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Doom DeLuise
Doom DeLuise enjoys most every comic that he reads. He knows good writing from bad, and he’s certainly read lots and lots of poorly written comics, but he’s an optimistic type of fellow, and is able to find the good in nearly anything.
Turn-offs: Smokers.

Fin Fang Doom
God bless the public library. Were it not for a monthly subscription to Amazing Spider-Man and a handful of 60s Marvel collections they had, my love of comics would not be what it is today. No summer day was ever spent better than it was reading Bring on the Bad Guys and Son of Origins with Colonel Doom and his bro.

Then came the end of 1994, which marked both the start of some sizable disposable income and the death of Professor X. Yes, the Age of Apocalypse is the reason I collect comics to this very day. I am and always have been a sucker for a good mega-crossover, and AoA still holds up as one of the best Marvel’s ever done (which I realize isn’t saying a whole lot).

For years, the only comics I bought were Uncanny X-Men, X-Men and X-Man. Then came a little thing called Onslaught, which opened my eyes to the rest of the Marvel Universe. Onslaught gave way to Heroes Reborn (which I avoided), which gave way to Heroes Return (which I scooped up with delight). For the first time, stuff that wasn’t X-Men or Spider-Man appealed to me. And I guess I have Rob Liefeld to thank, in a way.

Discovering the world outside of Spidey and Wolverine lead me to independent stuff like Tellos and Bone (still my favorite comic story of all time). For some reason, I never started reading DC Comics, except for Elseworlds stuff and the classics like Watchmen and Dark Knight Returns.

Then my old comic-reading companion Colonel Doom told me about a little thing called Countdown to Infinite Crisis. And now I spend twice as much money every week as I used to. Thanks a lot, Colonel.

I count Robert Kirkman, Joss Whedon, Peter David, Mark Waid and Kurt Busiek amongst my favorite writers.

Mark Bagley, Alex Ross, John Cassaday, Alan Davis and George Perez are some of my favorite aritsts.

Here’s a sampling of what I read and enjoy now: The Walking Dead, Amazing Spider-Man, Detective Comics, Invincible, She-Hulk, Birds of Prey, Fear Agent, Nightwing, Runaways, Fallen Angel, Astonishing X-Men.

Jean-Claude Van Doom
Jean-Claude Van Doom retired from kicking and punching people in the late 1980s, not coincidentally at the same time as he stumbled into comic books. Over his early years of reading, he followed mostly Spider-Man and Uncanny X-Men, with some Batman, G.I. Joe and other standards thrown in.

Van Doom fell out of comics in the late 1990s after becoming disillusioned with Onslaught and the “I’ll draw as many huge-ass weapons on this guy as I possibly can” school of art. This also turned Van Doom from his dream of one day drawing his own comics.

Jim Doom helped usher him back into comics in the early 2000s, using The Ultimates, Daredevil and Powers as prime examples that at least some comics had quit sucking. In more recent years, he has converted largely to a DC reader because Spider-Man just continued to suck in pretty much every title. Still, his all-time favorite comic book moment is the return of Colossus in the first arc of Astonishing X-Men.

Van Doom tries to act all Mr. Smarty Pants by reading some “serious” comic books (at least half of which are pretty boring). He prefers a good story over great art, but has picked up a book or two for the illustrations alone.

Jean-Claude Van Doom passed away in October 2007, due to unknown causes. He’s survived by a vacuum of bland indie comics reviews.

Jim Doom
Jim Doom buys comics and reads them and then lets them pile up on the floor. He does not polybag. He tends to get irrationally angry with people who hated Civil War, particularly Fin Fang Doom.