Welcome once again to the Book of Doom. This week we’ll be reviewing X-Men and Spider-Man #1, Marvel’s latest attempt to milk $4 out of it’s readers with a needless mini-series featuring its A-list characters. But y’know, sometimes these needless mini-series turn out to be a good read. This week there’s four of us trying…
• Local artists Louis Simpson and Doug McCoy are previewing their new book “PUPPY LOVE” today at Krypton Comics from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Local artist Kathleen Clark will debut her new comic at Krypton on Saturday, November 22nd, also from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. • Jason of Legend Comics will make…
Click Not a superhero with supernatural abilities, or a person wealthy enough to buy high-tech toys to fight evil, but a simple human being named Hüseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of the southeastern city of Batman, declared war against his city’s namesake superhero, Batman. “The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to…
By Jean Van Hamme (W) and Ted Benoit (A) Published by Cinebook, 2008; 68 pages; $15.95 The Adventures of Blake & Mortimer is a reprint series of comics starring characters created by Belgian writer / artist Edgar P. Jacobs in the 1940s. The first three volumes issued by Cinebook were works created by Jacobs. After…
In the lead: Commander Hall supervises all the disturbances around the world from the JSI HQ in NYC. Ragman’s dealing with a feline Catwoman in Gotham while Green Arrow’s in Star City…just where he’s always been? Also, Black Adam’s mysteriously shown up in Washington D.C. and taking his frustration out on Ares’ invading minions, while…
Man this does not look like a good week for comics. Not a whole lot to get excited about and even less that is an easy jumping-on point. So who wins when the comic readers lose? Marvel, apparently. X-Men/Spider-Man is a mini-series that I was considering investing in. The art I’ve seen looks pretty damn…
I set here writing this comic review in hopes it will take my mind off the impending election results. Speaking of fearing a takeover of hate-filled creatures, I’ll start off with Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns. I almost chose this as our Book of Doom, but we have been doing so many Geoff…
“We’re doing everything we can to insure that the largest number of customers and retailers can continue to get a large majority of Marvel Comics at the standard $2.99 price.” — Joe Quesada…
Dropped! Avengers: The Initiative I am sick and tired of Skrulls. How long has this invasion been going on for anyway? Aside from mutants and Spider-Man, the Marvel Universe has been completely dominated by Skrulls this year, and I can’t stand it anymore. Here’s my new rule: if a Skrull is in a book, and…
Hellboy: In the Chapel of Moloch was the first Hellboy story I’d read in years. It reminded me of two important points: 1. How almost effortlessly cool this book seems and 2. How exponentially better it is when Mignola does the art As a kid, I remember hating Mignola’s art. I just knew him as…