I sit here on the couch as my wife watches “Bring it On…Yet Again,” so what better time to get out this week’s comics and line them up, doomino style. Speaking of bringing it on yet again, we’ll start off with Justice League of America Wedding Special #1, in which the villains of the DC…
It’s been 10 years since DC launched the alterna-verse Tangent Comics, and using the same logic that brought the execrable Onslaught Reborn, that means it’s time for a good dusting off, right? And that’s how I came to read Tangent Comics: Vol. 1, which came out recently, collecting the first issues of The Atom, The…
The JLA Wedding Special has got to be the worst marketing idea in recent memory. First of all, nothing draws fanboys to a comic like having the word “Wedding” in the title, am I right? [No, I am not.] Second, DC Specials tend to be throwaway stories that are utterly avoidable, but this one wasn’t…
Huh, apparently the guys weren’t very excited about this (mildly) monumentous moment in Daredevil history, because only one other Doomer joined in for our collective review, and you won’t believe who it was. Since we didn’t have much contribution this week, how about you readers pipe in with some thoughts on the artistic mash-up that…
Every comic but one on the list this week falls in the same category: mostly good but held down by serious shortcomings. Not bad, in other words, but it could’ve been a lot better. Ain’t that just the way… Worst: Green Lantern #23 It’s not that I didn’t like this book, it’s just that I…
Hip hop has always had a connection to comic books, with super hero references slipping into songs and the mini comic Outkast inserted in their ATLiens release. All the same, last week’s publication of Sentences (Vertigo, $19.99) marks a new level of relationship between the two. A true hip hop autobiography, the book relates the…
It’s been happening for a few months now – more and more comics are getting nudged up to that $3.99 price tag. I could go on about how comics were only a buck when I started reading, but the point of this is not just nostalgia – can the comics market really sustain $3.99 cover…
If you’re still buying Countdown, I’d be willing to bet you’re either a) a masochist, b) a fan of watching slow motion car crash videos, c) illiterate, or d) highly delusional of the comic’s worth. It has none. However, if you still are buying Countdown, my guess is that you’re not enjoying it enough to…
Welcome back, everybody. Just twelve hours later, sporting one wicked hangover, I’m back and ready to talk about this week’s issue of Countdown, which, for those of you keeping track, is the Countdown equivalent to “52’s” Week Nineteen, the week that Skeets made his full-fledged heel-turn and everything started going crazy. Has Countdown reached the…
Justice League of America Wedding Special #1 is not a throw-away one-shot. It is in fact the first issue of Dwayne McDuffie’s run on Justice League of America, part one of “Unlimited,” starring the Injustice League. If you plan to read Dwayne McDuffie’s Justice League, you need to get this issue. Plus, it’s damn good….