Required reading from the week in books.

"Rules for My Unborn Son," a collection of fatherly advice that every son should have, is kind of like a book version of that movie from the '90s where Michael Keaton tapes himself giving advice to his son before he dies. We remember seeing that movie and being annoyed that he wasn't playing Batman.

Also in stores:
-- "The Book of Genesis Illustrated" is comix legend Robert Crumb's take on the first book of the Bible. Yes, that Robert Crumb. The one who drew the dirty cat comics.
-- "Johnny Cash: I See a Darkness" is the first illustrated biography of the "Man in Black." Finally, our dreams of a "Batman vs. Johnny Cash" comic are coming to fruition.
-- "Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip" details one man's search for the J.D Salinger of comic strip artists. Seriously, has anyone heard from Watterson lately?