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: Yet more new temptations in tomorrow's haul, and with 2015 marking a slightly shifted attitude in my comic purchasing - I'm going to be more ruthless in cutting series and not picking up debuts if I'm unsure about the gamble - I have to leave things on the shelves. To that end Rat God #1 and Nameless #1 don't get to come home with me this Wednesday. Rat God looks interesting enough with a Lovecraftian sheen to it, and there's no doubt that Dark Horse have been shipping some interesting creator-owned works in the past few years, but I wasn't sold on the preview and will wait to see what other reviews seem to say about it. Likewise, Nameless #1 is sure to get something of an initial follow by the PCG as a whole as Morrison's work is held in pretty high regard, but upon reading some preview pages I realised that I was hearing the dialogue in my head as a James R impression of Mr Morrison himself (something brought out at humorous times during PCG meetings) and found it too distracting. I'll be waiting to see there how my colleagues get on with it.
So what AM I picking up this week? Postal #1 from Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill gets added to the list with little doubt as he's a solid writer indeed, with plenty of interesting ideas up his sleeve and a penchant for addressing issues and topics relevant to our 21st Century way of living. The idea of a town populated by fugitive criminals with a zero tolerance for crime which could draw attention to the community is a fascinating one and I can't wait to see what it turns up. Then there's Cluster #1 from Ed Brisson out of BOOM! Studios. A delicious James Stokoe is a delightful bonus to the story that focuses on mankind's future in space, with dozens of colonies in the far flung corners and too few able-bodied souls to defend these outposts. In desperate times you resort to desperate measures and Cluster will follow a group of convicted prisoners, drafted as soldiers to reduce their sentence, stranded on a war-torn planet and having to rely on each other to survive! I think I can understand that title from the sounds of that premise...
So what AM I picking up this week? Postal #1 from Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill gets added to the list with little doubt as he's a solid writer indeed, with plenty of interesting ideas up his sleeve and a penchant for addressing issues and topics relevant to our 21st Century way of living. The idea of a town populated by fugitive criminals with a zero tolerance for crime which could draw attention to the community is a fascinating one and I can't wait to see what it turns up. Then there's Cluster #1 from Ed Brisson out of BOOM! Studios. A delicious James Stokoe is a delightful bonus to the story that focuses on mankind's future in space, with dozens of colonies in the far flung corners and too few able-bodied souls to defend these outposts. In desperate times you resort to desperate measures and Cluster will follow a group of convicted prisoners, drafted as soldiers to reduce their sentence, stranded on a war-torn planet and having to rely on each other to survive! I think I can understand that title from the sounds of that premise...
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