Fin Fang Doom says: Spidey takes the deal! Shipping the very last week of 2007, Marvel ruined my Christmas by saying the last 20 years of their flagship character don’t count in Amazing Spider-Man #545. Doom DeLuise says: Shazam! When Black Adam gave his powers to Mary Marvel in Countdown. That ruined all hope I…
Doominator says: movie trailers! Hearing the Joker laugh in “The Dark Knight” trailer and seeing Robert Downey Jr. as Iron Man had me pretty pumped. They’re close enough to call it good. Fin Fang Doom says: The death of Captain America The best moment of 2007 wasn’t something anyone was surprised by (we can thank…
Jim Doom says: finding out exactly what DC writers liked when they were kids! Whether it’s the Saturday Mornification of the Justice League – complete with the Hall of Justice monolithic headquarters and the Hall of Doom sitting in the swamp – or bringing back the Legion of Superheroes in as many books as possible…
Doom DeLuise says: less Countdown crossovers! Since it started, we’ve been having less and less tie-ins with Countdown. After they threw that entire, “This is the backbone of the DCU,” PR line out the window, they’ve trended away from tie-ins, which means my regular monthly DC stuff hasn’t been tainted with the awfulness of that…
It’s that time of year again, where the members of the legion of Doomkopf take a crack at praising and condemning the very best and worst of the previous year in comics. A new Best or Worst post will go up every day at noon, and its opposite number will show up 12 hours later…
Thor Picked up with Thor #1 (1998) Dropped with Thor #6 (2008) I always thought I liked the character of Thor. He was Marvel’s Superman (before the Sentry came along, anyway), and he could wipe the floor with damn near anybody in the multiverse. Even Superman himself, if my high school fan fiction is any…
The final chapter of One More Day, J. Michael Stracynski’s Spider-Man swan song, was finally released today, and only three months later than it was originally scheduled. While that may be a new personal best for artist Joe Quesada, this may have been a new personal worst for JMS. Although to be fair to Stracynski,…
I buy too many comics. Way too many comics. And a lot of them really aren’t very good. But as it was pointed out to me this weekend, I have a very strong inner completist, and I find it incredibly hard to stop buying a monthly series. I’ve struggled through Peter Milligan on X-Men and…
Biggest Status Quo Change- The Walking Dead #45 This week in TWD: Dale, Andrea, Glenn, Maggie, Sofia and the twins all packed into the RV and left the prison, while in an attempt to take the fight to the Governor’s men, Tyrese is taken prisoner and Michonne gets her f$&#ing brains blown out. Yeah, not…
After four months, I’m still a bit surprised and saddened every time I read that Mike Wieringo passed away. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on what I liked so much about the guy. Something about his work just always connected with me. During a recent interview with newsarama.com discussing Spider-Man Family…