Heavens to Murgatroyd, you owe it to yourself to get in on the ground floor of the year's most important books. Exit Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles is comics answer to The Trial of Oscar Wilde.

Jimmy's Bastards brings spy-fiction back to comics in a comedic and violent subversion of the genre's core elements. It's a book with a lot of potential and that's both its greatest strength and weakness. It will undoubtedly be a thrilling romp either way, but it may read better in trade than it does in single issues. Assuming it stays on track, then this is your book, should you choose to accept it.

The Dead Hand is the kind of the intelligent spy fiction that the medium needs more of. The creative team have something truly special on their hands with a cliffhanger that will leave you coming back again and again.

The Normals is the kind of story that The Twilight Zone used to invoke an inherent unease about the reality around you and leaves you questioning many of the assumptions we make about the world. A tale in which the world as you know it seems to have changed utterly and yet you are the only one to notice. Suspenseful thrillers of the kind inevitably instill intrigue in their readers, but it is often that the build-up is more satisfying than the revelation itself. Fortunately, The Normals doesn't fall wholly into that trap. It manages to successfully recall the sinister undertones of the best psychologicalhorror stories, even if it does not radically bring anything new to the table.