In Prodigy, the world's smartest man isn't content with running the world's most successful business. His brilliant mind needs constant challenge and so he's become the go-to guy for governments around the world when a problem arises they just can't handle. A Nobel-Prize winning scientist, a genius composer, an Olympic-level athlete and an expert in the occult, Edison Crane is as addicted to the mysteries of the world as he is to sitting at the top of the Fortune 500.

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.

Without further ado, here are some of the very best comic book covers of the week!

With publishers such as Aftershock, Valiant and Image Comics giving the big two a run for their money with online offerings, people are now more than willing to grab some graphic fiction via a quick download. So what’s the actual result of this new comic book revolution? Well, actual physical sales are currently experiencing a dip, with ICv2’s Milton Griepp and Comichron’s John Jackson Miller detailing how digital distribution was changing the game.

While choosing any one comic book and claiming it to be the best of the best is more impossible than accurately pronouncing Mr. Myxyzpytlyk’s name backwards on the first try, finding plenty of recommended reading certainly wasn’t. Here’s a look at twenty of the very best comics that 2017 had to offer.

Scratch beneath the surface of regular comic books, and you’ll find some of the best damn stories ever drawn. I’m talking stuff that will leave your head spinning, comic books with concepts that are far ahead of the curve and traditional understanding. Here’s ten comic books in particular, that’ll leave your brain twisted like a Möbius strip.

What if the apocalypse wasn’t result of technology running amok, but an army of monsters that were thought to be the sole domain of the fantasy genre? That’s the scenario presented in Image’s next big series, The Realm. It’s ten years after civilisation has fallen, armies of Orcs, dragons and other mythical beasts roam the streets and a small resistance is combing the new wasteland for answers to just what went wrong for our species as they tangle with a sorcerer named Johnny Eldritch.