by Jarrod | Apr 30, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
By Jarrod Jones. God Hates Astronauts is about as buck wild as comics get. It’s a saga that has featured characters with names such as Gnarled Winslow, 3-D Cowboy, and King Tiger Eating a Cheeseburger, and no, none of that is supposed to make sense. That’s...
by Jarrod | Apr 27, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. In 2013, Marvel launched a new Wolverine ongoing, written by acclaimed sci-fi/fantasy author Paul Cornell, which over the next eighteen months barreled toward a climax touted as “The Death of Wolverine”. Many a fan rolled their eyes, of course, at the...
by Jarrod | Mar 30, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. Twenty years ago, no one had heard of Daredevil. Comics fans knew him, of course, especially after Frank Miller’s seminal 1980s run entirely revitalized the character. But mainstream audiences wouldn’t know the name Matt Murdock until the...
by Jarrod | Aug 17, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, where each week one of our contributors goes crazy over a book they just can’t seem to get enough of. This week, Matthew assesses the first volume of Image Comics’s ‘Curse Words’, available now in trade paperback. By...
by Jarrod | Jul 21, 2017 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
By Don Alsafi. With this week’s release of Astonishing X-Men #1, we have the tenth and final title in Marvel’s current X-Men relaunch. The initiative has been a bit of a mixed bag: For every standout success, certain others have landed with far less grace. It’s...