Boy howdy, a lot of stuff sure did happen this week in the DC Universe! The Legion of Superheroes from the 31st Century finally made their purpose known in the pages of Justice League of America, one of the biggest characters in the universe died, another returned from the dead, and the JLA got its…
Hey-o cinemaphiles. Most of the Doomers were asleep at the wheel (or in detox) and missed out on the latest comic book to film. Not I. With a trusty free pass (to another movie) in hand, I grinned and beared Fantastic Four 2, or FFRSS. My apologies for the double colon in the title above….
Hello friends, and welcome to this week’s Doomino Effect! Did you know the best way to get your doominoes to fall over is to get them really drunk? Starting off, we have Avengers Classic #1, which – according to the inside back cover editors’ notes – was inspired by the Classic X-Men series. You see,…
Unlike Jean-Claude Van Doom, I didn’t enjoy this week’s comics very much. Nova was great, Green Lantern Corp was pretty good, and Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man was decent. Everything else kind of sucked. So I’m going all negative this week. Worst Writer of the Week- Chris Claremont, Exiles #95 Ugliest Cover of the Week- Exiles #95…
By Brad Meltzer (W) and Ed Benes (A) DC Comics, 2007, originally as issues 0-6. $24.99 The Plot: After the Crisis, the year apart, etc., Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman decide to reunite the Justice League of America. As they flip through their handy DCU playing cards, selecting who to invite, a mysterious villain manipulates…
As I sat down to write the preview to this week’s Book of Doom, I honestly thought to myself, “What have I done?” (and then I typed it). When it’s my turn to pick, I try to pick something I’m unfamiliar with, but also something that has a chance of being liked. This usually means…
I read a ton of books last week and most all of them sucked. And I mean really sucked. Lots of money spent + little enjoyment = terrible week. This week, thank the Lords of Doom, is about the exact opposite (in part thanks to me giving up on Countdown). There wasn’t really a whole…
I’m giving Countdown a stay of execution. While the series didn’t improve much this week, the Jimmy Olsen story alone is going to keep me around for at least one more. So, let’s go through the quick and dirty. This week, Jimmy Olsen decides to do some investigating after he receives an odd note at…
DC might not show us the solution to the two-Legions problem for quite a while yet. Know why? Because we may or may not keep buying comics to find out how the good guys beat the bad guys, but we’ll probably keep buying them to find out just how continuity is arranged these days. It…
Book of the Week- Detective Comics #833 In a week that a lot of stuff came out that should have been quite good (but unfortunatley wasn’t), one title stood out to me due to its amazing surprise ending: Detective Comics. Since he took over the book a year ago, Paul Dini has rarely used the…