Douglas Wolk
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – July 20, 2011: Comic-Con Blowout Edition
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Bald men who save the universe
^ Helmets
% Go ahead: smile!
¢ At least one creator appearing at Comic-Con
* ^ AVENGERS #15
Brian Michael Bendis and Chris Bachalo continue the Fear Itself tie-in. The...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – July 13, 2011: America 6.0
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
^ Seven Deadly Finns
* Blank Frank
% Kurt's Rejoinder
¢ Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
* BATMAN: HUSH UNWRAPPED DELUXE EDITION
Or, to put it differently, Jim Lee uninked--a black-and-white edition of the Lee-drawn run on Batman, reproduced from his lushly rendered pencils, with let
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – July 6, 2011: King Jack, Queen Black
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Bat-ears
^ Racketeers
% Ruby-Spears
^ 15 LOVE #2
The first issue of this long-mothballed Andi Watson/Tommy Ohtsuka miniseries (about Millie Collins as a teenage tennis not-quite-prodigy realizing that her future title is probably not going to be Millie the Tennis Player, and that modelin
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 29, 2011: You Know What They Say About Comedy
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* I experience time differently than you do
^ Our story is structurally complex
% And now we fly south
* ^ BATMAN INC. #7
The stop-and-start pace is really starting to be a problem, and I'm going to be surprised if the last three issues actually manage to show up by two months from now...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 22, 2011: Time Machines and Other Pseudoscience
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Revival house
^ I guess Pop was right
% Coming of age
% ALL NIGHTER #1
This David Hahn project was originally announced as a Minx graphic novel; since that line went kaput, it's turned into a five-issue Image miniseries...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 15, 2011: Alpha Delta
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Life after death
^ Up in the North
% Construction equipment
¢ Fright night
* ^ ¢ ALPHA FLIGHT #1
Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and Dale Eaglesham are behind this 8-issue miniseries, which I believe is the fourth attempt at giving these Canadians their own series, if you don't count Omega Fli
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 8, 2011: Out of the Vaults and Onto the Courts
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Blondes
^ Redheads
% Dads
* 15 LOVE #1
Andi Watson and Tommy Ohtsuka's tennis-romance (!) miniseries starring an updated (and down-aged: she's 15 years old here) Millie the Model, which was apparently written and drawn back in 2003, finally sees the light of day as three double-length i
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 1, 2011: Mickey, Frank and Rex
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Congress
^ Justice Dept.
% Bureau of the Interior
¢ Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
* CELLULOID
It's been a while since we've heard from Dave McKean in comics, and his new book is a not-very-plot-heavy thing involving a lot of large images and a lot of very stylized nudity and sex. Not...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 25, 2011: Getting the “Marvels” Band Back Together
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* World-building
% Sides of a coin
^ Tong Deum
@ Nun of the Above
* DC COMICS PRESENTS: GREEN LANTERN: WILLWORLD
It's a very light week for interesting new comics, so it's a good time to revisit one of the late Seth Fisher's most impressive-looking projects: a 2001 graphic novel written by
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 18, 2011: Hyper Than Pinocchio’s Nose
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Wood
^ Metal
% Latex
¢ Feathers
¢ APPROXIMATE CONTINUUM COMICS
An earlier stab than Little Nothings at comics-as-diary from the prolific cartoonist (and constantly hilarious comics-diarist) Lewis Trondheim, who draws himself as a slightly ruffled bird. (On the ...