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Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - November 18: Lemons, Rice and Bats

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week, using this helpful key: KEY £ Demagoguery % Peculiarly textured hair ° Snobs get what's coming to them § Protagonist ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Moleskine,  Mark Waid,  America Online,  Trevor Scott,  Bob Dylan

Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - Nov. 11: Batman, Judge Dredd, Muppets, Kanye and Much More Even than Usual

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY † Prosthetic limbs * "But everyone knows that what we call Zombies are actually GHOULS, right? A Zombie is the Haitian ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Robert Crumb,  Fantastic Four,  Joe Kelly,  Saul Steinberg,  Al Hirschfeld

Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - Nov. 4: "Stumptown" and "The Great Ten" Make Their Long-Awaited Debuts

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week, using this helpful key: KEY * Those whom the gods would destroy, they first waylay for a while * STUMPTOWN #1 Greg Rucka ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  Peter Bagge,  Iron Man,  Jessica Alba

Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - Oct. 28: Ambush Bug Skips an Issue, Aragonés Has a Cow, Batwoman Gets an Origin

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY *Ostensible protagonist hasn't shown up for many recent issues % Recommended reading to understand this era of ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: America Online,  Stan Lee,  Millie (musician),  Wolverine,  Neil Gaiman

Don't Ask! Just Buy It!: October 14, 2009 -- Hercules, Odysseus, Absolute Death, Deadpool and "Blind Date"

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week, via this helpful key: KEY % "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport" § "I've aged a year ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  13 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Neil Gaiman,  Thor,  Joe Kelly,  Kyle Baker,  America Online

Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - October 7: Bloom County, Masterpiece Comics, Gotham City, the Modern World and the End of Planetary

Savage Critic and Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY ¶ One Ellis-door closes, another opens £ Penguins % Swords, S.W.O.R.D., guillotines--they're really just stand-ins for ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Warren Ellis,  Reading Football Club,  Iron Man,  America Online,  Garry Trudeau

Douglas Vs. Write About Comics All Day Day 2009, Pt. 3 of it's looking like 3

Under the cut: "Ten Thousand Things to Do" and this year's issue of "Love and Rockets." TEN THOUSAND THINGS TO DO #5: This is Jesse Reklaw's enormously charming diary comic--he's apparently just finished the sixth and final issue, but this was the ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, The Savage Critic(s),  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: SPX

Douglas vs. Write About Comics All Day Day 2009, Pt. 1 of At Least 1

It's 24 Hour Comics Day, and it's also Read Comics All Day Day, and I figured I might join the festivities myself. I'm not going to be reviewing comics here all day--I have some things I need to write for other places--but figured I could mention a ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, The Savage Critic(s),  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: SPX,  Moleskine

Don't Ask! Just Buy It! - Sep. 30: Boilerplate, R. Crumb's 'Genesis,' Green Lantern, Alan Moore's Erotic Freedom

Savage Critic and "Reading Comics" author Douglas Wolk runs down the hottest comics and graphic novels coming out this week. KEY % Not exactly comics. Live with it † We are all of us living in the shadow of Alan Moore and/or J.H. Williams III ¶ " ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, Comic Alliance,  29 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Alan Moore,  SPX,  Brent Anderson,  America Online,  Charles Burns

It really was a kitten, after all: Douglas vs. 9/23

DETECTIVE COMICS #857: The Batwoman serial is my favorite thing happening in superhero comics at the moment, and it keeps getting more luxuriously inventive with each installment. I actually went back and reread all four parts after reading this one, ...

From DOUGLAS WOLK, The Savage Critic(s),  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Lewis Carroll

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