Fin Fang Doom says: Build-Up to The Blackest Night! When Sinestro Corps War ended last year, I expected a little bit of a break before we jumped right into the buildup for the next big crossover, Blackest Night. But buildup is pretty much all that happened in the Green Lantern titles in 2008. Green Lantern…
Jim Doom says: Legion of Super-Heroes! I used to love this series. I hear it’s getting canceled. Maybe the superstar writer fondness for the original Legion has led to the current version getting less attention than they deserve from DC, but it’s not as if the title was some kind of hot property when Mark…
Doom DeLuise says: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning! Whether it was pitting Nova against The World Eater Galactus and his Herald, The Silver Surfer, or establishing the new Guardians of the Galaxy, these two guys have done for Marvel’s Cosmic Universe what nobody seems to be capable of doing with Marvel’s heroes on Earth: They’ve…
Jim Doom says: Ultimate Jeph Loeb! The Ultimate Universe’s reimagining of Jeph Loeb continues to baffle me. I recently reread some of Loeb’s Batman comics, and that stuff was really good! The difference between his DC work and his Marvel work can probably only be explained by comparing it to how DC’s Captain Marvel is…
Doom DeLuise says: Sean Phillips! For the second year in a row, this is my choice for Best Artist of the Year. There’s no better artist I can think of than the man behind Criminal, and, more recently, the Ed Brubaker penned Incognito. Just take a look at the cover to this year’s Criminal Volume…
Fin Fang Doom says: Larry Stroman! I don’t think I’ve ever got to the point that I hated looking at a comic so much that I didn’t want to buy it anymore, but that was the case when Stroman took over the art duties on X-Factor earlier this year. The writing had been slipping for…
It’s that time of year again, where every website and blog on the Internet starts throwing out their year-end Best Of lists. Of course, not to be outdone, we here at Doomkopf.com are going to be spending the next couple weeks rolling out our very own lists of what we thought was the best and…
In the lead: Dr. Polaris, Professor Zoom and Lady Shiva are sent by Morgaine Le Fey to London to close a dimensional rift and steal its energy. Power Girl, Ragman and Triumph (not the Insult Comic Dog) arrive to try and stop them while Green Arrow, Tomorrow Woman and the Flash close a rift in…
This started as a comment, but has segued into it’s own list based on Doom DeLuise’s. Before X-Men, most comic book movies were laughable at best, cripplingly bad at worst. Del does a good summation of the familiar garbage. There is no defending The Hockey Team from Hell in “Batman and Robin.” And though the…
Last month, I wrote a blog that took a look at Newsarama’s list of the Top 10 Comic Book-Based Movies of All Time, and, after watching The Spirit last night, it got me to thinking about how many truly dreadful comic book movies have come out over the years. So, in the interest of fairness,…