When the folks at DC sent over two of the new books from the company’s new Minx line — which is targeted at a young, hip female audience — I wondered what would happen if the books weren’t any good. If I were inclined to give the books bad reviews, would it come across as…
Hello, freckled blockheads, and welcome to this week’s installment of The Doomino Effect. Getting us started is Batman #665. I had stopped reading Batman somewhere a few issues back. I thought the Damian / Ninja bat storyline was stupid, then there was that Grotesk arc, and then I remember an issue with lots of typography….
By Paul Dini (W) and Alex Ross (A). Cover price $9.95. Published by DC Comics, 1999. Plot: Superman realizes that there are lots of hungry people in the world, so he decides to try to deliver a bit of food to everybody in the entire world. From what I can tell, he’s delivering either rice…
Anyone else feel that was a Grade A letdown? Me too. Wouldn’t you think that a battle royale between the two “Heroes” with multiple powers would entail them using, uh, multiple powers? Wouldn’t you think everyone would make sure Sylar couldn’t slink away? That said, I’ll still be watching next season. Now, because I’m that…
Book of the Week- Uncanny X-Men #486 “The Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire” certainly had its faults. Alternating between Billy Tan and Clayton Henry on art duties was jarring to say the least since the two have such drastically different styles. Focusing solely on Vulcan for a few issues sort of interrupted the…
It’s our tribute to the notoriously delayed, yet finally released comic books of last week, as yesterday we took on Ultimates 2 #13 and today it’s time for All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder. I stopped reading ASSBAR after issue 2 or 3 when I just felt offended to be paying money for stupid…
There’s just too much this week. We took on two books at once, and there was just too much reviewing and writing to do, so we only got one done. I read on the internet that Doom DeLuise was almost done with his review, but then I read somewhere else that he isn’t…but the next…
[SFX: Podcast of Doom theme music] JIM DOOM: Hello and welcome to the latest installment of the Legion of Doom’s Podcast of Doom! I am your co-host, Jim Doom. DOOM DeLUISE: And I am your other co-host, Doom DeLuise! [SFX: Music fades out] JD: Now Doom, first thing’s first — I want to plug our…
By Keith Giffen, Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (W) and Mitch Breitweiser, Scott Kolins, Ariel Olivetti and Kev Walker (A) Published by Marvel, 2007, $29.99 The Plot: In the storyline that fans forgot, the dread villain Annihilus returns from the Negative Zone (I think) and sends a wave of mean-looking robots across the universe to…
A lot of people would call 13 an unlucky number. Well, that’s how many books I picked up (plus Vol. 2 of Rocketo!), so did the weekly take go sour on superstitious numerological mumbo jumbo? Hardly. Some very fine comics found their way home, including a bunch more from Boom! Studios, a big conclusion to…