The Scott Summers Awards for Top 5 Doomed Superhero Romances: #4

#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 #4: Doctor Manhattan and Laurie Juspeczyk Courtship Appears in Watchmen #1-12 Written by: Alan Moore Summary (contains spoilers): Doctor Jonathan Osterman gained superpowers when he was involved in an accident with an Intrinsic Field Subtractor, which turned him into the super-powered Doctor Manhattan. He was given…



The Scott Summers Awards for Top 5 Doomed Superhero Romances: #5

#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, I’ve been thinking about love and relationships a lot lately. Well, not really, but I was trying to think up an interesting topic to blog about, and the timeliness of Saturday’s big Hallmark holiday made romance a natural fit….



All Hail Reagatron

Jim at Cornfed Gamer alerted us to this article at Wired about an action figure museum in Oklahoma. Most notable was the surprise revelation that we have Ronald Reagan to thank for some of the fondest memories of our childhood. Liberal action figure fans may be chagrined to learn that many of their favorite toys…



Book of Doom Preview:
Nightwing #153

Nightwing has had his own series for about thirteen years now, and this is his final issue. I’d say that’s reason enough for this to be our Book of Doom for the week. Through his exploits in Bludhaven, his stint as a cop, his battles with Nite-Wing and Blockbuster and Tarantula, his time spent as…



What I’m buying this week – Feb 11, 2009

Jim Doom: • Action Comics #874 – I actually have no idea what’s going on this month, but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume it’ll be dealing with the aftermath of New Krypton. • Batman #686 – This is the beginning of Neil Gaiman’s two-part tribute to Batman and Alan Moore….



Wild Garden Cider

Capes Comics of Omaha has unveiled a new web comic, which is based on the adventures within the store, at their facebook page. Of special Doomkopf note is that I can take full credit for the title of the series. Capes proprietor Sean was trying to tell me about the short-lived Image comic Wildguard Insider,…



The Doomino Effect for Feb 4, 2009

In this episode: Final Crisis: Legion of 3 Worlds #3 | Adventure Comics #0 | Sandman: The Dream Hunters #4 | The Mighty #1 | Immortal Iron Fist #22 Speaking of The Immortal Iron Fist #22, this was my first issue back on board with this series since the disappointing bonus-sized issue #14. Doom DeLuise…



The Apocalypse is Fast Approaching, plus Casting Advice for Brett Ratner

I came across a disturbing bit of comic book movie news this morning on Variety. Thought I’d share it with you so that you could smack yourself in the forehead in the same way I did about ten minutes ago. Read this sentence carefully: Reliance Big Entertainment has acquired Rob Liefeld’s iconic graphic novel “Youngblood”…



Penultimatum

Looks like Ultimatum won’t kill off the Ultimate Universe after all (just the numbering sequence) as Marvel plans to launch Ultimate Comics this summer. Comic Book Resources has a roundup of news emerging from the NYCC. Mark Millar is returning to write Ultimate Avengers, which I am hoping translates to “We’ve rid the Ultimate Universe…



Book of Doom: The Mighty #1

This week’s Book of Doom is The Mighty #1, written by Peter Tomasi and Keith Champagne and illustrated by Peter Snejbjerg. I’m joined this week by Doom DeLuise and guest contributors Robb from Capes Comics and Jason from Legend Comics. So in some ways, I was kind of underwhelmed by this book. I’m not sure…