Month: October 2008

Drawing with water

This is a short but fascinating look at how Emmanuel Guibert created the art for Alan’s War from First Second. First Second released the excellent Prince of Persia graphic novel this summer. We’ve also got an overdue review of their Slow Storm book by Danica Novgorodoff on the way. h/t: The Daily Dish



Trinity #22

In the lead: Alfred the super-spy is on a freighter headed for America. He remembers his meeting with Tarot and the scroll case he gave her… In the back-up: …which belonged to Prince Khufu, one of the past lives of Hawkman. Back in issue #16, after Hawkman helped Gangbuster rescue Tarot, he went back to…



The Doomino Effect for Oct 22, 2008

I have 12 books in my stack this week. No lie. First up is Final Crisis #4, which is definitely my favorite issue of the series so far. This, of course, is relative to how awful I thought the first three issues were. Back in college, I took a beginning screen writing class from a…



Book of Doom:
Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch

This week’s Book of Doom is Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch — the first Hellboy comic drawn by Mike Mignola since 2005. On the heels of the second Hellboy feature film, legendary artist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola returns to the drawing table for this standalone adventure of the world’s greatest paranormal detective! Hellboy…



Coverage of Omaha zombie walk

The Omaha World-Herald covered Sunday’s zombie walk. The fundraiser was held in conjunction with World Zombie Day. For the past 15 years, horror movie fans have gathered on Oct. 26 to celebrate zombies and help charities. Omaha was one of 57 cities to participate this year. “We’re having a great time, but we weren’t counting…



Meaningless Awards of the Week- 10/22/08

Most Pointless- Birds of Prey #123 A few weeks ago, I said that the ending to Birds of Prey #122 was the Best Ending of the week. It ended with The Joker entering BoP HQ with Barbara Gordon all by herself. Well this issue started with the cops showing up and scaring The Joker away,…



Book of Doom:
Superman: New Krypton Special

Geoff Johns. Do we have a hard-on for that guy or what? This marks the fifth consecutive Book of Doom written by him. But I assure you that this is mere coincidence. There’s even two other writers on the book this week. We just can’t help it if Johns is a kickass writer and makes…



Local news – Oct 25, 2008

• Big thanks to the good folks at Krypton Comics for being awesome 24 Hour Comics Day hosts. They fed us sandwiches, pizza and donuts and provided us with free drinks for the whole 24 hours. We met some cool people and had a great time. • The Lincoln Journal Star covered Lincoln’s 24HCD event…



The 24 Hour Comics Day Roundup

As promised last week, here’s a roundup of all the 24 Hour Comics I could find. First off, from Doomkopf.com — we’ve been posting our 24 Hour Comics throughout the week, but here they are in one spot: • “Portals of Doom” by Fin Fang Doom • “Space Dinosaurs from the Future” by Doom DeLuise…



The Drop List- 10/22/08

I read too many damn comics. This fact was made all the more apparent two weeks ago when I got laid off from my part-time job (otherwise known as the job that lets me buy comics). While I couldn’t convince myself to drop any of my usual stuff last week, this week I was able…