I don’t know why, but I feel like doing a quick run-through of this month’s previews and giving my shoot-from-the-hip thoughts. As always, I reserve the chance to regret my actions later. And, I make no promises for this becoming a continuing feature. We’ll see. The numbers at the start of each section are the…
Well the dust has settled (sort of) and we here at the Legion of Doom have had our say on Civil War. While opinions have varied as time passed from issue 1 to issue 7, four of us have chimed in over the past week on how the series wrapped up. Jean-Claude Van Doom wasn’t…
thanks to DVD Dude for the tip on this. Looks like Warner Brothers is planning Justice League: The Movie, according to Variety. While the article mentions the potential complications with the current relaunches of Batman and Superman on the big screen, it doesn’t answer the questions of whether or not the new film (which already…
Graphic novels are big business, in case you didn’t know. But further encouraging those of us who love the medium and want to break into it, ICv2 has announced that sales of the books increased to nearly $300 million last year. That’s not shabby. Here’s some info from a story in Publisher’s Weekly: There were…
The following preview is interesting to me for a couple reasons. First, and perhaps most importantly, this is a markedly different type of book for Boom!, which I’ve always considered as the Spike TV of comics (which I mean as a compliment). “Salvador” seems to be a much more intellectual and emotional project, as opposed…
So as somebody who doesn’t read Fantastic Four, I hadn’t noticed all the news and rumors about the secret surprise new team lineup coming after Civil War. I also hadn’t caught all the excitement about Dwayne McDuffie writing the book (even though he’s written what, Deathlok?). What did catch my eye was the small ad…
As you’ve seen here, our Book of Doom this week is something that everybody’s got to be excited about, the first issue of Jeff Smith’s take on Shazam. Being the glory hog that I am, I can’t help but trot out an early look since the folks at DC were so nice as to send…
With regular comics ranging from $3 to $5 or more nowadays, anyone wanting a little wallet relief has a new option. This golden age comics site is offering downloads of free books from the era. How freaking cool is that? Publishers include: Ace Comics, Avon Comics, Centaur Publishing, Comics House Publications, Fawcett Comics, Fiction House,…
We might be in danger of losing our comic blog status due to the fact that I think we’re the last comics-based website to mention the big teaser image released by DC last week. There’s a lot of fun speculation and attempted decoding in the forum posts that followed Newsarama’s post. Well now they’ve presented…