NEW GRAPHIC NOVELS THIS WEEK

The Amazing Spiderman: Secret Origins by Stan Lee and Paul Jenkins
Just in time for the upcoming cinematic blockbuster "The Amazing Spider-Man" comes this volume spotlighting the Web-Head's colorful cast of characters, and introducing the film's principal players! Swing along with Spidey as he gains new and frightening powers, tangles with the likes of the Lizard, Electro, and Captain George Stacey - not to mention perennial thorn-in-the-side Flash Thompson - and honors the memory of his beloved Uncle Ben!
COLLECTING: Amazing Fantasy (1962) 15; Amazing Spider -Man (1963) 6, 8 (A story ), 82, 90; Spectacular Spider -Man (2003) 27

Scalped: Knuckle Up by Jason Aaron and R.M. Geura Fifteen years ago, Dashiell "Dash" Bad Horse ran away from a life of poverty and hopelessness on the Prairie Rose Indian Reservationin search of something better. Now he's come back home armed with nothing but a set of nunchucks, a hell-bent-for leather attitude and one dark secret, to find nothing much has changed on "The Rez" -- short of a glimmering new casino run by a corrupt leader named Red Crow, and a once-proud people overcome by drugs and organized crime.
In this volume, war breaks out on the reservation as Red Crow loses his grip on the reins and Dash Bad Horse faces his toughest and fiercest foe yet.

Transmetropolitan: Lonely City by Warren Ellis Written by Warren Ellis Art by Darick Robertson and Rodney Ramos Cover by Jim Lee Continuing the acclaimed tale of the day-to-day trials and tribulations of Spider Jerusalem, this new printing of volume five, collecting issues #25-30, has the no-holds-barred investigative reporter delving into the city's police corruption. Advance-solicited; on sale December 2 o 144 pg, FC, $14.99 US MATURE READERS

Blue by Pat Grant Blue is the debut graphic novel of Australian cartoonist Pat Grant. Part autobiography, part science fiction, Blue is the story of three spotty teenagers who skip school to go surfing, only to end up investigating rumors of a dead body in their beach town.

Snarked by Roger Langridge
A fresh and epically funny spin on a classic from fan-favorite Roger Langridge.
You were amazed by his Harvey Award-winning run on THE MUPPET SHOW. You thrilled to his run on THOR: THE MIGHTY AVENGER. Now the next great Roger Langridge graphic novel series begins as he brings Lewis Carroll's imaginative world to new heights in a side-splitting adventure that can only be explained as...SNARKED! Presenting a fresh and incredibly modern "Langridge" spin on an already-warped classic, SNARKED starts here in an epic adventure featuring the Red Queen’s children, Princess Scarlett and her baby brother Rusty, as they set out in search of the missing Red King. And who better to help guide the way than the Walrus and the Carpenter from THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. That's right, the same Walrus that inspired the Beatles song "I Am the Walrus" is now in Roger Langridge's merry, mad hands for new all ages adventures at KABOOM!