In case you haven’t picked up a single Marvel comic book in recent weeks (to see the omnipresent ads stuck on covers), I’ll let you in on a little secret: Spider-Man is going to be donning the black costume post Civil War. “The black costume?” you say, gasping loudly. “The costume that came to symbolize…
I went to the shop today thinking I had hardly anything to pick up, but still managed to come home with five books, plus two preview copies that had come in the mail earlier. So, a decent sized week, with no huge books but a strong slate from top to bottom. Without further ado, the…
By John Ridley (W) and Georges Jeanty (A) Published by Wildstorm, 2006, originally as eight issues. $19.99 Last year, I deeply considered picking up the first issue of The American Way, a mini-series from Wildstorm. After the first issue, I heard so much positive press that I decided to give it a try, but by…
As you’ve seen here, our Book of Doom this week is something that everybody’s got to be excited about, the first issue of Jeff Smith’s take on Shazam. Being the glory hog that I am, I can’t help but trot out an early look since the folks at DC were so nice as to send…
With regular comics ranging from $3 to $5 or more nowadays, anyone wanting a little wallet relief has a new option. This golden age comics site is offering downloads of free books from the era. How freaking cool is that? Publishers include: Ace Comics, Avon Comics, Centaur Publishing, Comics House Publications, Fawcett Comics, Fiction House,…
Not much new or interesting came out this week, so we fell back on ol’ reliable Ed Brubaker and his latest installment of Daredevil. As I mentioned previously, we’ve seen Matt Murdock pretty well run through the ringer over the past years (much of that during the extremely good Bendis era). On the surface, this…
We’ve made it most of the way through 52, with World War Three now looming. Plenty of plot points have been wrapped up, but lots more questions remain unanswered (one Question, though, is dead). One of the biggest questions is who is Skeets. As we saw in week 37, he isn’t Skeets. At least, that’s…
We’ve officially reached the conclusion of the 2006 Year in Doom, and it only took a month and a day to do it. While we previously pooped on those publishers who didn’t meet our expectations last year, we now conclude our festivities by handing out little shiny star-shaped stickers to the publishers who delivered the…
A decent week, despite relatively few books coming out. Of six books, DC took three, Marvel two and Archaia Studios Press took one. As per usual, there are a couple mixed in that I simply missed during previous weeks. So, in case you were wondering, I’m still dumb. Of note: most of what I picked…
Well, we’ve rolled along to the penultimate chapter (that means last, right?) of our 2006 Year in Doom. We’re now looking at the publishers, and in particular those that left us wanting much more in the past year. I’d say beggars can’t be choosers, but as Fin Fang Doom points out below, we readers drop…