by Jarrod | Sep 5, 2017 | TUBE ROCKET
by Jarrod Jones. It’s a beautiful, and frightful, alchemy of Max Fleischer and Neal Adams, and arguably the finest superhero cartoon to ever air on television. What’s so fascinating about Batman: The Animated Series is that after thirty years it...
by Jarrod | Jul 29, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. It was a one-shot. Prestige format, hallucinatory narrative, adult-oriented material. A far cry from the Comics Code-approved superhero dustups from the era. It never should have had a place in the wider Batman mythos, and yet, somehow, its legacy...
by Jarrod | Sep 15, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Seven — “The Way Of All Flesh” By Jarrod Jones. When Metallo was introduced to the Superman mythology with Action Comics #252 (published May of 1959), he was billed as “THE MAN WITH THE KRYPTONITE HEART”. It was simplicity...
by Jarrod | Sep 7, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Six — “Feeding Time” By Jarrod Jones. For the oddball assortment of ne’erdowells who sought to defy the Man of Steel, there has always been plenty of room for improvement. In the case of The Parasite especially, that...
by Jarrod | Aug 31, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, TUBE ROCKET
Season One, Episode Five — “A Little Piece of Home” By Jarrod Jones. One of the more intriguing aspects to the animosity between Superman and Lex Luthor has always been the nature of how they do battle. I mean, let’s face it. For Superman, it...