by Jarrod | Jun 8, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. As a writer, Arthur Schnitzler was, you might agree, ahead of the curve. In 1897, he finished La Ronde — a stageplay intersecting the lives of ten people through romance and sex — and it was so scandalous that the play didn’t see a...
by Jarrod | Jun 1, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS ADVANCE REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. Let’s say fear itself is the only thing we need to fear. It is, after all, an unwavering force that shapes human patterns and world events each day. Fear of the future, fear of the unknown, fear of...
by Jarrod | May 31, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. By the end of the 1940s, Hollywood’s response to Superman’s popularity had been appropriate; between Max and Dave Fleischer’s stunning Superman animated shorts and Kirk Alyn’s 15-part movie serials, the Man of Steel was...
by Jarrod | May 25, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Griz Grobus, available now from Simon Roy. by Arpad Okay. Griz Grobus is the MacGuffin of Griz Grobus and The Tale of Azkon’s...
by Jarrod | May 17, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Ed PIskor’s murder-on-the-dark-web series Red Room is a deliberate piece of comics provocation; if you’re offended by it, bummed by it, or just plain grossed out by it, that’s its goal. Or, rather, that’s one of...
by Jarrod | May 16, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
by Kate Kowalski. It can sometimes be challenging to get to the heart of an anthology simply by turning its pages, flitting from vignette to vignette. Blab! has a clear pulse; it’s a love letter to comics as a form and a crash course in the history and...
