Smurfs

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Marcelo Braga plants familiar characters in slightly offbeat situations. Liara T'Soni plays Mass Effect while seated on the Iron Throne. A middle-aged Charlie Brown can't let go of Snoopy. The Hulk hits Batman with an Avengers cream pie and zombie Oompa Loompas walk the Earth...

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...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ´ Accent aigu ` Accent grave ˜ Tilde ¨ Umlaut ´ THE ADVENTURES OF HERGÉ Jose-Louis Bocquet, Jean-Luc Fromental and Stanislas Barthelemy's biography of the Tintin creator is executed in something like Hergé's own style, which is a clever idea. It's worth noting that some versio...

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY * Foxy @ Batty % Tubby ¢ Spandexy ^ Politics-y (p.s. if you are in the U.S. and eligible to vote please go do so before you read further) * ¢ ABSOLUTE ALL STAR SUPERMAN Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's stab at telling the greatest Superman story ever g

Just when you thought "Fraggle Rock" was going to be the last childhood property of the '80s to get a comic book revamp comes the announcement that the original Smurf comics are going to be reprinted in America for the first time in years. Most American readers are probably more familiar with the cartoon version of the Smurfs, a merchandising juggernaut that saw everything from plastic f

-- You've never seen Care Bears and Smurfs like this before -- a hilarious cartoon mashup of all your childhood favorites in some serious roles. -- Artist Chris Giarrusso's got way more than "Mini Marvels" under his belt -- check out these classic comic book cover tributes in his Facebook gallery...