by Jarrod | May 17, 2024 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where we share an interesting literary motif and a history of taunting. THE COMICS: Batman/Grendel: Devil’s Riddle & Grendel/Batman: Devil’s Masque THE YEAR: 1993. Batman is the world’s most...
by Jarrod | Aug 8, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing is a special, rare object: a comic book movie that can play with other genres and thrive in the doing. It’s also a monster movie, a love story, a tragedy in three parts. Watching Dick...
by Jarrod | Jul 25, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where a good death is its own reward. THE FILM: Man of Steel THE YEAR: 2013, one year after Christopher Nolan changed the superhero landscape, for better or worse, with his Dark Knight trilogy,...
by Jarrod | Jun 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, NEWSWIRE
Braving the gauntlet of tentpole events, off-the-radar releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, tv, comics, and other things that are bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: saying goodbye to Ian McGinty, and other less important things. by Jarrod...
by Jarrod | May 31, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. By the end of the 1940s, Hollywood’s response to Superman’s popularity had been appropriate; between Max and Dave Fleischer’s stunning Superman animated shorts and Kirk Alyn’s 15-part movie serials, the Man of Steel was...
