by | Nov 12, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. “‘Franchise’ is not a word that we ever like applied to Elfquest.” So says Wendy and Richard Pini, creators of the venerated Elfquest series. After 40 years of high adventure, heady themes, and a countless array of characters,...
by | Nov 12, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Elsa Charretier picked up a pencil one day and never stopped drawing. That’s the essence of Elsa’s origin story, in a way, almost exactly how she began her career working in comics. She grabbed a pencil, some paper, a book called Drawing...
by | Nov 11, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Morbius! “He who hungers as no man should hunger!” Steve Gerber’s captions read in Vampire Tales #1. Morbius! “He who thrives on blood torn from others’ veins!” The written style of comics have changed some since...
by | Nov 11, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
by Jarrod Jones. Some facts: Marcel Petiot conned people desperate to flee Nazi-occupied Paris by fooling them into thinking he was a doctor sympathetic to the French Resistance. He lured in his victims with trust—trust with their safety, trust with their bodies,...
by | Nov 8, 2019 | 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: ‘Killadelphia’ #1, out...
by | Nov 8, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Cover to ‘2000 AD’ prog 2157. Art: Cliff Robinson, Dylan Teague/’2000 AD’/Rebellion Publishing 2000 AD PROG 2157Written by John Wagner, Pat Mills, Dan Abnett, Kek-W, Guy Adams.Art by Colin MacNeil, Stewart Kenneth Moore, INJ Culbard, Jimmy...
by | Nov 7, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Brendan Hodgdon. This is RETROGRADING, where it’s still a strange world, and we’re all working to keep it that way. Cover to ‘Planetary: Book One’. Art: John Cassaday, Laura Martin/DC THE STORY: Planetary THE TEAM: Warren Ellis (writer), John Cassaday...
by | Nov 7, 2019 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY’ #1 CONTAINS SPOILERS. Cover to ‘Undiscovered Country’ #1. Art: Giuseppe Camuncoli/Image Comics by Clyde Hall. Imagine American isolationists enforcing their will for three decades, 1917 to 1947. Not just...
