In the lead: The JLA realizes that the Trinity isn’t acting like themselves (or rather, they’re acting like each other) and decide those three need to head home and cool off while the JLA deals with Counter-Earth. Green Lantern, Firestorm, Red Tornado, Ray Palmer and the All-New Atom build a machine that will send everyone…
Last night, Marvel Comics announced their next big company-wide brand title that will be popping up on all of our favorite comics following Secret Invasion. That title, in case you were still wondering after that ominous logo above, is “Dark Reign.” It’s being compared to the Initiative brand, which stemmed from Civil War, and is…
While reading through some old posts on the site, I couldn’t help but notice a few lines that stuck out more than others. Doom DeLuise: I think that [Brad Meltzer’s] JLA has been an incredibly fun read. … Jim Doom: Are you going to try Countdown? DD: Hell yeah. I’m excited about it. — March…
• Grant Morrison responded to the various Countdown / DONG / Final Crisis continuity problems in a recent IGN interview. MORRISON: There were a couple of discrepancies which affected the early issues of Final Crisis and which came about because of the way the two books were being written out of order and to different…
Thanks to Labor Day delaying new comics, I can be a day late with this and still end up on New Comics Eve. Starting off this week’s Doomino Effect is DC Universe: Last Will and Testament #1, a story that was good and bad. The premise is that it’s the last night before the end…
Stereogum.com has free (legal) downloads of a new song from the Dead Science called “Make Mine Marvel.” According to Stereogum, the new Dead Science album will be “…based strictly on obscure comic book and Wu-Tang Clan references, which is a thing avant rock trios do.” All I’ve heard from the band prior to this was…
In the lead: The “device” Red Tornado, Green Lantern and Firestorm planted last issue was actually the All-New Atom. Superman confronts Ultraman, Owlman and Superwoman 1-on-3 and takes out the counter-Trinity single-handedly, then straps them to a bomb and blasts them into the void between universes. Meanwhile, Enigma teleports away after Despero confronts him about…
By Blake Bell Published by Fantagraphics Books, 2008; 220 pages; $39.99 “Strange and Stranger” by Blake Bell is an intriguing biography in the life, career and politics of Steve Ditko, best well-known in the pop-culture world as the co-creator of Spider-Man, but also creator of several other characters like Dr. Strange, The Question, Captain Atom…
Greetings, all. I recently sat down with infrequent poster “Doominator” to talk about some news on a potential relaunch of the failed Superman franchise. Here’s how it went. Enjoy: Doom DeLuise: In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Warner Bros. Pictures Group President Jeff Robinov announced that the studio is going to be…
By A.B. Sina (W) and LeUyen Pham & Alex Puvilland (A) Created by Jordan Mechner Published by First Second, 2008; 190 pages; $16.95 Prince of Persia is a graphic novel inspired by the era, setting and general mythology of the video game series of the same name, though not directly starring or attempting to personify…