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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: % Spectacle * Cash ^ History ^ % LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN VOL. 3: CENTURY #3 2009 Wow, it was really foresighted of Alan Moore to make a thinly disguised Christian Grey the final boss in the conclusion of his survey of the past century's worth of pulp-lit presences, considering ho

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Slaying the father ^ Stan is smilin' % The end is not in sight * BATMAN: THE BLACK GLOVE DELUXE EDITION HC There are oversized hardcovers collecting most of Grant Morrison's Batman comics, but the early part of that run isn't available in a uniform edition, and collector culture means we

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Diving from above ^ Rising from below % Sidling from sideways ^ % BATWOMAN VOL. 1: HYDROLOGY J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman's version of this series has turned out to be really different in tone from the Greg Rucka/Williams version collected in Elegy--this is effectively a super

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * From the people who brought you "X-Ships" ^ Sex panic % Prosolar * % ACTION COMICS #10 Grant Morrison and Gene Ha open their three-part summer story with "Clark Kent Is Dead"--G...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * "But it's not really a superhero comic" ^ Yes, people drew things before Action #1 % Dating is difficult * BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN Book designer supreme Chip Kidd is famously a heavy-duty Batman collector, and he's written a couple of prose novels, although I think this is the

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ^ Bagman * Wingman % Swagman * BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 I believe Grant Morrison described his initial plan for the second year of this international-minded Batman-and-his-team book as being "a roller coaster ride through hell...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Dystopian futures ^ Dystopian presents % Dystopian pasts * 100 MONTHS This sounds amazing. John Hicklenton was one of the most over-the-top artists in the history of British comics--he drew incredibly grotesque, powerful stuff, including two books of Nemesis the Warlock, Pandora, a few &

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Remarkable writer/artists who started still-unfinished projects in the '90s ^ Five % At least some character-creator involvement ¢ At least some creator ownership Comics adjectives are the best % ¢ SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS Anyone know if Daniel Johnston ha

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Don't say the name ^ Retro-novelty % The myth about the microphone ^ % THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #4 I'm guessing this is the pamphlet-form comic book of this week that people are most likely to gasp at discovering a few decades from now: David Hine and Shaky Kane's loosely coher

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Seabound ^ Landlocked % Airborne * POPEYE #1 I can't think of a more appropriate writer than Roger Langridge to take on the newest (miniseries) comic book incarnation of E...