by Jarrod | Dec 30, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Arpad Okay and Jarrod Jones. These are the ongoings, minis, and OGNs that saved us, made things better, and represented the best comics could be in 2023. Mending a Rift. (Jean Wei; ShortBox) Portal travel is good for business but bad for reality. The day...
by Jarrod | Aug 21, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR, HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where some motherfuckers are always trying to ice skate uphill. THE FILM: Blade THE YEAR: 1998, two years before X-Men kickstarted the superhero movie renaissance and one year after the Batman franchise had just imploded itself....
by Jarrod | Jun 2, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Stan Lee famously said anyone could be Spider-Man; Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse takes that bet. Over its pixie-stix-fueled 140 minutes, this ferociously made sequel to...
by Jarrod | May 5, 2023 | ANTI-MONITOR
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy changed Marvel Studios for better or worse, depending on your point of view. His grungy space movies made Marvel weirder; that’s better in my book. That’s why...
by Jarrod | Apr 12, 2023 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!, HEY, KIDS! REVIEWS
THIS REVIEW OF KIT + THE WOLF IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Bootleg superhero comics, a longtime fixture in underground fan circles and a hot commodity in our modern digitized age, are a tonic for stale corporate cape comics. They offer a space where familiar...
