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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 * Careering ^ Memories % Graveyard ¢ The Suit * ¢ ADVENTURE COMICS #523 The Paul Levitz-written second Legion of Super-Heroes title gets its new art team of Phil Jimenez and Andy Lanning--notably, Lanning co-wrote an earlier incarnation of Legion...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Speaking in code ^ Young soul rebels % The hammer of the gods ^ % FABLES #100 Vertigo does throw a lot of ideas at the wall, but sometimes they stick, as with this durable take on fairy tales and mythology...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * "Everyone's entitled to two, aren't they?" ^ "I fought the war for your sort." % "Turned left at Greenland...

IT'S COOPERATIN' TIME - New Avengers 1 Take a group of friends. Have them meet regularly for conversation, meals, and coordinated activities. In some cases these people will convene at a bar and engage in trivia contests. Other times they'll meet at a pub and go play what some call football, others soccer, and still others call "Well, at least they're not sticking around in the pub and brea

Since the rise of Brian Michael Bendis at Marvel, Luke Cage has enjoyed unforeseen levels of visibility, having joined and briefly led the Avengers and played a lynchpin role in the Marvel Universe at large. This Wednesday, the hero formerly known as Power Man doubles his workload and adds boss of the Thunderbolts to his resume...

A panel of Marvel editors joined by their all-star pitcher Brian Michael Bendis teamed up on the last day of Wizard World Philadelphia to throw a bone or two to Avengers fans. Of course the number one topic of conversation was the Skrull event in New Avengers #31, which I've already written enough about so will only go so far as to report that everything will be crescendoing over the course of the