by Jarrod | Aug 10, 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 report back on their experiences watching the first five...
by Jarrod | Aug 9, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF PREY CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Few action franchises have a tidier formula than Predator: knock out two hours of the hunted pursuing the hunter, and fill out the rest of the running time with an astonishing body count. So,...
by Jarrod | Aug 3, 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 knock out the October 2022 solicits and attempt to make...
by Jarrod | Aug 2, 2022 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Work sucks. Especially when you know you’re great at it and no one—not the customers, not your fellow employees, and certainly not your jerkface boss—seems to realize it, forget about appreciating it. Marty Tarantella knows this plight on a...
by Jarrod | Jul 28, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW OF NEPTUNE FROST IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Afrofuturism is the dream taken from a different page than the one we’re used to reading. A dream of the present. Here! Now! The dystopian horrors of tomorrow already reached us long ago. Unanimous Goldmine,...
by Jarrod | Jul 28, 2022 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Matt Fleming. This is RETROGRADING, where the dream is over and the insect is awake. THE FILM: The Fly THE YEAR: 1986. At the tail end of the American horror movie movement of the 1970s and early ‘80s, the genre was dominated by comedic thrill rides like...
by Jarrod | 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...