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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Bring on the bad guys ^ Bring on the dancing horses % Bring on the night ¢ Bring on the rain * AVENGERS ACADEMY GIANT-SIZE #1 This Paul Tobin/David Baldeon project was on and off the schedule, initially as Avengers Academy Annual, Spider-Girl Annual and Young Allies Annual, a three-part

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Revisionist history ^ Ampersands and virgules % Half a year from Halloween ^ ACTION COMICS #900 Hey, Superman's back! And not a moment too soon...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The New Yorker ^ National Geographic @ American Rifleman % Family Circle ¢ AARP Bulletin * ¢ AVENGERS #12 Brian Michael Bendis may have written himself into a corner with this Infinity Gauntlet plot--last issue's all-splash-page format seemed like a punt, and not a particularly successfu

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Changing times @ Changing clothes ^ Changing bodies * ^ CASANOVA: GULA #4 The lead feature is a reprint of Casanova #14, the final issue of the original series, in which an exceptionally clever bit of plotting comes to fruition; that's followed by a new story by Matt Fraction and Gabriel

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Character named after someone with religious significance ^ Character is, himself or herself, of some religious significance % Retrographics...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Gonna get you with my pleasant Nazis % The gang is down to fight, yeah ^ Have I brought this chicken for us to thaw? % ^ ACTION COMICS #899 Paul Cornell and Pete Woods' Lex Luthor serial hits its penultimate installment, in which Lex meets Brainiac...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Soda pop ^ Magic mushrooms % Weed @ Tiger tea ¢ Booze £ Synthi-caf § Braaaains * ADVENTURE COMICS #524 Last month's opening episode of Paul Levitz, Phil Jimenez and Andy Lanning's Legion Academy serial was an odd duck--Jimenez's art was as shiny as ever, but the plot felt like Levitz was

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Trad goth ^ Perky goth % Medieval goth * BATMAN INC. #3 The schedule for Grant Morrison's current Batman serial seems to have gone totally off the rails, but now might be getting back on them: #4 is due in two weeks...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Minor threat ^ Teen idles ¶ Embrace % Egg hunt ¢ Pailhead £ Fugazi £ ¢ ANNIHILATORS #1 Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's long-running, multi-series, quasi-weekly-for-a-while cosmic Marvel serial seemed to have come to a close with the recent Thanos Imperative miniseries (which is collected t

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Gloves ^ Moustaches % Eyebrows ¢ Oaths % ¢ ACTION COMICS #898 Paul Cornell and Pete Woods' Lex Luthor serial continues to slither toward its climax; this time, he meets up with Green Lantern's completist-collector stand-in Larfleeze. % ...