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.

Stewart R: Of collections and endings; that’s what this week could be called if given a comic book related moniker as a couple of miniseries on my pull-list come to an end and there are a few other efforts that gather previously told work or unseen material in anthology form. The big ending of the week has to be Thanos Rising #5 from Jason Aaron and Simone Bianchi. This has been one heck of a miniseries and has given a fresh look at the Mad Titan’s childhood and formative years which led him to become the death-obsessed force that threatens the galaxy on regular occasion. It’s looked great, read superbly well and I expect the team to round things off with aplomb tomorrow. The other mini reaching its conclusion this Wednesday is Joe Hill’s Thumbprint from IDW. A rather short and dark thriller looking at the legacy of a former soldier’s involvement in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and her return home, I’ve enjoyed the short story feel of this book with a fairly simple premise and air of mystery about it and it’ll be interesting to see how Hill opts to leave things at the climax of the third chapter. Onto the collected side of things I’ll be picking up Station to Station #1, a one-shot which collects Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman’s B-movie science fiction story from the pages of Dark Horses Presents, as well as Vertigo’s American Vampire Anthology #1 which is a bumper collection of never before seen stories set in Scott Snyder and Rafael Albuquerque’s distinctive 20th Century world, yet penned or drawn by the likes of Greg Rucka, Jeff Lemire, Gabriel Ba and Becky Cloonan as well as the two aforementioned creators. Sure, there’s a bumper price to be paid for this creatively-rich treat - and at $7.99 it’s quite the hit to the wallet - but considering the names it has to be worth it!
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