Category: rants & nostalgia

Aug 05 2008 August 5, 2008 August 5, 2008 NoComment by Jim Doom

Podcast of Doom (transcript):
Wolverine #67, Green Lantern #33 and more!

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[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…

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Jul 03 2008 July 3, 2008 July 3, 2008 NoComment by Jim Doom

Additional thoughts on Final Crisis #2

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We here at Doomkopf gave our thoughts on Final Crisis #2 on Saturday, but I recently witnessed an exchange on a message board that I thought raised some good points about the shortcomings of the issue and provided some satisfying answers. It’s nothing authoritative, but it’s a little more discussion and some additional perspectives on…

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Jun 24 2008 June 24, 2008 June 25, 2008 7Comments by Jim Doom

A Difference of Opinion, Part 2
(feat. Marvel Executive Editor
Tom Brevoort)

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This is the response to Part 1 of A Difference of Opinion. I don’t think there is necessarily anything wrong with using fill-in artists to keep a book on schedule. So when DC announced they were going to use Carlos Pacheco to help J.G. Jones to meet Final Crisis deadlines, I can at least say…

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Jun 22 2008 June 22, 2008 June 22, 2008 NoComment by Fin Fang Doom

A Difference of Opinion, Part 1

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When DC announced last week that they would be adding Carlos Pacheco to the creative team of Final Crisis in order to keep the book on schedule, Jim Doom brought up a very good point. This decision is eerily reminiscent of the choice Marvel made a couple years ago regarding Civil War, even though in…

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May 31 2008 May 31, 2008 January 22, 2009 4Comments by Jim Doom

Batman is going to be the Spectre

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That’s where my chips are, ladies and gentlemen….

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May 15 2008 May 15, 2008 May 15, 2008 6Comments by Fin Fang Doom

R.I.P. Off

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I’ve never really been a fan of Grant Morrison. Despite his status as an A-list creator, I can’t think of a single project of his outside of New X-Men that I’ve really enjoyed. Morrison’s Batman is particularly bad. Well, at least his first arc was, because that’s as long as I could stand to read…

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May 14 2008 May 14, 2008 May 14, 2008 4Comments by Jim Doom

The Trainwreck

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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…

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Apr 30 2008 April 30, 2008 April 30, 2008 3Comments by Doom DeLuise

The Never-Ending Ending

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What is the fascination with endings in comic books? It seems we just can’t get enough of them, and big comics companies just can’t stop giving them to us. Whether it’s the Ultimate X-Men or Y: The Last Man or the Final Crisis, it seems that endings are popping up around every corner, only, once…

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Apr 16 2008 April 16, 2008 April 16, 2008 NoComment by Jim Doom

NYT piece on Joe Simon, co-creator of Captain America

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Mr. Simon earned the “legend” title with his partner Jack Kirby by creating Captain America, the superhero who arrived in December 1940, just in time to play a patriotic foil to the Axis powers. The cover of the first issue even has the good captain socking Hitler in the jaw. For Mr. Simon and Mr….

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Apr 14 2008 April 14, 2008 June 12, 2008 1Comment by Jim Doom

New Podcast of Doom (transcript):
SECRET INVASION!

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While Doom DeLuise is MIA, Doominator and I recorded a podcast in his absence. Read along as two people with bad memories and limited grasp on recent events attempt to speculate on the Secret Invasion! [SFX: Intro Music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to the latest Podcast of Doom. I’m Jim Doom, and filling in…

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