Tag: John Le Carré: The Circus—Losing Control

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | Batman + Deadpool’s second date

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Dan Mora, Grant Morrison, Jed MacKay, Álvaro López, Robert Kirkman, Mark Englert, Tyler Kirkham, Matt Kindt, Ibrahim Moustafa, Rainbow Rowell, Emma Rios, Garth Stein, Matt Southworth and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week. This week brings DC’s half of their first crossover with Marvel in decades, as Grant Morrison and Dan Mora (and a whole lot more) give us their take on Batman meeting Deadpool.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.

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SDCC | Matt Kindt + Ibrahim Moustafa bring John Le Carré’s Circus to comics

The three-issue miniseries begins in November.

Writer Matt Kindt and artist Ibrahim Moustafa will team up to bring the world from John le Carré’s novels into comics. The three-issue John Le Carré: The Circus—Losing Control will begin in November.

Le Carré is the author of many best-selling espionage novels, including The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, which have been adapted to film. Several of his books are connected and feature a British intelligence agency nicknamed the Circus, which is overseen by a man known only as “Control.” His right hand is a man named Smiley, and his left hand, as seen in the comic, is his executive assistant, Maggie. When Control goes missing, it’s up to Maggie to find him — while keeping the world on track.

“Getting asked to contribute a piece to John le Carré’s world of Smiley has been one of the greatest honors and responsibilities of my life,” said Kindt. “I wasn’t looking for this job but I was called into service. And much like Smiley, my heart is in the right place and hopefully that will be enough.”

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