HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! WEEK IN REVIEW

By Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Our Week In Review serves to fill in the gaps our frequently verbose comic book coverage leaves behind. Each week, we take a brief look into the books that demand attention. New Suicide Squad #5 DC Comics/$2.99 Written by Sean...
HEY, KIDS! COMICS! THOR #2

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! THOR #2

By Molly Jane Kremer. In the first issue of Thor, we didn’t see a whole lot of the much-anticipated (and in the more ignorant corners of the internet, much-maligned) all-new, all-lady Goddess of Thunder, and what we did see was hidden under a mask-like helmet. Jason...
BIG HERO 6

BIG HERO 6

By Kyle G. King. Somewhere between sequences of sexual tension, gratuitous violence, and the shirtless Hugh Jackmans that populate the genre, superhero movies have become a category peddled to a plus-thirteen demographic. Perhaps that’s why it’s not common...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! MS. MARVEL #9

By Molly Jane Kremer. Boasting the universally-appealing protagonist of Kamala Khan, Ms. Marvel has been one of Marvel Comics’ most critically and financially successful new character debuts of the past few years. (It also brought in scads of new readers, a few of...

HEY, KIDS! COMICS! THOR #1

By Molly Jane Kremer. It never fails: I can always tell when something comics-related has really hit mainstream America, because my parents will immediately, and excitedly, call to ask me about it. They don’t read comics (but thankfully, unlike others in their...