Every comic but one on the list this week falls in the same category: mostly good but held down by serious shortcomings. Not bad, in other words, but it could’ve been a lot better. Ain’t that just the way… Worst: Green Lantern #23 It’s not that I didn’t like this book, it’s just that I…
Hip hop has always had a connection to comic books, with super hero references slipping into songs and the mini comic Outkast inserted in their ATLiens release. All the same, last week’s publication of Sentences (Vertigo, $19.99) marks a new level of relationship between the two. A true hip hop autobiography, the book relates the…
Who doesn’t love an anniversary? My oh my, it’s already been a cool hundred issues since… uh… since Marvel last rebooted Daredevil. Woop-i-dee-doo! Well, the alternative choices for Book of Doom this week were the Black Canary wedding special (not that I’m against a female-oriented book, but man does that sound stupid) and the new…
There’s change in the wind around Mark Waid these days. The big news of recent of course is his move to Boom! Studios as Editor in Chief. That’s a big deal, given his history with DC. And now, with the pending release of Potter’s Field, Waid is changing in another way, going from his typical…
Forgive a tangent, but I’m already a bit leary of city life. In a month, I’ve been stuck in copious amounts of traffic, gotten lost in suburbia, accidentally happened upon people shagging at a storage unit and seen an Office Depot sign’s letters rearranged so it said: “Special today, clear red vagina.” Wait, never mind,…
After our exciting initial interview portion with Mitch Breitweiser, who illustrated interiors and painted covers on the new Captain America: The Chosen series, we’re back for more from Mitch, plus a bonus interview with his editor on the series, Andy Schmidt, who has since left Marvel. Now, be sure and remember that Captain America: The…
As you should know, Captain America: The Chosen is our Book of Doom this week. If you remember, it was also the series that we here at Doomkopf brought you an exclusive announcement about a few months ago. Now, I’m pleased to bring you another exclusive — interviews with series artist Mitch Breitweiser. Below is…
I’m back, dear readers. After finding a job and getting settled in the ATL, I made my first trip to a comic shop in more than a month (quick shout to Odin’s Cosmic Bookshelf). Honestly, I was surprised more than anything by the sheer number of comics I really didn’t care to read. The only…
Not sure how many of our crowd here have read the Pulitzer Prize-winning exploits of Ignatius J. Reilly, but I was reading the book the other day and came across a section that had surprising relevance to the world of comic books. While recommending reading to a terrified passerby, the crazed Reilly suggests mostly Medieval…
Never mind two slow issues. Give me even the hint of a Tony Stark ass-whooping and I’m sold. Huh, maybe Marvel knew what they were doing with Civil War after all…