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.

Stewart R: Just like Matt I view Kill Or Be Killed #2 as an essential read for the week after a very impressive debut from Brubaker, Philips and Breitweiser. The first chapter trod a fine line between a dark look at mental health and the moral compass with a more sinister, mystical mystery on the other side and this ambiguity (the latter could be a result of the former) should make for much of the intrigue as the story unfolds. For once I'm going to be giving Dynamite a whole $3.99 this week - I actually tend to shy away from the works of the publisher - for a look at new miniseries The Great Divide by Ben Fisher and Adam Markiewicz. This is a post-apocalyptic tale where physically touching another person could be swiftly and painfully fatal, whilst those who survive the encounter are beset with memory flashes of those they touched and killed. This sounds like X-Men Rogue's powers have been dropped into a survival-horror/thriller setting and while it's not a terrifically leftfield comic book concept I still think it's worth exploring. This week marks the very happy return of Xavier Dorison and Terry Dodson's Red One which delighted in 2015's two issues and returns for this Autumn season with at least two more chapters. I'm anticipating the same crazy Hollywood-meets-the-Cold-War vibe as Vera Yelnikov continues her career as superhero AND Soviet spy in 1970s Los Angeles and just writing that sentence has me excited for the return of this comic!
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