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: I have to admit I'm not entirely sold on ODY-C #1 this week. While enjoying Sex Criminals I've not been following any of Fraction's other works in the past two-odd years and did find the last arc of Casanova we received to be just a bit too hard to follow/stomach (so much so that I'm not sure I'll be investing in the next new batch come the dawn of 2015). Ward's art on Infinite Vacation was a good fit for that dimensional-hopping series, and he might well ace this one, but this remains a very last minute pull-list call for me. The definitive stand out on the list this week actually finds a damn fine series come to something of a sad, yet apparent end as Nick Spencer and Steve Lieber bring Superior Foes Of Spider-Man to a close with #17. This, quite honestly, has been the series to draw the most amused giggles, chuckles and guffaws from this reader through the last year and a bit and I never believed that I would find the antics of Boomerang, Shocker and their squad of hapless villains to be so engrossing. Yet here I am, genuinely saddened by the approaching end of this book, eager to see how things draw to a close and accepting of the fact that Nick Spencer has pretty much said that he was happy to get this far in the run, on a book that could have easily disappeared from the shelves after eight or so issues. Along with the likes of She-Hulk and Elektra (not to mention Mark Waid's Daredevil if Marvel's solicitations for the new year are to be believed) it's a shame to see these titles that sit high on the critics' charts, yet low on the sales reports getting culled by the Marvel machine, but - and it's poignant this week (Happy Thanksgiving to our US readers!) - I am thankful that we got a chance that the foes of a Spider-Man can indeed create a superior read!
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