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Apr 09 2009 April 9, 2009 April 10, 2009 3Comments by Colonel Doom

Q&A: Bob Hall

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[caption id="attachment_3397" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption="Armed and Dangerous"]Armed and Dangerous[/caption]Bob Hall started moonlighting drawing and writing comics in the ’70s to subsidize his career in the theater. Between the ’70s and ’90s, he’s drawn and written comics for Marvel, DC, and Valiant Comics, including Spider-Man, The Avengers, Batman, Shadowman, and “Armed and Dangerous,” an original series. His art is currently on exhibit at the Project Room in Lincoln, Nebraska.

How’d you get into comics?

I was in New York wanting to be in theater and realized I needed a marketable skill. I’d always drawn, done posters for the theater department and the student union. Somebody suggested, “why don’t you take a lot at comic books?” This was 1972, it happened to be a particularly great time for comics. There were some brilliant people drawing. I decided I wanted to do it, I worked at it for a couple years trying to learn the craft.


Oct 18 2008 October 18, 2008 October 20, 2008 NoComment by Colonel Doom

Live blogging 24HCBD

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5:23 p.m. 5 Hours in and I have 20 pages scripted and no art. Doom Where’s My Car is on Page 2, and it’s “practically writing itself.” Fin Fang Doom is on page 4. His main character is dead. Doom DeLuise is on Page 2 and has decided to incorporate space dinosaurs from the future….

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Oct 18 2008 October 18, 2008 October 20, 2008 NoComment by Colonel Doom

Live Blogging 24-hour Comic Book Day

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12:06 p.m. It has begun. Omaha: Krypton Comics Lincoln: Hiway Diner So far we’ve got Fin Fang Doom, Doom Where’s My Car, and myself, and a number of locals. Soon we’ll be joined by Jim Doom and (most likely hungover) Doom DeLuise. Check back at DoomKopf.com for updates.


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Apr 18 2007 April 18, 2007 August 5, 2007 1Comment by Colonel Doom

World War III: United We Stand

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Part four picks up with virtually every DC hero–sans the big three, but including Power Girl’s jubblies–standing at the Great Wall of China while Black Adam wails on China’s Great Ten. The divergent plot lines–the resurrection of the Suicide Squad, Martian Manhunter’s soul searching and Black Adams’s rampage, collide with heart-punching results. Green Lantern Alan…

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Aug 08 2006 August 8, 2006 August 16, 2006 NoComment by Colonel Doom

The Power of Prayer (or netflix, wikipedia and you tube)

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So I’ve decided to make the most of my Netflix account by finally adding the most excellent “Batman: the Animated Series” to my queue. And yes, the infinite praises of this show have been sung elsewhere, but I’m sure we’ll post our own thoughts on it in the Hall of Doom someday. Anyway, I’m watching…

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Jun 30 2006 June 30, 2006 July 3, 2006 3Comments by Colonel Doom

The Superman Returns problem

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The opening credits really revealed the true agenda of this movie: Returning the Richard Donner Superman franchise. This was a love note to the first two Supes movies instead of a love note to the characters that inspired those films. On that level, it succeeds, because like those movies, Superman Returns is boring, stilted, awkward,…

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Oct 29 2005 October 29, 2005 October 29, 2005 NoComment by Colonel Doom

The West needs midgets (“Loveless”)

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Spaghetti Westerns and their American counterparts brought much to a genre that was nearing irrelevance by the mid-60s, when Sergio Leone released “A Fistfull of Dollars.” They dispensed with the silly white hat/black hat view of morality for a much more ambiguous, and bloody, take on the most romantically perceived segment of American history, instead…

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