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: It's all about Punisher #1 this week really, isn't it?! That cover looks superb and gritty, we know the talent now holding the reigns have pedigree from their previous work and I'm starting to get the slightest hint that the hottest Marvel properties these days are not the slew of Avengers or X-Men related titles that perhaps are now creaking to that point somewhere beyond their recent best, but instead those off-centre, street level stories and characters not currently constrained by live-action, big screen versions of themselves. Certainly Frank Castle is a character with bags and bags of potential (not to mention guns) and I'm really looking forward to seeing how his West Coast relocation pans out. While we're talking about those off-centre Marvel books, The Superior Foes of Spider-Man continues to be one of my favourite reads each and every month and the hilariously convoluted web of lies, double-crossing, family-ties and low-grade super villainy has been a pure delight every time with no sign of the fun stopping. Elsewhere around the block I'll definitely be sinking my eyes into Aphrodite IX #8 from Top Cow's Matt Hawkins and Stjepan Sejic as it's guaranteed to be one of the best looking books on the shelf this week and Hawkins' science-fiction plot is an intriguing and enthralling view of war fuelled by religion and technology. Lastly I feel I must mention Hinterkind #5. Ian Edginton is crafting the sort of story - rich in character AND fantasy adventure - that I could seriously see snapped up and adapted for the small screen if it continues on in such vein and I'd be surprised if this latest issue wasn't up the same sterling standard as its predecessors.
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