Surgical, vivid and never boring, the Ninja Files of Ninja-K #3 continues to impress.

After 189 issues of webhead wonders, Amazing Spider-Man writer Slott is hanging up the web-shooters as he starts a new gig with Marvel’s most important character: Iron Man.

Load up your prime directives, as no criminal is above the law of Robocop when the mechanised police officer returns to comic books in April.

A soldier, a general and finally a king, Aric is heading home. But is Earth ready for the return of the conquering hero XO Manowar? That’s a question that the monarch will have to answer as he finds a new purpose in life and digs up the past in the process.

On a shelf of Batmen, the Arkham Knight incarnation of the dark knight stands out from them. He’s massive, imposing and even if I can’t pose him the way I want to, he still looks good. Damn good.

You ever find yourself thinking about the mental strength that would be required to actually be a superhero? The strength of mind needed to slip into a spandex onesie and fight crime night after night? Hell, how do you even begin to cope when your life has been turned upside down by what seems to be an annual invasion into your reality by cosmic extinction events from beyond the stars and our ability to even conceive of those horrors?

Humanity isn’t alone. In a universe of a trillion stars and even more planets, life always finds a way. Not a question of “if” but rather “when”, first contact will eventually be made between our species and visitors from another world. And when it happens, they’re going to have one hell of a deal to offer us as the galaxy expands in ways we never thought possible.

True romance never dies, as Gothic Tales of Haunted Love proves. It’s a revival, a tribute and a sequel to an age of underappreciated comic books. 200-plus pages of love being true, bitter and horrific.