Douglas Wolk
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 20, 2012: From a Finger to a Glove
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Slaying the father
^ Stan is smilin'
% The end is not in sight
* BATMAN: THE BLACK GLOVE DELUXE EDITION HC
There are oversized hardcovers collecting most of Grant Morrison's Batman comics, but the early part of that run isn't available in a uniform edition, and collector culture means we
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 13, 2012: All the Ships at Sea
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Diving from above
^ Rising from below
% Sidling from sideways
^ % BATWOMAN VOL. 1: HYDROLOGY
J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman's version of this series has turned out to be really different in tone from the Greg Rucka/Williams version collected in Elegy--this is effectively a super
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 6, 2012: Tonight None Of You Will Sleep Here
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* From the people who brought you "X-Ships"
^ Sex panic
% Prosolar
* % ACTION COMICS #10
Grant Morrison and Gene Ha open their three-part summer story with "Clark Kent Is Dead"--G...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 30, 2012: The Low Life Theory
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 23, 2012: Incorporate the Dark Knight
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
^ Bagman
* Wingman
% Swagman
* BATMAN INCORPORATED #1
I believe Grant Morrison described his initial plan for the second year of this international-minded Batman-and-his-team book as being "a roller coaster ride through hell...
Let The Beat DROKK: Geoff Barrow & Ben Salisbury On The Music Of Mega-City One
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 16, 2012: The Devil and the Long Pigs
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Dystopian futures
^ Dystopian presents
% Dystopian pasts
* 100 MONTHS
This sounds amazing. John Hicklenton was one of the most over-the-top artists in the history of British comics--he drew incredibly grotesque, powerful stuff, including two books of Nemesis the Warlock, Pandora, a few &
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 9, 2012: Inimitable, Incredible, Indefatigable
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 2, 2012: Time is Actually Speeding Up
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Don't say the name
^ Retro-novelty
% The myth about the microphone
^ % THE BULLETPROOF COFFIN DISINTERRED #4
I'm guessing this is the pamphlet-form comic book of this week that people are most likely to gasp at discovering a few decades from now: David Hine and Shaky Kane's loosely coher
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – April 25, 2012: He Lives in a Garbage Can
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Seabound
^ Landlocked
% Airborne
* POPEYE #1
I can't think of a more appropriate writer than Roger Langridge to take on the newest (miniseries) comic book incarnation of E...