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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Sharps ^ Flats % Naturals * CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1 Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan relaunch the durable barbarian franchise with an adaptation of Robert E...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Not quite (meant to be experienced as) comics ^ Out of time % Creator behind the wheel ¢ Technology solves every plotting problem ^ % MADMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY MONSTER You can't accuse Mike Allred of being poorly connected. Thi...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Southern regions ^ NYC and environs % The spandex belt * THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS I wouldn't necessarily have expected Nate Powell's two projects after Swallow Me Whole and Any Empire to both be written by other people, but here we are: this one, a piece of civil-rights-movement histo

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Brushes ^ Fur % Tech ^ DAREDEVIL #8 Mark Waid writes the second half of the Amazing Spider-Man crossover; Kano's the guest artist on this one...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The Lewis Carroll factor ^ The Bob-Kane's-ghost-collaborators factor % The Gary-Friedrich's-credited-collaborators factor * ^ BATMAN: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS I've been enjoying Sam Kieth's Batman projects over the past few years, and I think switching from Batman Confidential-style ser

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Time travel ^ Space travel * 2000 AD #1763 AND PROG 2012 American doses of thrill-power continue in fits and starts. #1763 wraps up the current "Indigo Prime" psychedelia-fest and the stylistic throwback "Angel Zero," and Prog 2012 is the annual triple-length issue, f

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Spinoffs ^ Sidekicks % Speed ¢ Shortness ¢ AN ANTHOLOGY OF GRAPHIC FICTION, CARTOONS AND TRUE STORIES VOL. 2, SALE EDITION No idea what that description means, but Diamond's listing has this book at $9.99. Maybe...

"Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ¢ I've posed for pictures with Ivory soap * I wanna be nasty/I wanna drink booze ^ I wanna be wicked/And trump an ace % Just so I can step on everybody's feet * ^ BATMAN INCORPORATED: LEVIATHAN STRIKES Grant Morrison writes, Cameron Stewart and Chris Burnham draw, those of us w

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Arithmetic ^ Geometry % Music @ Astronomy * ^ % @ ABSOLUTE PROMETHEA VOL. 3 Collecting #24-32 of Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III's "did I say I was doing a Wonder Woman knockoff...

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...