For my pick for Book of Doom this week, I’m ending the backwards hegemony of Nightwing idolatry and DC obsession perpetrated by Jim Doom and Doom DeLuise, and going with the one with the dinosaur on the cover: Johnny Monster #1, first issue in the Image Comics mini-series. Johnny Monster is the world’s foremost super-star…
Welcome, welcome to the first installment of Stump the Doominator, where I use my vast nerdery to attempt to breakdown storylines into a single sentence. We’ve got some good ones this week, so let’s press on. Nate Winchester, occasional commenter and operator of Hunting Muses, asked: Has anyone asked you to sum up Final Crisis…
I’m a lax contributor here at Doomkopf, mostly because I’m terrible at actually remembering to go to the comic store, and even when I do, I either get Astonishing X-Men or a long canceled series. But after Doom DeLuise asked me to help him with his countdown, I knew my calling … to sum up…
This started as a comment, but has segued into it’s own list based on Doom DeLuise’s. Before X-Men, most comic book movies were laughable at best, cripplingly bad at worst. Del does a good summation of the familiar garbage. There is no defending The Hockey Team from Hell in “Batman and Robin.” And though the…
The Crow Gets Remake UK, December 15, 2008 – Relativity Media are set to reinvent Goth fantasy movie The Crow, with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen helmer Stephen Norrington hired to direct according to Variety. The 1994 movie, which was based on the comic by James O’Barr and was directed by Alex Proyas, revolved around…
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,…
Click Not a superhero with supernatural abilities, or a person wealthy enough to buy high-tech toys to fight evil, but a simple human being named Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, declared war against his city’s namesake superhero, Batman. “The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to…
And you’re probably like, “Well, duh, d-bag. It’s Wednesday.” But it’s been my experience that, on weeks with a postal holiday, comic shops get their books a day late. Even the minor ones. But Monday was Columbus Day, so I didn’t go to the shop today to see what was new. I finally found “my”…
… again, I suppose, after that poop-tastic skidmark of “Spider-Man and His Mediocre Friends.” When I was a kid, my first intro to comics, beyond a Batman issue from “A Lonely Place of Dying,” was the “X-Men” cartoon, thanks to some cousins. I was enthralled, and soon became a Marvel zombie. As happens when I…
So … “Wolverine and the X-Men” doesn’t look all that great to me. But then again, I’ve never been a huge Wolverine fan. Ragey short Canadian? If I wanted to see that, I’d watch this ……