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.

Jo S: With excitement for a big Marvel movie this week and the incoming Free Comic Book Day rising up to fever pitch in the Sibley household, it's a bumper week of comics as well - boy, am I glad to be part of this whole world right now! A couple of much missed former favourites reappear this week, in the form of Sacred Creatures and Forever Free. The former was a real grower for me - the initial episode was such a maelstrom that I struggled to get the hang of it but, as the story developed, it quickly became well worth its luxury price tag. Forever Free is the follow up to Joe Haldeman and Marvano’s Forver War novel adaptation. The first series had a profound effect on me and it will be exciting to see where hero Mandella’s life in the future leads. There's some lighthearted fun to be had too, with issue #3 of The Beef, a bizarre mutant superhero tale, Motherlands, a tale of celebrity bounty hunter mother and daughter and their hunt for a devious criminal family member and the frankly unmissable Lockjaw (he's a good boy etc). My absolute pick of the bunch this week must be Ales Kot’s unsteadying Days Of Hate: coming in to issue #4 of a promised 12, I'm completely gripped by this study of the motivating experiences of four very diverse lead characters - each issue has left me rattled so far and this feels like as series whose impact will mark me for some time.
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