Brock Lesnar should continue to have a major role after his attack on The Miz last week and the destruction of Vince McMahon two weeks ago. Will his WrestleMania opponent emerge tonight?

Valentine’s Day arrives later this week, but will romance be in the air on Monday Night Raw tonight? Will the matchmaking go beyond the confines of the ring? Will the sparks between C.M. Punk and The Rock continue to fly? Are we due for yet another “Rock Concert” with the show coming to us live from Music City, Nashville, Tennessee? More importantly will anyone get new (and better) entrance music?

With the Elimination Chamber is less than a week away and WrestleMania looming on the horizon, the landscape can and will change as each Monday passes.

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Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

Seven new books on my list for the first week of February.

• ALL NEW X-MEN #7 – I can’t get over how much I’m enjoying this book. Like so many Marvel Now books, it was a lot all at once when it started, but I find myself looking forward to each issue. The change of artist from Stuart Immonen to David Marquez takes nothing away from Brian Bendis‘ strong entry into the X-titles. Like issue #6, this issue features another X-Men 50th Anniversary variant, this time in the form of Nick Bradshaw’s cast from Wolverine and the X-Men.
• AVENGERS #5 – Three weeks in a row is right at the limit of too much for me, even when it’s Jonathan Hickman. Luckily, this is an odd numbered issue and so far they’ve been hits with me.
• FEARLESS DEFENDERS #1 – I committed to trying the first issue of all the Marvel Now titles, but this isn’t one I’d have picked up otherwise. This seems like something that should have launched out Marvel’s Fear Itself event, but I didn’t follow any of the follow up titles for that one. Valkyrie has been a major character in Secret Avengers and Venom, but I don’t know what this series has in store.
• NEW AVENGERS #3 – This ranks just after All New X-Men as far as my top books from Marvel Now. The return of the Illuminati, the Infinity Gems, and a threat to the multiverse hit all the right notes for me.
• SECRET AVENGERS #37 – Final issue? I’ve thought that for three issues now but I think this is really it. I’m interested to see how Rick Remender‘s Descendants storyline wraps up, but it feels a bit anticlimactic for some reason.
• SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #3 – I’m really on the fence with this series. I picked up issue #2 without planning on it and I’m probably going to get #3 tomorrow. When it comes right down to it, this just isn’t the Spider-Man I want to read about and I may have lost the patience to see where it goes.
• X-FACTOR #251 – Peter David is great at bringing long running story lines together and the Hell on Earth War is no exception. It’s also great to see Polaris with a larger role.

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.

One thing that won’t stay in Vegas, the annual tradition of pointing at the WrestleMania sign ad nauseam.

Raw arrived in Las Vegas last week with Raw Roulette in tow. There are plenty of newsworthy items to discuss in the fallout from the Royal Rumble, but we’d prefer that most of what happened on the show stayed in Vegas. The most newsworthy item since last Monday is the announcement of Bruno Sammartino on the list of 2013 WWE Hall of Fame inductees. Yes indeed, it is time for a Warm Up… since hell just froze over.

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Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app.

Only four new books on my list for the fifth and final Wednesday of January 2013. I’m hoping the small week will give me a chance to catch up on some series where I’ve gotten a few issues behind.

• AQUAMAN #16 – I fell behind on Aquaman a few months ago and my unwillingness to jump right into the current issues is keeping me from reading the Throne of Atlantis crossover with Justice League.
• AVENGERS #4 – Jonathan Hickman‘s Avengers got off to an intriguing start, but the second issue didn’t thrill me like the first one did. Last week’s issue #3 got me back on board with the series, but the hellacious Marvel Now shipping schedule is enough to cause me to question how invested I am in any title. Back-to-back weeks at $3.99 an issue is a tough sell.
• DOCTOR WHO: PRISONERS OF TIME #1 – Multi-Doctor team-up? I’m there. I don’t often venture into other media when it comes to Doctor Who and I’ll have a review of the first issue of this 12-part series published later today.
• X-MEN: LEGACY #5 – I’m behind on this series as well, and it’s surprising since I really liked the way it started. The Mike Del Mundo covers continue to be a highlight.

Check back every week to see what’s on My Latest Pull List and please share your thoughts on these titles and everything you’re reading this week in the comments.

C.M. Punk’s historic WWE Championship reign came to an end at last night’s Royal Rumble in Phoenix, AZ.

WWE’s annual Royal Rumble normally makes for an interesting night serving as the first step on the road to WrestleMania. Someone emerges from the Rumble match with a guaranteed title shot and championships often change hands. Last night both happened but instead of going with any remotely interesting outcomes, the night came off as simply boring and predictable with two time Rumble winner John Cena now set to face new WWE Champion, The Rock, at WrestleMania 29. Not even Raw Roulette tonight from Las Vegas can turn the fortunes of the that rematch.

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