HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATMAN #36

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATMAN #36

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...
LISTEN UP PHILIP

LISTEN UP PHILIP

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...
RETROGRADING: SHORT CIRCUIT

RETROGRADING: SHORT CIRCUIT

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...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GOTHAM ACADEMY #2

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GOTHAM ACADEMY #2

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...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GRAYSON #4

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GRAYSON #4

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,...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! VELVET #8

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! VELVET #8

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...