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 | Nov 22, 2017 | CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is Casual Wednesdays With DoomRocket, where each week we discuss our feelings concerning the comics that mean the most to us, and the industry news that affects us all. This week, MJ and Jarrod have...
by Jarrod | Nov 17, 2017 | ANTI-MONITOR
by Jarrod Jones. While the current box office climate absolutely demands that it exist, Justice League doesn’t really have to. It’s an underdeveloped and simultaneously overproduced botch-job, a response to Marvel Studios’ many successes more than...
by Jarrod | Mar 25, 2016 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. There’s a moment in Zack Snyder’s monstrous Dawn of Justice where Batman, played by a sinewy Ben Affleck, rips a sink out of a wall and beats Henry Cavill’s Superman over the head with it. The only reason I mention it is because that...
by Jarrod | Jun 26, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. After exploring the emotional landscapes of toys, bugs, monsters, fish, superheroes, cars, robots, old men, young children, talking dogs, and toys a few more times, Pixar’s options had begun to dwindle. But with Pete Docter (trusted director of Toy...
