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: Top of my list this week would be Unworthy Thor #3. Aaron and Coipel have delivered more premium, epic-scale punch in the past two issues than any Marvel 'event' I've cast eyes over the past few years. The Odinson's fall from grace has left him a tested, fractured, vulnerable god, short of patience and quick to anger and he's all the more interesting for it. At another point of the visual spectrum would be Mike Del Mundo's work on Avengers which has dealt with the time dilation and disturbance of a Kang the Conqueror storyline in mindbogglingly claustrophobic fashion. I mean this as a positive as Del Mundo has managed to make white space appear encompassing and restrictive which is no easy feat and no common sight with the realm of comic books. I've been enjoying the way he and Mark Waid have been building this self-contained Avengers story and look forward to the new Wasp getting some of the limelight this week in #3. I will say that I've looked at the preview for Nova #2 and for a second did contemplate picking it up, but after the mediocre response I had to the debut I am in the mood to let the arc unfold, see what the reviews elsewhere say and maybe make a later gamble on the trade paperback.
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