Sometimes a comic book company will announce a bit of news and I’m just not quite sure what to make of it. When that happens, I’ll weigh the pros and cons of the issue in a new feature called Good Idea, Bad Idea. Last Friday, Marvel announced the start ofa new series dedicated to the…
[SFX: Podcast of Doom theme music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to the first ever Podcast of Doom. I am your co-host, Jim Doom. DOOM DELUISE: And I’m your other co-host, Doom DeLuise. Glad to be here. You look nice. Is that a new shirt? JD: What shirt? DD: Oh, my bad. Nice tattoo. [laughter]…
This week marks the debut of the new Vertigo book Army@Love, written and illustrated by Rick Veitch. As a special preview for our readers, here’s an early look into the unexpected merger of war and romance comics, as done by one of the most creative minds in comics. And, if that’s not enough for you,…
I bought one book this week, that being 52. I haven’t read it yet. I don’t know if I’ll get around to it. I flipped through some other stuff, but man, what a terrible week this was in comics. The good news, though, is that it means more time I can spend reading over a…
I’ve received a ton of books of late and am going to be running a ton of reviews and previews in the coming weeks, and the focus will largely be on books that originated in other countries and have been republished here recently. Some of these books are among the best I’ve read in recent…
When I was buying my new comics this week, the this month’s issue of Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man reminded me that I never read last month’s issue, because I was afraid the Back in Black connection might spoil the issue of Amazing Spider-Man where Aunt May get’s shot. So I went digging through my old comics,…
Rich Johnston reports in this week’s Lying in the Gutters that Stewart Lee will be writing a pilot episode for a BBC2 sitcom about Thor. While it will be about Thor the Norse god and not Thor the comic character, Johnston points out that Lee’s not the least bit ignorant about comics. He didn’t exactly…
In case you haven’t used the internet in your cave in the past few days, this clip includes spoilers.
Showing yet another failure of Civil War, the event’s biggest moment (and the long-rumored death of someone more substantial than Clor) takes place in a peripheral book. Now, if you don’t want your Wednesday spoiled, don’t click on the link below. Unfortunately, I happened across it by surprise and ruined my reading. And, yes, expect…
I was just surfing around on the Internets, and I found an interesting interview with director Zack Snyder, whose forthcoming take on “300” looks rather promising, and who’s also scheduled to direct the big-screen adaptation of Alan Moore’s “Watchmen.” Word is that they could begin filming as early as this summer. In the interview, there’s…