Doom DeLuise, Fin Fang Doom and I will be participating in an unofficial 12 Hour Comics event today in Lincoln. We’ll do our best to attempt some live blogging as we sort of did during 24 Hour Comics back in October. But with the time crunch amplified, that leaves less time to draw and thus…
Jim Doom says: Hal and Carol, Green Lantern #34 Hal Jordan’s anger had been getting the best of him, and Sinestro lectured him about letting that anger get in the way of doing his job. “You need to grow up, deal with it and get on with your life,” Sinestro tells him. So Hal decides…
Jim Doom says: The Wasp is dead, Ultimatum #2 There were two striking contrasts in how Marvel chose to treat the death of Janet Van Dyne. In the regular universe, it involved a world of heroes mourning and several issues devoted to reflection. In the Ultimate Universe, it involved the Blob chewing on dead Janet’s…
Fin Fang Doom says: The Walking Dead! No title embodied change the way The Walking Dead did in 2008. In the first few months, writer Robert Kirkman killed the majority of the cast and kicked the survivors out of the prison they’d called home for 36 issues. The he switched things up to be about…
Doom DeLuise says: The Flash! I’m not sure if this series has been any good in the past couple years, at all, but this year it was so bad that I actually dropped it. This coming from a guy who’s such a huge Flash fan that he even stuck with it through Bart’s awful run,…
Fin Fang Doom says: Secret Six! Both Birds of Prey and Gail Simone have suffered in quality since the two parted ways a while ago. Tony Bedard’s BoP is mercifully being put down in a few months, and Simone hasn’t been able to do anything to hold my interest (and I gave Wonder Woman plenty…
Matthew Yglesias at Thinkprogress.org argues Marvel needs to pay Samuel L. Jackson whatever he wants to play Nick Fury in the Avengers movie. Apparently Marvel’s plans don’t necessarily include Jackson.
Have you been keeping up with New Krypton? All of us here at Doomkopf were in agreement that it’s the Best Crossover of 2008. This week’s new issue of Action Comics marks the conclusion of the event, so we’ve decided to review it for this week’s Book of Doom round-table discussion (coming up on Saturday)….
Jim Doom says: X-Force! It’s hard to be too informed in a judgment of a bad series. Typically, when something is terrible, I just stop buying it. The launch of X-Force was just part of the shallow stupidity that concluded Messiah CompleX. In my review of issue #1, I said “My big problem with X-Force…
With all the holidays and weird shipping schedules, the Doomino Effect has taken some time to adjust, but now it is back with two weeks worth of comics. Starting off is Batman #684, which is the second part of “Last Days of Gotham” by Denny O’Neil. I have to say, I sure could’ve done without…