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: A little raft of last-but-ones carries my pull-list aloft this week; I suspect I’ll be mourning the passing of a few favourites at the same time in a month or so, but let’s not be sad about that yet! Gorgeous Legenderry: Red Sonja, resplendent, glamorous and feisty in steampunk finery, is my first pick of the penultimates, ably supported by Motherlands, a novel mother-daughter-interdimensional-bounty-hunter-odd-couple series which has seen some iffy patches but still fights back. Weird mutated superhero The Beef reaches four of five this week too - I’ve been employing James R’s recommendation of using a translation app to read the Spanish language sections of this properly: comic books go a long way to escape the constraints of language but it’s nice to get the subtlety of the dialogue as well as the broad understanding inferred from body language and context. I also made use of this app in the first couple of issues of Barrier (also now heading into its last-but-one), where the creators used difference in language to deliberately separate characters but issue #3 was completely word free (wow!) - Vaughan and Martin derive eloquence from unexpected sources. Reaching its last issue too soon for me is the Further Adventures Of Nick Wilson: this has been delicate, sensitive, subtle and touching - a real surprise winner for me - and, thankfully with plenty still to come, Ales Kot’s Day Of Hate is up too; it thrums with tension and torn loyalties - this one heads to the top of my pile every time. Wrapping up with two new series: a fearsome new Black Panther sees T’Challa travelling the multiverse to visit outposts of the Wakandan empire and the Hunt For Wolverine: Mystery In Madripoor takes some of my favourite X-Men to this infamous island after a sighting of Patch suggests they might find Logan in the ill-reputed vicinity. This is going to be a great bank holiday weekend!
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