A-ha! There are comics out today. I have solved the mystery of the "what comes out today". ACTION COMICS #859 The first issue of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank's ACTION COMICS was awesome, so here's hoping they can keep it up. Word is John's run continues to kick the ass. Witness the Legion of Superheroes! They are only in 17 comics this month. GOON CHINATOWN HC Eric Powell, creator of THE GOON, ...

Welcome to this week's Explosion. The End of the Week Explosion is like a regular blog about weekly events, but in career co-op mode. Or maybe it's like a boss battle with Seacord, but instead of guitars, you huff glue. And the only songs you can play are "Nightman" or "Rock, Flag and Eagle". Who would want to play anything else anyway? Unless you live in give up America. Q: Dude, ROCK BAND is ...

There are a ridiculous number of awesome comics coming out this week. I have to go read them now. Here is a list of one percent of them. LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN THE BLACK DOSSIER HC Not quite Volume Three (which will be coming out from our friends over at Top Shelf in 2009) THE BLACK DOSSIER is something of a LOEG 2.5. It's full of maps, text, 3-D stuff and (thankfully) some comics, too. ...

I just realized that if I put exclamation points after everything, my weekly New Releases column will have all of the excitement of a Jack Kirby comic! See what I mean! This is great! Now...behold! What lurks beneath the opening paragraph?! A list peppered with pictures of unequaled proportions! It's.....THE LIST!!! HEROES HC A big hardcover collection of the online HEROES comic. The main reason ...

Welcome to the 'splosion! We've been gone a couple of weeks due to an "unfortunate incident" involving Seacord and a man we will call BRC. Seacord spent a week in county jail and a week in downtown lock-up. This week's explosion was also supposed to take place at a local Hardee's. Unfortunately, we hit a road bump involving the fact that I have no idea where there is a local Hardee's. So Seacord, ...

Yep. You read that headline correctly. According to the E! Online column WATCH WITH KRISTIN there is a new Joss Whedon television series in the works over at Fox. It's called DOLLHOUSE and it stars former BUFFY star Eliza Dushku (Faith!) as a high-paid fantasy-fulfilling blank slate. If it sounds weird to you, it's mostly because it's definitely weird-like. Here's what Whedon had to say: "The idea ...

Finally! The one day of the year where I can dress up as Batroc the Leaper and no one will make fun of me! What could be better on Halloween than an awesome week of comics? How about an extra-awesome week of comics?! JUSTICE SOCIETY OF AMERICA #10 I'm not quite sure where they're going with this "Thy Kingdom Come" storyline, but the integration of Kingdom Come Superman into the regular DC ...

Looks like a light week for comics fans this week. That's cool. I know we all need to save money for our Transformers Halloween costumes that actually transform. There's still a bunch of noteworthy stuff coming out this week, though. SPIRIT VOL 1 HC Consistently one of the most fun comics being published right now, Darwyn Cooke's take on Will Eisner's SPIRIT is finally out in a collection. Cooke ...

I'm going to assume that we all know that new comics come out today and move directly to another, more important topic. I'm speaking, of course, about zombie variant covers. How many more Marvel comics have to be turned into zombie versions of themselves to serve our sick fascination with the living dead? My guess is somewhere around 400 or so. Or until Arthur Suydam's arm falls off. MARVEL ...

One of the things I've always loved about SPX is the Ignatz Outstanding Debut Award. It guarantees that you'll always be able to find something new at the show. This year there were 28 (!) nominees for Outstanding Debut. I wasn't able to read all of them, but here's a look at a few books that piqued my interest. DAYBREAK VOL 2 I talked with DAYBREAK creator Brian Ralph for a few minutes at SPX ...