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.

Kenny J: It's a week of firsts with a lot of new wares to try out come this Wednesday. However, it's the latest issue of Doctor Strange that I'm looking forward to the most. I really enjoyed the 'Last Days of Magic' story arc but just as the Sorcerer Supreme is recuperating from the events of that he has to deal with the return of Baron Mordo. This one of the many titles Jason Aaron is knocking out the park on at the moment and joined by Chris Bachalo they are bound to be stewarding one of Marvel’s premiere books as the titular character makes his big screen debut this month. Another live action hit makes her return to comics this week as Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Gaydos, the original team behind Alias, bring back Jessica Jones in her own eponymous title. If these two returning to the character they created isn't enough to sell you on this book then just take a look at that gorgeous David Mack cover. Also at Marvel it's looking like a dark time for the X-Men as we head towards their demise in the very final sounding Death Of X crossover that starts this week with issue #1. The X-Men are what got me into comics so I'll be sad to see them go back but as Magneto may say it's time to move over and make room for the next thing and right now that looks like the Inhumans, much to our beloved mutants’ detriment. Away from Marvel there are still more new titles. As soon as I saw Brian Azzarello was writing a prohibition era comic I knew I would be reading it. A supernatural '20s gangster comic to be exact in Moonshine #1. Hopefully filled with the cleverly uncomfortable dark writing that I've come to know Azzarello by. I'll try anything by Azzarello as will I by the author of another debut, Shipwreck #1 by Warren Ellis and Phil Hester. Ellis is a creator I will always take a punt on. Whether it pans out or not is another matter but in our crazy hobby of comics there is always something else to read.
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