by Jarrod | Aug 22, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. It could all be metaphor, or none of it. He left the nunnery — exiled, really. Fell madly in love with the first brigand with whom he crossed swords. Life is hard on the margins; everything you’ve got, you’ve got to...
by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. THE FILM: Blade THE YEAR: 1998, two years before X-Men kickstarted the superhero movie renaissance and one year after the Batman franchise had just imploded itself....
by Jarrod | Aug 18, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. It may tick off certain comic readers to point this out, but Blue Beetle is a second-stringer in the DC superhero pantheon, warming the bench alongside the likes of The Atom and Metamorpho the Element Man. Given the...
by Jarrod | Jul 31, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. *Reading Watchmen upside-down* Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. *Sets book down* Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month?...
by Jarrod | Jul 27, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Order and Outrage is a comics legend grappling with perennial concepts turned extreme in our current moment. Those who have, take. Those who don’t serve. Simple. But in Jim Starlin and Rags Morales’ sci-fi polemic, the Have-Nots have a big...
by Jarrod | Jul 19, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. *Reading Watchmen upside-down* Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. *Sets book down* Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month? 10 years!...
