I’m not quite sure yet what to make of Final Crisis #1. It wasn’t another mind-numbing crapfest like I’ve come to expect from Grant Morrison, which means I’m not rejecting the rest of the story off-hand (like I did with All-Star Superman and Batman RIP). Then again, it didn’t really do anything to make me…
That’s where my chips are, ladies and gentlemen….
It looks like Countdown’s sales crept up there at the end. Based on that curve and the close to 52, I can only assume that the final issue will continue that trend. Best guess? Maybe Countdown’s closing upswing is more consistent than 52’s because Countdown was leading to Final Crisis — not that Grant Morrison…
Continuing the system of letting the Avengers books fill in the blanks of the main title, New Avengers #41 is set alongside the Savage Land battle seen in Secret Invasion #2. Spider-Man gets tossed by a T-Rex into the jungle, where he encounters Ka-Zar, Shanna and some other of those Tarzanesque people, most notably including…
Mighty Avengers #14 continues the pattern of using the Avengers books to fill in details alongside the core Secret Invasion issues. This story starts out in the past, with The Sentry single-handedly stopping an invading Skrull ship. He attempts to confront them before they destroy their ship. The explosion knocks him out, after which he…
I have mixed feelings about this issue. I read it twice. The first time I read it, I thought it was awful. The second time I read it, I still thought it was awful, but I tried to think about why I thought it was awful, and in doing so, I found myself faulting the…
I’ve never really been a fan of Grant Morrison. Despite his status as an A-list creator, I can’t think of a single project of his outside of New X-Men that I’ve really enjoyed. Morrison’s Batman is particularly bad. Well, at least his first arc was, because that’s as long as I could stand to read…
I wrote the following blog several months ago when thinking about the pairing of Final Crisis with Grant Morrison. I decided to shelve it, thinking I was maybe being too harsh. After reading part 1 of Batman R.I.P. today and flipping through the Final Crisis Sketchbook, I decided to revive it. Both of these big…
Continuing Doomkopf.com’s transformation into an exclusively-Iron Man comics blog, here are some entertaining little bits on an alleged Easter Egg. FIRSTSHOWING.NET: Is that Captain America’s shield in the background of the Iron Man movie? I have confirmed myself, along with our comic book expert Roman Chavez, in person that Captain America’s shield is actually in…
Two Secret Invasion books came out this week — Secret Invasion #2 and Mighty Avengers #13. Secret Invasion #2 starts off in the Savage Land with the superheroes from the Skrull ship facing off against the combined New and Mighty Avengers. Both sides accuse the others of being Skrulls. Ares warns his teammates that it’s…