I was this close () to picking Adventure Comics #0 as the Book of Doom this week. That $1 price tag looks nice, and I’m curious about whatever “Origins and Omens” backup story there is. Given that Legion of 3 Worlds also ships this week, I wouldn’t mind having a little sense of what the…
#5 | #4 | #3 | #2 | #1 After observing how well Batman: The Brave and the Bold handled the Blue Beetle’s death in a children’s cartoon, it made me wonder how seeing that episode would affect kids watching it today. I remember enjoying my cartoons for the imaginative adventures, but there were a…
• The Krypton Comics van got a new paint job, with Spider-Man on the front and Superman and Batman on each side. Check out Krypton’s website for more pictures. I have yet to see the van in action, though I promise to honk if I ever do. • As always, The Capes newsletter is like…
A few days ago, Paramount Pictures released their first promo images for the new G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. I thought they looked fairly promising and bad-ass, but, today, they’ve released the first T.V. spot for the movie, to be aired during the Superbowl tomorrow. Superhero Hype! has a world exclusive, so you’ll have…
Welcome to the latest edition of Doomkopf’s Book of Doom. This week, our roundtable discussion is about the final issue of Grant Morrison’s “Final Crisis.” This isn’t the first time we’ve discussed the series on here, and our Book of Doom has even been devoted to its issues more than once or twice. For this…
It’s not often that we here at Doomkopf get let in on breaking news, as we tend to fall more in the gripe / moan / insult category, but the good people at First Second Books just sent over a note that Scott McCloud (of Zot! and Understanding Comics fame) is joining the indie publisher…
What in Blue Blazes is this? This looks frickin’ terrible. I just stumbled across it on the internet, so I have no idea how much of this footage will be used in the upcoming movie, but, boy, it just looks all sorts of bad. Like, they’re intentionally trying to make it look like it’s from…
Now that our look back at 2008 has concluded, it’s once again time to set our sights on the future. Just as I do every year, I’m here to discuss the upcoming superhero movies of 2009, and, from initial glance, it looks like it’s going to be one weird year. In 2008, we had quite…
In honor of the release of Final Crisis #7, which finally deflated my three-year-old theory that Batman would become the Spectre, I give to you another theory: 4thletter: Beetle for the Cowl. Like Batman-as-Spectre, Gavok’s theory is remarkable for its utilitarian brilliance. It’s full of supporting research that validates the comic reading experience by honoring…
I imagine it’s probably a futile effort to convince anyone to start picking up Hercules.
That’s probably why Marvel tricked me into subscribing to the book. But, I continue to subscribe because, damn! it’s the funniest funny book I’ve ever read.
Picking up Hercules, initially, feels a lot like getting one of those men’s bodybuilding magazines. For someone with a pre-Cap Steve Rogers frame like me, it especially feels like I’m trying to compensate for something. I mean, here’s Herc, bare-chested, hairy, and enormous. And he wears a skirt that sometimes, depending on the angle, comes a bit too close to exposing his mythic peen.
Marvel annoyingly—and perhaps wisely—transitioned The Incredible Hulk title into The Incredible Hercules, shortly after the Grecian’s appearance in “World War Hulk”. I’m not sure why, exactly; I don’t know that there was a lot of previous demand for Herc to have a solo title. All I can assume is they wanted Hulk to have a new title, with a new #1, that the character isn’t strong enough to support multiple ongoing titles, and the company wanted to milk suckers like me who didn’t realize the changeover would last quite a bit longer than temporary.