In the past weeks, we’ve picked some downright duds for Book of Doom, our roundtable review. This week’s pick, at the very least, should kick up a lively discussion. See, we Doomers really don’t like each other. And if there’s a lightning rod for this enmity, it’s surely the writing of Brian Michael Bendis. This…
So I chose this as this week’s Book of Doom because I wanted to try something new and the write-up seemed intriguing. Solving mysteries, in London, weird stuff, sounds good. But I didn’t really like it. The characters’ edginess seemed so forced. Troubled celebrity, drug-addict, porn-tease. Maybe that’s a statement on society itself, that those…
I tell you what – I didn’t know a blasted thing about Vinyl Underground when I picked it for this week’s Book of Doom. I like to try new things when I’m making my choice, and considering that the other two books with obvious jumping-on points were Metamorpho: Year One and Howard the Duck, Vinyl…
Holy hell, I totally forgot about this week’s Book of Doom until just now. Talk about a day late and a dollar short. Speaking of short, I thought this week’s choice came up way short. In short, I thought it was terrible. I don’t mean to come off sounding short, but, seriously, it’s a short-sighted…
Hey, everybody. This week’s Book of Doom is going to be Justice League of America #13, the first issue of the series that hasn’t had Brad Meltzer writing it. Many of us, myself included, have been bored to death with this series so far, so let’s give it another shot now that it’s got a…
The Sinestro Corps War had a ton of momentum heading out of the over-sized one-shot that started the whole thing. It had the return of Superboy-Prime and the Anti-Monitor, the attack on Oa and the possession of Kyle Rayner by Parallax. Since then it’s kind of gone downhill. For a few months now the crossover…
The initial solicitations for this book were secretive, showing a white space where we now know Kyle Rayner flies at our faces. DC would obviously not want to ruin a suspenseful reveal, you know, like maybe having Kyle Rayner show up in Countdown, apparently having gotten better. But regardless, it’s our Book of Doom, and…
Huh, apparently the guys weren’t very excited about this (mildly) monumentous moment in Daredevil history, because only one other Doomer joined in for our collective review, and you won’t believe who it was. Since we didn’t have much contribution this week, how about you readers pipe in with some thoughts on the artistic mash-up that…
Who doesn’t love an anniversary? My oh my, it’s already been a cool hundred issues since… uh… since Marvel last rebooted Daredevil. Woop-i-dee-doo! Well, the alternative choices for Book of Doom this week were the Black Canary wedding special (not that I’m against a female-oriented book, but man does that sound stupid) and the new…
I told the gang up front that I chose this book to draw attention to Jean-Claude Van Doom’s scoop of the existence of this series back in June. I love me some Captain America, but this book had three of my biggest pet peeves working against it from the beginning: 1. Existing to bring in…