by Jarrod | May 18, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
by Jarrod Jones. You ever wonder what it was like to be a kid back in the early Forties? To read a book like Superman and get completely stoked on the idea that there could exist a hero who soared overhead? In big-ass red boots? Y’know, back in the day, when a...
by Jarrod | Mar 16, 2016 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. I have to hand it to Max Landis — the guy knows how to write a Superman story. Yes, even though American Alien has long been touted as, well… “not a Superman comic”, the core concepts of the Last Son of Krypton remain in...
by Jarrod | Nov 12, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Jarrod Jones. “This is not a Superman comic.” Those are the words that have brazenly hovered over advertisements for DC Comics’ latest miniseries, Superman: American Alien, for the last couple of months. And for just as long those words have been...
by Jarrod | Aug 28, 2015 | HEY, KIDS! COMICS!
By Kyle G. King. This past Saturday afternoon, screenwriter Max Landis took to Twitter to rant about why his latest film American Ultra finished at the lower end at the box office. In a (not so unusual) week crammed with sequels, reboots, and a biopic, Landis...