by Jarrod | Nov 12, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. “‘Franchise’ is not a word that we ever like applied to Elfquest.” So says Wendy and Richard Pini, creators of the venerated Elfquest series. After 40 years of high adventure, heady themes, and a countless array of characters,...
by Jarrod | Nov 12, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Elsa Charretier picked up a pencil one day and never stopped drawing. That’s the essence of Elsa’s origin story, in a way, almost exactly how she began her career working in comics. She grabbed a pencil, some paper, a book called Drawing...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Morbius! “He who hungers as no man should hunger!” Steve Gerber’s captions read in Vampire Tales #1. Morbius! “He who thrives on blood torn from others’ veins!” The written style of comics have changed some since...
by Jarrod | Nov 11, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Some facts: Marcel Petiot conned people desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Paris by fooling them into thinking he was a doctor sympathetic to the French Resistance. He lured in his victims with trust—trust with their safety, trust with their bodies,...
by Jarrod | Nov 8, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Cover to ‘2000 AD’ prog 2157. Art: Cliff Robinson, Dylan Teague/’2000 AD’/Rebellion Publishing 2000 AD PROG 2157Written by John Wagner, Pat Mills, Dan Abnett, Kek-W, Guy Adams.Art by Colin MacNeil, Stewart Kenneth Moore, INJ Culbard, Jimmy...
by Jarrod | Oct 31, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Take from the über-rich, the capitalists-run-amok, the over-the-line authoritarians, and give, give, give to those held down by them all. Do it without leaving a trace. No killing. Be righteous. Be true. This is the credo of Quarter Killer, a...
