by | Jul 27, 2022 | 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: Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938, published in 2009 by Fantagraphics Press. by Arpad Okay. Nearly a hundred years has passed since Harold...
by | Jul 27, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF CLEMENTINE, BOOK ONE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Kate Kowalski. Tillie Walden’s Clementine is a portrait of grief. That deep-welled pit dug deeper by extraordinary and unavoidable circumstance. There’s grief for the people lost, of course; not many can...
by | Jul 26, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF DARK SPACES: WILDFIRE #1 CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. “Confinement or danger” is a cruel choice to make, especially when it’s handed down by a system that doesn’t give a damn about you. For some people, it’s...
by | Jul 13, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
THIS ADVANCE REVIEW OF ETERNUS #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. The persecution of early Christians within the Roman Empire is a well-travelled narrative Via Appia. But the eventual rise of Christianity as the dominant religion of the late Empire and the...
by | Jul 13, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. What we are isn’t all we are, a lesson Kent Armstrong is learning the hard way in Area 51: The Helix Project. Following a blistering run of fully-funded Kickstarter campaigns, Area 51: The Helix Project has entered its fifth phase and its...
by | Jul 7, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so much media out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst news and...
by | Jul 6, 2022 | CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones give their recommendations from the September 2022 solicits and talk a bit...
by | Jul 1, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where I wuz born with a heavy-duty pulse-machine-laser in my hand! THE ISSUE: Lobo Annual #1, “Hounds of Blood.” (Outbreak, Part One.) THE TEAM: Alan Grant (writer), Christian Alamy (artist), Carla Feeny, Gene D’Angelo, Stuart...
