by Jarrod | Feb 1, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
by Brendan F. Hodgdon. It’s very interesting that after several years with barely any “event” series, DC now has two of them going simultaneously, with each promising universe-shaking consequences. But while Doomsday Clock marches along at a stately, measured pace...
by Jarrod | Feb 1, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
by Clyde Hall. In preparing this review, I first had to ask, “Is empathy enough?” As a white, male comic book fan of the Boomer generation, raised in a part of America where the Mason-Dixon line is truly an imaginary boundary, I might not be the ideal candidate. Would...
by Jarrod | Jan 30, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Brandy Dykhuizen. Our Week In Review sums up our weekly comic book coverage while taking time for a new review or two before it’s all over. This week: ‘Abbott’ #1, ‘X-O Manowar’ #11, and ‘Dissonance’ #1. Abbott #1 BOOM! Studios/$3.99 Written by Saladin Ahmed....
by Jarrod | Jan 26, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. In January 2017 FX premiered Legion, based on a character from the X-Men line of comics with a variety of superpowers – as well as schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder. It was immediately hailed as one of the most impressive comic book...
by Jarrod | Jan 26, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
by Clyde Hall. One of the tougher genres in cinema is the Horror Comedy, at least given the relatively low number compared to output in other categories, and the even smaller number of good ones produced. These are salad days for comic book horror comedy, though, and...
by Jarrod | Jan 25, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Kaitlin Beer. One thing I cannot shake in Doomsday Clock is that Adrian Veidt’s genetically engineered lynx (Bubastis, albeit a miniature version) is at his side despite having its intrinsic field removed. Or maybe Veidt remade his cat? Perhaps it remade...
