Fin Fang Doom says: “New Ways to Die,” Amazing Spider-Man! While Amazing Spider-Man has been disappointingly good since Brand New Day started at the beginning of the year, the first “major” arc really fell flat for me. With Spider-Man, the Thunderbolts, Anti-Venom and Norman Osborn, there was just way too much going on in a…
As we enter the final week of our year-end awards, here are some more thoughts from several friends of Doomkopf. Robb @ Capes Comics: Best Ongoing Series: Green Lantern As a whole, Green Lantern has been the best title out there for your money. The team of Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis have delivered the…
Jim Doom says: Hal and Carol, Green Lantern #34 Hal Jordan’s anger had been getting the best of him, and Sinestro lectured him about letting that anger get in the way of doing his job. “You need to grow up, deal with it and get on with your life,” Sinestro tells him. So Hal decides…
Jim Doom says: The Wasp is dead, Ultimatum #2 There were two striking contrasts in how Marvel chose to treat the death of Janet Van Dyne. In the regular universe, it involved a world of heroes mourning and several issues devoted to reflection. In the Ultimate Universe, it involved the Blob chewing on dead Janet’s…
Fin Fang Doom says: The Walking Dead! No title embodied change the way The Walking Dead did in 2008. In the first few months, writer Robert Kirkman killed the majority of the cast and kicked the survivors out of the prison they’d called home for 36 issues. The he switched things up to be about…
Doom DeLuise says: The Flash! I’m not sure if this series has been any good in the past couple years, at all, but this year it was so bad that I actually dropped it. This coming from a guy who’s such a huge Flash fan that he even stuck with it through Bart’s awful run,…
Fin Fang Doom says: Secret Six! Both Birds of Prey and Gail Simone have suffered in quality since the two parted ways a while ago. Tony Bedard’s BoP is mercifully being put down in a few months, and Simone hasn’t been able to do anything to hold my interest (and I gave Wonder Woman plenty…
Jim Doom says: X-Force! It’s hard to be too informed in a judgment of a bad series. Typically, when something is terrible, I just stop buying it. The launch of X-Force was just part of the shallow stupidity that concluded Messiah CompleX. In my review of issue #1, I said “My big problem with X-Force…
Jim Doom says: New Krypton! Thanks to that great New Krypton #1 special, I’ve started buying Superman and Supergirl, whereas I previously only bought Action. My initial plans were to just avoid the crossover and drop Action for a while. Good work, DC! Fin Fang Doom says: New Krypton! There’s nothing better than a crossover…
Doom DeLuise says: Batman RIP! While I enjoyed the Batman RIP story told within the pages of Batman proper, I can’t say that I much cared for dragging all of the other Bat-books into the big crossover event, as they never really interconnected in any sort of crossing-over fashion, aside from the fact that it…