What If? has mostly been a brand with sporadic appearances, confined to limited one-shots and mini-series since the 2000s. That’s not changing, but hell, at least we’re getting six new What If? one-shots later this year that stars everyone from Thor to Ghost Rider. Here’s a breakdown of the issues that are headed to shelves soon.

Although some of them had previously chosen to not say much unlike the vocal responses of Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, and Sean Gunn, the entire Guardians of the Galaxy cast has now released a joint statement expressing their support for fired filmmaker James Gunn and calling for his reinstatement as director of the hit Marvel franchise.

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.

After being teased for six years, Thanos finally debuted in full in Avengers: Infinity War and rapidly became an iconic movie villain. That ambitious plan to bring Marvel's biggest cosmic baddie to the screen began in Joss Whedon's The Avengers, except it turns out that Whedon didn't have a plan at the time.

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.

Following on from the shocking news over the weekend that Disney has fired Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn after old offensive tweets were unearthed, numerous members of the Guardians cast as well as other Hollywood celebs and fans have stepped in public support for the beleaguered filmmaker.

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.