Edited to correct a minor, insignificant error Clearly, if I made the decision to purchase X-Force #1 I’m obviously a glutton for some kind of brain-dead punishment. SPOILERS AHEAD, mateys. So Cyclops set up X-Force back during Messiah Complex, because he rationalized to himself that as long as they’re wearing different uniforms and going by…
Say what you will about Mark Millar, but a whole lot of people (including virtually all comics readers) would benefit by following his advice in the recent Marvel “Look Who’s Talking” Q&A column. [The original 102-issue Stan Lee and Jack Kirby run on Fantastic Four] has influenced us enormously in the sense that we’re never…
Doom doom doom, doomy doom doom doom. Doom doom! First up is Action Comics #861, chapter four of Superman’s field trip to the 31st century with the Legion of Super-Heroes. We find out right away that Brainiac was role-playing as a human-hater because it was all part of his plan to save Earth. Unnnnnnnfortunately, the…
SPOILERS AHEAD! The “Messiah CompleX” X-crossover had me looking forward to each Wednesday, hooked on a weekly story like I hadn’t been since 52. But the finale, while pleasing in some ways, overall left me disappointed. The conflict After one of the kids decided to transport all the sick, wounded and juvenile to Muir Island…
Back in December, we took a look at the comparative sales figures between 52 and Countdown. At that point, roughly halfway through, both series followed a sales curve that was somewhat parallel, though 52 outsold Countdown by about 50,000 at the first issue and only 30,000 by the 24th. Now with sales figures in up…
Greetings, Doomwads, and welcome to this week’s Doomino Effect. We’re right in the middle, or at least middle-ish, of our annual Doomkopf Best and Worst of the Year awards, which I get super pumped for each year. I love going back and looking at past years and I realize I can’t say I like seeing…
[SFX: intro music] JIM DOOM: Hey you know what I was just thinking? DOOM DeLUISE: How could I? JIM DOOM: For about the past 45 years, we’ve been told that mutants are just like humans until they hit puberty. It isn’t until puberty that their “X-Gene” is activated. DOOM DeLUISE: Yeah. JIM DOOM: Well, that’s…
As the anticipation builds for the release of The Dark Knight, I thought I’d share the transcript of a conversation that Fin Fang Doom, Colonel Doom and I had with some friends following our initial screening of Batman Begins several years ago. In fact, it was that night that Fin Fang Doom and I first…
As Doom DeLuise explained last week, the Doomkopf Book of Doom is now each member of the legion’s favorite book of the week. It’s a little late this week because comics were late this week and because I’m just always late at everything. For my favorite this week, I’m going to take Captain America #33….
Since we’re nearing our year-end awards here at Doomkopf, I thought I’d share another collection of year-end recognition. Year’s Best Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga is what it sounds like – a collection of excerpts from the year’s best graphic novels, comics and manga. It’s from 2005, and I found a copy at a Borders…