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: A cursory and lazy glance at the order sheet for this week and I thought it was going to be a quiet one. That was obviously a moment where my cognitive reasoning had given up and headed to the pub as it's one 'mutha-funster' of a week for Image once again. Some of the usual suspects are in there as expected with Chew, Saga and Sex all in attendance, but it's the presence of Robert Kirkman's Outcast #4 that has me a little surprised following my ambivalence to the opening chapter. Somehow, Kirkman's steady pacing and growing character work has lulled me in and the split between the small town drama and the supernatural elements keeps things interesting when they do occasionally dovetail. Rick Remender's Low #3 is a highly anticipated read for me as the sub-aquatic story potential is huge, yet the big draw has been his deft hand with characterization and the focus on loss, depression and anger. Tocchini has been on fine form on the art side of things too, giving the underwater future a truly unique look. And when it comes to unique looks for your comic book, you can of course glance knowingly in I.N.J. Culbard's direction as his style on books such as Dark Horse's Dark Ages and the superb Brass Sun for 2000 AD really does have a beautifully simplistic life of its own. Brass Sun #5 hits the stores tomorrow and the clockwork solar system and the inhabitants he's helped Ian Edginton to create and shape have made for a truly captivating and engrossing read and I just know this penultimate chapter will once again be something special!
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