Douglas Wolk
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 7, 2011: Back to Defense
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Redheads
^ Absence of customary redheads
* ACTION COMICS #4
Grant Morrison and Rags Morales' new take on Superman's early social-activist days continues...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – November 30, 2011: The Multi-Story Mind Makes a Move
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Donner and Blitzen
^ Dasher and Dancer
% Prancer and Vixen
* AVENGERS ORIGINS: THOR #1
I believe this is part of a sequence of origin one-shots that will be collected in time for the Avengers movie; this one's by Kathryn Immonen and Al Barrionuevo...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – November 23, 2011: The End of Lulu
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Numbers
^ Exodus
% Genesis
¢ Colossians
^ % BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR HC
Scott Snyder, Jock & Francesco Francavilla's double-headed Batman/Commissioner Gordon serial from Detective Comics was one of the chief attractions of the pre-reboot DC (and had a lot of impressively over-the-top
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – November 16, 2011: Square Eggs (One Size Does Not Fit All)
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
´ Accent aigu
` Accent grave
˜ Tilde
¨ Umlaut
´ THE ADVENTURES OF HERGÉ
Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy's biography of the Tintin creator is executed in something like Hergé's own style, which is a clever idea. It's worth noting that some versio...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – November 9, 2011: Frankie Say
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* "The conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia"
^ "The scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon"
% "Mirrors and copulation are abominable"
¢ "A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete&qu
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – November 2, 2011: A Rustle of Feathers
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* True Brits
^ The beating of wings
% Body displacement
* ^ % ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 5
Did you imagine that the previous Absolute volumes reprinting the Sandman series and the Death miniseries exhausted Vertigo's ability to repurpose Neil Gaiman's fantasy work...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – Oct. 26, 2011: Thrill-Power Vs. Hasty Pudding
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
*Island nations
^ This is a really great week for coloring aficionados
% Franchises
£ Not franchises
* ^ % £ 2000 AD #1754
The best British comic book is finally available weekly in the U.S., as of t...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – Oct. 19, 2011: Nothing More to Fear
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Meta-
% Mice
¢ Madness
£ Min(n)i(e)
^ Cold climates
£ 15 LOVE
A paperback collection of the long-delayed Andi Watson/Tommy Ohtsuka quasi-sports-manga miniseries about the future Millie the Model and her career as a tennis prodigy. Watson also con...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – Oct. 12, 2011: Franks a Lot
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Hairstyles
^ Encores
% Teeth
* ALAN MOORE: CONVERSATIONS
Ten interviews, conducted by various people between 1981 and 2009, edited by Eric Berlatsky...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – Oct. 5, 2011: Hold On, Nancy’s Coming
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* "Troglodytes... cavemen"
^ One interpretation superimposed on another
% The germs of the transcendental terms
* ^ ACTION COMICS #2
Grant Morrison and Rags Morales are joined by Brent Anderson for five pages of this issue, as part of DC's ongoing "no, really, let's make thi