About Dom

Dom of X

Born in the Philippines and raised in the beautiful and warm state of sunny California, Dom of X is not only the assistant editor of Comic Releases, they are a content creator on all platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram.

Ever since they were just a child, Dom developed a love and a passion for comic book characters, always dreaming that he could be the next Batman, Superman, and even cosplayed as Spider-Man and Darth Vader multiple times during Halloween. It ballooned into fueling that passion by realizing that this would be a full-time hobby for him.

I’m also the assistant editor of the site! If you see a release date update, price update, solicitation post, or news post, it’s usually coming from my keyboard! I love data entry, programming, and experimenting on anything and everything. Consider the cat curious!

How Did You Get Into The Hobby?

It all started with a gift.

Back when I was in kindergarten (around six/seven years old), I visited my family back home in the Philippines. My uncle gave me a copy of the Sinestro Corps War Special one-shot upon arrival. I fell in love with the grandeur of the comic book, and I haven’t stopped since.

My cousin gifted me a trade of Scott Snyder’s Batman (New 52) and Geoff Johns’ Justice League (also New 52) several years later, and that’s when I began to read more or so often until I started pulling comic books at my comic shop in 2018.

Tom King’s Batman was the first series that I pulled at my comic shop, riding the back issues from issue #1 to the end at issue #85. I turned

I expanded out to Marvel in 2019 with House of X/Powers of X by Jonathan Hickman, Pepe Larraz, & R.B. Silva, and I haven’t looked back since. Now, I pretty much pull titles on the weekly, ranging anywhere from your standard Batman book to the weirdest science fiction graphic novels you can think of!

Today, my collecting stands strong. I collect everything from single issues to support my favorite creators to omnibuses… still supporting my favorite creators.

Favorite Creators & Comics?

I don’t know if I have a particular genre that I love because of how many creators’ works I read and the diversification of it.

I’ve always fancied myself as a fan of science fiction and the unknown. What stretches the limit of the human mind is something that I always attempt to tackle, no matter how dense the comic might be or how confusing it might be.

For that particular reason, I always will give any Jonathan Hickman, Grant Morrison, and Ram V. written comic a shot. Like one of my friends places it best, “Reading Jonathan Hickman is trying to solve a calculus problem while reading Grant Morrison is trying to read an enlightened and complex Chinese haiku.”

If you are looking for my favorites and recommendations from Jonathan Hickman:

House of X / Powers of X [Pepe Larraz and R.B. Silva (A)] – Sleeping while the world changes may lead to a complete disintegration of a status quo you once knew.
Manhattan Projects [Nick Pitarra (A)] – Oppenheimer meets the death of science.
Avengers: Infinite Avengers [Leinil Francis Yu (A)] – Can you advance Captain America in time and end up with the same Steve in distinct exponential solvents?
East of West [Nick Dragotta (A)] – Heartstrings will be tugged in an apocalyptic landscape.
Decorum [Mike Huddleston (A)] – By far one of the best female protagonists I’ve read in recent memory.

Grant Morrison:

All-Star Superman [Frank Quitely (A)] – The first page is all I need to say.
Batman: R.I.P. [Tony S. Daniel (A)] – A riddle so hard that it made me respect the Joker.
Final Crisis [J.G. Jones, Doug Mahnke, Carlos Pacheco (A)] – Rite of passage event; understandable if you are left in utter confusion to the plot.
Action Comics [Rags Morales, Brent Anderson, Brad Walker, Chris Sprouse, Travel Foreman, Gene Ha, Ben Oliver, CAFU, Andy Kubert (A)] – Golden Age Superman for the postmodern mind.
Doom Patrol [Richard Case (A)] – In no world should a fourth-wall breaking stick figure and men with scissors should end up being my favorite villains.
Multiversity: Pax Romana – [Frank Quitely (A)] – I wish I lived in a timeline where Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely crafted Doomsday Clock.

I typically recommend plenty of Marvel and DC books to people, so I cannot say what would be the best fit for you as a reader, but if you want my favorites, here’s a short list from each.

Marvel:

Hawkeye (2012) #1-22 and Annual (2013) #1 [Matt Fraction (W), David Aja, Francesco Francavilla (A)] – Grounded, minimalist, and
Daredevil (1999) #16-19, #26-65

Social Media/YouTube/Interviews

As a content creator, I always attempt to push the boundaries of what I can on a weekly and monthly basis. I host information guides on solicitations, DC collected editions, VOD reviews, and much more!

My YouTube is here.

You can follow me down below on all social media platforms.

I also conduct interviews of creators when I can! They’re usually to market their titles that are upcoming to push out their envelopes as much as possible. Here are links down below for my respective ones:

Phillip Kennedy Johnson (Batman & Robin, Action Comics, Green Lantern: War Journal, The Last God: The Fellspyre Chronicles)
Jeremy Adams (Green Lantern, The Flash, Jay Garrick: The Flash, Flashpoint: Beyond, Mortal Kombat: Scorpion’s Revenge)
Kelly Thompson [1] (Absolute Wonder Woman, Birds of Prey)
Kelly Thompson [2] (Reacting to Jeff the Land Shark’s Rising Popularity)
Si Spurrier (The Flash, John Constantine, Hellblazer, Legion of X)
Ram V. (The New Gods, The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, Dawnrunner, Justice League Dark)
Gene Luen Yang (New Super-Man, Action Comics, Superman, Superman Smashes the Klan, American Born Chinese)
Jason Aaron (Absolute Superman, Bug Wars, Scalped, The Goddamned, Action Comics, Batman: Off-World)
Brian Michael Bendis (Powers, Cover, Scarlet, Jinx, Ultimate Spider-Man, Daredevil, New Avengers)

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