Let’s kick off this week’s reviews with Wolverine #69, the delayed fourth chapter to the Old Man Logan storyline. I couldn’t believe it, but it’s been almost three months since chapter 3 came out. That’s nuts. I knew it had been awhile, but I didn’t realize how long until I actually checked. I read chapter…
It’s entirely likely I’ll be flying solo for this week’s roundtable. For your legion of Doomkopf, this is a pretty terrible week of comics. The only book I normally pick up that’s coming out this week is The Goon, and quite frankly I’m not going to subject the rest of the gang to that. Instead,…
By Brad Meltzer (W) Published by Grand Central Publishing, 2008; 336 pages; $25.99 Comparisons between The Book of Lies and The DaVinci Code are probably unavoidable; they’re mystery / murder / thrillers in which the protagonists seek to solve an ancient mystery. In some ways, this is like The DaVinci Code for comics fans, because…
This week, against my better judgment, I picked the Justice Society of America one-shot spin-off featuring Superman from Earth-22, better known as the Kingdom Come Superman. I say it’s against my better judgment, because I really didn’t like Kingdom Come all that much. The art is really stiff, and I’ve never found the story that…
• The November Artist Jam is today from noon to 6 p.m. at Krypton Comics in Omaha. • Jason from Legend Comics made his Book of Doom debut last week, and he’s with us again this week (and hopefully every week). This week’s “Featured 500,000 Comic of the Week” at the Legend online store is…
Last night’s “Tip or Wag” segment on the Colbert Report included some thoughts directed at Marvel Comics:
From Yahoo! Movies: Is it just me, or is Rorschach’s gravelly voice even worse than Batman’s? I’m still not impressed, even though it looks like they’re taking it very seriously. I hate slow-mo, and I hate CGI, and I hate wired-up stunts. Oh well. I’ll wait until the movie comes out to judge it harshly….
In the lead: Morgaine Le Fey forms an impenetrable barrier around Europe. Gangbuster shows up at JSI HQ and gives Carter Hall the Khufu scroll. Enigma and Le Fey get in a fight because Le Fey is just killing everybody, but Enigma wants the power to revive people (namely, his wife and kids). He tries…
JIM DOOM: People seem to be referencing solicitations as a reason why it can’t be Dick, but they’re assuming that solicitations will be honest, and they’re also forgetting that DC solicited fake issues of the Flash to surprise readers about Bart’s death. DOOM DELUISE: The only two times Nightwing is referenced in the future solicitations…
This week was one of my most unusual comic-buying experiences ever. Nothing that I buy on a monthly basis came out (unless you count the Final Crisis tie-in) but I still ended up with five books. I decided to give Ultimatum #1 a try, since I’ve heard it might end up destroying the Ultimate Universe….