The 2007 Eisner Award Nominees have been announced! MASTER NOMINEE LIST 2007 Eisner Awards Best Short Story * “The Black Knight Glorps Again,” by Don Rosa, in Uncle Scrooge #354 (Gemstone) * “Felix,” by Gabrielle Bell, in Drawn & Quarterly Showcase 4 (Drawn & Quarterly) * “A Frog’s Eye View,” by Bill Willingham and James…
[SFX: Podcast of Doom theme music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to our second edition of the Podcast of Doom. I am your co-host, Jim Doom. DOOM DELUISE: And I’m your party-host, Doom DeLuise. [SFX: audience laughter] JD: Well, today Doom and I are going to discuss something very important in comic books these days,…
The story too big to fit in the pages of 52 begins here in World War III: A Call to Arms. I thought maybe I could use my gimmick of clever segues to recap a series defined by its rigidly linear approach to storytelling. However, the miniseries jumps back in time to Day 5 of…
Well friends, this week’s Doomino Effect is much like when your mother cleans your room and puts all your stuff in places where you can’t find it. I don’t know where my doominoes are and I don’t know where the comics I bought last week are either. So this week’s Doomino Effect is all from…
Hello, you dotty-headed rows, and welcome to this week’s installment of The Doomino Effect. Let’s waste no time and get right to the stack. First off this week is Supergirl and the Legion of Superheroes #28 in which Supergirl, the Legion and the Wanderers pull the rug out from under the Dominators. I’m going to…
By Larry Young (W), Charlie Adlard and Matt Smith (A) Published by AiT / PlanetLar. Cover price $19.99. Originally published as Astronauts in Trouble: Live from the Moon #1-5; Astronauts in Trouble: Cool Ed’s #1; Astronauts in Trouble: Space 1959 #1-3; Astronauts in Trouble: One Shot, One Beer Astronauts in Trouble is one of those…
Hello everyone and welcome to this week’s Doomino Effect, where it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside, but what you look like on the outside compared to what your neighbor looks like on the outside. We’re back on schedule and following the policy brought about by last week’s brilliant discovery that I…
When browsing the countless comic blogs out there, it is absolutely unavoidable that you will stumble upon literally dozens of blogs that make fun of comics from the mid-20th century. It’s pretty easy to do. Comics then had a completely different tone and operated from a vastly different slang-set, so there are bound to be…
Well the mystery has been solved! The two new members of the Fantastic Four are Black Panther and Storm! Who would have known? I don’t read FF, as I believe I stated in the Book of Doom preview, and I probably still won’t! This issue was okay, and it was kind of fun, but it…
Greetings, Legion of Dudes, and welcome to another installment of DOOM AND DOOMER. This time, Fin Fang Doom and I take on TMNT – the new computer-animated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie. JIM DOOM: I came into TMNT with the background of being someone who never read the comics, loved the cartoons, and thought the…