Hey there, sports fans. Welcome to the first ever semi-regular (if I remember and am sober-ish) edition of “Gimmickless Comic Reviews.” You see, Jim Doom has his Doomino Effect, and Fin Fang used to do his Meaningless Awards or Random Thoughts, plus we all contribute to the weekly Book of Doom, so I figured I’d…
WARNING: What you are about to read is a semi-positive review of an issue of Countdown. This week, we finally get some explanation of this series. The explanation is nice, but, at the same time, the explanation is kind of a cop-out. We’ll get to that. The bulk of the issue features the Monitor that…
For this week’s Book of Doom, I chose the first issue of the new Foolkiller mini-series. Overall, I liked it a great deal. I have two complaints, though, and they are significant. Let’s get those out of the way first. Number one, I don’t particularly care for “edgy” comic books. The only difference between this…
Months ago, when the first teaser image of the Joker from the new “Dark Knight” movie hit the internet, it hit on the website www.whysoserious.com. The site then basically shut down for several months, until just recently, when the static black background was replaced with an image of a freshly carved jack-o-lantern. The eyes look…
I know that a lot of you are thinking the same thing: Foolkiller? Seriously? Yes, seriously. Foolkiller had a prior mini-series that ran in the early 1990’s, and I recently became a big fan after picking up all eight issues for a buck or so on Free Comic Book Day last year. The gist is…
Holy heel-turn, Batman! I mean, Great Caesar’s Ghost, are you telling me something interesting and unexpected actually happened within the pages of Countdown? Are you telling me that a character did something really cool and totally…oh, wait, no, they spoiled it on the front cover, and the entire incident was out of character and completely…
To the untrained eye, it would seem as if I haven’t been keeping up with Countdown lately, either through lack of interest or laziness. But, to the eye that has brains, it would be obvious that Doom DeLuise always has a plan and never loses sight of the bigger picture. Since Countdown has been so…
Holy hell, I totally forgot about this week’s Book of Doom until just now. Talk about a day late and a dollar short. Speaking of short, I thought this week’s choice came up way short. In short, I thought it was terrible. I don’t mean to come off sounding short, but, seriously, it’s a short-sighted…
I’m at a loss as to how this series can tread more water, mark more time, and accomplish so little. This is supposed to be a story about superheroes battling supervillains and unseen forces, yet the only long-term threat they’ve established is that Monarch is gathering some sort of army to fight the Monitors, who,…
Hey, everybody. This week’s Book of Doom is going to be Justice League of America #13, the first issue of the series that hasn’t had Brad Meltzer writing it. Many of us, myself included, have been bored to death with this series so far, so let’s give it another shot now that it’s got a…