4 Awesome Comics You Must Read This Week (29 January)

In comics news this week, the biggest story by far was that Chuck Palahniuk has completed his script for Fight Club 2! The best-selling novelist announced last summer that he was working on a sequel to his most popular book and that it would be a graphic novel, unlike the prose novels he usually writes. This past Monday, he revealed that the script was complete and that he'd sent it to his publisher and comic book writer Matt Fraction for feedback (Fraction is on board as an advisor to Palahniuk, who has never written a comic before). The story of Fight Club 2 is that years after the events of the first book, Jack and Marla are bored in their marriage and, unknown to Jack, Tyler Durden is still lurking inside of him €“ he's not dead! Tyler kidnaps Jack's son, bringing Jack back into the world of Project Mayhem. The sequel will be 210 pages/7 issues. There is no release date announced as yet, nor is an artist attached to draw the book. I mentioned a couple weeks back that Deadpool was getting hitched later this year and in the latest issue of Marvel's digital comics series Infinite Comics Deadpool: The Gauntlet, we got our first look at Wade's bride: Shiklah! .... Who? She's a new character who's the Queen of the Undead in a supernatural-action story that features Deadpool going up against Dracula and a Minotaur. How do they go from meeting one another to winding up at the altar? All will be revealed in the weeks ahead in forthcoming issues of The Gauntlet. Scott Snyder's been talking about the second half of his Vertigo series, The Wake. For issues 6-10, the series jumps 200 years into the future where the fish monsters have successfully flooded most of the world and what's left of humanity is clinging on for survival. Leeward, the young woman we've seen in glimpses of the comic so far, will be the main character as she tries to see if the fish monsters can be defeated once and for all. Unlike Lee Archer, the main character of the first arc, Leeward is more a warrior than a scientist so the second arc promises to be more action-packed than the first. The Wake #6 is out on February 26. Snyder fans can also look out for his forthcoming Image series with artist Jock, Wytches, where he'll be taking the classic depiction of these folkloric creatures and creating the scariest comic he's ever done. Snyder and Jock have worked together previously on their acclaimed Batman run at DC, collected in Batman: The Black Mirror, and Snyder's last Image book was the amazing horror comic, Severed, so Wytches looks to be one of the highlights of 2014. That's the comics news, onto the best comics of the week!