• Grant Morrison responded to the various Countdown / DONG / Final Crisis continuity problems in a recent IGN interview. MORRISON: There were a couple of discrepancies which affected the early issues of Final Crisis and which came about because of the way the two books were being written out of order and to different…
Thanks to Labor Day delaying new comics, I can be a day late with this and still end up on New Comics Eve. Starting off this week’s Doomino Effect is DC Universe: Last Will and Testament #1, a story that was good and bad. The premise is that it’s the last night before the end…
Stereogum.com has free (legal) downloads of a new song from the Dead Science called “Make Mine Marvel.” According to Stereogum, the new Dead Science album will be “…based strictly on obscure comic book and Wu-Tang Clan references, which is a thing avant rock trios do.” All I’ve heard from the band prior to this was…
By Blake Bell Published by Fantagraphics Books, 2008; 220 pages; $39.99 “Strange and Stranger” by Blake Bell is an intriguing biography in the life, career and politics of Steve Ditko, best well-known in the pop-culture world as the co-creator of Spider-Man, but also creator of several other characters like Dr. Strange, The Question, Captain Atom…
By A.B. Sina (W) and LeUyen Pham & Alex Puvilland (A) Created by Jordan Mechner Published by First Second, 2008; 190 pages; $16.95 Prince of Persia is a graphic novel inspired by the era, setting and general mythology of the video game series of the same name, though not directly starring or attempting to personify…
• As you may have guessed from the image at the right, Doomkopf.com is now optimized for the iPhone and iPod touch. Users will still have the option of switching back to the standard Safari view if they so choose, but otherwise iPhone and iPod touch users will automatically be greeted by a portable-browser friendly…
By Fabien Vehlmann (W) and Denis Bodart (A) Published by Cinebook, 2008; 56 pages; $13.95 I won’t risk losing any readers by saving the verdict for the end — I loved this book and cannot heap enough praise on it. A puzzling scenario opens the collection, as a psychiatrist arrives at a mental institution to…
I’m going to pack two weeks of comics into this week’s Doomino Effect, but starting off is a new one from this week, Guardians of the Galaxy #4. GotG has become one of my favorite series, even inspiring me to dig out my old ’90s Guardians of the Galaxy comics (and then quickly putting them…
[SFX: Intro Music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to the latest Podcast of Doom. I’m Jim Doom, and with me as usual is Doom DeLuise. Want to talk about Wolverine? DOOM DELUISE: That movie hasn’t come out yet. [sound of audience laughter] JD: Wolverine issue 67. DD: Oh. [more laughter] Ok, sure. JD: You told…
I stopped reading Justice Society of America a few months ago as this Kingdom Come storyline was starting but just seeming to spin its wheels. I had some room left in my quota this week, though, so I decided to grab this. I snuck a peak at the last issue of JSA, in which Gog…