Now that the first issue of the new miniseries Batman: Battle for the Cowl is out, I’d say that it’s high time we started kicking up the speculation on who will be wearing the cape and cowl by the end of this thing. People have been guessing at the answer since it was first announced…
Welcome one and all to this week’s edition of Stump the Doominator, brought to you this week by a nasty Yuengling hangover and a sinking feeling inside me. Remember the fun of it all – you ask me a question, and in varying degrees of accuracy and a solid state of flipancy, I try to…
Salon had an interesting piece today on Swamp Thing and Alan Moore’s politics in the midst of so much Reagan. It can be found here. While nothing staggeringly ground breaking, it does make a lot of connections to attempted counter-culture movements of the time: It’s been said that Moore was ahead of his time by…
Well, it seems that despite my own superpowers, my car is not invincible, and Sunday when I should have written this, I was stuck in a snow storm in Aberdeen, MD waiting to see if I could get a serpentine belt for my car. Wouldn’t you know, you can’t find those on a Sunday night…
This feature – where I try to sum up a complicated storyline or storylife in one sentence – is still fairly new. But Stump the Doominator submissions this week were … scant. Really scant. In fact, three of these are Doom DeLuise questions. We’ll start with those: Explain Hypertime. Hypertime is Mark Waid being an…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #1: Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy Began Courtship in The Amazing Spider-Man #31, 1963 Written by: Stan Lee Summary: If your knowledge of the Spider-Man universe were based solely on the hugely successful movie franchise, you’d think that Mary Jane was Spidey’s one true love, and you’d…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #2: Daredevil and Karen Page Began Courtship in Daredevil #1, 1964 Written by: Stan Lee Summary: Karen Page was introduced in the first issue of Daredevil as Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson’s secretary at their law firm. Foggy had just recently hired her, and she immediately…
Welcome, welcome to the first installment of Stump the Doominator, where I use my vast nerdery to attempt to breakdown storylines into a single sentence. We’ve got some good ones this week, so let’s press on. Nate Winchester, occasional commenter and operator of Hunting Muses, asked: Has anyone asked you to sum up Final Crisis…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #3: Booster Gold and Blue Beetle II Began Courtship in Justice League #3, 1987 Written by: J. M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen Summary: Not your typical romance, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold first met when Maxwell Lord brought Booster into the Justice League in the late…
I’m a lax contributor here at Doomkopf, mostly because I’m terrible at actually remembering to go to the comic store, and even when I do, I either get Astonishing X-Men or a long canceled series. But after Doom DeLuise asked me to help him with his countdown, I knew my calling … to sum up…