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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Youth in revolt ^ What kind of animals? % Black and white and/or red all over ¢ New wave soundtrack % AVENGERS #17 Brian Michael Bendis and John Romita Jr. con...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Giambattista Vico's idea of the divine age ^ Giambattista Vico's idea of the heroic age % Giambattista Vico's idea of the human age ¢ A commodius vicus of recirculation * ^ ¢ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #669 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos continue the "Spider-Island" silliness, whose arri

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Watch me jumpstart ^ They're not witches % The closer you are, the quicker it hits you ¢ Cigarette tricks * % ACTION COMICS #1 Grant Morrison, Rags Morales and Rick Bryant relaunch the flagship superhero comic book. OK,...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Big guns ^ Big swords % Big chops * ^ ABC WARRIORS: THE BLACK HOLE This is the second collection of stories involving Pat Mills' robot-warrior team--essentially a cross between Metal Men and Sgt...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * "Okay, when's Doomsday? Later? Some other time? Tomorrow?" ^ There's always a war on somewhere % Super Soldier alumni * % ACTION COMICS #904 Good night to the rock 'n' roll era...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Small things, looking up ^ Large things, looking down ^ AVENGERS #16 I still don't know if alternating issues in the same storyline drawn by John Romita Jr...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Flashbacks ^ Dissolves % Fades ¢ Cuts ^ % ¢ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #667 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos start "Spider-Island" in earnest, after months of leadup. I'm kind...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * History ^ Violence % Psychedelic rock bands * % 15 LOVE #3 The long-delayed, enormously enjoyable Andi Watson/Tommy Ohtsuka miniseries about Millie the Pre-Model Tennis Prodigy concludes...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * You wait months, and then two show up at once ^ Seas of eyes % Retrospectacle * % ALAN MOORE: STORYTELLER Gary Spencer Millidge has made something of a career of being an Alan Moore expert--he co-edited the Portrait of an Extraordinary Gentleman anthology a couple of years ago... Read Mo

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...