It was a sad week. I apologized to my shop owner. I did, however, read the last issue of Ultimatum. What a terrible mess. It’s like somebody made a bet on how many exploding heads they could fit into a mainstream comic book. Remember when the Ultimate line was for kids? And “exploding” was the…
I’ve heard that one of the best ways to get your audience emotionally involved in your story is to make it easy for them to identify with one of your characters. In Immortal Weapons #1: Fat Cobra, Fat Cobra spends money on a book and quickly finds himself thinking it’s crap. Mission accomplished, Jason Aaron!…
A few bullet thoughts: – I find it gimmicky. It’s obviously a gimmick, but not all gimmicks seem gimmicky, if that makes any sense. – The one-page chapters in ongoing serialized stories make for a fairly difficult storytelling venue. – It was awkward to read. Not even my newspaper is this big anymore. – As…
Apparently I’m not the only one who was bothered by the racism in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. According to the ultimate authority: There has been a strong negative reaction to Mudflap and Skids in Revenge of the Fallen, who are alleged to embody racist stereotypes. The characters have been given ape-like appearance, speak in…
I cannot understate how astonishingly awful this movie was. Just off the top of my head: • The Autobots aren’t heroic. The opening scene depicts what has become SOP for the Autobots — hunt down Decepticons, beat them up, and — when the enemy is lying defeated and helpless on the ground — deliver a…
Doominator has been tweeting updates today from Wizard World Philly. You can check out what he’s been sharing by following our twitter feed at twitter.com/doomkopf.
…please allow me to shovel you some shameless self-promotion. Yours truly has begun moonlighting as a comic book artist for Powerpop Comics, and two books with my work in them will be for sale at the Powerpop booth this weekend at Wizard World Philly. I am the regular artist for ongoing title “Weird Thrills,” and…
[SFX: Intro music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to this week’s Podcast of Doom. This week saw the release of two significant second-generation hero books, Captain America #50 and Battle for the Cowl #3 of 3. I’m joined by my co-host, Doom DeLuise, to discuss the second of those two books. How’s it going, Doom?…
Comics writer Van Jensen (full disclosure: also the blogger formerly known as Jean-Claude Van Doom) commented in February about the apparent similarities between a pitch he submitted to Marvel and what was then a newly solicited Wolverine story by Jason Aaron. At his blog, Van described his “day in the life” story as “a comedic,…
One of my earliest thoughts when reading this story, most of which is a conversation between Hal Jordan and Barry Allen near Batman’s grave, was “I can’t believe this was written by the same guy who wrote Flash: Rebirth #1. I actually – no lie – flipped back to the cover to double-check that this…