired connected his own.

DC: Next Level

Art by Jorge Corona. (Image Credit: DC)

DC gave fans an casual gateway into the DC Universe with 2024’s DC All In initiative. Once DC K.O. wraps up, they’ll beryllium unleashing signifier 2 of that ambitious undertaking. Part of that includes a promotion called DC Next Level, featuring a caller question of promising titles.

The archetypal batch of DC Next Level books includes Lobo, from Skottie Young and Jorge Corona, Batwoman, from Greg Rucka and DaNi, and Deathstroke: The Terminator, from Tony Fleecs and Carmine Di Giandomenico. The extremity with each bid is to lucifer the vigor and inventiveness of books similar Absolute Batman, but bash it wrong the accepted DCU. We’re decidedly sold connected that idea.

The Archie Comics Reboot

Things person been reasonably quiescent connected the Archie Comics beforehand successful caller years, with the New Riverdale enactment softly fading distant and fearfulness books similar Afterlife With Archie coming retired precise infrequently. But each that changes successful a large mode successful 2026. Archie is teaming up with Oni Press to wholly reboot their comic enactment with a postmodern flair.

It’s truly the originative teams that person america sold connected this one, arsenic Oni is drafting from immoderate of the astir absorbing and innovative names successful the manufacture for the caller Archie line. That includes W. Maxwell Prince and Nick Cagnetti’s Archie, Corinna Bechko and Kano’s Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Patrick Horvath and Tyler Crook’s Archie successful Hell. The stated extremity is to springiness readers the Archie franchise’s reply to All-Star Superman, and we couldn't beryllium much thrilled astatine that prospect.

Armageddon

Art by Chip Zdarsky. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Marvel conscionable wrapped up the One World Under Doom crossover, with the satellite inactive recovering from being temporarily nether Doom’s tyrannical rule. That uneasy presumption quo volition provender straight into Marvel’s large crossover lawsuit for 2026, Armageddon.

We don’t cognize a large woody astir Armageddon conscionable yet, different than that it’s being spearheaded by Captain America writer Chip Zdarsky and that it’s said to shingle up the Avengers franchise successful a mode we haven’t seen since 2004’s Avengers Disassembled. Zdarsky volition laic the instauration of the storyline successful February’s Wolverine: Weapons of Armageddon miniseries earlier getting to the main lawsuit this summer.

The Absolute Universe Grows

Art by Frank Cho. (Image Credit: DC)

We’re afloat connected committee with DC’s Absolute Universe close now, and if the income charts are immoderate indication, we’re hardly the lone ones. Fans tin expect the Absolute enactment to turn adjacent bigger successful 2026, adjacent arsenic caller connections commencement to signifier betwixt the assorted titles.

We cognize of astatine slightest 1 caller Absolute comic launching this year. That would beryllium Pornsak Pichetshote and Rafael Albuquerque’s Absolute Green Arrow, owed to deed successful Spring 2026. If the caller Absolute Evil one-shot didn’t marque it apparent, this bid is going to beryllium acold antithetic than readers are expecting, with Albuquerque adjacent revealing it’s fundamentally a fearfulness comic.

We’re besides looking guardant to Absolute Wonder Woman #15 and Absolute Batman #16, which volition diagnostic the archetypal team-up betwixt the Dark Knight and Wonder Woman successful this universe. Also connected the Absolute Wonder Woman front, that bid is astir to present this world’s mentation of Zatanna. Too atrocious the Absolute U. already has a Justice League…

The Return of Negative Burn

Art by Joseph Michael Linsner. (Image Credit: Zoop)

Few anthology comics person rather the estimation and pedigree of Joe Pruett’s Negative Burn. Fortunately, that bid is making its long-overdue instrumentality successful 2026 acknowledgment to the Zoop crowdfunding platform. As before, the extremity is to research galore genres and supply a level for creators to propulsion the boundaries of the medium.

The originative endowment excavation for this latest measurement is surely awesome enough, including Mike Allred, Marguerite Bennett, Brian Bolland, Mike Carey, J.M. DeMatteis, Francesco Francavilla, Phil Hester, Joe Jusko, Sam Kieth, Joe Linsner, Ron Marz, Peter Milligan, Steve Niles, Dan Panosian, Paul Pope, Joe Pruett, James Robinson, Declan Shalvey, and Dalibor Talajic.

Imperial Guardians

Art by Sean Izaakse. (Image Credit: Marvel)

Marvel published Jonathan Hickman’s Imperial successful 2025, with the bid shaking up the cosmic presumption quo and establishing a instauration for a caller enactment of books. Most of those caller titles person debuted already, similar Planet She-Hulk and Nova: Centurion. But Marvel is redeeming the astir breathtaking 1 of each for 2026.

Imperial Guardians offers readers a dramatically antithetic instrumentality connected the classical Guardians of the Galaxy team, 1 intended to suit this uncertain caller presumption quo. The squad roster is thing if not eclectic, including Captain Marvel, Darkhawk, Gamora, Brawn, and Cosmic Ghost Rider. But the existent entreaty with this bid is that it’s written by Dan Abnett, 1 fractional of the duo who truthful successfully revamped the Guardians successful the ‘00s. Let’s anticipation helium tin enactment that aforesaid magic each implicit again.

The New Vertigo

There’s been a tangible void successful DC’s publishing lineup ever since they shelved the critically acclaimed Vertigo imprint successful 2019. Sure, there’s inactive the DC Black Label enactment for mature readers-focused takes connected DC characters, but what astir each the creator-owned fare, similar Preacher and Y: The Last Man, that Vertigo utilized to bash truthful well?

Fortunately, DC has seen acceptable to resurrect Vertigo successful 2026. Fans tin expect to spot a mates of acquainted properties similar The Nice House By the Sea and a 100 Bullets sequel, but for the astir part, this is each astir spotlighting caller ideas and caller originative teams. And with books by manufacture luminaries similar Deniz Camp, Kyle Starks, and Chris Condon, there’s ample crushed to beryllium excited astir Vertigo’s return.

An Energon Universe Crossover

Art by Tom Reilly. (Image Credit: Skybound/Hasbro)

Skybound’s Energon Universe enactment has been a large deed implicit the past mates of years, for galore of the aforesaid reasons arsenic DC’s Absolute Universe and Marvel’s Ultimate Universe. It offers a clean, accessible gateway into the shared satellite of G.I. Joe and Transformers, driven by immoderate of the apical creators moving today.

We’re anxious to spot wherever the enactment takes america successful 2026, particularly arsenic each signs constituent to adjacent much interconnectivity betwixt the assorted titles. For example, March’s G.I. Joe #20 teases the precise archetypal gathering betwixt Duke and Optimus Prime. Surely, this is going to beryllium a watershed infinitesimal for this universe, and fans shouldn’t miss it.

The End of the Ultimate Universe

Art by Mark Brooks. (Image Credit: Marvel)

As mentioned, Marvel’s caller Ultimate enactment has been a immense deed for the publisher, and we’re inactive having occupation coming to presumption with the thought that they’re ending it soon. But amended to decorativeness connected a precocious enactment alternatively than let the Ultimate Universe to overstay its invited similar its predecessor did.

The extremity of the Ultimate enactment officially begins successful Ultimate Endgame #1, which launches connected New Year’s Eve 2025. That contented delivers the infinitesimal fans person been waiting for since 2023, arsenic The Maker yet emerges from his 1000-year exile and Earth’s heroes marque their hopeless stand. Look for that last showdown to play retired crossed Ultimate Endgame and each the remainder of the enactment successful the aboriginal months of 2026. Who volition triumph the conflict for the psyche of Earth-6160?

Big Changes successful Gotham City

Art by Jorge Jiménez. (Image Credit: DC)

March 2026 is going to beryllium a transformative period for the full DC publishing catalog, arsenic that’s erstwhile DC All In 2.0 officially begins. All In isn’t a reboot, but simply a caller starting constituent for DC’s ongoing titles. We’re particularly excited by the large changes hitting the Batman household of books.

The biggest quality present is that Joker volition marque his debut successful Matt Fraction and Jorge Jiménez’s flagship Batman title, with DC teasing that we’ve ne'er seen the Clown Prince of Crime depicted the mode helium is successful March’s Batman #7. Other large developments see Poison Ivy becoming the caller politician of Gotham City and Green Arrow joining the formed of Tom Taylor’s Detective Comics. If you’ve been looking for a bully starting constituent with DC’s halfway Batman line, this is it.

The Return of Saga… and More

Art by Fiona Staples. (Image Credit: Image Comics)

Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ Saga has consistently been 1 of the champion sci-fi comics connected the marketplace since it debuted successful 2012. Unfortunately, the bid has been prone to reasonably lengthy hiatuses lately, with the astir caller contented dropping successful March 2025. Thankfully, Vaughan precocious confirmed that Saga volition instrumentality successful 2026, arsenic helium and Staples are hard astatine enactment connected their adjacent communicative arc.

Vaughan writes, “I’m blessed to stock that I’ve already written each the scripts for our adjacent arc, and completed my astir elaborate overview yet of the different remaining issues of Saga (which everyone corrected maine is really 30 much chapters aft this volume, not 48 arsenic I primitively mistyped; I americium dumb astatine math). Fiona and I are inactive 100% committed to completing Hazel’s 18-volume travel to young adulthood, and, spoiler alert, it’s going to beryllium f***ing awesome.”

Better still, Vaughan is teasing that portion of the crushed the bid has been MIA is that helium and Staples person been moving connected different enigma projects, and we should spot the fruits of those labors successful 2026, too.

Iron Man’s New Series

Writer Joshua Williamson has been 1 of the astir important voices astatine DC successful the past fewer years, penning books similar Dark Crisis connected Infinite Earths and the existent monthly Superman series. While that won’t alteration successful 2026, Williamson is hopping implicit to Marvel to trade a large revamp for a definite Armored Avenger. Marvel’s caller Iron Man bid pairs Williamson with creator Carmen Carnero for a publication that explores wherefore Tony Stark, not Iron Man, is the world’s astir unsafe weapon.

"When helium thought helium was going to die, it changed him,” Williamson told IGN. “It was ne'er the armor that Tony built successful that cave. It was Tony. Tony is the creator. And I honed successful connected the thought of focusing connected Tony arsenic the creator who made a weapon… but TONY is the existent weapon. We’ve seen him usage his genius earlier successful questionable ways, truthful yeah, Tony is the unsafe portion there. The armor has been stolen a cardinal times now, and it ever made maine think… wherefore don’t they kidnap Tony? Have him marque caller armors? And past it led maine down a way of reasoning about… what if alternatively of making caller armors, idiosyncratic made a caller Tony?"

Superman/Spider-Man Crossover

Art by Jorge Jiménez. (Image Credit: DC/Marvel)

Unsurprisingly, the duplicate Deadpool/Batman #1 and Batman/Deadpool #1 crossovers were a large deed for Marvel and DC, proving that fans conscionable privation to spot these 2 publishers play bully again. That tone of practice is carrying implicit into 2026, arsenic the 2 observe the 50th day of the precise archetypal Marvel/DC crossover, Superman vs. The Amazing Spider-Man.

In summation to reprinting that archetypal crossover, fans tin expect different treble dose of caller stories with Superman/Spider-Man #1 and Spider-Man/Superman #1. We lone cognize the creators progressive successful the erstwhile truthful far, but it’s rather the stacked lineup, including a main communicative by Mark Waid and Jorge Jiménez. Let’s anticipation this becomes an yearly tradition.

Flux House’s New Home

Art by Matt Kindt & Brian Hurtt. (Image Credit: Oni Press)

A mates of years back, Mind MGMT creator Matt Kindt launched a caller experimental imprint called Flux House astatine Dark Horse Comics. That imprint has present made its location astatine Oni Press, and we’re precise excited by what it has to connection successful 2026.

We’re presently eying 2 Flux House comics debuting aboriginal successful the year. One is simply a Mind MGMT sequel dubbed Mind MGMT: New & Improved. The different is simply a collaboration with The Sixth Gun creator Brian Hurtt called Fort Psycho. Both bid volition beryllium previewed successful a Free Comic Book Day 2026 special, truthful decidedly marque definite you cheque retired your section comic store that weekend.

That’s what we’re looking guardant to speechmaking successful 2026 truthful far, though there’s nary telling what different large announcements volition driblet successful the months to come. Be definite to fto america cognize successful the comments what’s connected your speechmaking database for 2026. And beryllium definite to cheque retired our prime for the champion comic publication oregon archetypal graphic caller of 2025.

Jesse is simply a mild-mannered unit writer for IGN. Allow him to lend a machete to your intelligence thicket by following @jschedeen connected BlueSky.