In the madness of getting ready for Christmas and trying to clean up my workspace, I can’t find any of the comics I bought in the past two weeks. I don’t even remember everything I picked up, so this is going to be a totally stripped-down bare-bones version of reviewing the comics I remember buying,…
In the lead: Alfred’s Six spy on those sorta alien guys from last issue, and Donna Troy interjects when violence ensues. Surprise! She has her Wonder Girl powers! Then Alfred talks to the alien dudes and they decide to make a pilgrimage to the Trinity-inspired holy site. Meanwhile, Tarot freaks out a little bit and…
This week we took a look at Secret Invasion: Dark Reign #1, the book that carries us from the closing pages of Secret Invasion #8 to everything else that comes next. The end of Secret Invasion left me intrigued, but I’m not sure how much I’ll be following along. Now that the Marvel Universe has…
We’ve been talking about Punisher War Zone for a while here at Doomkopf, starting back in February when script problems surfaced and then again in June when the trailer was released. Doom DeLuise and I caught a showing today and we were literally the only people in the theater! Shucks, how is Marvel going to…
This was a big week for comics. The conclusion of Secret Invasion, the beginning of Batman: Last Rites … I’m sure there were other things. Secret Invasion #8 was the anticlimactic finale to the mega-event that wouldn’t end. I’ll get to how I feel about the conclusion in a minute, but I can’t believe it…
Having just read Batman #682 for a second time, I’m still not quite sure if I liked it or not. But I guess considering my usual reaction to Grant Morrison’s work, that’s an above-average result. I like the trip through memory lane that Morrison wrote out here. You don’t see Batman’s Golden Age roots mentioned…
The line between gimmick story and fun storytelling isn’t always obvious. Much like a television series, transposing your characters to another place and time can end up like “1602,” or it could be any of the numerous holodeck malfunction episodes of “Star Trek: The Next Generation.” So I had apprehension about “X-Men Noir.” In fact,…
In the lead: The League and the JSI fight off the various bad guys that have appeared on Earth as a result of reality shifting. Morgaine Le Fey and Enigma finally meet with Konvikt and convince him to become the third part of their Trinity. Tarot figures out that if the bad guys needed her…
Welcome to Part 2 of the review of the December 2008 Previews, continued from yesterday. This is what happens when comics don’t come out until Thursday. The first few pages of Previews are loaded with crap. It’s just clutter. Note to publishers: The design of the first few pages of Previews is so bad I…
With comics being delayed until Thursday this week, I contemplated delaying this a day too. But I’m on a blogging roll, and you don’t stop a blogging roll. Much of the talk this past week was about Batman #681, the conclusion to Batman RIP. It was our Book of Doom this week, and though both…