by Jarrod | Nov 13, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. It’s a question that has been asked time and time again: “who wins in a fight between Batman and Superman?” It’s a battle that has been entertained and touted for decades upon decades, featured in both good comics (The Dark...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. If you’ve ever pined for a life of fame, you’ve undoubtedly imagined that – once you’d made it – there is satisfaction to be found in drowning your naysayers in your success. That emotion of unfiltered bumptiousness...
by Jarrod | Nov 7, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Short Circuit (1986). When I began this series, I evoked Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, themes of which were adapted in a number of ‘80s films. From...
by Jarrod | Nov 6, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. DC Comics has been sending forth quite the deluge of new titles our way, and orchestrating major re-hauls of a few others also worthy of our attention. Gotham Academy #2 is, as you can guess, one of the former, and as a second issue of...
by Jarrod | Nov 6, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Making the Bat-books fun would seem to be a thankless task. Strip the bone-crushing gravity and bleak world-view from Bruce Wayne’s world, and all we’d have left is a billionaire crime-smasher with amazing gadgets and really cool,...
by Jarrod | Nov 5, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Andrew P. Stevens. Image Comics’ Velvet launches issue #8 immediately after last month’s cliffhanger, and moves us deeper inside the dark mirrored corridor that is this espionage story. Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting, and Elizabeth Breitweiser further display...