Book of the Week- Nova #2 Wait, is that a typo? Was Nova really the best book of the week? Man, this must have been a pretty disappointing week. Let’s just go through them all: Countdown #51- A decent start to DC’s next weekly series, but you can’t expect to blow the walls off the…
If there’s one thing I’ve come to expect from Robert Kirkman, it’s that whatever direction I think he’s going to take a story in is inevitably not the direction he goes with. I’m amazed by how many times I’ve been amazed by a choice Kirkman has made in one of his comics, especially in The…
Be sure to check out Part 1 and Part 2 before you start reading. Unless you’re the type of person that only likes to read the last third of blog posts. That’s just weird… Jim Doom has been invited. Jim has entered the room. Jean-Claude Van Doom: hello Jim: I got booted. Did my last…
Click here to read Part 1, then come on back and join the fun! Or just start reading now. It probably won’t make any sense either way. Jean-Claude Van Doom: Every important event was based on an incredible coincidence. Fin Fang Doom: Explain. JCVD: The alien symbiote crash lands next to Peter in the park….
Arguable the biggest movie of the year, Spider-Man 3, opened last Friday to record numbers. Naturally, all of us Doomers took in the spectacle. What’d we all think? Well, here’s what four of us thought, at least… Jim Doom: My criticism is that the movie lacked the depth and sophistication of the previous two movies….
Let’s face it: this is a pretty crappy week for comics. Nothing much of interest comes out this week besides Countdown (which Doom DeLuise has dibs on), and almost everything else worth reading is in the middle of an arc. Not exactly the best pick for a Book of Doom. Thankfully, there is one comic…
Horrible Idea of the Week- Jackpot, Amazing Spider-Man: Swing Shift Mary Jane as a superhero…WTF was Dan Slott thinking?! There was a time when it was commonplace for the non-super-powered friends of superheroes to dress up in colorful costumes and fight crime. That time was the Golden Age, and half the comic blogs on the…
By Grant Morrison (W) and others Published by DC Comics. Cover price $19.99. Originally printed as DC 1,000,000 1-4, Green Lantern 1,000,000, Stannan 1,000,000, JLA 1,000,000, Resurrection Man 1,000,000, and Superman: The Man of Tomorrow 1,000,000 The Plot: The JLA of today and the JLA of the year 85,271 fight the threat of Vandal Savage…
Artist of the Week- Alex Ross, Justice #11, covers to Justice Society of America #5 and Astro City: The Dark Age Book Two #3 Y’know, three great covers in any given week would probably be enough to give this award to Alex Ross, but he had to go one better and paint an entire issue…
By Craig Kyle, Chris Yost (W), and Mark Brooks (A) Published by Marvel Comics. Cover price $10.99. Originally printed as New X-Men 20-23. The Plot: The student body of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning deals with the immediate impact of M-Day. The Positives: New X-Men felt the effects of Scarlet Witch declaring “no more…