Any Empire

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Big guns ^ Big swords % Big chops * ^ ABC WARRIORS: THE BLACK HOLE This is the second collection of stories involving Pat Mills' robot-warrior team--essentially a cross between Metal Men and Sgt...

Coming in July from Top Shelf Productions is Any Empire, the new graphic novel by Nate Powell, author of Swallow Me Whole, winner of the 2009 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Novel. In Any Empire, Powell deals explicitly with the themes of war and violence as they're experienced in America's heartland by following the lives of three GI Joe-obsessed kids as they grow into adults...