As you can probably tell by my lack of posting on here lately, I haven’t had much to say about comic books. After Countdown to Final Crisis, which I dutifully reviewed all 51 issues of (more or less), I guess you could say I needed a little bit of a break. It seemed like a…
When I first heard about Trinity, I asked Doom DeLuise if he’d be willing to let me take over reviews of DC’s weekly series. “Feel free to do the weekly reviews,” he said. “Just promise you’ll be objectively analyzing them instead of leaning toward blowing a fanboy spooge all over the blog. That’s a gross…
Secret Invasion #3 came out this week, with the much talked-about cover with Spider-Woman about to kiss Iron Man. The cover took on new meaning with the release of New Avengers #40, which revealed that Spider-Woman is a Skrull. The issue opens with the S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier floating in the ocean, and Commander Hill aptly noting…
Fear not, faithful readers: Doomkopf.com will indeed be providing you all with weekly Wednesday reviews of the newest DC weekly series, Trinity. But as a way to kick it all off, most of the crew here will be reviewing the first issue as this week’s Book of Doom. Trinity seems like it’s off to a…
I just read Giant Sized Astonishing X-Men #1 last night. The guy at the comic shop and I bitched about it being forever delayed, and how we already knew that a certain someone was going to bite it. Well, maybe they didn’t “bite it” per se, but they’re floating around in Limbo, or at least…
I’m not quite sure yet what to make of Final Crisis #1. It wasn’t another mind-numbing crapfest like I’ve come to expect from Grant Morrison, which means I’m not rejecting the rest of the story off-hand (like I did with All-Star Superman and Batman RIP). Then again, it didn’t really do anything to make me…
That’s where my chips are, ladies and gentlemen….
It looks like Countdown’s sales crept up there at the end. Based on that curve and the close to 52, I can only assume that the final issue will continue that trend. Best guess? Maybe Countdown’s closing upswing is more consistent than 52’s because Countdown was leading to Final Crisis — not that Grant Morrison…
Continuing the system of letting the Avengers books fill in the blanks of the main title, New Avengers #41 is set alongside the Savage Land battle seen in Secret Invasion #2. Spider-Man gets tossed by a T-Rex into the jungle, where he encounters Ka-Zar, Shanna and some other of those Tarzanesque people, most notably including…
Mighty Avengers #14 continues the pattern of using the Avengers books to fill in details alongside the core Secret Invasion issues. This story starts out in the past, with The Sentry single-handedly stopping an invading Skrull ship. He attempts to confront them before they destroy their ship. The explosion knocks him out, after which he…