January 2027 is shaping up to be an unusually broad month for Oni Press, spanning all-ages fantasy, alternative-history rebellion, psychedelic superhero satire, romance horror, monster mysteries, teen witch comedy, spy fiction, and graphic novels. The headline arrivals are Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake #1 and Dr. Syn #1, each beginning a four-issue limited series, but the schedule also makes room for a giant-sized return of The Bulletproof Coffin, new EC Comics material, and continuing stories built around Archie, Judge Dredd, Matt Kindt’s characters, and more.
That range is the main story of the month. These are not books pursuing one shared genre or audience: the same calendar contains a Circus Kingdom trip for Fionna and Cake, a grim 1775 alternate-history conflict, an anthology of disastrous romances timed around Valentine’s Day, and a crossover that puts Judge Dredd alongside the Biker Mice From Mars. For readers following creator credits as much as concepts, January also concentrates work by Sami Kivelä, Matt Kindt, Nick Cagnetti, and several writers contributing to EC’s anthology line.
Fionna and Cake take the spotlight
Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake #1, by writer Jenna Ayoub and artist Damali Beatty, arrives January 13 at $4.99 for 32 full-color pages. The opening premise sends the duo to a one-night Circus Kingdom show after an invitation from Prince Gumball. The event becomes less orderly when Ice Queen—excluded from the guest list—appears and declares that she will run it.
The series is planned as a four-issue limited run. A limited series is a comic designed to tell its story over a predetermined number of installments, as opposed to an ongoing title with no announced endpoint. That can be useful information for prospective readers: issue #1 is the start of a self-contained arc rather than the middle of a long-running monthly narrative.
Ayoub also provides the main cover, with additional standard cover art from Nicole Goux and Reggie Graham. A blank sketch cover is listed alongside a Reggie Graham foil edition priced at $8.99, plus incentive variants by Dakota Cates and Calculus Homework. “Incentive” variants are editions generally tied to retailer ordering thresholds, which makes them distinct from the regular cover choices but does not alter the story inside.
Dr. Syn reframes a masked rebel in 1775
The other major debut, Dr. Syn #1, reaches shelves January 6. Michael E. Uslan and Steven S. DeKnight write, Sebastián Cabrol draws, and the 32-page full-color issue carries a $4.99 price. Its central figure is Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn, a masked revolutionary known as the Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. The new series imagines Syn after he has been captured and sentenced to exile in the British colony of Georgia.
Its stated setting is 1775, with Syn imprisoned alongside other people deemed undesirable by the empire. The premise positions his personal rebellion at the beginning of a larger conflict in colonial America. The key qualifier is alternate history: the series uses a historical period and political circumstances as a foundation, then deliberately changes events and outcomes for a fictional story. Readers should not mistake its description of Syn’s war or its version of Georgia for a literal historical account.
Dustin Weaver supplies the primary cover, while Elia Bonetti and Cabrol provide other standard cover options. Weaver also has a foil edition and a character-design incentive cover; Jeffrey Alan Love and Kelley Jones are listed for additional incentive variants. Like Fionna & Cake, Dr. Syn is scheduled as a four-part miniseries.
A huge Bulletproof Coffin comeback
David Hine and Shaky Kane reunite for Bulletproof Coffin: Giant! Cease to Exist #1, due January 13. This one is materially different from the two 32-page launches: it is a 72-page full-color issue priced at $12.99. The story returns to the fictional Golden Nugget Comics setting, where the Sons of Technarchy use technological control as they treat realities as disposable. Their opposition includes Eye-We-I, Scarlet Spook, Ramona—Queen of the Stone Age, Red Wraith, Coffin Fly, and the Shield of Justice.
The description also places Hine and Kane themselves within the narrative. That is a meta-fictional device, meaning a work knowingly examines its own construction, authorship, or status as fiction. Here, the story’s conflict is not limited to invented heroes and villains; it also threatens to fold the credited creators into its reality-bending premise. That approach is central to what distinguishes this release from a conventional superhero event.
Shaky Kane handles the regular cover. Limited editions by Raúl Allén and Alex Diotto are also listed, with respective stated limits of 500 and 250 copies. Those quantities refer to the variant editions, not the content of the 72-page main issue.
EC leans into love, fantasy horror and a Kivelä showcase
The EC slate has three distinct January entries. Tortured Hearts 2 #1 is a 56-page, $8.99 one-shot scheduled for January 27. A one-shot is a complete single-issue comic rather than one chapter of a numbered miniseries. Its theme is horror stories about romance going badly, an intentionally seasonal fit for Valentine’s Day. The announced contributors include writers Michael W. Conrad, Melissa Flores, Sarah Gailey, and Malachi Ward, with art from Jenna Cha, Ryan Kelly, Sami Kivelä, and others.
That book’s anthology construction matters. An anthology combines several shorter stories, often by different creative teams, into one issue. It can provide a wider sample of voices and art styles than a single continuous narrative, while also making it less likely that every segment will share the same tone or protagonist. Dustin Weaver and Reiko Murakami are listed for the regular covers, with further homage, artist-edition, and archive variants.
Artists From the Abyss: Sami Kivelä #1, on sale January 6 for $5.99, focuses more directly on one artist’s work. Kivelä draws a new EC story written by Greg Pak, while the 32-page, ad-free one-shot also collects selected material from Epitaphs from the Abyss and Catacomb of Torment, written by Chris Condon and Ben H. Winters. The result is part new story and part compact spotlight package. An ad-free format means paid advertising is absent from the listed page count, a potentially useful detail for readers considering value and presentation.
Then there is Cruel Kingdom 2 #5, the penultimate chapter of a six-issue run, on January 20. Mark Buckingham writes and draws with Cameron Chittock, Melissa Flores, Sami Kivelä, and Alison Sampson among the additional credited creators. The $4.99 issue continues EC’s fatal-fantasy approach, built around magic, ancient settings, and horror. Readers who have been tracking January’s wider comics calendar may also want to see the January 2027 comics debut reading list.
Judge Dredd and Biker Mice close their collision
Judge Dredd/Biker Mice From Mars #2 completes its two-issue crossover on January 27. Dan Watters and Ryan O’Sullivan write, Jordi Tarragona provides the interior art, and the 40-page cardstock-cover issue is priced at $7.99. It brings Judge Death back to Mega-City One after cross-dimensional energy connected to Throttle, Vinnie, and Modo draws him in.
Dredd and the Biker Mice must form an uneasy alliance while Limburger and Karbunkle exploit Mega-City technology and the city deteriorates into conflict. Crossovers can be easy to overcomplicate, but the listed setup gives the book a clear structural challenge: its protagonists have sharply different attitudes toward authority, yet must cooperate against a threat that affects both worlds. Simon Bisley, Juan José Ryp, and Andrew Krahnke provide cover options; Bisley’s foil version is listed at $9.99.
Monster mystery continues elsewhere in Prometheus Graft: The Slayings at Death’s End #2, on sale January 20. Written by George Northy and drawn by Caitlin Yarsky, the four-issue series follows investigator Prometheus Graft at an occult gathering in Romania’s Death’s End castle. A supposedly immortal victim has been murdered, bodies are mounting, and the stakes encompass witches, werewolves, vampires, and potentially humanity itself. The $4.99 issue frames its supernatural material as a whodunit—an investigative mystery where identifying the perpetrator is the core dramatic engine.
Riverdale stories swing from inheritance to infernal colonial horror
January offers three radically different Archie-related directions. Archie #5 arrives January 27 as a new reader entry point, written by Ben H. Winters with art by Nick Cagnetti and a new “Jughead’s Journal” installment drawn by Fábio Moon. Betty receives an unexpected inheritance from Aunt Elizabeth, and Veronica offers her expertise as Archie contemplates a pair of newly wealthy girlfriends. The book is 32 pages, full color, and $4.99.
Sabrina the Teenage Witch #4, by Corinna Bechko, Kano, and Nick Cagnetti, follows January 20 at the same price and page count. Sabrina uses magical advertising and a doppelgänger while preparing for Greendale High’s Winter Formal. A doppelgänger is a double or look-alike, and the premise turns that familiar fantasy idea into a school-dance complication when Sabrina’s magical copy enters the situation.
Archie in Hell #3 takes the darkest route. Patrick Horvath writes and Tyler Crook draws a 32-page, $4.99 chapter set in 1690, where Archie struggles to determine who is friend, foe, demon, or a distorted reflection of home. An ancient evil threatens the Riverdale colony, forcing him to enlist people who resemble his friends from another era.
Kindt, Ward and two collected graphic novels round out the month
Matt Kindt has two continuing series in the lineup. Fort Psycho #6, illustrated by Brian Hurtt, is the midpoint of a 12-issue spy story. Jason, incarcerated on the island prison known as Fort Psycho, hunts the alleged traitor Blue Bishop while doubting whether the clues point where he thinks they do. The January 20 issue is 32 ad-free pages for $5.99.
Mind MGMT: New & Improved #7 arrives January 6 for $4.99 and runs 24 full-color pages. Kindt writes and draws as detectives Swon and Delphi trace their shared past while looking for the surviving Dood death-cult members. The issue also continues questions around their boss, Eraser, and the placebo effect—the phenomenon in which belief or expectation can produce an apparent response even without an active treatment.
Christian Ward and Sami Kivelä’s The Forever Home #5 is also due January 6. The penultimate issue brings Henry D’Amour face-to-face with his son Tommy, whose abrupt arrival shifts the family’s understanding of the Forever Home. It is a 32-page, $4.99 issue.
Finally, two trade paperbacks offer longer reads. The Haven, by Jayel Seymour and Lauren Mugford, is a 184-page, $16.99 graphic novel releasing January 27. It follows J, a closeted queer 12-year-old caught reliving sixth grade, and two new children likewise trapped in the loop. Their route out leads to a magical realm of floating islands called the Haven. Estuary: A Ghost Story, by Tim Daniel, David “DB” Andry, and Maan House, collects its first four issues in a 112-page, $19.99 volume on January 20. It centers on marine archaeologist Maris Cristobal, a mission on the California coast, submerged wreckage, and a supernatural secret tied to the past.
For a month with such different tones, the practical dividing line is straightforward: readers looking for fresh entry points have Fionna & Cake, Dr. Syn, and Archie #5; anthology and horror readers have the EC books; and people wanting complete or longer-form packages can look to The Haven, Estuary: A Ghost Story, or the oversized Bulletproof Coffin return.
