Doom DeLuise: • Robin #183 – I’ve been having an on-again/off-again relationship with Robin over the past few months, but I figure that since this is the final issue, I may as well pick it up. Give myself some level of closure, at least. The fact of the matter is, though, that it’ll probably be…
In this episode: Action Comics #874 | Nightwing #153 | Incognito #2 | Madman Atomic Comics #13 | Batman #686 Speaking of Batman #686, this was the first of the two-part “Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader” story by Neil Gaiman and Andy Kubert. I can’t quite put my finger on why I loved this,…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #1: Spider-Man and Gwen Stacy Began Courtship in The Amazing Spider-Man #31, 1963 Written by: Stan Lee Summary: If your knowledge of the Spider-Man universe were based solely on the hugely successful movie franchise, you’d think that Mary Jane was Spidey’s one true love, and you’d…
I know other Doomkopfers have already praised Criminal up and down in the 2008 year-in review (2007, too), but I’m new here, and feel like I ought to send another good word to the creative team. It’s the kind of book that was written just for me. My first experience with writer Ed Brubaker was on his continuing run on Captain America, the first post-2000 take on the character that was actually any good. When I found out he was starting some creator-owned series I was interested, and when I found out it was called “Criminal”, I was a guaranteed buyer. I love the cop & criminal genres: detective stories, film noir, heists. They’re 20th century westerns. A battle between the black hats and the white hats, only their roles are so often interchanged.
Anyway, Brubaker is built for stories like these.
The Cornfed Gamer tipped us off to this AP story about new efforts to create fiction and games based on Muslim superheroes. From the Jakarta Globe: From video games like “Bab el-Hara’’ to a Kuwaiti entrepreneur’s comic book empire featuring Muslim superheroes, the Arab world’s private sector is leading a push to provide Muslim and…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #2: Daredevil and Karen Page Began Courtship in Daredevil #1, 1964 Written by: Stan Lee Summary: Karen Page was introduced in the first issue of Daredevil as Matt Murdock and Foggy Nelson’s secretary at their law firm. Foggy had just recently hired her, and she immediately…
It’s certainly been one hell of a run, eh, sports fans? Before we start with the reviews, let me just say that Nightwing, aka Dick Grayson, is my favorite superhero. I’ve read every single issue of his solo title since it began in 1996, and, for the most part, it’s been enjoyable. The build-up to…
Welcome, welcome to the first installment of Stump the Doominator, where I use my vast nerdery to attempt to breakdown storylines into a single sentence. We’ve got some good ones this week, so let’s press on. Nate Winchester, occasional commenter and operator of Hunting Muses, asked: Has anyone asked you to sum up Final Crisis…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #3: Booster Gold and Blue Beetle II Began Courtship in Justice League #3, 1987 Written by: J. M. DeMatteis and Keith Giffen Summary: Not your typical romance, Blue Beetle and Booster Gold first met when Maxwell Lord brought Booster into the Justice League in the late…
I’m a lax contributor here at Doomkopf, mostly because I’m terrible at actually remembering to go to the comic store, and even when I do, I either get Astonishing X-Men or a long canceled series. But after Doom DeLuise asked me to help him with his countdown, I knew my calling … to sum up…