The final chapter of One More Day, J. Michael Stracynski’s Spider-Man swan song, was finally released today, and only three months later than it was originally scheduled. While that may be a new personal best for artist Joe Quesada, this may have been a new personal worst for JMS. Although to be fair to Stracynski,…
Tomorrow, or, more likely, if you’re reading this on Wednesday, today, the third issue of Countdown: Arena will hit newsstands, and, if you’re anything like the fanboys it caters to, you’ll probably buy it. “Who cares if it doesn’t make sense,” they ask, between handfuls of Cheetos. “It’s got a vampire Batman. So it’s automatically…
After four months, I’m still a bit surprised and saddened every time I read that Mike Wieringo passed away. I’ve never been able to quite put my finger on what I liked so much about the guy. Something about his work just always connected with me. During a recent interview with newsarama.com discussing Spider-Man Family…
At first, keeping up this website was simple. But as time has gone on, we’ve become more aware of certain elements of this blog’s past that we’d all like to forget. How can I justify choosing Deathblow #1 as the Book of Doom? How can one explain Fin Fang Doom’s infamous Buffy post, or his…
Thursday night, Doom DeLuise gave me a call to ask if I had read my comics for the week yet. He said there was one issue in particular that I’d find quite interesting. Unfortunately, he thought I’d find that issue interesting because it would annoy the living hell out of me and hopefully get me…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Twenty years ago, Alan Moore was working for DC, and had recently written a little comic called, “Watchmen.” In the wake of that, he wrote a proposal for a 12-issue series called, “Twilight of the Superheroes.” His argument for it was that the DC superheroes could never really…
I was cleaning out my office this morning and noticed that I hadn’t looked through the November issue of Previews yet. While scanning through Marvel Previews and saw the cover to Fantastic Four #553. Michael Turner bashing has almost gotten to the point where it’s too easy. The guy doesn’t even seem to be trying…
So Doom DeLuise suggests to me, in varying degrees of frequency, that I should post more. And sure, I feel like I should. But I’m too broke with comics, and unimpressed by the current output, to pick up what’s coming out. Fine, dandy, whatever. I still feel like I should add something here, because I…
Doom DeLuise mentioned it in his Countdown review this week, but nearly two years ago, Fin Fang Doom presented you dear Doomkopf readers with Crisis on Infinite Titles, his ambitious theory on the secret behind Infinite Crisis. Much of it turned out to be wrong, but in other ways, he was way ahead of his…