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: As seems to be par for the course these days it's very much an Image-filled pull-list this week with several favourites turning up in the delivery. Black Science has shown in just two issues that it's going to be a seat-of-your-pants, gripping, science fiction read and the third installment is more than likely to keep up the momentum and put it clearly into the category of 'Must Read Image Titles' that seems to grow month on month. When you look through the rest of the publisher's releases and see East of West #9, Saga #18, Revival #17 and The Bounce #9 all lined up alongside each other it's easy to see just how and why they're winning so many hearts and minds when it comes to the comic reading audiences. Certainly I was won over by Jimmie Robinson's portrayal of School for Assassins entertainment in his miniseries turned ongoing, monikered Five Weapons, and just a few weeks into 2014 we can welcome the first chapter of the new arc with #6. Now the first arc hinged upon the mystery of the protagonist's past and identity and with that fully revealed it will be interesting to see what Robinson can bring to this book to keep it fresh and any mystery enthralling. On Marvel's side of things I'm not entirely sure I've got the interest and the money to keep plugging along with the Inhumanity series despite the first, Karnak-centric issue being a belter and so I might possibly pass on #2, not least as Nick Bradshaw is yes, an accomplished artist, but one who just doesn't 'do it' for me. Black Widow #2 is definitely not going the same way as Inhumanity #2 however, as the first issue was polished, exciting and gave only the smallest of hints as to where Nathan Edmondson might be taking the titular super spy in his run and I'm eager to see where it goes!
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