‘Black Panther’ & Marvel’s Fresh Start — CASUAL WEDNESDAYS WITH DOOMROCKET
By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is Casual Wednesdays With DoomRocket, a bi-weekly podcast where we discuss our feelings on the comics and industry news that affects us all. This week MJ & Jarrod talk Marvel’s…
From ‘Origins’ to ‘Deadpool’: Four lessons to glean from eighteen years of Fox’s XCU
By Joe Hemmerling. Disney’s recent 66 billion-dollar purchase of 21st Century Fox’s entertainment portfolio poses some provocative questions. Questions about the ramifications of consolidating so much intellectual property under one roof, about the future of the streaming media landscape, and, most importantly,…
These are the best films of the year
By Jarrod Jones. For those of you who don’t remember, DoomRocket began as a film review site. It’s since shifted its focus to the comics medium, but that shouldn’t suggest that its heart still doesn’t belong to the silver screen….
Bendis, Bendis, Bendis — CASUAL WEDNESDAYS WITH DOOMROCKET
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…
Ludicrous, ambitious ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ wants to smash, and we want to let it
By Jarrod Jones. Among being many, many other things, Thor: Ragnarok is a heart-shaped valentine to Jack Kirby, cut from red and green construction paper, glued together with care, and gleaming with liberal amounts of glitter. Undulating orbs form and dissipate around…
SDCC 2017: The news and announcements we are most stoked on
By Brandy Dykhuizen. Somewhere, betwixt the massive crowds that make you want to go on a Hulk-smash rampage and the small armada of four-year-olds we saw dressed as Harley Quinn, the world’s largest Comic Con is still, at least in part,…
‘Spider-Man: Homecoming’ excels as a notably unexceptional Spidey flick
By Jarrod Jones. It’s a tricky thing to discuss these superhero movies without sounding like a broken record anymore. That’s especially so when talking about the Marvel Cinematic Universe, though it seems there’s always at least one semi-fascinating talking point wrapped…
Maturity and baggage comes with ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2’, as they must
WATCH OUT FOR MINOR SPOILERS, TRUE BELIEVERS By Jarrod Jones. Sequels, particularly superhero sequels, often find themselves lurking in the darker corners of a franchise’s id. That’s partially what makes the sequel a more engaging film in the blockbuster landscape, at least superficially:…
