Book of Doom: Green Lantern Corps #21

We haven’t done a Book of Doom for quite a while here at doomkopf.com. In fact, we haven’t been doing a whole lot of anything lately. But from time to time, motivation hits us and we feel the need to blog about something. So what’s so special about Green Lantern Corps #21? Well, it’s the…



Why I’m glad I quit reading Captain America in one sentence

From my google reader today: “CBR spoke with ‘Captain America’ writer Rick Remender about his protagonist’s battle to recover his foster son from the villainous Arnim Zola and escape the nightmarish reality known as Dimension Z.” Click here if you want to read the interview. Maybe it’s good. (If you’d like to read about why…



Skip Ender’s Game

The trailer for Ender’s Game, which hits theaters this November, was released this week. As a geek and a sci-fi fan, I should be excited. But as a gay man, I have a different reaction: SKIP ENDER’S GAME. You see, Orson Scott Card, the creator of the book and executive producer of the movie, is…



Wrestling & Comics

When we started this little blog 7 1/2 years ago (WOW!), comic books were a lot more exciting than they are now. DC was going through a revolution, with Geoff Johns reviving the Green Lantern franchise and then bringing back the multiverse in Infinite Crisis. Marvel, my first love in comics, had become my whipping…



Make Mine Maddening

Superior Spider-Man #9 is hitting comic shops in May. How is Marvel choosing to advertise it? The hottest comic in comics comes to a turning point that will get you angrier than you were after Spidey #700! That’s an interesting choice. See, I personally buy and read comic books because they make me happy. Sometimes…



Who the hell is Angela, and why should I care?

When was the last time anyone cared about Spawn? Was it when that terrible movie came out? How about when that terrible animated series was around. Or when the “action” figures were all the rage? Spawn was at the forefront of everything that went wrong with comics in the 90s: too grim, too gritty, spikes…



A Means to an End

Peter Parker has always been my favorite comic book character. Not Spider-Man, mind you, Peter Parker. Yes, Pete has the proportionate strength and agility of a spider, but it’s not his powers that make him cool, it’s his personality. When Spider-Man isn’t Peter, I’m just not interested. Ben Reilly, Miguel O’Hara, Miles Morales, Otto Octavius…I’m…



Robin, Robout

SPOILER ALERT!!!!! This hasn’t happened in comics yet, but it’s all over newsarama.com: Damian Wayne is dead. Gotta say, I did NOT see that one coming. This will probably come as happy news to some. At least a couple of my fellow bloggers were not fans of Damian Wayne as Robin. He never really bothered…



Worst to First: February 20, 2013

It’s the return of Worst to First! I think I did, like, two of these once. But they’re back! To the uninitiated and painfully stupid: I’m going to review the comics I bought last week, starting with the worst one and working my way up to my favorite one. It’s pretty simple, really. Let’s start…



Podcast of Doom (transcript): Dropping Green Lantern

[SFX: Intro music] DOOM DELUISE: Hello and welcome to the latest Podcast of Doom. I’m your host, Doom Deluise, and with me is – – JIM DOOM: Hey, I’m supposed to be the host. What are you doing? Hello, folks, I’m your host, Jim Doom and – – DOOM DELUISE: I forgot to ask you,…