JIM DOOM: The August sales figures were released yesterday, and regarding these new Trinity numbers, there are two things going on here. There’s the obvious drop-off in the number of readers who gave up on weekly comics, presumably due to Countdown’s awfulness. You have to get to week 36 of Countdown, which is past the…
I only bought two comics this week. Final Crisis: Revelations #2 picks up with The Spectre chasing down Renee “Question” Montoya, intending to inflict vengeance upon her for murder, which The Spectre concludes she has committed as the leader of the Order of the Stone. Montoya claims she’s innocent, as she has only infiltrated —…
Have you read about this? All-Star Batman and Robin #10 was supposed to ship this week, but DC apparently recalled it before it could hit the stands. Why was it recalled, you might ask? Because it dropped the f-bomb. The word was supposed to be masked by a dark black box, but when it hit…
In the lead: Enigma, Morgaine Le Fey and Despero are all making up in their secret castle HQ when the Trinity shows up unexpectedly. The story cuts to a flashback of the heroes figuring everything out, and then the two Trinities have a throwdown. Oh, and Superman, Wonder Woman and Batman brought along a few…
Starting off the reviews is Secret Six #1. I really got a kick out of this team back when it was Villains United in the pre-Infinite Crisis days, and I’m hoping this series will re-hook me on this cast of characters. We start off seeing that there’s a bad guy who lives in a box…
In the lead: The JLA realizes that the Trinity isn’t acting like themselves (or rather, they’re acting like each other) and decide those three need to head home and cool off while the JLA deals with Counter-Earth. Green Lantern, Firestorm, Red Tornado, Ray Palmer and the All-New Atom build a machine that will send everyone…
Last night, Marvel Comics announced their next big company-wide brand title that will be popping up on all of our favorite comics following Secret Invasion. That title, in case you were still wondering after that ominous logo above, is “Dark Reign.” It’s being compared to the Initiative brand, which stemmed from Civil War, and is…
While reading through some old posts on the site, I couldn’t help but notice a few lines that stuck out more than others. Doom DeLuise: I think that [Brad Meltzer’s] JLA has been an incredibly fun read. … Jim Doom: Are you going to try Countdown? DD: Hell yeah. I’m excited about it. — March…
• Grant Morrison responded to the various Countdown / DONG / Final Crisis continuity problems in a recent IGN interview. MORRISON: There were a couple of discrepancies which affected the early issues of Final Crisis and which came about because of the way the two books were being written out of order and to different…
Thanks to Labor Day delaying new comics, I can be a day late with this and still end up on New Comics Eve. Starting off this week’s Doomino Effect is DC Universe: Last Will and Testament #1, a story that was good and bad. The premise is that it’s the last night before the end…