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Savage Critic and Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY ¶ One Ellis-door closes, another opens £ Penguins % Swords, S.W.O.R.D., guillotines--they're really just stand-ins for papercuts ¥ Remember: everything that ever happened to Batman is canon, and that includes "Crime and Punishment" * If comics will teach you any

One of the arguments comic book readers are pulled into with regrettable regularity is whether or not the medium is an art form, and if so, is it "high art" or "low art?" Fortunately for fans of sequential art, NPR cites one creator working to distract from the debate completely with witty mashups that force readers to confront the joy that comes from churning classic literatur