Doom DeLuise, Fin Fang Doom and I will be participating in an unofficial 12 Hour Comics event today in Lincoln. We’ll do our best to attempt some live blogging as we sort of did during 24 Hour Comics back in October. But with the time crunch amplified, that leaves less time to draw and thus…
Matthew Yglesias at Thinkprogress.org argues Marvel needs to pay Samuel L. Jackson whatever he wants to play Nick Fury in the Avengers movie. Apparently Marvel’s plans don’t necessarily include Jackson.
With all the holidays and weird shipping schedules, the Doomino Effect has taken some time to adjust, but now it is back with two weeks worth of comics. Starting off is Batman #684, which is the second part of “Last Days of Gotham” by Denny O’Neil. I have to say, I sure could’ve done without…
USA Today’s report on Diamond’s year-end sales numbers show absolute domination from Marvel and Secret Invasion in particular. Had the series gone ten issues (instead of the already-too-many eight issues) it may well have swept the top 10. Matt Brady at Newsarama provided some perspective on the chart’s translation to real sales. While Diamond does…
• Announcing 12 Hour Comics Day! Some participants from Lincoln’s 24 Hour Comics Day this past fall have put together a more modest and unofficial sequel for Saturday, January 17th at Jones Coffee in Lincoln. You can find out more information at the 12 Hour Comics Day facebook page. As with 24 Hour Comics, Doomkopf…
As Doom DeLuise, Fin Fang Doom and I continue our annual tradition of crowning and condemning, we also have some year-end thoughts to share from several friends of Doomkopf. Robb @ Capes Comics: Best Artist: Gary Frank Gary Frank has been the most unique and important artist to draw Superman since Curt Swan. His run…
Starting off this week’s haul is Batman #683, the conclusion to the two-part “Last Rites” storyline, of which part one was a Book of Doom earlier this month. While working on a separate post about the Gnosticism in Final Crisis, I came upon a July blog on Final Crisis #2 which mentioned one of Grant…
In the madness of getting ready for Christmas and trying to clean up my workspace, I can’t find any of the comics I bought in the past two weeks. I don’t even remember everything I picked up, so this is going to be a totally stripped-down bare-bones version of reviewing the comics I remember buying,…
Orson Scott Card, a sci-fi author and one of those word-book writers who has crossed over to comics, has found himself a candidate for Andrew Sullivan‘s 2008 Malkin Award, which is awarded “…for shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric.” (He’s in 5th place as of posting time, right behind Michael Savage.) Card earned a…
This week we took a look at Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1, the book that carries us from the closing pages of Secret Invasion #8 to everything else that comes next. The end of Secret Invasion left me intrigued, but I’m not sure how much I’ll be following along. Now that the Marvel Universe has…