10 Best Comic Books Of 2020

10. Marvel's X Books

Is this cheating? Absolutely. Am I okay with it? Yes. Yes I am.

The X-Men made an incredible return in 2019, with their reintroduction being marshalled by Avengers writer Jonathan Hickman in House of X/Powers of X. Other writers and artists joined Hickman in the X books' new status-quo in the winter, helping make Dawn of X one of the most successful relaunches in recent memory with titles like New Mutants, Marauders and Excalibur in particular earning major plaudits - and for good reason.

Marvel's X-Men team kept Dawn of X's momentum going in 2020, eventually introducing the diabolically brilliant X of Swords in the summer, involving Marvel's mutants wielding lots of swords. (That should be... pretty obvious, when you think about it.)

Spinning out of X of Swords, we now also have S.W.O.R.D., which brings Al Ewing to the X mythos for the first time. Its debut issue was pretty stellar, and with the other X-books all being consistently brilliant, the only issue readers may currently find is that there really can be too much of a good thing.

Either way, whatever your tastes, Marvel's X-books have you covered. It's great to see the X-Men back where they belong: right at the centre of the Marvel mythos.