How embarrassing! As I sit down to write this, it’s 11:20pm on Tuesday and it just occurred to me that I forgot to write this week’s Doomino Effect!! I even sat here and commented on the site several times today. In my defense, I kept thinking today was Monday. I also kept thinking that yesterday…
After a slightly disappointing Tales of the Iron Fists done-in-one last issue, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction and David Aja return to telling stories about good old Danny Rand. Next up? A mystical martial arts tournament ala Mortal Kombat. What’s not to love about that idea? Surely there’s bound to be something, and you can rest…
Line of the Week- Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man #23, by Peter David J. Jonah Jameson: “I hate that F.N. Spider-Man.” I’m not really in a blogging mood right now, but I still wanted to bring that line to everyone’s attention. Peter David’s run on Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man has in my humble opionion been a trememndous success,…
By Nick Bertozzi Published by St. Martin’s Press, 2007. $19.95 The Plot: Georges Braque, Erik Satie, Pablo Picasso and other artists form their own dysfunctional version of the Super Friends in order to stop a string of deaths amongst the art community. Their detective work leads them to an artist’s wife who has developed super…
Some writers write for themselves. They try to figure out what they, as a reader, would want to read about. Or they might just try to push themselves as writers. Some writers write for the fans. They try to figure out what the fans want, and they try to give it to them. And then…
A few months back, I wrote about the debut of DC Comics’ Minx line and the first books. One of those, The PLAIN Janes, I raved about. Recently, I had the luck to talk to the book’s author, Cecil Castellucci, about her first graphic novel, her love of comics and plans for new books. Jean-Claude…
We’re a little late on this one, because I didn’t realize it was my week until Wednesday night. So instead of picking ahead of time what we’d all experiment with, it instead became a game of “What did we all buy?” Booster Gold #1 would have been a nice Book of Doom, but Jean-Claude Van…
Let me just tell you, the Time Away From Comics is not going so great. My life hasn’t fallen into a complete pile of dog poo or anything (lots of job interviews and looking at apartments), but I just flat out miss comic books. I’ve read plenty of blog posts about how it doesn’t really…
So that Fin Fang Doom’s tribute to the late Mike Wieringo could stay up a little longer, this week’s Doomino Effect is a little bit late. But now, it’s time. Speaking of being a little bit late, I’ll start with Fallen Son: The Death of Captain America – Iron Man, the fifth and final chapter…
Mike Wieringo was one of the first comics creators I ever became a fan of. He was one of the first guys whose stuff I liked so much I’d follow him to a new book without hesitation. Sensational Spider-Man to Tellos to Fantastic Four and back to Spider-Man again, I’m a happier person having ejoyed…