by Jarrod | Dec 30, 2015 | LOAD FILE
By Scott Southard, Kyle Holmer, and Jarrod Jones. This is LOAD FILE, where we take one final look at the year that was… and then blow that sucker out the airlock. This week, the LF team assess the finest in gaming for the year 2015. We’ll all remember 2015...
by Jarrod | Dec 29, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer, Scott Southard, Arpad Okay, and Jarrod Jones. If you thumb through the back issues of comics published in 2015, you’ll notice a strange narrative at play. DC and Marvel damn near mirrored each other this year in a squirrely race to rebrand...
by Jarrod | Dec 18, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Before you go any further, be aware that this review has minor SPOILERS. If you haven’t seen ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ and you want to go in knowing absolutely nothing beyond what its unstoppable hype machine has already provided you, get the...
by Jarrod | Dec 18, 2015 | ANTI-MONITOR, ANTI-MONITOR PODCAST
By Matt Fleming and Jarrod Jones. It’s Anti-Monitor, where we believe some films are best handled with the utmost incredulity. This week, Jarrod and Birdy dust off their blasters and take aim for George Lucas’ oft-criticized snoozer, ‘Star Wars: Episode...
by Jarrod | Dec 18, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Scott Southard. The fear of the self-help industry is real. Who knows what lies hide behind Tony Robbin’s enormous grinning mouth or the glassy eyed porcelain smile-stare of Joel Osteen. And let’s be real; David Miscavige’s face is the embodiment of a Faustian...
by Jarrod | Dec 18, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Arpad Okay. Rick Remender and Sean Murphy are having a great time with Tokyo Ghost. It’s a ninja tale for grown-ups, an adult’s book. Adult books share Tokyo Ghost’s content: sex and slaughter and manly proclamations about responsibility. The thing is, this...
by Jarrod | Dec 17, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. Meet Drusila Dragowski. (You can call her Dru.) She’s nineteen, she loves comic books, and she’s pretty sure all life on this planet is coming to an end. It’s easy to empathize with Dru, because… well. Because. Scroll through...