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For a good, spooky time, get reacquainted with the squidgy party animals of Ghoulies

by Jarrod | Sep 27, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. This is Re/Play, where we take a fresh look at an older film, TV series, or video game to see if fond memories hold up under remastered scrutiny. This week: the Collector’s Edition of Ghoulies, available now in 4K Ultra...

Savage Unit gives a nuclear wolf an eyeful in Savage Squad 6 #3

by Jarrod | Sep 8, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE

by Jarrod Jones. As gender-flipped “men on a mission” yarns go, Savage Squad 6 takes a unique approach: the eponymous crew of hard-scrabble soldiers (Cap, Mags, Shells, Rosie, Hauser, Nat) are here to fill a gap created by The Scourge, a brutal military...

Notebook graffiti aesthetics give life to a small-time kingpin in All Talk

by Jarrod | Aug 24, 2023 | 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: All Talk, available now from Black Panel Press. by Arpad Okay. In the year 2023, the pulp tradition of crime perpetrated...

The BBC’s Ghostwatch: Still warping our perceptions, three decades later

by Jarrod | Aug 23, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. I watch ghost stories because, as a skeptic, I secretly want to believe. Well, not really. But, like most people, I enjoy the sensation of being successfully duped. The better-made supernatural horror movies will...

Chromatic Fantasy is a blend of Renaissance grimoire and unabashed anime vibes

by Jarrod | Aug 22, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS

THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. It could all be metaphor, or none of it. He left the nunnery — exiled, really. Fell madly in love with the first brigand with whom he crossed swords. Life is hard on the margins; everything you’ve got, you’ve got to...

1998’s Blade called open season on sucky superhero movies

by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!

by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. THE FILM: Blade THE YEAR: 1998, two years before X-Men kickstarted the superhero movie renaissance and one year after the Batman franchise had just imploded itself....

The exploitation schlock of Piglady is boar-ing

by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. In an Oregon courthouse on April 21, 2015, Susan Monica was convicted of murdering two men. Both victims had been hands on Monica’s farm, and it was there where they died; to dispose of the evidence, she...

For a good, spooky time, get reacquainted with the squidgy party animals of Ghoulies

Savage Unit gives a nuclear wolf an eyeful in Savage Squad 6 #3

Notebook graffiti aesthetics give life to a small-time kingpin in All Talk

The BBC’s Ghostwatch: Still warping our perceptions, three decades later

Chromatic Fantasy is a blend of Renaissance grimoire and unabashed anime vibes

1998’s Blade called open season on sucky superhero movies

The exploitation schlock of Piglady is boar-ing

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