Continuing the system of letting the Avengers books fill in the blanks of the main title, New Avengers #41 is set alongside the Savage Land battle seen in Secret Invasion #2. Spider-Man gets tossed by a T-Rex into the jungle, where he encounters Ka-Zar, Shanna and some other of those Tarzanesque people, most notably including…
Mighty Avengers #14 continues the pattern of using the Avengers books to fill in details alongside the core Secret Invasion issues. This story starts out in the past, with The Sentry single-handedly stopping an invading Skrull ship. He attempts to confront them before they destroy their ship. The explosion knocks him out, after which he…
I have mixed feelings about this issue. I read it twice. The first time I read it, I thought it was awful. The second time I read it, I still thought it was awful, but I tried to think about why I thought it was awful, and in doing so, I found myself faulting the…
I wrote the following blog several months ago when thinking about the pairing of Final Crisis with Grant Morrison. I decided to shelve it, thinking I was maybe being too harsh. After reading part 1 of Batman R.I.P. today and flipping through the Final Crisis Sketchbook, I decided to revive it. Both of these big…
Continuing Doomkopf.com’s transformation into an exclusively-Iron Man comics blog, here are some entertaining little bits on an alleged Easter Egg. FIRSTSHOWING.NET: Is that Captain America’s shield in the background of the Iron Man movie? I have confirmed myself, along with our comic book expert Roman Chavez, in person that Captain America’s shield is actually in…
Two Secret Invasion books came out this week — Secret Invasion #2 and Mighty Avengers #13. Secret Invasion #2 starts off in the Savage Land with the superheroes from the Skrull ship facing off against the combined New and Mighty Avengers. Both sides accuse the others of being Skrulls. Ares warns his teammates that it’s…
JIM DOOM: A few days ago, you left me a voicemail that said that “I just saw Iron Man, and not to spoil anything, but it’s my favorite movie of all time ever, and it’s the best thing that’s ever been created by mankind, even better than everything.” Care to elaborate? DOOM DELUISE: Certainly. Human…
I hate when comics cost $3.99. I especially hate when I buy a $3.99 comic and I feel like I have no choice (within the realm of relative comic reading autonomy). I picked up Giant-Size Avengers / Invaders #1 because I was in a hurry at the comic shop and I didn’t look closely and…
Wow, what a follow-up to last week. In New Avengers #40, we learn about the Skrull invasion from the Skrull side. Although Princess Veranke loudly criticizes King Dorrek for ignoring the prophecies, he’s quite content, as the Skrull scientists have gathered the genetic information from the kidnapped Illuminati (from the mission depicted in New Avengers:…