Douglas Wolk
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – February 15, 2012: The Blind Fighting the Blind
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – February 8, 2012: One Sword, Slightly Used
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Sharps
^ Flats
% Naturals
* CONAN THE BARBARIAN #1
Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan relaunch the durable barbarian franchise with an adaptation of Robert E...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – February 1, 2012: Vacky Vobbler
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Not quite (meant to be experienced as) comics
^ Out of time
% Creator behind the wheel
¢ Technology solves every plotting problem
^ % MADMAN 20TH ANNIVERSARY MONSTER
You can't accuse Mike Allred of being poorly connected. Thi...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – January 25, 2012: Criminal Minded
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Southern regions
^ NYC and environs
% The spandex belt
* THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS
I wouldn't necessarily have expected Nate Powell's two projects after Swallow Me Whole and Any Empire to both be written by other people, but here we are: this one, a piece of civil-rights-movement histo
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – January 18, 2012: Umbrellas Assemble
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Brushes
^ Fur
% Tech
^ DAREDEVIL #8
Mark Waid writes the second half of the Amazing Spider-Man crossover; Kano's the guest artist on this one...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – January 11, 2012: The Revenge of Prof. Dodgson
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* The Lewis Carroll factor
^ The Bob-Kane's-ghost-collaborators factor
% The Gary-Friedrich's-credited-collaborators factor
* ^ BATMAN: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
I've been enjoying Sam Kieth's Batman projects over the past few years, and I think switching from Batman Confidential-style ser
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – January 4, 2012: The Latest in the Line of Rockets
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Time travel
^ Space travel
* 2000 AD #1763 AND PROG 2012
American doses of thrill-power continue in fits and starts. #1763 wraps up the current "Indigo Prime" psychedelia-fest and the stylistic throwback "Angel Zero," and Prog 2012 is the annual triple-length issue, f
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 28, 2011: Going Gorillas
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Spinoffs
^ Sidekicks
% Speed
¢ Shortness
¢ AN ANTHOLOGY OF GRAPHIC FICTION, CARTOONS AND TRUE STORIES VOL. 2, SALE EDITION
No idea what that description means, but Diamond's listing has this book at $9.99. Maybe...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 21, 2011: Giant Toads with Mustaches
"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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – December 14, 2011: A Very Norse Yule
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week.
KEY:
* Arithmetic
^ Geometry
% Music
@ Astronomy
* ^ % @ ABSOLUTE PROMETHEA VOL. 3
Collecting #24-32 of Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III's "did I say I was doing a Wonder Woman knockoff...