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This week has seen the relaunch of the Valiant universe with the release of the first issue of X-O Manowar by writer Robert Venditti (The Surrogates) and artist Cary Nord (Conan the Barbarian). Coming in the months ahead are new incarnations of other Valiant properties Bloodshot, Harbinger and Archer & Armstrong from a roster of talent that includes writers Fred Van Lente, Joshua Dysart, Duan

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Arms and armor ^ Crusty Bunkers % The world before us * % 3 STORY: SECRET FILES OF THE GIANT MAN This is the ramp-up for the Era of Matt Kindt Doing a Whole Lot: a saddle-stitched collection of three brief sequels (which originally appeared online) to his 2009 graphic novel about a giant

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Set time machine for sometime around the Kennedy assassination ^ Set time machine for sometime around Elvis's first appearance on Ed Sullivan ¢ Set time machine for sometime around the collapse of the USSR £ Set time machine for sometime around the end of the Civil War % Just give the ti

"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: * 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: * 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: * 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: * 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...

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: * 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