Hi there! Do you enjoy wasting money? Do you oftentimes find yourself sitting around your apartment or home, lighting dollar bills on fire just for kicks? If that’s the case, why, you had better hurry your butt on over to your local comic book shop and pick up this week’s newest “Marvel Comics Event,” titled,…
The real artists “Learning about how many artists have lackeys who draw their backgrounds. It reminds me of when I learned that the guy who wrote the Backstreet Boys’ songs wrote Bon Jovi’s comeback hits. If you’re going to get credit for being the artist, do your own work. If two people do the work…
It’s sort of amusing to read on Slate a story about how comics aren’t just about superheroes anymore, which goes under the pretense of breaking news. But, perhaps it is breaking news to those people out there who haven’t yet jumped on the comics bandwagon (yes, there’s still room). Teasing aside, it always is nice…
While Marvel took back the reins from DC in 2006 as the world’s greatest seller of comics, they fared far worse when it came to giving us fanboys satisfaction. And no, that’s not a call for more T & A covers by Michael Turner! 52’s success “I never doubted for a minute that DC would…
There’s a new story up over at Publishers Weekly, in which the vp of sales and marketing for Diamond Book Distribution breaks down pretty thoroughly just how good of a year the industry enjoyed in 2006, and offers some promising words for the future. Of course, that should be expected from somebody working within the…
DC spewed out a ton of mini-series after the Crisis wrapped up, and Marvel responded with plenty of its own, both running alongside Civil War and standing alone. With so many choices, it’s probably no surprise that the Doomers all came up with a different choice for this award. X-Men: Deadly Genesis “Deadly Genesis was…
Last year saw the comics industry shift a serious amount of focus back to mini-series. With so many stories to choose from, you know some had to suck pretty serious. Here’s our choices for the dregs. Lame New World “Pretty much all the stuff other than Shazam that came out of Brave New World has…
Spoiler of the Week- the cover to 52 Week 37 DC has a nasty habit of spoiling the story inside 52 with what’s on the outside. Here, we get confirmation that Booster Gold is Supernova on the cover before it’s confirmed in the actual story. They’ve done it before, with the “death” of Booster Gold….
by James Robinson and David S. Goyer (W) and Scott Benefiel, Stephen Sadowski and Derec Aucoin (A) Published by DC Comics. Cover price $14.95. Originally published as JSA 1-5 and JSA Secret Files 1 The Plot: With the recent relaunch of Justice Society of America, I thought I’d take a look at the last time…
X-Factor “It’s the best out there, but it’s never listed in that upper crust. Start reading this book!” -Jean-Claude Van Doom “Well I don’t know if X-Factor is underrated, but it’s really good, so it will probably get cancelled.” -Jim Doom Part 1 New Avengers “And I don’t know if it’s really fair to call…