by Jarrod | Jan 5, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Last fall, Marvel announced that they had commissioned indie cartoonist Ed Piskor for an ambitious miniseries called X-Men: Grand Design. The artist had made a big splash in 2013 with the Eisner Award-winning Hip-Hop Family Tree, published by...
by Jarrod | Jan 4, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Clyde Hall. Pulp roots run deep in The Shadow/Batman #4, as they have over the entire series. Lamont Cranston reels from a recent loss, grappling with its impact on his shaded counterpart. Bruce Wayne doubts his own autonomy, his worth as father and mentor. Damian...
by Jarrod | Dec 8, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Mickey Rivera. Mythology and marketing have a lot in common. To be effective, both need to latch onto a stray tentacle of that messy psychological kraken that turns the gears in our brains. They also both need to be exciting in the most emotionally primal ways....
by Jarrod | Dec 8, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Brendan Hodgdon. With a notable, dynamic creative team and a major motion picture to piggyback off of, the natural expectation for this new era of Justice League would be to go huge, bombastic, and continuity-shattering. But what makes this debut issue from Priest...
by Jarrod | Dec 8, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Clyde Hall. I remember thinking the Jem cartoon was a decent MTV-era take on the rock-n-roll Saturday morning fare of my misspent youth, like Archie’s Funhouse and Josie and the Pussycats. I had no clue. The rabid fanbase the show generated only became apparent...
by Jarrod | Dec 7, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Brandy Dykhuizen. Our favorite fretting wallaby makes his return–brow perennially furrowed, still somehow be-shirted in Memphis Milano–poised to take more than his fair share of life’s punches . How will this true mid-90’s Everyman be able to cope with...
