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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: * Hairstyles ^ Encores % Teeth * ALAN MOORE: CONVERSATIONS Ten interviews, conducted by various people between 1981 and 2009, edited by Eric Berlatsky...

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: * Flashbacks ^ Dissolves % Fades ¢ Cuts ^ % ¢ AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #667 Dan Slott and Humberto Ramos start "Spider-Island" in earnest, after months of leadup. I'm kind...

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

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Blondes ^ Redheads % Dads * 15 LOVE #1 Andi Watson and Tommy Ohtsuka's tennis-romance (!) miniseries starring an updated (and down-aged: she's 15 years old here) Millie the Model, which was apparently written and drawn back in 2003, finally sees the light of day as three double-length i

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Eyepatches ^ Capes % Spats % AGONIZING LOVE: THE GOLDEN AGE OF ROMANCE COMICS Look, you're not going to find a bigger fan of vintage romance comics than me--I have a standing rule that I'll buy any romance comic book that's $2 or less and doesn't actually smell like cat pee...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Changing times @ Changing clothes ^ Changing bodies * ^ CASANOVA: GULA #4 The lead feature is a reprint of Casanova #14, the final issue of the original series, in which an exceptionally clever bit of plotting comes to fruition; that's followed by a new story by Matt Fraction and Gabriel

In a special collaboration with the New York City Fire Department, Marvel Comics debuted this week a New Avengers comic book especially designed to teach fire safety to children. The 12-page book was unveiled by Fire Commissioner Salvatore J...