Snarked

Fresh from three Harvey Award nominations and an Eisner win for "Best Publication For Kids," Roger Langridge's Snarked! will conclude with issue #12 next Wednesday, September 19. Langridge's original series has been celebrated for remixing elements of the works of Lewis Carroll (chief among them, of course, his poem " The Hunting of the Snark") into a narrative fit for readers

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

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

Chris Roberson, you're not alone. During a recent interview, Roger Langridge announced that, like the Memorial, iZombie and former Superman writer, he will no longer work for Marvel or DC Comics due to concerns over creator rights at the Big Two...

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

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: % Run the mission ^ Don't get seen * See ¢ Swim away from the Mission ^ DAREDEVIL #10 Paolo Rivera draws the fantastic quasi-Dore cover, as well as the Mark Waid-written story inside, which wraps up the Mole Man sequence. I l...

With Emerald City Comicon 2012 just about a month away, Boom! Studios has announced six comics sporting exclusive new covers featuring a host of artistic talent. Set to debut March 30-31 at the show are covers for Adventure Time #1 by Chris Samnee, Peanuts #1 by Matt Whitlock, Hellraiser #10 by Lukas Ketner, Fanboys Vs... Read More ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Set time machine for sometime around the Kennedy assassination ^ Set time machine for sometime around Elvis's first appearance on Ed Sullivan ¢ Set time machine for sometime around the collapse of the USSR £ Set time machine for sometime around the end of the Civil War % Just give the ti

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: * True Brits ^ The beating of wings % Body displacement * ^ % ABSOLUTE SANDMAN VOL. 5 Did you imagine that the previous Absolute volumes reprinting the Sandman series and the Death miniseries exhausted Vertigo's ability to repurpose Neil Gaiman's fantasy work...