I’ve written a couple posts about some issues I have with Warren Ellis, specifically his taking over of Astonishing X-Men. When the news came out last year, I posted about it, saying: But here’s the thing. His writing is dense. Not just “dense” dense. Unreadable dense, the kind where fourth or fifth time is a…
I just read Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men #1 last night. The guy at the comic shop and I bitched about it being forever delayed, and how we already knew that a certain someone was going to bite it. Well, maybe they didn’t “bite it” per se, but they’re floating around in Limbo, or at least…
Take a good look at this. You’re staring into the face of the new comic trend. Because of an incestuous circle of mild talent that propogated itself around the time of the forming of Image Comics, we’ve been subjected to the artist as celebrity trumping the much better “book coming out on time every month”…
File this under “WTF?” Our beloved Iron Man, the drunk ol’ asshole who no one seems to like right now has a new facet to upset Bloggers, developers, crackers, Linux users and hackaday.com. In this bit of news, it seems ol’ shellhead is going to be taking on a new force of evil. In the…
We here at Doomkopf have little regard for spoilers. You’re not going to a comic blog to get pussyfooted, are you? No, you’re here for the love of the game. And I’m about to talk about “Messiah Complex,” specifically the end of “Messiah Complex.” So I’m going to tell you the end of it, and…
So my roommate goes batshit if anyone says “theory” because a theory has been repeatedly tested, while a hypothesis is the actual conjecture. So I’ve got some little questions and ideas brewing about Messiah Complex that may or may not play out in the last four issues. There are probably some spoilers in here, so…
Well, start by going here. Then change your pants, or whatever it is you do. This is one part in a big movement. 2008 will not suck superhero-movie wise. “Iron Man,” from all looks, promises to be a good ride, with an amazing Robert Downey Jr. performance. But what “Iron Man” will lack is one…
For a while, I’ve been losing my interest in X-Men – I’ve been down to Astonishing, just so I could say I finished out. That, and it’s got my favorites in there. It’s a Storm and Nightcrawler away from my all-time favorite team. But yeah. I couldn’t handle Mike Carey’s run on X-Men. I was…
I don’t think we’ve discussed Ultimates 3 yet. Why not? Well, probably because it lives up to the Bizarro hype. It’s a cornucopia of flash, angst and poorly written dialogue from a writer who should know better (Jeph Loeb), and an artist (Joe Madureira) whose relevance will only last as long as he can keep…
So Doom DeLuise suggests to me, in varying degrees of frequency, that I should post more. And sure, I feel like I should. But I’m too broke with comics, and unimpressed by the current output, to pick up what’s coming out. Fine, dandy, whatever. I still feel like I should add something here, because I…