by | 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 sense out of the...
by | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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...
