Next up in our look into the comics from around the globe is the latest import by Nicolas Mahler, an Austrian cartoonist. Top Shelf, another of the best publishers in bringing foreign works to the U.S., put out Mahler’s slim book Lone Racer, a silly little racing romp. Very similar to another of Top Shelf’s…
By Judd Winick (W), Doud Mahnke and Paul Lee (A) Published by DC Comics. Cover price $9.99. Originally printed as Batman 635-641. The Plot: A new Red Hood, who has ties to the Dark Knight’s past, appears in Gotham City and runs afoul of both Batman and the Black Mask. The Positives: Since Batman became…
Avenge us, indeed. After last week’s fight with the Four Horsemen, Black Adam sets out on the warpath, hunting for the Horseman of Death, who has found refuge in Bialya. He’s angry, he’s pumped, and he’s got murder on the brain. We’ll get to all this. This week opens at the funeral for the recently…
Hell-o, everyone! Since Jean-Claude Van Doom didn’t buy enough comics this week to flesh out his regular Worst to First column, and since I neglected to bring you the Doomino Effect for last week (I still haven’t been able to bring myself to read everything I bought last Wednesday), let’s fill that void and bump…
They say you don’t know what you have until to you lose it. But in this case, I don’t think I knew what I had until I had it again. I didn’t have a lot of friends in high school. Not that I was ever unhappy in high school (well, not any unhappier than every…
I bought one book this week, that being 52. I haven’t read it yet. I don’t know if I’ll get around to it. I flipped through some other stuff, but man, what a terrible week this was in comics. The good news, though, is that it means more time I can spend reading over a…
As mentioned recently, we at the LOD are going to be focusing more in the coming weeks on some foreign comics work, and I wanted to kick things off in style, with one of the most impressive books I’ve read so far this year. And that is Garage Band, the strange rumination on adolescence and…
Welcome part 2 of our discussion on 300, the movie adaptation of the Frank Miller / Lynn Varley graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae. Be sure to read part 1 before continuing. JIM DOOM: Okay, so let’s leave “character development” behind. Is there anything else you guys want to talk about? FIN FANG DOOM:…
I’ve received a ton of books of late and am going to be running a ton of reviews and previews in the coming weeks, and the focus will largely be on books that originated in other countries and have been republished here recently. Some of these books are among the best I’ve read in recent…
Welcome to another installment of Doom and Doomer, in which members of the Legion take a look at comics on the big screen. Tonight it’s Jim Doom, Doom DeLuise and Fin Fang Doom taking on 300, the movie adaptation of the Frank Miller / Lynn Varley graphic novel about the Battle of Thermopylae. JIM DOOM:…