A new creative team! New villains! New directions! New #1 issues! IT’S…Tuesday at Marvel Comics. The iconic comic book brand may be known as the house of ideas, but that idea has largely been singular in the last couple of years as the publisher has relaunched comic book after comic book with several new fresh starts that have left fans fatigued and retailers angry. It’s happening yet again this year, a mere handful of months after Marvel Legacy promised to get back down to basics with the established roster of characters who had been side-lined in favour of a more diverse cast of successors.

Avengers: Infinity War is a massive film, full of ramifications and repercussions as actions most definitely do have consequences. But what if it wasn’t serious? What if Avengers: Infinity War was actually a giggle festival of nightmare fuel photoshop and saw the triumphant return of Emo Maguire from Spider-Man 3? It would probably look a little something like this.

While the traditional Supeman costume was still largely intact, it had been modernised. A higher collar, more seam lines and a complete absence of the signature underoos that Superman had worn for decades. Further tweaks would be applied to the super-suit, but the red trunks would remain absent through all of these alterations. Until now that is, as Superman is finally getting his underwear back.

Comic Con is coming to Africa. Organised by Reed Exhibitions, VS Gaming and Feedpop, Comic Con Africa joins a line-up of events that already features similar conventions in New York, Seoul, Paris and the big daddy Emerald City Comicon of Washington.

Damn Prime 1 for making an utterly sexy replica of the dark knight in Batman Ninja, at a price that I can’t afford because I’ve run out of excuses with which to lure my colleagues to a seedy motel bathtub full of ice.

Five teenagers with attitude, able to command a fleet of mechanical Zords that happen to be able to combine into an even bigger weapon of monster-punching destruction, what could possibly stop them? After 25 years, we may finally have an answer to that question which humanity has aksed for precisely the length of time needed to read that opening sentence: …

Wish you could reset the entire universe with the mere wave of an Infinity Gauntlet? Sadly, you can't But at least you can pretend to do just that with this neat replica of the cosmic weapon.

Invincible #144 is an intimate and no-holds barred appreciation of a genre that feels utterly satisfying in its conclusion.