TUBE ROCKET: THE FLASH

Season One, Episode Twelve – “Crazy For You” By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. The phrase “Freak of the Week” gets thrown around a lot here at TUBE ROCKET, but with The Flash’s twelfth episode, not only are we introduced to yet...

TUBE ROCKET: GOTHAM

Season One, Episode Fourteen – “The Fearsome Dr. Crane” By Jarrod Jones. With the premiere of Gotham’s fourteenth episode, it dawned on me that there are still eight more weeks left to Bruno Heller’s wildly misguided tour through Gotham...
DONNA WATCHES BUNCHES OF MOVIES

DONNA WATCHES BUNCHES OF MOVIES

By Donna Bourgois. If you’ve never been to Austin let me fill you in on some of the things that make the city great. Of course there’s SXSW, Fantastic Fest, and tons of live music (and tons of traffic). I combat my 2 hour commute to and from work everyday with...
MORTDECAI

MORTDECAI

By Kyle G. King. With a story loosely based on the universe that surrounds an amusement park ride, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl still managed to gross $654 million worldwide, receive glowing reviews from critics and fans alike, and earn its...
THE MALTESE FALCON

THE MALTESE FALCON

By Jarrod Jones.  “I don’t mind a reasonable amount of trouble,” chuckles Samuel Spade, a sardonic shamus who sits inside a posh hotel room belonging to a fretting femme who isn’t quite what she seems. He glances out from a window towards a...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GOTHAM ACADEMY #4

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! GOTHAM ACADEMY #4

By Molly Jane Kremer. Gotham has always been a city that had its own personality, its own inexorable pull; a darkness ever on the edge of dawn. You can understand the level of devotion a man like Bruce Wayne could have towards it, a man ceaselessly trying to save it...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATMAN #38

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! BATMAN #38

By Jarrod Jones. “My dad said things got bad here sometimes,” Julia Pennyworth muses aloud to a more-dour-than-usual Dark Knight. “But humor me, yeah? This isn’t just a Tuesday.” “No,” the Batman grimly replies....