by Jarrod | Oct 10, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Michael Cuesta’s Kill The Messenger, a film about the weapons of journalism wielded by a goateed Jeremy Renner, is a tonally mixed bag of several great ideas. It’s a simmering political procedural that takes place during the plasti-sheen...
by Jarrod | Oct 10, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. As a child, I spent an inordinate amount of time watching movies on cable and VHS. My mother would insist I come outside to enjoy the beautiful weather. I would respond, “But Mom, Back To The Future is on HBO right now.” As an adult, I’m attempting to...
by Jarrod | Oct 9, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. There’s no getting around it: everybody has been waiting for this. Since Zero Year (finally) came to a close, everyone who’s worth their Bat-boots has been pondering the question: what is Endgame? DC Comics wasn’t talking, writer...
by Jarrod | Oct 9, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. I like my superhero comics to be fun. (I’ve said as much in a handful of reviews already.) While there is a place for the dark and moody pathos of Brian Michael Bendis’ (superlative) Daredevil, Mark Waid’s recent, more optimistic reimagining of...
by Jarrod | Oct 9, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Gavin Rehfeldt. Wytches #1 has been born of truly twisted magic. Batman-scribe Scott Snyder returns to the horror genre with his latest creator owned book for Image after a popular run on Vertigo’s American Vampire, and his previous Image horror entry Severed....
by Jarrod | Oct 8, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Even if you haven’t read Gillian Flynn’s novel Gone Girl, odds are you’ve heard of it. Or perhaps you have at least a peripheral awareness of the icy thriller that merited the insufferable “oohs” and “aahs”...