by Jarrod | Oct 2, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Gavin Rehfeldt. Guns and Grayson make for an interesting combination, being that he is the disciple of the House of Wayne, which strictly forbids gunplay. Grayson #3 presents a direct narrative while also exploring the larger idea of guns, guns and fun, and guns as...
by Jarrod | Oct 1, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. I used to define myself as a DC Comics fan (inasmuch as we nerds tend to classify ourselves by these things we love and obsess over). Which certainly isn’t to say I hate everything DC currently publishes. It simply became very clear to me in...
by Jarrod | Oct 1, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Let’s be honest with each other: there was never anything wholly original about Lobo. Created by Keith Giffen and Roger Slifer in 1983 as a response to Marvel anti-heroes like The Punisher and Wolverine, Lobo was very much a heightened...
by Jarrod | Sep 30, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Andrew Stevens. At the close of issue five of The Chicago Organized Workers League (C.O.W.L.) we emerge from a labyrinth of plot and character setup, only to turn around and see the vista Kyle Higgins, Alec Siegel, and Rod Reis have created. Below us stands the...
by Jarrod | Sep 29, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. Coming off of Bullhead, an Academy Award nominee for 2011’s Best Foreign Language Film, Belgium director Michaël R. Roskam gives us his English-language directorial debut with The Drop, a crime drama about dirty bars and the crooked middle-men...
by Jarrod | Sep 25, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Gavin Rehfeldt. Gamora’s interrogation of Peter Quill continues in this month’s chapter of Brian Michael Bendis’s entertaining Guardians Of The Galaxy. This installment lands its microscope firmly on Quill’s eventful and nuanced past as all of his secrets...
