The Green Arrow and Black Canary Wedding Special was a fun read, even though it simultaneously acknowledged and contradicted what happened in the JLA Wedding Special from last week. See, in the first Wedding Special, the JLA gets the snot whipped out of them by the Injustice League during Canary and Arrow’s respective bachelorette and…
I have to give some serious credit to DC Comics for coming up with the title “Wonder Woman Annual #1.” Sounds like a pretty sweet deal, right, a nice summary story to help prepare for the inevitably overblown Gail Simone run on Diana’s book? Let’s see what DC promo says: Written by Allan Heinberg; Art…
The Sinestro Corps War had a ton of momentum heading out of the over-sized one-shot that started the whole thing. It had the return of Superboy-Prime and the Anti-Monitor, the attack on Oa and the possession of Kyle Rayner by Parallax. Since then it’s kind of gone downhill. For a few months now the crossover…
There are times when I just really wonder why I still buy single issues. Take this week. Five books. $18. Enjoyment? Not so much. I guess you have to have a dud every now and then. So, who’s excited for some reviews? No one? Back of the class? Guess not. Worst: Madman #4 Sheesh. I…
DOOM DELUISE: You didn’t think we could pass up doing a “Doom and Doomer” on a movie with Doom in the title, did you? Jim and I even sat through 75 minutes of this so we could bring you Doomkopf’s “Doomsday” Doom and Doomer. Ok, to start off with, let me ask you, what were…
I don’t like Brian Michael Bendis. That’s the conclusion I’ve come to after reading my fair share of Bendis comics. There’s only one thing he’s done that I outright hated (Avengers: Disassembled), but there’s only one thing he’s done that I really enjoyed (The Pulse). Everything else of his that I’ve read falls somewhere between…
The initial solicitations for this book were secretive, showing a white space where we now know Kyle Rayner flies at our faces. DC would obviously not want to ruin a suspenseful reveal, you know, like maybe having Kyle Rayner show up in Countdown, apparently having gotten better. But regardless, it’s our Book of Doom, and…
The first collection of the new Justice Society of America came out this week, and a review copy sent over from DC gave me the push I’ve been needing to finally check out this book. To be honest, it’s really the push I needed to check out the team. For whatever reason, I’ve just never…
Countdown sucks, right? Ok, that’s out of the way. There’s a moment in this issue that really annoyed the hell out of me, so I’d like to take a minute to talk about it before we actually get into the down-and-dirty of what “happens” through the rest of this little rag. Here’s what it is:…
Last night, I sat down to watch the new Superman/Doomsday animated movie (thanks, Warner Bro’s, for the review copy) and was actually even more sucked in by the bonus documentary about the death of Supes in the funny books. I doubt that anything said by Mike Carlin, Jerry Ordway and the like was especially revelatory,…