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‘Infidel’ combines scares with emotional and existential drama

‘Infidel’ combines scares with emotional and existential drama

by Jarrod | Feb 19, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

Are you looking forward to a new comic book but it’s impossible for you to wait for its release before you know what we thought about it? That’s why there’s DoomRocket’s Advanced Reviews — now we assess books you can’t even buy yet. This week: ‘Infidel’ #1, out March...
Thrawn brings the legendary Imperial to the foreground of a new galactic order

Thrawn brings the legendary Imperial to the foreground of a new galactic order

by Jarrod | Feb 19, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

by Clyde Hall. An alien tactical genius. Logical. Ruthless. Inspiring, not demanding, loyalty to those under his command. If ever there was an Imperial villain with a difference, it’s Grand Admiral Thrawn. When he first appeared in Timothy Zahn’s novel Heir to the...
‘The Scarlet Spider’ may be convoluted, but we’ll be damned if it isn’t fun

‘The Scarlet Spider’ may be convoluted, but we’ll be damned if it isn’t fun

by Jarrod | Feb 16, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

By Don Alsafi. Surprisingly enough, the past few years wasn’t the first time that Marvel inexplicably took multiple major heroes off the table at the same time, only to be replaced by different versions thereof. The first time this happened was in 1994-1996,...
‘Only the End of the World Again’ rears its fanged head once more in a new hardcover

‘Only the End of the World Again’ rears its fanged head once more in a new hardcover

by Jarrod | Feb 13, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

by Kaitlin Beer. What happens when a lycanthrope turns human again with a belly full of wolf chow? You’re about to find such information, along with some other minor details that make being a werewolf a hassle, in this new deluxe hardcover edition of Only the End of...
Black Comix Returns is an essential tool for the culturally hungry

Black Comix Returns is an essential tool for the culturally hungry

by Jarrod | Feb 12, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

by Mickey Rivera. In 1977, writer Shawn Taylor (writer for Nerds of Color) had a formative experience that forever turned him over to the dark side. “Star Wars had come out that summer,” he writes, “and all the kids who saw it wanted to reenact every scene of the...
Swamp Thing Winter Special is a melancholic distillation of Wein & Wrightson’s sad boy

Swamp Thing Winter Special is a melancholic distillation of Wein & Wrightson’s sad boy

by Jarrod | Feb 12, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

This review of ‘Swamp Thing Winter Special’ #1 contains spoilers. by Brendan F. Hodgdon. Len Wein and Bernie Wrightson’s Swamp Thing has always lived very comfortably (albeit sadly) at the nexus of hero and monster. As Alec Holland has been passed down...
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