by Jarrod | Jan 23, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened twice monthly to champion a book we just can’t seem to get enough of. This week Arpad recommends the collected edition of ‘There’s Nothing There’, out now from Black Mask Studios. By Arpad Okay. Characters like...
by Jarrod | Jan 23, 2018 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Joe Hemmerling. Disney’s recent 66 billion-dollar purchase of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment portfolio poses some provocative questions. Questions about the ramifications of consolidating so much intellectual property under one roof, about the future of the...
by Jarrod | Jan 22, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Courtney Ryan. Just like soccer and hazelnuts, bandes dessinées (or Franco-Belgian comics) never really enjoyed the opportunity to dominate in America because they’ve always been just a little too European for us. It certainly wasn’t due to a lack of great art or...
by Jarrod | Jan 22, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Brandy Dykhuizen. Our Week In Review sums up our weekly comic book coverage while taking time for a new review or two before it’s all over. This week: ‘Assassinistas’ #2, ‘The Further Adventures of Nick Wilson’ #1, and ‘Kill or Be Killed’ #15. Assassinistas #2...
by Jarrod | Jan 19, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Marvel’s first version of The Champions debuted in 1975. It’s hard to imagine a weirder collection of heroes with no real reason to be a team: Angel and Iceman from the X-Men, as well as Black Widow, Hercules, and Ghost Rider. It’s...
by Jarrod | Jan 18, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
by Mickey Rivera. No amount of idealism will change the fact that there is such a thing as irreconcilable differences, and that applies at both the national and interpersonal level. For the United States, and to an extent the Western world at large, the past two years...
by Jarrod | Jan 18, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
Are you looking forward to a new comic book but it’s impossible for you to wait for its release before you know what we thought about it? That’s why there’s DoomRocket’s Advanced Reviews — now we assess books you can’t even buy yet. This week: ‘Hungry Ghosts’ #1, the...