By Grant Morrison (W) and Frank Quitely (A) DC Comics, $19.99 Take a quick stroll around the comics blog-o-sphere. You’ll see plenty of variety, but if there’s a common theme, it’s the Review of the Goofy Old Comic. There are plenty of sites that rely entirely on making fun of the misadventures of Jimmy Olsen…
We’ve got an eventful week here in comicdom, with a couple of new books added to the pull list and a couple that are gettin’ the axe. Yep, it’s chopping time. So, who’s making the jump? Who’s taking a dive? Read on, my good sirs and madams… Seven: Wonder Woman #7 Heh, it’s fitting that…
If you haven’t seen it already, this image has been floating around the Internets for the past day or so. It’s the first look at Iron Man’s grey suit, as it will appear in the upcoming Jon Favreau directed feature film. Well, upcoming in over a year. But it’s coming! I, for one, would like…
By Harvey Pekar (W) and many others (A) Vertigo, $14.99 The Plot: By now, pretty much everyone knows about Harvey Pekar, the straight-talking, slice-of-life-telling, crusty persona of the comics industry. Let’s hope that, at the very least, most everyone has seen the great movie American Splendor. Since that came out a few years back, Pekar…
This is the last stop before World War III, and, after many months of speculation and guessing, we’re finally given an answer as to why the mad scientists of Oolong Island were building the Four Horsemen to begin with. This is a big week, and it’s amazingly fun to read. Let’s hit the recap and…
Some really great comics came out last week. Unfortunately, this is a really busy week for me, so I really don’t have any spare time to write about them. But by next week this will all be old news. So if anyone asks what I did today at work, I wasn’t writing this blog post….
For those of you that didn’t read “Annihilation,” which, I’m guessing, is all of you, let me just fill you in by telling you that it was actually pretty damn good. One of the things that happened in the mini-series was the destruction of the Nova Corps at the hands of Annihilus. All of the…
Hello, you dotty-headed rows, and welcome to this week’s installment of The Doomino Effect. Let’s waste no time and get right to the stack. First off this week is Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #28 in which Supergirl, the Legion and the Wanderers pull the rug out from under the Dominators. I’m going to…
By nature, comics is home to fun-loving writers and artists, some of the strangest and most interesting folks in the entertainment industry. So, it’s saying something when I call Dean Haspiel one of the most unique creators I’ve ever talked to. The guy’s stories always spin archetypes in some bizarre directions and his art is…
By Larry Young (W), Charlie Adlard and Matt Smith (A) Published by AiT / PlanetLar. Cover price $19.99. Originally published as Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon #1-5; Astronauts in Trouble: Cool Ed’s #1; Astronauts in Trouble: Space 1959 #1-3; Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer Astronauts in Trouble is one of those…