Marketing is such a huge deal in comics today that the way a series or event is marketing can determine whether it succeeds or fails regardless of the quality of the story. A bad series can succeed if it’s marketed correctly, and a good series can get canceled if the company isn’t behind it. Here’s…
It seems to be a consensus around here that last year wasn’t a great one at the movies, but that doesn’t mean there weren’t some fine flicks. And while TV saw a few new adaptations, the video game front proved one of the best outlets for comics outside comics. V for Vendetta I liked “V…
Welcome to the first installment of our 2006 year end review. Here, we’re taking a look at adaptations of comic books to other media, such as movies and video games. While comics overall had a very strong 2006, there weren’t a lot of films out. Of those, here are our choices for what really, really…
Once again, the ship has sailed on a year in publishing comics and we here at the Legion of Doom are happy to announce the beginning of our 2006 awards show. Over the coming days, we will be listing our favorites of the year that was, as well as the gunk that took hours to…
This was a big year for comics outside of the folded paper medium. From movies and TV to video games and toys, it was a good year to be a comic book fan, even if you don’t like to bother yourself with any of that tedious “reading.” Movies 2006 saw the release of two blockbuster…
An apology in advance, as A Look Back: Small Press 2006 will not be as thorough as it probably deserves to be. It’s not quite as easy to keep track of what happens in smaller companies as it is to keep track of what happens at Marvel or DC. So this review will mostly just…
Not Civil War While Civil War was raging throughout the Marvel Universe, there were a few titles that miraculously were able to steer clear of the subject. Maybe it was because they weren’t selling well enough for Marvel to care, or maybe it’s because the Marvel Illuminati had enough respect for the creators to leave…
For Marvel, 2006 was all about Civil War. Nearly every comic Marvel put out set in the 616 universe at the very least mentioned Civil War. Caught at the center of the struggle was Spider-Man, who revealed his identity to the world at Iron Man’s behest. While many series devoted entire arcs to the crossover,…
DC had a huge amount of momentum heading into 2006. Infinite Crisis, their biggest crossover in 20 years, was at its halfway point. They rode that momentum into the One Year Later launch in March, and followed that up with the historic weekly series 52. And somehow DC managed to retain a cohesive universe throughout…