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Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 27, 2012: Toss Them Up and Let Them Hit You on the Head
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 27, 2012: Toss Them Up and Let Them Hit You on the Head
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 27, 2012: Toss Them Up and Let Them Hit You on the Head
Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: % Spectacle * Cash ^ History ^ % LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN VOL. 3: CENTURY #3 2009 Wow, it was really foresighted of Alan Moore to make a thinly disguised Christian Grey the final boss in the conclusion of his survey of the past century's worth of pulp-lit presences, considering ho
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 20, 2012: From a Finger to a Glove
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 20, 2012: From a Finger to a Glove
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – June 13, 2012: All the Ships at Sea
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! – May 30, 2012: The Low Life Theory
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 30, 2012: The Low Life Theory
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 23, 2012: Incorporate the Dark Knight
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...
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 16, 2012: The Devil and the Long Pigs
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 16, 2012: The Devil and the Long Pigs
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 9, 2012: Inimitable, Incredible, Indefatigable
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
Don’t Ask! Just Buy It! – May 2, 2012: Time is Actually Speeding Up
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

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