by Jarrod | Dec 11, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. A good piece of fiction – or, more broadly, a good piece of art – makes you feel something. Aside from caring about characters and what happens to them (that’s a given), when a story can additionally make you look at life in a...
by Jarrod | Dec 10, 2014 | TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Nine – “The Man in the Yellow Suit” By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. It’s hard to believe that ten weeks have passed since The Flash premiered on October 7. We look at the calendar and understand that two months have...
by Jarrod | Dec 8, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Our Week In Review serves to fill in the gaps our frequently verbose comic book coverage leaves behind. Each week, we take a brief look into the books that demand attention. Detective Comics #37 DC Comics/$3.99 Written by...
by Jarrod | Dec 5, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. As a character, Angela is a difficult prospect, to say the least. Still new to the Marvel Universe, the character languished for ten years in legal limbo as Neil Gaiman and Todd McFarlane sued over ownership rights, right up until Gaiman’s win...
by Jarrod | Dec 5, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart blatantly brands itself as “a fake news program” (running recurring segments with nonsensical headlines like “Clusterfuck to the White House”, “Gaywatch / We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Newsed to It”, and...
by Jarrod | Dec 5, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Matt Fleming. RETROGRADING is my attempt to parse the films of yesteryear, just to see if they hold their ground. Prologue: “A Tale Of Two Coreys.” Growing up in the 1980s meant witnessing a unique era in Hollywood, following the end of ‘70s realism and grit and...
by Jarrod | Dec 4, 2014 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. As far as solid world building is concerned, there are few champions in the New52. Take several steps back and look at the entirety of DC Comics’ new(ish) enterprise, and you’ll find that there are few select corners in the company’s...
