You thought last week was bad? Out of a measly five books this week, two are getting dropped, one is getting re-dropped and one was an annual that I almost didn’t buy (and probably should’ve skipped). There comes a certain point when I think of what else I could do with $17, and it gets…
Heroes returned last night after a long summer break, and since the show is basically a televised comic book, let’s dissect the sucker like Sylar does brains. Now, I came in to this episode feeling like the show needed to wow me. Last season was mostly strong throughout, but the wheels came off in that…
Coming up are some thoughts on the first episode of Heroes, and I thought that while I was at it, I may as well give a quick summary of NBC’s new show Chuck, which plays to the nerds at least as much as Heroes. The previews actually had me pretty excited over this one, and…
The always worth reading movie web site www.chud.com just posted a really, really interesting set visit report from Hellboy II: The Golden Army. Here’s the link to that. The fellas at Chud have a longstanding buddy-buddy relationship with Guillermo del Toro, and their man Devin gets a great look at the sequel-in-progress. Here’s a tid…
I have to give some serious credit to DC Comics for coming up with the title “Wonder Woman Annual #1.” Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right, a nice summary story to help prepare for the inevitably overblown Gail Simone run on Diana’s book? Let’s see what DC promo says: Written by Allan Heinberg; Art…
There are times when I just really wonder why I still buy single issues. Take this week. Five books. $18. Enjoyment? Not so much. I guess you have to have a dud every now and then. So, who’s excited for some reviews? No one? Back of the class? Guess not. Worst: Madman #4 Sheesh. I…
The first collection of the new Justice Society of America came out this week, and a review copy sent over from DC gave me the push I’ve been needing to finally check out this book. To be honest, it’s really the push I needed to check out the team. For whatever reason, I’ve just never…
Last night, I sat down to watch the new Superman/Doomsday animated movie (thanks, Warner Bro’s, for the review copy) and was actually even more sucked in by the bonus documentary about the death of Supes in the funny books. I doubt that anything said by Mike Carlin, Jerry Ordway and the like was especially revelatory,…
It’s been 10 years since DC launched the alterna-verse Tangent Comics, and using the same logic that brought the execrable Onslaught Reborn, that means it’s time for a good dusting off, right? And that’s how I came to read Tangent Comics: Vol. 1, which came out recently, collecting the first issues of The Atom, The…
Huh, apparently the guys weren’t very excited about this (mildly) monumentous moment in Daredevil history, because only one other Doomer joined in for our collective review, and you won’t believe who it was. Since we didn’t have much contribution this week, how about you readers pipe in with some thoughts on the artistic mash-up that…