by Jarrod | Jul 22, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where fair is fair. THE FILM: The Legend of Billie Jean THE YEAR: 1985. The Eighties were a golden age of teen adventure movies, the decade of E.T., The Goonies, Karate Kid, and more. While some were canonized, others...
by Jarrod | Jul 15, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Kit Anderson’s Safer Places, from Avery Hill Publishing. by Arpad Okay. Kit Anderson invites you to walk with the wizard. The...
by Jarrod | Jul 15, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Matthew Amuso. Hitting the scene five years ago with The Freak, Matt Lesniewski’s style has only continued to evolve. Faceless and the Family is a new high point. While his early work seemed influenced by artists like Mobius and...
by Jarrod | Jun 27, 2024 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where we’re in between the panels. THE FILM: Super THE YEAR: 2010. Three years after Iron Man and a year before The Avengers, the superhero movie craze was shifting into second gear. Beore he became DCU co-head, James...
by Jarrod | Jun 13, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Matthew Amuso. HATE is back! After chronicling the perpetually aggravated Buddy Bradley’s life for over three decades, Peter Bagge’s hilarious and uncomfortably relatable alternative comics opus wrapped up its run in...