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: When it comes to a good old post-apocalyptic landscape - or perhaps just the predictive visualisation of the ‘natural descent and collapse’ of the human world system we know today - I am a sucker for a city overrun with forest and lush vegetation! '90s cartoon series Cadillacs And Dinosaurs (based on classic comic book series Xenozoic Tales) and the cinematic version of I Am Legend offered up such flora and concrete-heavy locales and it looks like Hinterkind #1 is where I will be heading this week to get my modern comic book fix. The idea that ‘mythical’ creatures actually exist in the world and have been forced into hiding by mankind is interesting enough, but the idea that they now hunt a decimated human population adds an extra level of excitement. It’s a quiet week for me when it comes to Marvel with the delayed Uncanny Avengers #12 (it seemed to miss the boat to the Uk last week) and Superior Foes Of Spider-Man #4 being the only books I’ll be picking up from their section of Paradox. Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber have been doing a sterling job of making SFoSM an interesting and amusing title focussing on C-list villains, and where the Marvel NOW! version of Thunderbolts failed to catch my attention (primarily because the cast there are simply ‘dodgy’ or anti-heroes), this book is easily covering my fix of ne'er do weller stories in the Marvel Universe. My fix of modern day warfare and intelligence operations on the other hand is pretty much covered these days by Matt Hawkins’ Think Tank and The Activity by Nathan Edmondson and Mitch Gerads. While I’ll have to wait another seven days for the former to land in my hands, the latter's fifteenth issue hits shelves around the globe this week and it has to be said that it’s been a cracking read through all thirteen previous installments that arrived within these shores (#9 having gone walkabout somewhere between the US and the UK delivery point apparently!) and the slowly building overriding plot has been complemented by some fine mission stories detailing how anti-terrorist forces and other agencies may well be operating in this complicated modern age.
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