New comics are due to hit the shelves on Wednesday so here’s a look ahead at some of the books we’ll be picking up this week. To see what’s available at Paradox this week, click here.

Matt C: Does the world need another X-book? No, of course it doesn't, there have been far too many of them cluttering up the shelves over the years, not all of them of a high enough standard to justify their existence. Remember the days when it was just Uncanny X-Men? No, me either, but I do remember a time before Marvel felt in necessary to flood the market with multiple X-books on a monthly basis. Which, of course, is not to say that they've all been terrible - far from it - but the great titles regularly overshadow the lesser ones to the point where they become redundant. Having said that, even if there were 60 X-books a month I'd still think there'd be room for one more if it had Brian wood's name on it. His recent stint on the last book to hold the adjectiveless title X-Men resulted in some of the most intelligently crafted issues featuring Marvel's premier mutants we've seen in a while, so the signs for X-Men #1 are very promising indeed, especially when you add Olivier Copiel to the mix. This issue will be at the top of my pile this Wednesday. Next one down will be The Wake. Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy are easily two of the top talents working over at DC/Vertigo, and when you get them together you know some magic will occur on the page, so simply the genre - sci-fi/horror - is enough to whet my appetite. There other books out this week of course, but these two are the ones I'm most excited by. Let's hope they don't disappoint!
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