journey into mystery

Marvel announced Exiled, its upcoming five-part, weekly-shipping crossover story spanning Asgard and Earth during a live-blog PR event on Monday. Following the Exiled #1 in May, two issues apiece of New Mutants and Journey Into Mystery will be devoted to the multi-realm storyline...

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...

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

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...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * "The conjunction of a mirror and an encyclopedia" ^ "The scripture produced by a subordinate god in order to communicate with a demon" % "Mirrors and copulation are abominable" ¢ "A book which does not contain its counterbook is considered incomplete&qu

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: *Island nations ^ This is a really great week for coloring aficionados % Franchises £ Not franchises * ^ % £ 2000 AD #1754 The best British comic book is finally available weekly in the U.S., as of t...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Meta- % Mice ¢ Madness £ Min(n)i(e) ^ Cold climates £ 15 LOVE A paperback collection of the long-delayed Andi Watson/Tommy Ohtsuka quasi-sports-manga miniseries about the future Millie the Model and her career as a tennis prodigy. Watson also con...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * '72 flashback % Couples, united and split ^ "High anxiety" % ^ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #670 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos' "Spider-Island" continues; it's not often that a big crossover event can best be described with the word "madcap...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Small things, looking up ^ Large things, looking down ^ AVENGERS #16 I still don't know if alternating issues in the same storyline drawn by John Romita Jr...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ^ Seven Deadly Finns * Blank Frank % Kurt's Rejoinder ¢ Burning Airlines Give You So Much More * BATMAN: HUSH UNWRAPPED DELUXE EDITION Or, to put it differently, Jim Lee uninked--a black-and-white edition of the Lee-drawn run on Batman, reproduced from his lushly rendered pencils, with let