Category: reviews

After Watchmen: DMZ

So you’ve seen the Watchmen movie, and maybe you liked it, and maybe you’ve read the graphic novel, and you surely liked that. But where do we go from here? DC is certainly on the ball with their “After Watchmen” recommendations, offering up a plethora of choices to suit your fancy. Whether you liked the superheroes, the mature take on the genre, the doomsday scenario, or the political atmosphere, there are a lot of books out there to keep up the pace.

This week I’m going to recommend DMZ, by Brian Wood and Ricardo Burchielli



Doom and Doomer: Wonder Woman

Doominator: So, Doom, we recently perfectly legally watched the direct to DVD Wonder Woman movie. I find myself with a few words swimming in my head. Doom DeLuise: Felony? Doominator: None of them are “Oscar.” Felony works, but this wasn’t quite a crime against humanity. It didn’t try hard enough. It didn’t try at all…



Stump the Doominator, Week of March 15

… is not happening. Sorry! No one sent me questions. Shame, shame. If you want to send some for next week, send them on to doominator_at_doomkopf_dot_com. So instead, I just want to disagree with most people on the board and say I liked the Watchmen movie. For me, it highlighted something important: the inherent ridiculousness…



Dr. Manhattan:
More Man Than America Can Handle?

I’ve yet to write down any of my thoughts about the Watchmen movie, but one thing that I couldn’t help but thinking that night in the theater is “that’s a lot of penis.” I was first surprised that there was any dick at all, but then I was surprised by how much they put in…



Rapid-fire Doomino Effect for March 4, 2009

There’s been a lot of content going up in the last 24 hours (don’t miss the quickly bumped Watchmen review) and there’s still more coming (Book of Doom preview), so I’m going to keep this brief. • Daredevil #116, Return of the King part 1 – great introduction to the new arc. I wish I…



Movie Review: Coraline

One year for Christmas, I got my niece the book “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman, in an attempt to turn her into a total dork. It paid off, and quickly, she was enamored with Neil Gaiman, so I gave her a Sandman volume and my copy of Neverwhere. Not sure if she ever read those, but…



Doom and Doomer: Watchmen

JIM DOOM: So did you see Watchmen yet? DOOM DeLUISE: Yes I did. JIM DOOM: I read Sunday morning that it had a three-day opening of $55.7 million. How do they know that on Sunday morning? Isn’t Sunday part of the three-day total? DOOM DeLUISE: Sunday’s an estimate. Actual figures don’t come out until Monday….



Book of Doom:
War of Kings #1

First off, many apologies for the tardiness of this week’s Book of Doom. I had in-laws in town this weekend and completely spaced it until I was already in bed last night. So as for War of Kings #1, we’ve got the Starjammers on Hala for the wedding of Crystal and Ronan. For some reason,…



Just got home from seeing Watchmen

I know to some people, any kind of reaction whatsoever can be considered a spoiler, so in the interest of protecting all potential surprises, my best efforts at compiling spoiler-free thoughts on the film are after the jump….



The Doomino Effect for the week of Feb 25, 2009

I’m going to blast through this today because I am hopefully going to an early screening of Watchmen tonight and I need to get out the door. Speaking of blasting through things, that leads me to Superman #685 in which Mon-El has emerged from the Phantom Zone but he’s gonna die from lead poisoning. Superman’s…