Part four picks up with virtually every DC hero–sans the big three, but including Power Girl’s jubblies–standing at the Great Wall of China while Black Adam wails on China’s Great Ten. The divergent plot lines–the resurrection of the Suicide Squad, Martian Manhunter’s soul searching and Black Adams’s rampage, collide with heart-punching results. Green Lantern Alan…
In what could very well be the biggest World War in comics this year, we’ve already seen death counts soaring into the millions, lots of B-list heroes straining to save the day, Black Adam pulling off some serious ass-stomping and even a bundle of answers to those pesky One Year Later mysteries. In this fourth…
Part two of most major storylines usually ends up being the exposition issue. WWIII is no different. After setting up the big battle in A Call to Arms, the story moves on to explaining exactly what happened to five heroes that underwent major changes after Infinite Crisis but before One Year Later. While it didn’t…
The story too big to fit in the pages of 52 begins here in World War III: A Call to Arms. I thought maybe I could use my gimmick of clever segues to recap a series defined by its rigidly linear approach to storytelling. However, the miniseries jumps back in time to Day 5 of…
World War III is here, and it is one heck of a barn-burning slobber knocker. Throughout the course of week fifty, Black Adam runs the gamut, blasting through Egypt, Australia, Italy, and, finally, China, where he hopes to destroy the government responsible for…well, pretty much every terrible thing that’s happened to him so far in…
After months of buildup, the biggest event of “52” is finally here. World War III. We here at the Legion of Doom have decided to give this momentous event the full coverage it deserves, devoting an entire day to what’s been dubbed “Black Adam versus the World.” Not only will we bring you in-depth looks…
The fine folks at Boom! Studios sent over a trio of new books, so I wanted to share the advance look with our readers. They’re three pretty widely different series, though everything from Boom! falls into that over-arcing “guy stuff” label. Zombies? Check. Action? Check. Lovecraftian suspense? Check. Let’s start out with Fall of Cthulhu…
Well friends, this week’s Doomino Effect is much like when your mother cleans your room and puts all your stuff in places where you can’t find it. I don’t know where my doominoes are and I don’t know where the comics I bought last week are either. So this week’s Doomino Effect is all from…
Understatement of the Week- Norman Osborn is “bipolar,” Thunderbolts #113 If by “bipolar” you mean “sometimes manipulatively evil, sometimes just batsh*# crazy,” then yes, I guess you could say that Norman Osborn is bipolar. But regardless of what you call it, it’s fun to watch. When the creative overhaul of Thunderbolts was announced a while…
Rising from the pages of Annihilation, Nova gets a fresh new series this week, and it just so happens to be the topic of this week’s Book of Doom, where you get four (or sometimes three or two) reviews for the price of one. Due to the Husker football spring game, I’ve been at work…