A really good week in comics, and I’d love to dig into it pretty thoroughly, but I’m headed to Seattle early in the morning and still have some packing to do. So here goes a quick spin through this week’s sizeable-but-worthwhile pile… Worst: The Spirit #7 The “Summer Special” issue means that Darwyn Cooke is…
Hey-o cinemaphiles. Most of the Doomers were asleep at the wheel (or in detox) and missed out on the latest comic book to film. Not I. With a trusty free pass (to another movie) in hand, I grinned and beared Fantastic Four 2, or FFRSS. My apologies for the double colon in the title above….
Our impromptu Justice League of America week here at Doomkopf chugs right along with the thoughts of the man pulling all the strings. Yes, Brad Meltzer checked in for an exclusive interview. He’s the writer of JLA from issue 0 to present (his arc ends in a couple months at #12) and Identity Crisis and…
By Brad Meltzer (W) and Ed Benes (A) DC Comics, 2007, originally as issues 0-6. $24.99 The Plot: After the Crisis, the year apart, etc., Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman decide to reunite the Justice League of America. As they flip through their handy DCU playing cards, selecting who to invite, a mysterious villain manipulates…
I read a ton of books last week and most all of them sucked. And I mean really sucked. Lots of money spent + little enjoyment = terrible week. This week, thank the Lords of Doom, is about the exact opposite (in part thanks to me giving up on Countdown). There wasn’t really a whole…
A day after we here at Doomkopf broke the news of the upcoming Captain America: The Chosen series, Marvel officially released news of the book. So, if you’re keeping score at home, that’s a scoop for the partners in Doom. Okay, okay, enough tooting of the horn. Even thought it feels good, real good. In…
Maybe you’ve read this week’s Lying in the Gutters, in which Rich Johnston relates the old news that David Morrell, the novelist who created Rambo, wrote a Captain America mini-series that will debut this fall. Want some new news? Well then, you came to the right place. At this week’s Wizard World Philadelphia, Marvel will…
Hey, remember last year at this time, when the calendar aligned to 6/6/06, and the sky turned red, and demons clawed their way up through the earth’s mantle and humanity survived by only the narrowest of margins? Yeah, hard to believe it was a year ago already… After reading this latest batch of comics, I…
By David Lapham Vertigo, 2007. $24.99 Many thanks to the folks at Vertigo for the early look at David Lapham’s original graphic novel Silverfish, which comes out this month. A quick note to preface the preview — for a long time, I’ve dealt with Sierra Hahn on DC’s PR staff. She mostly handled Vertigo. She…
Dear Eric, By the time you read this letter, I’ll be gone. Yes, I’ve dropped you from my pull list. No longer will a copy of The Goon await me at the comic book store every few months when an issue comes out. If this seems sudden, it’s not. This has been coming for a…