Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: ^ Bagman * Wingman % Swagman * BATMAN INCORPORATED #1 I believe Grant Morrison described his initial plan for the second year of this international-minded Batman-and-his-team book as being "a roller coaster ride through hell." The relaunch is arriving a little late to the ...

The instrumental album DROKK: Music Inspired By Mega-City One came out last week. The work of Geoff Barrow (best known as a core member of Portishead) and the film composer Ben Salisbury, it's a tribute to the synthesizer-based movie soundtracks of the Blade Runner era, as well as to the setting of Judge Dredd, the cult-favorite future-cop serial that's been running weekly in the British ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Dystopian futures ^ Dystopian presents % Dystopian pasts * 100 MONTHS This sounds amazing. John Hicklenton was one of the most over-the-top artists in the history of British comics--he drew incredibly grotesque, powerful stuff, including two books of Nemesis the Warlock, ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Remarkable writer/artists who started still-unfinished projects in the '90s ^ Five % At least some character-creator involvement ¢ At least some creator ownership Comics adjectives are the best % ¢ SPACE DUCKS: AN INFINITE COMIC BOOK OF MUSICAL GREATNESS Anyone ...

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 ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Seabound ^ Landlocked % Airborne * POPEYE #1 I can't think of a more appropriate writer than Roger Langridge to take on the newest (miniseries) comic book incarnation of E.C. Segar's sailor man, and Bruce Ozella's artwork for this issue is very much in the Segarian mode. ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Arms and armor ^ Crusty Bunkers % The world before us * % 3 STORY: SECRET FILES OF THE GIANT MAN This is the ramp-up for the Era of Matt Kindt Doing a Whole Lot: a saddle-stitched collection of three brief sequels (which originally appeared online) to his 2009 graphic novel ...

Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY: * Continuity implants ^ Stars and/or garters % What lies beneath ^ % UNTERZAKHN The wonderful Leela Corman's long-in-the-works graphic novel, which was appropriately enough serialized in the Forward, concerns two sisters growing up in the Jewish community on the Lower East ...

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. That is one king hell of a Marcos Martin cover, ...

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 love the way this series keeps finding new ways ...