by Jarrod | May 11, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Why would anyone want to make a sequel to a controversial stand-alone story told nearly thirty years ago? Because money. Also because DC Comics peaked in the Eighties, and they’re going through something of a mid-life *snort* crisis right now....
by Jarrod | May 11, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Y’know. I was warned about reading Secret Wars the other day. “You better be careful,” this Marvel Zombie bothered to tell me. “If you haven’t been following [Jonathan Hickman’s] Avengers, you’re gonna be...
by Jarrod | May 9, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
By Jarrod Jones. This is what happens when the decisions are left up to unrepentant, irrepressible morons. In a move that should surprise absolutely no one, NBC has decided to pass on a second season of Constantine, the perfectly fine Vertigo/DC Comics property that...
by Jarrod | May 8, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
Episodes Four & Five — “In the Blood”, “World on Fire” By Jarrod Jones. Marvel’s Daredevil might be the best thing the studio has going for it right now. Look, I know I’m behind on watching/reviewing this show, but the...
by Jarrod | May 8, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Zak Rye. Between low-brow and no-brow, this is unCultured, where we shamelessly promote and defend some of the “worst” films ever made. In our twelfth edition, we hash through Todd Solondz’s 1998 feature, Happiness, voted by Premiere Magazine as one the 25 Most...
by Jarrod | May 8, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. In Noah Baumbach’s 2010 Greenberg, Ben Stiller’s titular character suffers — among a myriad of other inner conflicts — a tremendous maladjustment to the latest generation of 20-somethings. While that did prove to be a fruit worth plucking...