Month: March 2009

After Watchmen: DMZ

So you’ve seen the Watchmen movie, and maybe you liked it, and maybe you’ve read the graphic novel, and you surely liked that. But where do we go from here? DC is certainly on the ball with their “After Watchmen” recommendations, offering up a plethora of choices to suit your fancy. Whether you liked the superheroes, the mature take on the genre, the doomsday scenario, or the political atmosphere, there are a lot of books out there to keep up the pace.

This week I’m going to recommend DMZ, by Brian Wood and Ricardo Burchielli



Book of Doom Preview:
Azrael: Death’s Dark Knight #1

Hey, remember Azrael? Sure ya do. He took over as Batman for a little while in the 90s, then he got his own series and eventually died. But now he’s back. Or is he? My choice for this week’s Book of Doom is the first issue in this three-part miniseries, where we’ll find out if…



Doom and Doomer: Wonder Woman

Doominator: So, Doom, we recently perfectly legally watched the direct to DVD Wonder Woman movie. I find myself with a few words swimming in my head. Doom DeLuise: Felony? Doominator: None of them are “Oscar.” Felony works, but this wasn’t quite a crime against humanity. It didn’t try hard enough. It didn’t try at all…



Stump the Doominator, Week of March 15

… is not happening. Sorry! No one sent me questions. Shame, shame. If you want to send some for next week, send them on to doominator_at_doomkopf_dot_com. So instead, I just want to disagree with most people on the board and say I liked the Watchmen movie. For me, it highlighted something important: the inherent ridiculousness…



Dr. Manhattan:
More Man Than America Can Handle?

I’ve yet to write down any of my thoughts about the Watchmen movie, but one thing that I couldn’t help but thinking that night in the theater is “that’s a lot of penis.” I was first surprised that there was any dick at all, but then I was surprised by how much they put in…



Who Will Be America’s Next Top Batman?

Now that the first issue of the new miniseries Batman: Battle for the Cowl is out, I’d say that it’s high time we started kicking up the speculation on who will be wearing the cape and cowl by the end of this thing. People have been guessing at the answer since it was first announced…



Rapid-fire Doomino Effect for March 4, 2009

There’s been a lot of content going up in the last 24 hours (don’t miss the quickly bumped Watchmen review) and there’s still more coming (Book of Doom preview), so I’m going to keep this brief. • Daredevil #116, Return of the King part 1 – great introduction to the new arc. I wish I…



Movie Review: Coraline

One year for Christmas, I got my niece the book “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman, in an attempt to turn her into a total dork. It paid off, and quickly, she was enamored with Neil Gaiman, so I gave her a Sandman volume and my copy of Neverwhere. Not sure if she ever read those, but…



Q&A: Julia Wertz

Since 2005, Julia Wertz has been writing the autobiographical, misanthropic strip known as The Fart Party. But recently, she released I Saw You …, an anthology of comics based on real life missed connections from Craigslist and other sources. Funny, sad, creepy and just weird, the anthology assembles works by knowns and unknowns, including the…



Doom and Doomer: Watchmen

JIM DOOM: So did you see Watchmen yet? DOOM DeLUISE: Yes I did. JIM DOOM: I read Sunday morning that it had a three-day opening of $55.7 million. How do they know that on Sunday morning? Isn’t Sunday part of the three-day total? DOOM DeLUISE: Sunday’s an estimate. Actual figures don’t come out until Monday….