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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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Eyepatches ^ Capes % Spats % AGONIZING LOVE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROMANCE COMICS Look, you're not going to find a bigger fan of vintage romance comics than me--I have a standing rule that I'll buy any romance comic book that's $2 or less and doesn't actually smell like cat pee...