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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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * '72 flashback % Couples, united and split ^ "High anxiety" % ^ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #670 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos' "Spider-Island" continues; it's not often that a big crossover event can best be described with the word "madcap...