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Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * "But it's not really a superhero comic" ^ Yes, people drew things before Action #1 % Dating is difficult * BATMAN: DEATH BY DESIGN Book designer supreme Chip Kidd is famously a heavy-duty Batman collector, and he's written a couple of prose novels, although I think this is the

The instrumental album DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One came out last week. The work of Geoff Barrow (best known as a core member of Portishead) and the film composer Ben Salisbury, it's a tribute to the synthesizer-based movie soundtracks of the Blade Runner era, as well as to the setting of Judge Dredd, the cult-favorite future-cop serial that's been running weekly in the British anthology

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Remarkable writer/artists who started still-unfinished projects in the '90s ^ Five % At least some character-creator involvement ¢ At least some creator ownership Comics adjectives are the best % ¢ SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS Anyone know if Daniel Johnston ha

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The Paul Masson principle ^ Somebody's read some Moorcock % Supertasters ¢ Claret and/or carrots % DAREDEVIL #10.1 Mark Waid and Khoi Pham are the creators behind this "no, really, you can start reading it now" issue. Tha...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: % Run the mission ^ Don't get seen * See ¢ Swim away from the Mission ^ DAREDEVIL #10 Paolo Rivera draws the fantastic quasi-Dore cover, as well as the Mark Waid-written story inside, which wraps up the Mole Man sequence. I l...

IDW Publishing came prepared to Anaheim, California's WonderCon event last weekend, announcing several high profile comic book initiatives. Besides the previously discussed Womanthology ongoing series (of miniseries) and the full-length Rocketeer project by Mark Waid and Chris Samnee, IDW is developing a revival of James O'Barr's The Crow with creators John Shirley and Kevin Colden; brand new Judg

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Eyes obscured by masks ^ Ears overwhelmed by sound % Noses invaded by a byproduct of conflict ^ THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #2 The first issue of David Hine and Shaky Kane's returning homage to the weird old days of pulp comics was appealingly different from last year's run; this

"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: * "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...