As Doom DeLuise, Fin Fang Doom and I continue our annual tradition of crowning and condemning, we also have some year-end thoughts to share from several friends of Doomkopf. Robb @ Capes Comics: Best Artist: Gary Frank Gary Frank has been the most unique and important artist to draw Superman since Curt Swan. His run…
Doom DeLuise says: The Emergence of the Marvel Film Universe! When Iron Man came out this summer, one of the coolest parts of the entire thing was how, after the credits, Nick Fury showed up at Tony Stark’s mansion and mentioned that they were forming the Avengers Initiative. A month later, The Incredible Hulk came…
Jim Doom says: Bringing people back to life! So we just got Wally West back not long ago, and now Barry Allen is back too. I’m afraid Legion of 3 Worlds is going to bring Bart back as well. Azrael’s coming back in a few months. A whole bunch of people are coming back to…
Fin Fang Doom says: Build-Up to The Blackest Night! When Sinestro Corps War ended last year, I expected a little bit of a break before we jumped right into the buildup for the next big crossover, Blackest Night. But buildup is pretty much all that happened in the Green Lantern titles in 2008. Green Lantern…
Jim Doom says: Legion of Super-Heroes! I used to love this series. I hear it’s getting canceled. Maybe the superstar writer fondness for the original Legion has led to the current version getting less attention than they deserve from DC, but it’s not as if the title was some kind of hot property when Mark…
Doom DeLuise says: Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning! Whether it was pitting Nova against The World Eater Galactus and his Herald, The Silver Surfer, or establishing the new Guardians of the Galaxy, these two guys have done for Marvel’s Cosmic Universe what nobody seems to be capable of doing with Marvel’s heroes on Earth: They’ve…
Jim Doom says: Ultimate Jeph Loeb! The Ultimate Universe’s reimagining of Jeph Loeb continues to baffle me. I recently reread some of Loeb’s Batman comics, and that stuff was really good! The difference between his DC work and his Marvel work can probably only be explained by comparing it to how DC’s Captain Marvel is…
Doom DeLuise says: Sean Phillips! For the second year in a row, this is my choice for Best Artist of the Year. There’s no better artist I can think of than the man behind Criminal, and, more recently, the Ed Brubaker penned Incognito. Just take a look at the cover to this year’s Criminal Volume…
Fin Fang Doom says: Larry Stroman! I don’t think I’ve ever got to the point that I hated looking at a comic so much that I didn’t want to buy it anymore, but that was the case when Stroman took over the art duties on X-Factor earlier this year. The writing had been slipping for…
It’s that time of year again, where every website and blog on the Internet starts throwing out their year-end Best Of lists. Of course, not to be outdone, we here at Doomkopf.com are going to be spending the next couple weeks rolling out our very own lists of what we thought was the best and…