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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

Matt Fraction's creator-owned tale of interdimensional espionage, evil twins and body-swapping love returns this September with Casanova: Avaritia, a.k.a. avarice, the third of the deadly sins that title each volume. As the new chapter opens, dimension-tripping superspy Casanova Quinn is still bitterly estranged from his father -- and boss -- who has tasked him with the job of cauterizing the time

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Surf ^ Turf ¢ Nerf ^ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #651 "Big Time" continues to play hurry-up-and-wait. Apparently there's a "Tron variant" version of this issue (and various other comics this month). I a...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Pete Best ^ Klaus Voormann @ Murray the K ¢ Billy Preston % Yoko Ono ^ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #645 Mark Waid and Paul Azaceta's "Origin of the Species" continues to roll toward its conclusion. Pre...

When superspy anti-hero Casanova is sent on a mission to kidnap a magician-turned-guru who meditated for 12 years and supposedly achieved godhood, his attitude is pretty skeptical. After all, he's not so much "stealing god" as he is nabbing a con man, right...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Swords ^ Cups % Wands ¢ Pentacles * ^ % ¢ ABSOLUTE PROMETHEA VOL. 2 Got a C-note? Get this collection of the high point of Alan Moore and J.H. Willia...

The second issue of "Casanova" by Matt Fraction and artist Gabriel Ba, with gorgeous full color from Cris Peter, comes out from Marvel's Icon imprint this Wednesday. We've got a 6-page preview of the issue, where the dimension-displaced, double-crossing Casanova Quinn must attempt to carry out opposing missions for both E...

The first fully-recolored issue of Matt Fraction's indie masterpiece "Casanova" hits stands this week, republishing what was once the first two issues of the series into one lush, over-sized package through Marvel's creator-owned Icon imprint...

The first Matt Fraction comic I ever read was "Casanova." Most people know Fraction best, of course, as the writer of books like "Uncanny X-Men," "Iron Man" and "Thor," but before his meteoric rise in the mainstream, there was this little indie comic he did at Image Comics with artists -- and twin brothers -- Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon about a dimension-trip

Updated: In yet another big announcement out of the's Cup O' Joe panel at C2E2, Marvel announced that Matt Fraction's indie masterpiece "Casanova," which was illustrated by brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon and published by Image Comics, will soon be moving to Marvel's creator-owned Icon imprint, a shift that Fraction says "will allow us to do the book and to do it as we intended t