Month: April 2007

Meaningless Awards of the Week- 4/25/07

Artist of the Week- Alex Ross, Justice #11, covers to Justice Society of America #5 and Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #3 Y’know, three great covers in any given week would probably be enough to give this award to Alex Ross, but he had to go one better and paint an entire issue…



New X-Men: Childhood’s End Volume 1

By Craig Kyle, Chris Yost (W), and Mark Brooks (A) Published by Marvel Comics. Cover price $10.99. Originally printed as New X-Men 20-23. The Plot: The student body of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning deals with the immediate impact of M-Day. The Positives: New X-Men felt the effects of Scarlet Witch declaring “no more…



Superman: Red Son

By Mark Millar (W) and Dave Johnson (A). Cover price $17.99. Published by DC Comics, 2003. Originally printed as Superman: Red Son #1-3. Plot: In as little words as possible, this book raises the question, “What if Superman’s rocket crash landed in the Soviet Union instead of the United States?” There is, however, quite a…



Book of Doom: Fallen Son #2: New Avengers

It’s the Legion of Doom’s weekly roundtable review – The Book of Doom – and this week, for the first in what will hopefully be a regular feature of the Book of Doom, we’ve got a special guest – Matt from Another Damn Comic Blog. This week’s selection is the second in the “Fallen Son:…



Q&A with Brian Phillipson (God the Dyslexic doG)

Alert readers will recall that some time back we brought you a review of the collected series God the Dyslexic doG, which was written by the father-son team of Philip and Brian Phillipson and illustrated by indie comics mainstay Alex Nino. It’s a sort of psychotropic adventure through history, mythology and psychology, heading full barrel…



Signs of ASSBAR

The perpetually delayed state of All Star Batman and Robin is sort of a mixed bag. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that no matter what, there’s absolutely no chance I’ll read any more of Frank Miller’s spiteful tromp through Batman’s yesteryears. On the other hand, it’s fun to have any excuse to…



Worst to First: 4/25/07

How best to describe this week in comics? Well, paltry fits pretty well. I read a handful of books and a few lucky fellas were buy worthy. Also, for some reason my shop didn’t have Crossing Midnight or Shazam, which certainly would’ve helped things out. So, here’s my very brief and more-than-mildly-disappointed recap of the…



Week Fifty-One

The secret of 52 is that the multiverse still exists. How much cooler would this week’s issue be if Dan Didio hadn’t let that little bit of information spill out all those months ago? 52 worlds. 52 Morrows. Apparently, a year ago, when Alexander Luthor’s hands were tearing open space and time, way out near…



An early Spider-Man 3 review…

The biggest comic book movie of the summer is only a week and change away. Spider-Man 3, which may be the last team-up of Sam Raimi and the core cast from the first two films, will be out soon, but Nick Nunziata at Chud.com provides a SPOILER-FREE look at the flick. Some highlights: I was…



The Doomino Effect for the week of Apr 18, 2007

Hello, my sexy dalmatian feminine Cable sidekicks, and welcome to this week’s Doomino Effect. This week’s line-up will be free of any thoughts on World War III, because that’s what our Saturday roundtable was for. So let’s get started on the rest of the week that was…last week. First up is Mighty Avengers #2. I…