Month: June 2008

The ISB: “The Untold, Retold, Ignored, and then Retconned Legend of the Batman”

Chris Sims at The ISB has a post on The Untold Legend of the Batman, a miniseries in which someone who knew all of Batman’s deepest, darkest secrets had set out to destroy him. I had a small black and white copy of this book, which I think I got from a grade school book…



Newsarama interview with Grant Morrison re: Final Crisis #1

Grant Morrison is out doing damage control for that underwhelming kickoff to Final Crisis in an interview with Newsarama. The most striking thing to me was Morrison’s apparent irritation that some readers have dared to notice countless glaring inconsistencies between Final Crisis and the full calendar year of $2.99-and-over marketing that led up to it….



Reviewing My Roommate’s Crappy Comics

As you can probably tell by my lack of posting on here lately, I haven’t had much to say about comic books. After Countdown to Final Crisis, which I dutifully reviewed all 51 issues of (more or less), I guess you could say I needed a little bit of a break. It seemed like a…



Book of Doom: Trinity #1

When I first heard about Trinity, I asked Doom DeLuise if he’d be willing to let me take over reviews of DC’s weekly series. “Feel free to do the weekly reviews,” he said. “Just promise you’ll be objectively analyzing them instead of leaning toward blowing a fanboy spooge all over the blog. That’s a gross…



This week in Secret Invasion:
Secret Invasion #3

Secret Invasion #3 came out this week, with the much talked-about cover with Spider-Woman about to kiss Iron Man. The cover took on new meaning with the release of New Avengers #40, which revealed that Spider-Woman is a Skrull. The issue opens with the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier floating in the ocean, and Commander Hill aptly noting…



Trinity #1

Fear not, faithful readers: Doomkopf.com will indeed be providing you all with weekly Wednesday reviews of the newest DC weekly series, Trinity. But as a way to kick it all off, most of the crew here will be reviewing the first issue as this week’s Book of Doom. Trinity seems like it’s off to a…



Astonishing X-Men = Surprisingly mediocre

I just read Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men #1 last night. The guy at the comic shop and I bitched about it being forever delayed, and how we already knew that a certain someone was going to bite it. Well, maybe they didn’t “bite it” per se, but they’re floating around in Limbo, or at least…