Author: Jim Doom

Doomkopf @ 24 Hour Comics

This year’s 24 Hour Comics Day is October 18, and several of us here at Doomkopf will be participating. Omaha’s 24 Hour Comics event will be held at Krypton Comics at 2819 S 125th St. Suite 261, Omaha Neb., 68144. The challenge will commence at noon Saturday and conclude noon Sunday. Krypton Comics will be…



Not Safe For Doom — Sep 24, 2008

Welcome to the first installment of Not Safe For Doom, where we honor the best comics of the week in terms of their ability to use full or partial female nudity in order to better tell a compelling story. 6. Captain America #42 Last place. No boobs. 5. Ambush Bug #3 Ambush Bug is shown…



The Doomino Effect for Sep 24, 2008

I’ve been going on for months about how I’m ready to ditch Daredevil. The book has become decreasingly interesting to me, following an inverse relationship with my sense that Brubaker has been dragging out the formula of “A Daredevil villain wants to get at Matt Murdock by way of his personal life, which is continuing…



Comics Industry for Obama

I saw this today on facebook: A quick scan of the



The Doomino Effect for Sep 17, 2008

It’s Tuesday. It’s Doomino Effect time. Starting off this week is Guardians of the Galaxy #5, one of my favorite series in existence. I moaned last month about Secret Invasion crossing over into GotG, even though the series is so new. Well, the genius known only as “Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning” is managing to…



Prohibition in Smallville

Rich Johnston reported a week ago that DC had recalled Action Comics #869 due to what was apparently an unacceptable depiction of Clark and Jonathan Kent drinking beers while leaning up against a fence down home on the farm. DC’s way of correcting this problem was to Photoshop some “SODA POP” labels on the bottles…



The Numbers v3: Week 13

JIM DOOM: The August sales figures were released yesterday, and regarding these new Trinity numbers, there are two things going on here. There’s the obvious drop-off in the number of readers who gave up on weekly comics, presumably due to Countdown’s awfulness. You have to get to week 36 of Countdown, which is past the…



The Doomino Effect for Sep 10, 2008

I only bought two comics this week. Final Crisis: Revelations #2 picks up with The Spectre chasing down Renee “Question” Montoya, intending to inflict vengeance upon her for murder, which The Spectre concludes she has committed as the leader of the Order of the Stone. Montoya claims she’s innocent, as she has only infiltrated —…



The Doomino Effect for the week of Sep 3, 2008

Starting off the reviews is Secret Six #1. I really got a kick out of this team back when it was Villains United in the pre-Infinite Crisis days, and I’m hoping this series will re-hook me on this cast of characters. We start off seeing that there’s a bad guy who lives in a box…



Ironic quotes from last year

While reading through some old posts on the site, I couldn’t help but notice a few lines that stuck out more than others. Doom DeLuise: I think that [Brad Meltzer’s] JLA has been an incredibly fun read. … Jim Doom: Are you going to try Countdown? DD: Hell yeah. I’m excited about it. — March…