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Q: In light of your recent discussion of Copra, what's the best comic riffing on another comic? -- @davidwynne A: Listen, Dave, if we're honest with each other here, the answer is definitely Batman. He might not have been riffing on a comic, but it's hard to get around the fact that those earliest adventures were just Bill Finger and Bob Kane filing the serial numbers off the Shadow and putting him into a slightly more ridiculous outfit. I mean, the guy even has an autogyro, and if that's not a dead giveaway, I don't knoW what is. But at the same time, Batman only really gets good once he evolves into his own thing. If you're talking about comics that were created with the clear intention of riffing on something else and staying that way for the duration (and I say this knowing there's a whole lot of good riffing in Jack Staff), there's really only one answer: It has to be Supreme.

Supreme, the Extreme Studios/Image Comics/Awesome Comics character created by Rob Liefeld and for whom Alan Moore wrote a highly regarded run in the mid-1990s, is coming back, though it's a little hard to say whether the character will look all that familiar to fans. Image Comics released a rather cryptic press release for Supreme: Blue Rose, a new series by Warren Ellis and Tula Lotay, in which

On sale now from Image Comics is Supreme #63, which after a 15-year wait finally concludes Alan Moore's hugely acclaimed work with Rob Liefeld's Superman analog. Also the writer of such books as Watchmen and From Hell, Moore's final Supreme script sat on the proverbial shelf since the last issue went on sale in 1998, and will be drawn by Savage Dragon creator and Image co-founder Erik Larsen with

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * The Paul Masson principle ^ Somebody's read some Moorcock % Supertasters ¢ Claret and/or carrots % DAREDEVIL #10.1 Mark Waid and Khoi Pham are the creators behind this "no, really, you can start reading it now" issue. Tha...