Who doesn’t love an anniversary? My oh my, it’s already been a cool hundred issues since… uh… since Marvel last rebooted Daredevil. Woop-i-dee-doo! Well, the alternative choices for Book of Doom this week were the Black Canary wedding special (not that I’m against a female-oriented book, but man does that sound stupid) and the new…
Hello, boys and girls. Are you ready for this week’s issue of the dreadfully awful series “Countdown?” Let’s hope so, because this is the fucking review of it. Let’s begin at the beginning. To start, Piper and Trickster are strung upside down by the side of a building, for Batman to find, by Poison Ivy…
Well, it’s another dud of a week here at the Doomino Effect, because again I’ve only got two books to review. I only picked up three this week, and Captain America: The Chosen was our Book of Doom. Normally, Doom DeLuise provides a weekly Countdown recap, but that didn’t happen again this week, so I’ll…
Cable sucks. I cheered when that guy died. He was dead weight in Cable & Deadpool, and now that he’s dead weight in the Marvel Universe, that title’s been phenomenal. So what does Marvel do? Cancel Cable & Deadpool and launch a new Cable title. That just sucks, which is pretty appropriate given my opening…
She-Hulk #21 made me remember this week why I love comics. Sometimes they’re just fun. Writer Dan Slott pokes fun at himself, other writers and the Marvel editors this issue in his final story on the title that explains away all the “heroes in the wrong costumes, with the wrong status quos” that have been…
There’s change in the wind around Mark Waid these days. The big news of recent of course is his move to Boom! Studios as Editor in Chief. That’s a big deal, given his history with DC. And now, with the pending release of Potter’s Field, Waid is changing in another way, going from his typical…
Forgive a tangent, but I’m already a bit leary of city life. In a month, I’ve been stuck in copious amounts of traffic, gotten lost in suburbia, accidentally happened upon people shagging at a storage unit and seen an Office Depot sign’s letters rearranged so it said: “Special today, clear red vagina.” Wait, never mind,…
I told the gang up front that I chose this book to draw attention to Jean-Claude Van Doom’s scoop of the existence of this series back in June. I love me some Captain America, but this book had three of my biggest pet peeves working against it from the beginning: 1. Existing to bring in…
You’ve probably seen this cover by now. And it’s coming … the X-Men are going to be disassembled! The very fabric of the mutant team will be shoved in another direction, with September 10 being the day we find out. Insert “never forget” joke. But this is literally nothing new. Marvel has disassembled the X-Men…
After our exciting initial interview portion with Mitch Breitweiser, who illustrated interiors and painted covers on the new Captain America: The Chosen series, we’re back for more from Mitch, plus a bonus interview with his editor on the series, Andy Schmidt, who has since left Marvel. Now, be sure and remember that Captain America: The…