John Constantine: A liar, a cheat and the best friend you never ever want to have. Maybe if we let him, he can also be a hero in his new ongoing series that arrives in November.

From The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl to the rebirth of Bloodshot and the return of the Sandman universe, here are the very best comic book covers of the week.

There’s something magical about being drawn to a comic book, and with the market bursting at the seams lately thanks to a deluge of talent, every comic book has to pull out all the visual stops if it wants to stand at the top of the pile. Comic books like the following entries below, whose covers are pure art and available for a fraction of the price that infamously corrupt art institutions would charge you for.

Comic books! Get yer comic books! Hot off the press, right here! But which one to buy? They say that you can’t judge a book by its cover, but does that rule apply to comic books? Yes and no I reckon. While plenty of comic books use variant covers to sell their contents, you can at least be assured that what you see on the cover is an idea of what is inside the new collection of printed pages with the prettiest of pictures.

The Hellblazer is back in action with this new intro issue that takes John Constantine back to basics.

Meet John Constantine, the powerful mage who prefers to rely on his wits instead.

John Constantine is a man of many attributes, none of them really positive. He’s been a liar, a cheat, a scoundrel and a rogue with his own agenda. But if you give him a chance, he could also be a hero. Last Updated: July 30, 2014

While I enjoyed Constantine as a standalone movie, as an adaptation it was rather un-magical. So many elements had been changed (hey, lets get Keanu to play this hard British bastard, only he’s no longer British!) that for most ardent fans of the Hellblazer comics, it felt like a voodoo powered slap in the face. That’s all set to change with …