This week, the independent publishers outnumber DC and Marvel with a strange tale of a birthday clown and an existential journey for a former god. Plus, Robot summarizes the unfathomable loneliness of death that we humans try to conceptualize and understand. Titillating stuff!

New Comic Book Reviews:

Nightwing #79

Alien #2

HaHa #4

The Many Deaths of Laila Starr #1

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #116

*PLUS BENMAN & ROBOT’S PICK OF THE WEEK!*