by Jarrod | Oct 2, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened twice monthly to champion a book that we adore. This week Arpad recommends ‘Mirenda, Vol. 1′ TPB, in comic stores November 7 and bookstores November 13, from Image Comics. by Arpad Okay. A vision. A dream. Mirenda...
by Jarrod | Oct 2, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘SHANGHAI RED’ #4 IS SPOILER-FREE. by Clyde Hall. People who’ve endured employment in a modern, toxic work environment probably feel Shanghai Red more than most. The small bitter tang in the back of our throats akin to the suffocating...
by Jarrod | Oct 2, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘GREEN MONK: BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS’ OGN IS SPOILER-FREE. by Brendan Hodgdon. While Image Comics is often justly recognized as the central pillar of independent, creator-owned comics, there are obviously many other avenues for nontraditional...
by Jarrod | Sep 28, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘HEROES IN CRISIS’ #1 IS SPOILER-FREE. by Brendan Hodgdon. The word “Crisis” has a particularly loaded significance in DC Comics history. It denotes a grand storytelling event of cosmic significance and celebrated quality (Crisis on Infinite...
by Jarrod | Sep 28, 2018 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF ‘FRIENDO’ #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. The near-future tone of several recent science fiction themes in comics has me wondering: Was Black Mirror a harbinger of things soon to come, or did it merely popularize a trend already...