Titan’s January 2027 comic schedule puts sword-and-sorcery at the front of the rack, led by an oversized Savage Sword of Conan #18 and a new caper in Conan the Barbarian #39. The month also continues four-issue stories set in Highlander, Blade Runner, and Vampire: The Masquerade, while Gun Honey: Doubles Down arrives in collected paperback form.
The most substantial single issue in the lineup is Savage Sword of Conan #18, due January 13, 2027. The black-and-white, 80-page comic is priced at $9.99 in its standard editions. Liam Sharp writes and inks a 64-page sequel to “The Wuthering,” while John Arcudi and Leno Carvalho deliver the first Titan-era comic story featuring Bran Mak Morn. The issue also includes the winner of Heroic Signatures’ inaugural pin-up contest.
That page count matters. At 80 pages, this is materially larger than the 32-page, $4.99 monthly issues elsewhere in the January schedule. It is positioned as the close of Savage Sword of Conan’s third year, but the book’s contents are not simply one extended Conan installment: Sharp’s sequel and the Bran Mak Morn story make it an anthology-style special with two distinct creative pairings.
Sharp returns as writer and artist for a large Conan special
Sharp’s role on Savage Sword of Conan #18 is particularly notable because he is credited for both writing and inking his 64-page contribution. In comics credits, inking is the stage in which the final line art is rendered over pencils or layouts; it establishes the visual finish of the pages before reproduction. The solicitation identifies Sharp as returning to both writing and inking, rather than merely providing a cover or a short backup.
Arcudi writes the Bran Mak Morn tale with Carvalho on art. The two-story construction gives the issue a broader Robert E. Howard-derived focus without suggesting that readers must treat it as an ordinary ongoing chapter. For readers who follow creators as closely as characters, the division is clear: Sharp is responsible for the lengthy “The Wuthering” follow-up, and Arcudi and Carvalho handle Bran Mak Morn’s Titan-era debut story.
The issue has covers by Alex Horley and Sharp, with standard Cover A and Cover B choices. Additional versions include virgin cardstock and foil editions. A virgin cover generally means a version without the usual logo and cover text across the artwork, while cardstock describes a heavier cover stock than a conventional comic cover. Foil covers use reflective foil elements. Titan lists the virgin cardstock versions at $11.99 and the foil versions at $19.99.
Those variants are alternatives, not extra story chapters. A buyer interested in reading the full interior needs one edition of the issue; someone choosing among editions can separate that reading decision from the appeal of a particular cover treatment. For a wider look at how comics can become the subject of a fast-moving collector conversation after entertainment news, see the report on D’Orc #1’s secondary-market sales.
Conan the Barbarian #39 heads to Zamora
Conan the Barbarian #39 follows on January 27, 2027. Written by Jim Zub with art by Ivan Gil, the 32-page full-color issue costs $4.99. Its premise returns Conan to Zamora as a thief, hired to take a young bride away from her noble family so that she can marry her secret lover. The job may be audacious, but the promised payment comes with a price the Cimmerian did not anticipate.
On paper, it is an especially contained setup: a heist, a romantic escape, a noble household and a hero whose work may not end when the extraction succeeds. The solicitation does not disclose the bride’s identity, the secret lover, or the nature of the cost, so the central complication remains deliberately unresolved.
Cover choices are credited to Ariel Olivetti, Sean Izaakse, Gil and Marco Santucci, plus a Gil virgin edition. Olivetti’s regular cover is also offered as a $6.99 virgin cardstock variant and a $14.99 foil version. As with Savage Sword, these options concern the package and cover art, not different narrative material.
Highlander adapts Gregory Widen’s original screenplay
Highlander: The Original Screenplay #2 arrives January 6, 2027, continuing a four-issue adaptation written by Highlander creator Gregory Widen. Szymon Kudranski supplies the art for the 32-page, full-color issue, priced at $4.99.
The second installment centers on Ramírez’s arrival and Connor’s training as the young Highlander learns more about himself. The story also returns to the present-day thread, where Connor must use those developing skills in another explosive confrontation with the Knight. A screenplay adaptation is a comic version built from a screen script rather than a straightforward continuation of an existing comic narrative; here, the key distinction is that the project is explicitly framed around Widen’s original screenplay.
Robert Hack provides Cover A, while the other announced selections include a photo cover by Lee Binding, Kudranski art, and an original-poster cover. Hack and Binding each have $6.99 virgin cardstock versions.
Blade Runner and Vampire: The Masquerade reach their third chapters
Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus: Die With Honor #3 is also scheduled for January 13. Nancy A. Collins writes and Mariano Taibo draws the third issue of four. Stix and Mead have survived a massacre targeting Undercity Yakuza sub-bosses and take shelter with Madame Nomura and her remaining loyalists at a foundry controlled by the Nomura-gumi family.
Alura, their rival, is using the Borealis hit squad and the Aurora tech neural interface to pursue them. A neural interface is technology that connects with a user’s nervous system or brain activity; within this story’s setup, the Aurora system lets Alura experience violence carried out through the Borealis. Once the targets are traced to the foundry, the Borealis is sent into the stronghold. The conflict is therefore both a siege scenario and an extension of Alura’s remote, technology-mediated attack.
Maria Laura Sanapo, Alan Quah and Kit Wallis are credited for the issue’s covers. Sanapo’s virgin inks cardstock edition is listed at $6.99, while the standard comic is 32 pages in color for $4.99.
On January 20, Vampire: The Masquerade: Wake in Hate #3 continues its own four-issue run. John Lees writes and Tom Mandrake draws. Silky follows a path of blood and destruction to a standoff with Hoskard and the gangrels, with mortal witnesses complicating any violent response. An unlikely ally brings help, but Silky’s bloodlust leaves him unsure which figures are trustworthy.
The “masquerade” in this premise is the need to protect vampire secrecy from the mortal world. That makes public exposure more than background atmosphere: the solicitation presents it as an immediate strategic problem during the standoff. Covers are by Ilan Sheady, Zu Orzu and Andrea Olimpieri. Sheady’s gory bagged virgin edition costs $7.99, while Orzu’s virgin cardstock version is $6.99.
Gun Honey collection and January manga releases
Gun Honey: Doubles Down TP collects all four issues of the miniseries as well as its 2026 Free Comic Book Day issue. Written by Charles Ardai and illustrated by Ang Hor Kheng, the 128-page full-color trade paperback is priced at $17.99 and due January 20.
Its thriller setup begins after an attack on Russia’s dictator goes wrong. Three identical-looking men flee Moscow in different directions—toward Siberia, Finland and the Black Sea—and Joanna Tan is offered $10 million to identify the true target among the doubles and ensure the intended man dies. Tehani Farr supplies the regular cover; Artgerm and Adam Hughes are credited for direct-market covers.
The manga side of the schedule is led by Egnaro: The Star-Eater Killer Vol. 1, a 240-page black-and-white paperback by Arata Yamaji, arriving January 6 for $12.99. The masked Egnaro travels between villages through rifts, encounters rituals intended to ward off evil and direct positive energy to the Star-Eaters, and may turn those same practices against the gods being served.
Other January 6 releases include Colori Colore Creare Vol. 2 by Kozue Amano, a 176-page, $12.99 volume set around Aka’s growing connections in the concealed island town of Onobori; The One. Later On … Vol. 3, a 160-page, $12.99 continuation of Waz’s adventurer-guild journey; and Cosmic Censorship Vol. 4, Ryu-ichi Sadamatsu’s 240-page, $13.99 story of Maki Makino confronting temporal rifts, parallel timelines and rogue mecha.
Aoashi (3-in-1 Edition) Volume 3 is the month’s largest manga package: 624 black-and-white pages collecting volumes 7, 8 and 9 for $24.99 on January 6. Ashito Aoi faces a major decision about his future at Esperion, weighing a move into defense against his ambition to remain a striker. The volume’s stated focus is the challenge of learning the game from a defender’s perspective, with Asari and Togashi helping him learn the fundamentals.
Finally, The Assassin Laughs at Twilight Vol. 2 arrives January 20. The 176-page, $12.99 black-and-white paperback continues Chisato Ogino’s story in Abblent. Once a surgeon and now a “revenger,” he faces deadly labyrinths and a painful decision over whether his lethal abilities can save what remains of another collapsing life.
Across the month, the clearest throughline is variety of format as much as genre: a large black-and-white Conan special, regular-color serial comics, a collected espionage thriller, and manga volumes that range from intimate island-life fantasy to football development and time-spanning mecha conflict. January’s most conspicuous event is Sharp’s extended return to Savage Sword of Conan, but the schedule has several distinct entry points for readers who prefer adaptation, cyberpunk, modern vampire horror, crime thrillers or manga.
