by Jarrod | Dec 8, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
By Jarrod Jones. She’s a whirling dervish decked out in diamonds and clubs, and she’ll clobber you one if you cross her. Of course you know Harley Quinn. She’s featured in cartoons, motion pictures, and has launched a tidal wave of merchandise with...
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 | Dec 27, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR
By Matt Fleming, Kyle G. King, and Jarrod Jones. While it would be very easy to simply crawl back into bed and call 2016 a bust, it’s customary that we pour a deep one and reflect on all the filmic horror we endured in the year that was. 2016 may now be our collective...
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...