As you’ve seen here, our Book of Doom this week is something that everybody’s got to be excited about, the first issue of Jeff Smith’s take on Shazam. Being the glory hog that I am, I can’t help but trot out an early look since the folks at DC were so nice as to send…
A while ago, Jim Doom made a post about his love of Mike Allred. A little later, he followed it up with a list of creators whose work he will buy no matter what. While I don’t have the appreciation of Mike Allred that Jim does, I do have my own list of creators that…
Another solid week in the world of 52. Other than Montoya not fighting a dragon, as the cover teases, the issue didn’t disappoint. And other than Lex Luthor getting his powers, as the cover gives away, the issue had some nice twists. It’s getting to the point where there are so few issues left that…
Dropped Book of the Week- Blue Beetle When I got done reading Blue Beetle #11 this week, I thought to myself “Why am I still reading this?” I didn’t realize until I looked at the cover that Keith Giffen isn’t co-writing the book. Cully Hammer, whose art I really enjoyed, isn’t on the book anymore…
With regular comics ranging from $3 to $5 or more nowadays, anyone wanting a little wallet relief has a new option. This golden age comics site is offering downloads of free books from the era. How freaking cool is that? Publishers include: Ace Comics, Avon Comics, Centaur Publishing, Comics House Publications, Fawcett Comics, Fiction House,…
Not much new or interesting came out this week, so we fell back on ol’ reliable Ed Brubaker and his latest installment of Daredevil. As I mentioned previously, we’ve seen Matt Murdock pretty well run through the ringer over the past years (much of that during the extremely good Bendis era). On the surface, this…
We’ve made it most of the way through 52, with World War Three now looming. Plenty of plot points have been wrapped up, but lots more questions remain unanswered (one Question, though, is dead). One of the biggest questions is who is Skeets. As we saw in week 37, he isn’t Skeets. At least, that’s…
We get three big surprises in this week’s issue, but the problem is that all of the surprises leave you with the thought of, “Oh, cool, now what comes next?” In other words, it’s another week of groundwork laying. I’m all for that, I suppose, since we all know that the pay-off is coming real…
We’ve officially reached the conclusion of the 2006 Year in Doom, and it only took a month and a day to do it. While we previously pooped on those publishers who didn’t meet our expectations last year, we now conclude our festivities by handing out little shiny star-shaped stickers to the publishers who delivered the…
A decent week, despite relatively few books coming out. Of six books, DC took three, Marvel two and Archaia Studios Press took one. As per usual, there are a couple mixed in that I simply missed during previous weeks. So, in case you were wondering, I’m still dumb. Of note: most of what I picked…