by Jarrod | Feb 12, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer. New Suicide Squad (like Suicide Squad before it) has languished for too long in a semi-forgotten corner of the DCU, too visible and viable of a property to actually cancel, but never given the kind of creative team to actually improve it....
by Jarrod | Feb 12, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Arpad Okay. What happens when you give teenagers access to supervillain technology in shop class? Trouble. They make things nobody (not even supervillains) would consider making. What about when a kid tries to fight crime? More trouble. Stopping a brawl to take a...
by Jarrod | Feb 12, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Brandy Dykhuizen. If you want to keep reality comfortably at arm’s length, Second Sight is a pint of perception with a sidecar of denial. Cutting straight to the chase, the first panel shows the red and tearful eye of a man being forced to stare directly at the...
by Jarrod | Feb 11, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. David F. Walker can write about superheroes and techno-aliens and basically any fantastic thing you can find between the barriers of a comic book panel. But what he excels at is writing about people. Real people. You. Me. The way we shuffle past each...
by Jarrod | Feb 11, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Scott Southard. For some, to paint an Iraq War veteran as a protagonist in this era of storytelling is a difficult thing indeed. With the complex moral issues of a dubiously justified military assault, the footsoldiers of such an endeavor become symbols of ruthless...