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...
by Jarrod | May 12, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Hypnotic is an all-is-not-what-it-seems movie made with a sharp eye for detail and dorky early-Aughts energy. So it shouldn’t be too surprising that the film, which was written in 2002 and feels like it, is...
by Jarrod | May 11, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Things are going from bad to worse. Pet Peeves isn’t as it seems: the irritations aren’t minor, it isn’t personal, and even after a wash is anyone really sure that thing is a dog? Don’t get me wrong, either; Nicole Goux...
by Jarrod | May 10, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. The historic exploits of Z Special Unit, the covert Allied special forces outfit established in 1942, seem tailor-made for a specific brand of war movies. Among their decorated feats were reconnaissance and...
by Jarrod | May 9, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. From Dark Stories to The Prisoner of the Stars, from Clarke & Kubrick to Black Max, Alfonso Font has spent decades putting pen and ink to work in his exploration of the strange and the fantastic. This December, Dark Horse Comics presents...
by Jarrod | May 5, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy changed Marvel Studios for better or worse, depending on your point of view. His grungy space movies made Marvel weirder; that’s better in my book. That’s why...
by Jarrod | Apr 28, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Freaks Vs. The Reich is what it sounds like, a sideshow spectacle that pits a quartet of circus oddballs against the jackbooted thugs of Hitler’s Third Reich. The twist — as though a premise like that would...
