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: Image's ascendancy over the past five years has been very impressive, to put it rather mildly. Titles from the publisher quite easily fill those 'unmissable' slots in my pull-list and with increasing frequency the number of Image books I'm picking up most weeks will only ever be eclipsed (unsurprisingly) by Marvel. This week, the once 'little publisher that could' puts everyone else into the shade with a startlingly captivating delivery that overshadows the rest of the publishing fraternity. As Matt C has already mentioned, Matt Fraction's Sex Criminals #1 is going to be one of the first comics to get a read through to see what the Hawkeye and Casanova writer can do when he makes a play for the little used erotic-comedy genre. His work previously on Casanova shows that he's incredibly capable when it comes to creator-owned property and here's hoping that this manages to hit that same high standard. I'd initially dismissed thoughts of picking up Image's other debut this week, Rat Queens #1, citing that I was already getting enough as it was and that I'd only stopped getting Dynamite's fantasy book Pathfinder a few months back and wasn't particularly looking to replace it with similar swords and sorcery fare. Then I ruddy well had to go and look at the preview over at CBR and now I'm quite excited about purchasing Kurtis J. Wiebe (Peter Panzerfaust) and John Upchurch's (Vescell) adventure comedy. Four warrior women of various races, fighting monsters and boozing with the rewards? I'll raise a tankard to that! The cast of a certain Vertigo title certainly won't have opportunity to think about good times and partying when they're swimming for their lives this week when Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy's The Wake #4 hits the shelves. It seems an age since we saw the last chapter of this great book - though that might just be testament to a busy month in Stewart Land - and I can already imagine this latest chapter being an incredibly tense affair just as the preceding instalments have been! Back to the Image party there's Saga, East Of West, Revival, Sex and the return of Todd: Ugliest Kid In The World all to enjoy, and enjoy them I shall!
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