The Hellfire Club has taken over the X-Mansion and taken out the Astonishing X-Men. Cyclops is a drooling vegetable thanks to Emma Frost. Beast has become his namesake and is devouring a freshly killed deer on the front lawn. Colossus was knocked out by Sebastian Shaw. Kitty’s mind has been taken over by the White…
After beating and raping Michonne routinely for days, the Governor decides it’d be a good idea to give her back her sword. In exchange for putting up a good fight in the arena, he’ll ease off on the beating and the raping for a while. Stupid, stupid man. Michonne manages to decapitate nine zombies and…
From Belgrade, Serbia to Ayaguz, Kazakhstan to Altamy International Airport to the Turkish coast. In one fight. You’d think that sort of think would happen more often when you’re Superman. I guess Subjekt-17 isn’t quite the pushover that Toyman is.
I just realized that the #4 Moment of the Week (from Civil War #4) just happens to coincide with our group review of Civil War #4. Weird. And not particularly good if your uber-crossover only ranks above Robin. I don’t care that Goliath is dead. He hadn’t been around for years until Reggie Hudlin needed…
Welcome to the second edition of the Legion of Doom’s Book of Doom. To clear up any confusion, every week we’re going to pick a book at random, kinda, and all of us members of the Legion are going to say a few words about it. We’re not saying that this is the best book…
Rich kids in Gotham are being kidnapped. Luckily, Robin’s a rich kid now so he makes the perfect bait. Tim talks Bruce into announcing the adoption on the cover of Fortune so the kidnappers are sure to know about him. The best moment? Realizing that on this case, Batman’s the sidekick. Who wants to read…
Reviewers of Brian K. Vaughn’s Pride of Baghdad have compared it to one of the best known stories that uses animals as metaphors, the middle school lit staple Animal Farm. Like George Orwell, Vaughn uses only animals as characters and from their vantage point comments on the actions of men. In Pride, it’s the U.S….
For the first time in the series, I find myself truly annoyed by “52.” I can put up with Lobo, and I can put up with filler issues, but not both. To start, let’s talk about what actually goes down this week. John Henry Irons opens things, helping fight a fire in some building. He’s…
This week, for the second week in a row, we’re going to try a new roundtable discussion of a current release, or, as we call it, the Book of Doom. Not that it’s necessarily the best thing that came out for the week, but, rather, it’s the book that all of us contributors to the…
Welcome to the first edition of the LOD Book of Doom, featuring Green Lantern #13, written by Geoff Johns, art by Ivan Reis. It’s the continued adventures of Hal Jordan as he battles the cyborg Superman and a world of Manhunters. Hal is trying to save the other GLs that have been imprisoned by the…