For this week’s weekly roundtable review discussion, I’ve decided to pick the conclusion to the Batman RIP story-arc, Batman #681. If you’re anything like me, you started out thinking that this story was unnecessary and boring, then you shifted to being confused and overwhelmed, then switched to being a little drunk, and, now, you’re eagerly…
My fears that I’d be flying solo this week turned out to be relatively unfounded, as Fin Fang Doom and Jason from Legend joined us again this week. More from them in a minute. I haven’t been reading Fantastic Four at all, but I thought this seemed like a fairly interesting point to jump in….
It’s entirely likely I’ll be flying solo for this week’s roundtable. For your legion of Doomkopf, this is a pretty terrible week of comics. The only book I normally pick up that’s coming out this week is The Goon, and quite frankly I’m not going to subject the rest of the gang to that. Instead,…
This week, against my better judgment, I picked the Justice Society of America one-shot spin-off featuring Superman from Earth-22, better known as the Kingdom Come Superman. I say it’s against my better judgment, because I really didn’t like Kingdom Come all that much. The art is really stiff, and I’ve never found the story that…
I had a hard time deciding which comic to choose for this week’s Book of Doom. Mostly, I wanted to choose something I was planning on buying anyway, so as to tighten the belt and save a few extra bucks; yet, I’ve been following the storyline that’s been going through the JSA fairly closely, and…
Welcome once again to the Book of Doom. This week we’ll be reviewing X-Men and Spider-Man #1, Marvel’s latest attempt to milk $4 out of it’s readers with a needless mini-series featuring its A-list characters. But y’know, sometimes these needless mini-series turn out to be a good read. This week there’s four of us trying…
Man this does not look like a good week for comics. Not a whole lot to get excited about and even less that is an easy jumping-on point. So who wins when the comic readers lose? Marvel, apparently. X-Men/Spider-Man is a mini-series that I was considering investing in. The art I’ve seen looks pretty damn…
Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch was the first Hellboy story I’d read in years. It reminded me of two important points: 1. How almost effortlessly cool this book seems and 2. How exponentially better it is when Mignola does the art As a kid, I remember hating Mignola’s art. I just knew him as…
This week’s Book of Doom is Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch — the first Hellboy comic drawn by Mike Mignola since 2005. On the heels of the second Hellboy feature film, legendary artist and Hellboy creator Mike Mignola returns to the drawing table for this standalone adventure of the world’s greatest paranormal detective! Hellboy…
Geoff Johns. Do we have a hard-on for that guy or what? This marks the fifth consecutive Book of Doom written by him. But I assure you that this is mere coincidence. There’s even two other writers on the book this week. We just can’t help it if Johns is a kickass writer and makes…