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.

It's amazing just how much Young Justice got away with on regular TV, a format which is notorious for its restrictions and limits on content. For Young Justice: Outsiders however, those limits have been eased greatly for the show’s return in 2019 on the DC Universe network.

The Batman Who Laughs is a dark knight without limits, and arguably the most popular member of the vigilantes who terrorised the DC Comics Universe in the Metal event. How popular? Popular enough to get a statue from Prime 1, which will set you back $1199 for the regular version and $1399 for a deluxe version which throws in an extra Damien Wayne Robin.

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.

From X-Men to Time Lords, check out the cosplay action from ICON Durban 2018, KwaZulu-Natal's ever-growing gaming and pop culture convention.

With a more adult-focused imprint to tell grittier stories in and with Geoff Johns back as a writer, Batman’s greatest nemesis (or trio of them), are getting unwrapped and revealed at long last. Don’t expect the answer to be based on time travel or magic, as The Three Jokers is very much based on the idea that three men have been tormenting the caped crusader for years, evolving to become more dangerous according to the needs of the era that they operated in.

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.

Well here’s some bad news to start the week off with. Comic Con Africa has a ton of guests who’ll be making the trip down to sunny South Africa and the Kyalami International Convention Center, but one name on the list who won’t be seen that weekend? Aquaman himself, Jason Momoa.

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.

Trained by the evil Darth Sidious, the formidable warrior Darth Maul wield an intimidating double-bladed lightsaber and fought with a menacing ferocity. Though he was being defeated by Obi-Wan Kenobi during the Battle of Naboo, the Zabrak from Dathomir would prove to be much harder to destroy than originally believed.

What a weekend it was! Disney shot themselves in the foot when they fired a beloved director after being spurred on by a Nazi, the Arrowverse grew even wackier than ever and DC had trailers aplenty as they began to refocus their efforts not only on making movies, but making films that actually look good. In case you missed it, here’s a handy round-up of all the content that was pumped out.

Announced at San Diego Comic Con, The Worlds of DC signifies the end of an era and the start of a far more focused one. Does that mean that the cinematic universe of director Zack Snyder’s darker vision for the DCEU is dead? Not exactly, but the idea here is that The Worlds of DC can support multiple films and ideas.