In the lead: Dr. Polaris, Professor Zoom and Lady Shiva are sent by Morgaine Le Fey to London to close a dimensional rift and steal its energy. Power Girl, Ragman and Triumph (not the Insult Comic Dog) arrive to try and stop them while Green Arrow, Tomorrow Woman and the Flash close a rift in…
This started as a comment, but has segued into it’s own list based on Doom DeLuise’s. Before X-Men, most comic book movies were laughable at best, cripplingly bad at worst. Del does a good summation of the familiar garbage. There is no defending The Hockey Team from Hell in “Batman and Robin.” And though the…
Last month, I wrote a blog that took a look at Newsarama’s list of the Top 10 Comic Book-Based Movies of All Time, and, after watching The Spirit last night, it got me to thinking about how many truly dreadful comic book movies have come out over the years. So, in the interest of fairness,…
Welcome to the latest installment of “Doom and Doomer,” in which members of the Legion take a look at comics on the big screen. Tonight, your participants are Jim Doom and Doom DeLuise, looking at the new Spirit movie, starring Gabriel Macht, Eva Mendes, Samuel L. Jackson, and Scarlett Johansson, based on the character created…
According to Marvel.com, this week should see the release of Incognito #1, the debut issue of the new series from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips, the creators of Criminal. If the quality of Criminal is any indication, it should be very good. Of course, I say “should see the release” because nobody else seems to…
Hey, remember when Doom DeLuise stopped caring about Countdown? The series created a whole new level of suck at one point and Del just couldn’t bring himself to review the thing on a weekly basis. Well, I’ve offcially gotten to that point. This issue of Trinity is from last Wednesday’s comics, which I guess is…
Starting off this week’s haul is Batman #683, the conclusion to the two-part “Last Rites” storyline, of which part one was a Book of Doom earlier this month. While working on a separate post about the Gnosticism in Final Crisis, I came upon a July blog on Final Crisis #2 which mentioned one of Grant…
In the madness of getting ready for Christmas and trying to clean up my workspace, I can’t find any of the comics I bought in the past two weeks. I don’t even remember everything I picked up, so this is going to be a totally stripped-down bare-bones version of reviewing the comics I remember buying,…
Orson Scott Card, a sci-fi author and one of those word-book writers who has crossed over to comics, has found himself a candidate for Andrew Sullivan‘s 2008 Malkin Award, which is awarded “…for shrill, hyperbolic, divisive and intemperate right-wing rhetoric.” (He’s in 5th place as of posting time, right behind Michael Savage.) Card earned a…
It seems these days that the default mentality of comic book writers when drafting up the rosters for the various superhero teams is a simple mindset of including all of their favorite characters from the Silver Age, when they first got hooked on comics as little kids. It’s why Geoff Johns has such a mad-on…