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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Matthew Amuso. HATE is back! After chronicling the perpetually aggravated Buddy Bradley’s life for over three decades, Peter Bagge’s hilarious and uncomfortably relatable alternative comics opus wrapped up its run in 2011. For HATE newcomers, some background: Buddy first hit the scene in the ’80s as a New Jersey […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Hobtown Mystery Stories Vol. 1: The Case of the Missing Men, from Oni Press. by Arpad Okay. Hobtown is a strange, everyday small town. Uncanny, disturbing, and plain, a home to curses and secrets. Set on […]
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by Matthew Amuso. This is RETROGRADING, where we share an interesting literary motif and a history of taunting. THE COMICS: Batman/Grendel: Devil’s Riddle & Grendel/Batman: Devil’s Masque THE YEAR: 1993. Batman is the world’s most famous and profitable comic book character. Meanwhile, one of independent comics’ heaviest hitters is ready to dip his toes in the corporate […]
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THIS REVIEW OF NIGHT PEOPLE #1 & #2 IS SPOILER-FREE. by Matthew Amuso. Night People is an anthology series adapted from a collection of four stories penned by author Barry Gifford. If you don’t know who that is, that’s okay; not many people do. But Gifford wrote the novel on which David Lynch’s film Wild at Heart is […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. It’s been a while since I’ve encountered a good, old-fashioned monster on the page. Throughout schooling, I was intrigued and revulsed by the likes of Dracula, Mr. Hyde, Dorian Gray, and Frankenstein. All borne from Gothic literature into the collective cultural consciousness. All emerging from a dark and […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: The Crow, by James O’Barr. by Arpad Okay. The Crow strikes an erotic Iggy Pop pose, though the raked terrain of his muscled body is riddled with bullet holes. What bleak corners […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Matthew Amuso. Everyone craves answers, but answers are boring. It’s questions that fascinate us, animate our souls, and propel us through life. Questions, and pretty pictures of things going BOOM. Rick Remender gets that. So Napalm Lullaby #1 doesn’t waste time on exposition. No opening scroll or charts and graphs […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Sacha Polak’s Silver Haze is a gauntlet of hurt and no mistake. The people who live here have suffered, and sometimes they make other people suffer, a defense mechanism that deliberately leaves scars. Silver Haze is occasionally hard to watch because the miseries caught on screen feel […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Influenca, by Jade LFT Peters, from SIlver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. This book may be about sex and violence, but it barely gets around to either. I wouldn’t have it any other way. Jade […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. In folklore around the world, the black dog is a terrible omen, a portent of death. Anyone who sees one cross their path should brace themselves for the worst. In Lucy Sullivan’s Barking, the black dog symbolizes grief, the gnawing, devouring kind. It is a menace the main […]
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by Jarrod Jones. As gender-flipped “men on a mission” yarns go, Savage Squad 6 takes a unique approach: the eponymous crew of hard-scrabble soldiers (Cap, Mags, Shells, Rosie, Hauser, Nat) are here to fill a gap created by The Scourge, a brutal military outfit who have been wiping out the fellas of fighting age in the post-war […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: All Talk, available now from Black Panel Press. by Arpad Okay. In the year 2023, the pulp tradition of crime perpetrated by idiots is still cooking. There’s no drama quite like a small-time crook biting […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. I watch ghost stories because, as a skeptic, I secretly want to believe. Well, not really. But, like most people, I enjoy the sensation of being successfully duped. The better-made supernatural horror movies will suspend my personal disbeliefs concerning poltergeists and other so-called phenomena for the length […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. It could all be metaphor, or none of it. He left the nunnery — exiled, really. Fell madly in love with the first brigand with whom he crossed swords. Life is hard on the margins; everything you’ve got, you’ve got to take. But life on the margins is […]
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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. RECOLLECTIONS: Blade was one of those movies that seemed designed to fail. A live-screen adaptation of an obscure comic book […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. In an Oregon courthouse on April 21, 2015, Susan Monica was convicted of murdering two men. Both victims had been hands on Monica’s farm, and it was there where they died; to dispose of the evidence, she dismembered their corpses and fed the pieces to her pigs. […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. It may tick off certain comic readers to point this out, but Blue Beetle is a second-stringer in the DC superhero pantheon, warming the bench alongside the likes of The Atom and Metamorpho the Element Man. Given the perpetual state of upheaval in the DC cinematic universe, or […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s a movie I like in concept — a one-location survival-horror situation influenced heavily by Alien and based on one of the creepier elements of Bram Stoker’s Dracula; sign me up. The execution of André Øvredal’s The Last Voyage of Demeter, however, was too shaggy for me […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Darkness, a peculiar trauma tale that teases apocalypse and delivers it in the form of strained metaphor, is the debut feature from Italian director Emanuela Rossi. If her next project is made with the same level of assuredness and is less obvious about what it wants to […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. As anyone who’s spent time at a flea market or comic convention will tell you, collectors are zealous, dealers are cruel, and old stuff smells weird. Austin-based filmmaker Ray Spivey takes an even more sardonic view of this dust-besotted subculture in his new horror movie Storage Locker […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing is a special, rare object: a comic book movie that can play with other genres and thrive in the doing. It’s also a monster movie, a love story, a tragedy in three parts. Watching Dick Durock wander the verdant wetlands of his character’s namesake, […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Movies set in the far-flung future seem to decide humanity’s fate by the flip of a coin: lawless chaos or totalitarian rule? In Álex de la Iglesia’s 1993 debut feature, Acción mutante — Mutant Action en inglés — Earth lands in some nebulous middle-ground. The police are brutal, […]
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by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. Reading Watchmen upside-down Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Sets book down Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month? 10 years! That’s a long time to do anything, let alone write opinions meant for strangers. We’ve sure reviewed a […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. The first thing you’ve got to know about Junk Head is that Takahide Hori is a madman. The film’s writer and director is also its cinematographer and producer, and a hundred other roles. The movie is stop motion, which allows for the (practically) one-person production team. Junk Head is a wild […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Order and Outrage is a comics legend grappling with perennial concepts turned extreme in our current moment. Those who have, take. Those who don’t serve. Simple. But in Jim Starlin and Rags Morales’ sci-fi polemic, the Have-Nots have a big responsibility foisted on them: genetically, they have to serve a purpose. Those […]
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by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. Reading Watchmen upside-down Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Sets book down Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month? 10 years! That’s a long time to do anything, let alone write opinions meant for strangers. We’ve sure reviewed a […]
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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, and the year a certain review site came into being. THE SPECS: Directed by Zack Snyder; screenplay by David S. Goyer; starring […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Christopher Nolan isn’t the type to play fast and loose with anything he directs; even his more fantastic outings are executed with an eye for excruciating plot detail. It doesn’t matter if he’s showing us how a mind-thief pulls off a dream heist or the way a possibly […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Here’s something most people have pondered at least once as they dug through their toyboxes: are these dolls alive? The more cosmically curious might go one further: do these dolls dream? As we’ve seen in various movies, mostly of the Pixar persuasion, our childhood playthings not only live […]
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by Arpad Okay, Kate Kowalski, and Jarrod Jones. Reading Watchmen upside-down Oh, hello! I didn’t see you there. Sets book down Did you know that DoomRocket, your second- or possibly third-favorite review site, launched 10 years ago this month? 10 years! That’s a long time to do anything, let alone write opinions meant for strangers. We’ve […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Mission: Impossible has operated in a state of constant change for decades. The stylish spycraft of Brian De Palma’s 1996 film turned into an operatic exercise in extreme sports mayhem courtesy of John Woo’s M:I – 2. Then came M: I- III, helmed by JJ Abrams during the […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. Losing your grip on reality is a lot easier when you’re on your own, and each day blends into the next. Scientists who study nature are a fascinating contradiction where they want a healthier planet for all, and they need isolation — to be away from people […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. When Harrison Ford rode off into the sunset at the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, it was an indelible movie moment — remember, if you can, a time when pop movie characters could say goodbye and mean it. And it was meant to be the […]
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by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we know who we are, we know who we want, and ain’t nothin’ gonna change that shit. THE MOVIE: But I’m a Cheerleader THE YEAR: 1999. The 90s were a decade of liberal family values, making it safe for kids to come out and yet somehow also socially […]
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WARNING: ANIMAL HARM. by Jarrod Jones. When you read about Hairball, the new horror series from Matt Kindt and Tyler & Hilary Jenkins, you get the standard elevator pitch: “Junji Ito meets Hayao Miyazaki meets Stephen King. Cats.” And, I mean, sure. Hairball has elements that evoke those artists, and also it’s about a cat. […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson’s third film and arguably the first to fully unleash the director’s meticulous eye for vintage detail, was a sad movie that was also hilarious. Asteroid City, the 54-year-old filmmaker’s 11th film, despite its sun-soaked grandeur, is gloomier. It couches themes of cosmic isolation […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s your standard monster movie premise: a family member dies and leaves behind some creaky old house where their attractive offspring discover terrors beyond reckoning. The Tank, a conventional bit of beastly, period-set family horror from Scott Walker — his first directorial outing in a decade, following The Frozen Ground with […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. It’s both interesting and disheartening that superhero movies have morphed into garish cameo cavalcades that pull visuals — and sometimes even actors — from decades-old superhero movies to sell tickets. Try to reconcile the grimly nuts Michael Keaton from Tim Burton’s gothic Batman with the genial, sandals-wearing hermit he […]
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Braving the gauntlet of tentpole events, off-the-radar releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, tv, comics, and other things that are bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: saying goodbye to Ian McGinty, and other less important things. by Jarrod Jones. I’d like to take a moment to talk about Ian McGinty, the […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Skip and Loafer is Mitsumi. She’s from a remote town, ambitious, well-meaning, kind of square but so earnest you feel a little bad for thinking that way. She’s barely a teenager and already picturing her retirement as an accomplished elderly public servant. The first step in Mitsumi’s master plan: […]
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by Jarrod Jones. As a writer, Arthur Schnitzler was, you might agree, ahead of the curve. In 1897, he finished La Ronde — a stageplay intersecting the lives of ten people through romance and sex — and it was so scandalous that the play didn’t see a public performance for 23 years. Schnitzler’s play held that sex […]
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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 2018’s Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse throws 280 Spider-themed variants at your eyeballs. By way of comparison, its Oscar-winning predecessor had seven Spideys. Is less more? Not if you’re Across the […]
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by Aaron Amendola. It’s not so difficult to imagine a voice performer preparing for an upcoming recording session. There are vocal warm-ups and plenty of throat-coat tea to go around; then, the actor enters a booth to deliver a performance that will eventually be edited to fit whatever project they’re working on. For Patricia Summersett, […]
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THIS ADVANCE REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. Let’s say fear itself is the only thing we need to fear. It is, after all, an unwavering force that shapes human patterns and world events each day. Fear of the future, fear of the unknown, fear of the different — fear in any form warps and disrupts a […]
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by Jarrod Jones. By the end of the 1940s, Hollywood’s response to Superman’s popularity had been appropriate; between Max and Dave Fleischer’s stunning Superman animated shorts and Kirk Alyn’s 15-part movie serials, the Man of Steel was virtually everywhere. But never once did it occur to these studio moguls, who were already reaping the rewards of adapting […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Griz Grobus, available now from Simon Roy. by Arpad Okay. Griz Grobus is the MacGuffin of Griz Grobus and The Tale of Azkon’s Heart. That’s not even his name. (It’s Stanley). And as for Azkon, […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Vengeful ghosts are constantly popping out of the damndest things. The Ring had a vindictive child wraith crawling out of a tv set. There’s a specter who knows the intricacies of Facebook bullying in Unfriended. Cracked, the feature film debut of Thai director Surapong Ploensang, has something […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Scan any list of podcasts or streaming documentaries and prepare to be bombarded with true crime. The sheer amount of deep investigative dives into unsolved murders from journalists and armchair detectives alike is enough to make your eyes water — and that’s before you become acquainted with […]
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THIS REVIEW IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Ed PIskor’s murder-on-the-dark-web series Red Room is a deliberate piece of comics provocation; if you’re offended by it, bummed by it, or just plain grossed out by it, that’s its goal. Or, rather, that’s one of its goals. If you read any issue of Red Room — and you can read any […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Aaron Amendola. Mojiken Studios’ latest slice-of-life side-scrolling adventure game, A Space For The Unbound, has such a fantastic ending that you’ll be left wondering why the rest of the game feels a chore to play. Between scenes of genuinely touching human connection, where it tackles issues like depression and […]
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by Kate Kowalski. It can sometimes be challenging to get to the heart of an anthology simply by turning its pages, flitting from vignette to vignette. Blab! has a clear pulse; it’s a love letter to comics as a form and a crash course in the history and evolution of sequential art for passionate die-hards and the […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Hypnotic is an all-is-not-what-it-seems movie made with a sharp eye for detail and dorky early-Aughts energy. So it shouldn’t be too surprising that the film, which was written in 2002 and feels like it, is directed by Robert Rodriguez, the indie action maestro of El Mariachi and […]
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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 it was a mistake for Disney, Marvel’s parent company, to oust him from Guardians […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Freaks Vs. The Reich is what it sounds like, a sideshow spectacle that pits a quartet of circus oddballs against the jackbooted thugs of Hitler’s Third Reich. The twist — as though a premise like that would need one — is that these strange folk also have special […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Iggy Craig’s Sad Girl Space Lizard, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. The collected Sad Girl Space Lizard is a sum greater than its parts. A comic series part, a behind-the-scenes supplement part. The […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Just in case you don’t get the hourly notifications, being online can be a spooky thing. The idea of people being radicalized on the same platform where you can watch interminable video game streams is scary enough; thanks to Worldtree — or, as it’s styled, “w0rldtr33” — […]
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by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. THE FILM: Blade Runner THE YEAR: 1982. Ridley Scott leverages the power of Alien’s success to attempt another sophisticated genre film. Scott’s focus on making a visual statement allowed chaos to reign over two years of contentious production. Blade Runner bombs, but a decade […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. As it has settled into franchise status, Evil Dead continues to adapt to the times. The manic independent energy of Sam Raimi’s horror trilogy has given way to more grimly realized studio joints that include obligatory callbacks to the influential 1981 film and chase the current pop-horror hits. Fede Álvarez’s […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. You know, it’s weird: the first thirty-odd minutes of Ari Aster’s Beau is Afraid reminded me of the climax to The Matrix Revolutions. That’s the bit where Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss swerve through a city street as malicious bots in human form come hurtling out of windows to annihilate […]
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THIS REVIEW OF RENFIELD IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. Renfield is the latest in an increasingly serpentine queue of comedy-horror movies that think being hilarious is more fun than being scary and winds up being neither. It confuses mayhem with frights and does that thing modern comedies do where its cast never shuts up except when […]
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THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Nefarious is a tough watch, just not in the way its writer/director team Chuck Konzelman and Cary Solomon (God’s Not Dead) had in mind. This low-budget prison thriller, centered almost entirely around an extended sit-down with a loquacious demon played by Sean Patrick Flanery and a hapless atheist psychiatrist played […]
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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 uniquely subversive delights, a space where familiar heroes and villains from our favorite epics […]
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THIS REVIEW OF MENDING A RIFT CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. Undecided if this is a joyous or ominous book. Turn off the lights and the scar left from a mended rift in reality faintly glows. In Jean Wei’s hands, it brings together a group who wouldn’t, for other reasons, have broken bread. But […]
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Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, off-the-radar indie releases, and a non-stop avalanche of movies, television, and other things that are bad for you is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: bidding farewell to The Flash, my first Hate read, another Bloodlines dispatch, and other things. by Jarrod Jones. I’ve been watching a lot of TV lately for […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Nicole Goux’s Rituals, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. Sitting on the floor next to the bed, across from the mirror. Legs crossed on a cushion, hands that hold a glass […]
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THIS ADVANCE REVIEW OF STRINGER CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. The tennis circuit of 1983 was a time of giants. John McEnroe ruled the roost following his Wimbledon victory over Chris Lewis, despite his unruly behavior on and off the court. Whether he was fighting with his crowds or linesmen or the media who […]
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THIS REVIEW OF THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Arpad Okay. There’s a chapter of The Many Deaths of Laila Starr from the perspective of a cigarette. Just the one. The cigarette burns down to ash, it knows what a cigarette knows, and that’s it. We’re hearing about it (perhaps) because it was […]
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THIS REVIEW OF GODFELL #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Brandon Hayman. Godfell is more than just the title for the latest Vault Comics series; it’s also the name of a regional camp set up around and inside the body of God. Yes, God fell from the sky to Kerethim (annums ago, we’re told) and set off […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Horror hosts have it hard: you gotta have a Rolodex of monster puns at hand, make sure your makeup is on point, keep the ratings up, and know the best way to slay a werewolf. Sure is a tough racket—wait, hold up a minute… Yeah, werewolves. Real ones. Luckily Jerri Bartman isn’t […]
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THIS REVIEW OF UNWELCOME CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Jon Wright’s Unwelcome is (forgive me) a welcome throwback to the hallowed tradition of vicious onscreen ankle-biters who cut up in more ways than one. Know going in that this slice of home invasion horror parts company with Critters, Gremlins, and Puppet Master by recruiting its beasties from Anglo-Scottish folklore. Like […]
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Photo credit: Mauricio Molizane De Souza by Jarrod Jones. To many who write about comics or, worse, mire in their thankless promotion, Michael Molcher is a rocksteady source of inspiration and a helping hand. He’s MOLCH-R, the steadfast Brand Manager for the British sci-fi comics anthology 2000 AD and Rebellion Publishing. For devoted readers of Judge Dredd, […]
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by Jarrod Jones. In the distant future, there exists a space vessel captained by a man named Olivier, who is dim and rude and drawn to look like Oliver Platt. It is manned by a diverse crew of subordinates who all express various forms of what news and culture outlets refer to as “soft quitting.” […]
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by Jarrod Jones. I don’t think it’s a reach to call Aubrey Sitterson an iconoclast, at least as far as cape comics are concerned. He’s not here to build on what superheroes have become over generations. Sitterson is here to revitalize something that superheroes haven’t been since the genesis of superheroes. “Judging from the current landscape, […]
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THIS REVIEW OF ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Maybe it’s unfair to put so much on the tiny shoulders of Ant-Man. Wasn’t there a time when these Paul Rudd movies were modest, between-Avengers diversions that made big things small and small things big? Rudd’s third Ant-Man film, Ant-Man and […]
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Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases, and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. This week: Alan Moore & Gene Ha’s Top Ten, quick James Gunn/DC thoughts, and the Bloodlines debut of noted cool-guy Argus. by Jarrod Jones. Hey, team! Crazy busy this week, so this […]
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Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases, and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so much media out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst news and reviews of the latest stuff you should be paying attention to. This week: What […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Robin Hobb’s foundational Farseer Trilogy has sold a king’s ransom in copies and has thrilled readers for nigh on a generation. Now Hobb’s words have taken graphic form courtesy of Dark Horse Comics. The Assassin’s Apprentice, the first book in Hobb’s fantasy series and now an intriguing and lushly illustrated six-issue mini-series, […]
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by Arpad Okay, Clyde Hall, and Jarrod Jones. These are the ongoings, minis, and OGNs that saved us, made things better, and represented the best comics could be in 2022. Pink Lemonade (Oni Press). As far as reality-stripping, metacommentative riots of comic fiction go, Pink Lemonade is a unique, phosphorescent bop. Nick Cagnetti’s labor of love is […]
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by Arpad Okay, Clyde Hall, and Jarrod Jones. They are storytellers, gatekeepers of myth, stewards of legends, and pretty cool people by our reckoning. They are the best writers of 2022. Raven Lyn Clemens (The Paradox of Getting Better, Silver Sprocket). Vignettes regarding the finer points of absolutely losing one’s shit. Clemens’ trick: if you make it a cartoon, give […]
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by Arpad Okay, Clyde Hall, and Jarrod Jones. They faced a void of endless canvas armed only with a stylus and the will to create. They warred, they danced, they won; their creative accomplishments thrilled us, and we are forever grateful. These are the best artists of 2022. Joe Quinones (Batman ’89, DC). If you know Joe Quinones at […]
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by Jarrod Jones. In dreams, giants dwell. In Behold, Behemoth, the latest creator-owned series from Tate Brombal and Nick Robles, those giants aren’t just hanging around—they’re here to tell us something. Maybe they foretell doom. Possibly hope. It’s complicated. Behold, Behemoth deals in the tough stuff. Depression, death, doom, it’s all in there. But Greyson […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Mamo, available now from BOOM! Box, an imprint of BOOM! Studios. by Arpad Okay. Magic? Horror? That’s easy. People stumble into supernatural trouble all the time. What’s tough is being a witch. Yeah, […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Pearl’s been on one hell of a journey, rocked with bullets, broken faces, and blood. She’s looking for answers, about her family, about everything. Real “finally getting my shit sorted” kind of stuff. This journey has brought her to Japan, where her excellent killing skills have been tested. Against Yakuza, against boss […]
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THIS REVIEW OF CREEPSHOW #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. The cauldron ingredients for a memorable horror anthology film are elements also found in classic horror anthology comics. It’s why Amicus Productions’ Tales from the Crypt (1972) and Vault of Horror (1973) were based directly on stories from EC Comics titles of the same […]
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THIS REVIEW OF THE FORGOTTEN BLADE CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Kate Kowalski. A war rages outside the gates of an ancient citadel. The masses are banging down the establishment’s door, demanding freedom or, at least, the end of the murderous inquisition rampaging through their villages. A godlike, white-bearded “warrior prophet” emerges, leading the charge. It’s […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Raven Lyn Clemens’s The Paradox of Getting Better, available now from Silver Sprocket. by Arpad Okay. Contradictions aren’t a problem for The Paradox of Getting Better. From the title, the reader is prepared […]
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THIS REVIEW OF VANISH #1 CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Image Comics co-founder Todd McFarlane once said, “kids like chains.” One day that evolved into “kids love chains,” which has become a philosophy of sorts for writer Donny Cates. And while “kids love chains” may not necessarily remain as accurate as it might have in […]
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THIS REVIEW OF BARBARIC: AXE TO GRIND #1 CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. He’s a barbarian as leonine as he is caustic, cursed to do the “right thing” and help those in need. She’s a witch who always has a weapon at hand—or anatomically handy thanks to a wide-ranging set of mystic tattoos. They’re […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Luther Arkwright, Bryan Talbot’s complex, dimension-transcending hero of comics legend, returns in 2023. “As a crucial stepping stone between where comics were and where they are now, Bryan deserves our gratitude, and Luther Arkwright deserves to be read,” Alan Moore once said of Talbot and his creation. “More than this, it demands […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It’s a Giant-Size Episode this week as MJ & Jones share their top picks from the November 2022 solicits, discuss Kickstarted comics, and share their thoughts on that new She-Hulk tv show. […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Niv Sekar’s Love in Space, available now from ShortBox. by Arpad Okay. Mimi Holywater doesn’t feel like there’s much of a future for her here on Earth. Mimi’s from the future, our future, […]
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by Jarrod Jones. I don’t think it’s a reach to call Aubrey Sitterson an iconoclast, at least as far as cape comics are concerned. He’s not here to build on what superheroes have become over generations. Sitterson is here to revitalize something that superheroes haven’t been since the genesis of superheroes. “Judging from the current landscape, […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones have watched the final five episodes of Netflix’s The Sandman, and they have feelings. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. Don’t forget to subscribe […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones report back on their experiences watching the first five episodes of Netflix’s ambitious television adaptation of The Sandman. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. […]
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THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF PREY CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. Few action franchises have a tidier formula than Predator: knock out two hours of the hunted pursuing the hunter, and fill out the rest of the running time with an astonishing body count. So, with that and Stan Winston’s this-is-how-it’s-done creature design going for […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones knock out the October 2022 solicits and attempt to make sense out of the recent shocking Batgirl movie news. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Work sucks. Especially when you know you’re great at it and no one—not the customers, not your fellow employees, and certainly not your jerkface boss—seems to realize it, forget about appreciating it. Marty Tarantella knows this plight on a molecular level. 15 years at Burger Lord, no one mans the grill like […]
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THIS REVIEW OF NEPTUNE FROST IS SPOILER-FREE. by Arpad Okay. Afrofuturism is the dream taken from a different page than the one we’re used to reading. A dream of the present. Here! Now! The dystopian horrors of tomorrow already reached us long ago. Unanimous Goldmine, there’s been time to turn the words of oppression back […]
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by Matt Fleming. This is RETROGRADING, where the dream is over and the insect is awake. THE FILM: The Fly THE YEAR: 1986. At the tail end of the American horror movie movement of the 1970s and early ‘80s, the genre was dominated by comedic thrill rides like Ghostbusters and Gremlins while franchises like Friday […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Prince Valiant Vol. 1: 1937-1938, published in 2009 by Fantagraphics Press. by Arpad Okay. Nearly a hundred years has passed since Harold Foster started Prince Valiant. You’d recognize the hair first, of course, […]
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THIS REVIEW OF CLEMENTINE, BOOK ONE CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Kate Kowalski. Tillie Walden’s Clementine is a portrait of grief. That deep-welled pit dug deeper by extraordinary and unavoidable circumstance. There’s grief for the people lost, of course; not many can make it in a zombie apocalypse. But there’s also that deep, empty hole where […]
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THIS REVIEW OF DARK SPACES: WILDFIRE #1 CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. “Confinement or danger” is a cruel choice to make, especially when it’s handed down by a system that doesn’t give a damn about you. For some people, it’s hardly any choice at all. Deep inside the Arroyo wildfires labors Crew 513, a […]
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THIS ADVANCE REVIEW OF ETERNUS #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. The persecution of early Christians within the Roman Empire is a well-travelled narrative Via Appia. But the eventual rise of Christianity as the dominant religion of the late Empire and the subsequent persecution and repression of pagans and their traditions? That’s undergone less examination. […]
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by Jarrod Jones. What we are isn’t all we are, a lesson Kent Armstrong is learning the hard way in Area 51: The Helix Project. Following a blistering run of fully-funded Kickstarter campaigns, Area 51: The Helix Project has entered its fifth phase and its thrilling penultimate issue. From Pocket Watch Press, brainchild of former […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones give their recommendations from the September 2022 solicits and talk a bit about Batman #125. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. Don’t forget to […]
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by Jarrod Jones. This is RETROGRADING, where I wuz born with a heavy-duty pulse-machine-laser in my hand! Note: For better or worse, this begins a retrospective series that will cover every issue of DC’s 1993 annual event series, Bloodlines. From Outbreak to Earthplague to Deathstorm to Bloodbath, DoomRocket will run the bloody, xenomorphic gamut. THE […]
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by Kate Kowalski, Clyde Hall and Jarrod Jones. Undercover is where DoomRocket takes a moment to gaze upon gorgeous works from magnificent artists. From Christian Ward’s cover to Aquaman: Andromeda to Alex Ross’s The Marvels #11, these are our picks for June’s coolest covers. Aquaman: Andromeda Book One by Christian Ward. (DC Black Label/DC) JJ: It’s a striking cover […]
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Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so much media out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst news and reviews of the latest stuff you should be paying attention to. This week: Shelly […]
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THIS REVIEW OF COLD IRON #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Kate Kowalski. The moon hangs like a spotlight over the sea, illuminating an ocean-fed cavern. The water froths, wading closer and closer to the entrance. Within, the moon beams onto a silhouetted horned figure—a man, or man-of-sorts to be sure, cloaked in furs and chains […]
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by Jarrod Jones. I don’t think it’s a reach to call Aubrey Sitterson an iconoclast, at least as far as cape comics are concerned. He’s not here to build on what superheroes have become over generations. Sitterson is here to revitalize something that superheroes haven’t been since the genesis of superheroes. “Judging from the current […]
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THIS REVIEW OF GRIP OF THE KOMBINAT CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Kate Kowalski. Live to work, work to live… gone may be the days of getting to make a choice with the latter option, reserved only for the privileged few. Now is the time of hustle culture, the gig economy, and a disparate wealth distribution […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Little Monarchs, available now from Margaret Ferguson Books, an imprint of Holiday House Publishing. by Arpad Okay. Faint pink and purple milkweed petals are shaped like a starburst, a delicate visual reminder that […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It’s time for another junk drawer episode! MJ & Jones chat up the new Ms. Marvel TV series, the Black Adam trailer, and the prospects of the Thunderbolts in the MCU. To […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It’s a packed episode this week, as MJ & Jones crack the August 2022 comic solicitations and go bananas over the new trailer for Thor: Love and Thunder. To donate to the […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Fütchi Perf, available now from Uncivilized Books. by Arpad Okay. What does utopian science fiction read like? Our go-to images of a perfect future are all from the past; we’re living in the […]
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THIS REVIEW OF SAVAGE AVENGERS #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. We love seeing mighty icons come together as a cohesive team despite disparate power levels and backgrounds. But there’s also satisfaction seeing a group consisting of less popular and usually less powerful heroes enduring the same process. You don’t have to look far […]
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by Jarrod Jones. When you think of a typical cyberpunk saga you picture the Asian-infused aesthetics that give the story life and culture. But when you think of the names that loom over the subgenre, it’s generally populated by the likes of Gibson, Morgan, or Scott. With the upcoming release of Fox and Hare, the […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week: MJ & Jones break down the top categories in the 2022 Will Eisner Award nominations and indulge a little She-Hulk trailer chatter. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week: MJ & Jones go crazy over how much they enjoyed Sam Raimi’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. Don’t forget […]
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by Clyde Hall and Jarrod Jones. Undercover is where DoomRocket takes a moment to gaze upon gorgeous works from magnificent artists. From Jenny Frison’s Alice Ever After #1 to Jim Terry’s West of Sundown #1, these are our picks for April’s coolest covers. Alice Ever After #1 by Jenny Frison. (BOOM! Studios) CH: The clashes of a Two-Charles […]
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by Arpad Okay. This is RETROGRADING, where we know better than to mess with monks when martial arts are involved. THE FILM: A Touch of Zen THE YEAR: 1971. King Hu had left Shaw Brothers and Hong Kong for the creative freedom of his own Taiwanese production company, Union Film. Free from colonial oversight, Hu […]
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THIS ADVANCE DOOMROCKET REVIEW OF BONE ORCHARD: PASSAGEWAY IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. When you think of a lighthouse, what do you see? Maybe you picture a cheery postcard, painting, or a sweet ceramic knick-knack in your aunt’s glass cabinet. Or maybe you envision a solo, crumbling structure amidst a desolate seascape. How you consider […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: Junkwraith, available now from Top Shelf Productions. by Arpad Okay. Give me a book with a loser and I will give it a chance. A loser of unimaginable talents, even better. What I […]
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THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF ‘THE NORTHMAN’ CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Jarrod Jones. And now for something completely insane: a 137-minute long Viking revenge saga from auteur filmmaker Robert Eggers, he of The Witch and The Lighthouse, a surreal gods-walk-among-us power narrative where the ur-text for Hamlet is presented with meticulous period finery and frequently spirals […]
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THIS REVIEW OF COUNT CROWLEY: AMATEUR MIDNIGHT MONSTER HUNTER #1 CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS. by Clyde Hall. We had no costumed horror movie host in the rural area where I grew up. Any late night monster show was slapped onto the air without preamble, prop spiders, or puns. Maybe that’s why the first volume of Count Crowley […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Tyler Crook has spent the last decade or so exploring the darker paths with fellow travelers. With The Lonesome Hunters, Crook makes this journey alone. This latest creator-owned series from Dark Horse Comics marks Crook’s first solo credit since he made the leap from video games to comics back in 2011. Petrograd […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones crack the June 2022 comic book solicitations and have a small, spoiler-free chat about ‘Moon Knight.’ To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. Don’t forget […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. At last! MJ & Jones dust off their editions of JLA/Avengers #1-4 for a series of read-through episodes that pay tribute to the career of the great George Pérez. This week: JLA/Avengers #2, wherein an apartment […]
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THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF ‘FRESH’ IS SPOILER-FREE. by Matt Fleming. With the constant flood of chaos and instability in the modern world, people have the right to be paranoid about looking for love amidst the disorder. For anyone who has tried online dating, the very idea of trusting a stranger with any form of intimacy […]
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by Kate Kowalski, Clyde Hall and Jarrod Jones. Undercover is where DoomRocket takes a moment to gaze upon gorgeous works from magnificent artists. From ‘The Swamp Thing’ #11 to ‘X Lives of Wolverine’ #4, these are our picks for March’s coolest covers. The Swamp Thing #11 by Mike Perkins and Mike Spicer. (DC) JJ: The world of The […]
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Required Reading is DoomRocket’s love chest, opened once a month to champion a book that we adore and you should read. The latest: ‘No Love Lost’, available now from Peow Studio. by Arpad Okay. The ideas in No Love Lost drive me wild. In the year 2233, in an envelope of space-time, a pair of agents […]
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THIS ADVANCE REVIEW OF ‘PARIS’ IS SPOILER-FREE. by Kate Kowalski. There’s something delightful about observing other people. Witnessing their conversations, expressions, day-to-day routines. We all love people watching. A glance, a nod, a shared chuckle—this is how we feel interwoven in the world. In the past few months I’ve found joy in connecting with strangers […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. At last! MJ & Jones dust off their editions of JLA/Avengers #1-4 for a series of read-through episodes that pay tribute to the career of the great George Pérez. This week: JLA/Avengers #1, wherein a vigilante […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones crack the May 2022 comic book solicitations and have a spoiler-free chat about ‘The Batman’. To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. Don’t forget to […]
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THIS ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF ‘THE BATMAN’ IS SPOILER-FREE. by Jarrod Jones. A Gotham City stunner that thunders, booms, and pounds those dreary milquetoast Marvel doldrums into paste, The Batman grapples with a moral quagmire raised by the mere existence of its subject and gets to work building a better superhero saga for the modern age. […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. In this bonus episode, MJ & Jones discuss their thoughts on ‘The Batman’, a film they both liked very, very much. Spoilers ahead! To donate to the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, click here. […]
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by Jarrod Jones. “When the chips are down, these ‘civilized people’? They’ll eat each other.” That ominous assurance from the Joker (Heath Ledger) becomes something of a prognostication for Gotham City in The Dark Knight Rises, Christopher Nolan’s final chapter in what is now (somewhat pretentiously) referred to as The Dark Knight Trilogy. While the […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. This week MJ & Jones talk about the imminent ‘Human Target’ hiatus, the upcoming creator rosters for ‘Batman’ and ‘Ant-Man’, ‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ spoilers, and share their favorite seasoned superheroes. To […]
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THE ANTI-MONITOR REVIEW OF ‘MOONFALL’ IS SPOILER-FREE. by Matt Fleming. “What if the moon fell?” It’s as simple a premise as any, one that could have been generated by either an unaffected child’s mind or a drum circle of red-eyed stoners. On its dusty, gray surface, Moonfall seems just that: An amateur improv exercise run […]
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by Clyde Hall and Jarrod Jones. Undercover is where DoomRocket takes a moment to gaze upon gorgeous works from magnificent artists. From Bilquis Evely and Mat Lopes’s ‘Supergirl’ #8 to Tom Reilly’s ‘The Thing’ #5, these are our picks for February’s coolest covers. THE X-CELLENT #1 by Michael Allred & Laura Allred. (Marvel) JJ: Michael Allred harnesses the […]
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Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so much media out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst news and reviews of the latest stuff you should be paying attention to. This week: Chip […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so many comics out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst reviews of the latest releases from this wild comics industry of ours. This week: I […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so many comics out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with recommendations, commentary, and general chatter concerning the comics industry. This week: DoomRocket’s Best Comics of 2021. One […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so many comics out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with short-burst reviews of the latest releases from this wild comics industry of ours. This week: the […]
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by Jarrod Jones. Braving the gauntlet of Big Two events, prestige format risk-takers, off-the-radar indie releases and a non-stop avalanche of floppies is DoomRocket’s HOT PRESS. With so many comics out there screaming for your eyeballs, HOT PRESS is here with general chatter concerning the latest releases from this wild comics industry of ours. This week: the […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. On the docket for the January 2022 solicits: the Kurt Busiek era of Image Comics begins and Chip Zdarsky’s Batman does, too; She-Hulk makes her gregarious green return, and we are living […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It’s back! ELSEWEEK finally returns, just in time for Halloween, and this time MJ & Jarrod are cracking the macabre, operatic, and downright weirdo Elseworlds masterpiece, ‘Batman & Dracula: Red Rain’! To […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. It’s an absolutely packed 200th episode spectacular: MJ & Jones discuss DC Fandome and the trailers for THE FLASH, BLACK ADAM, SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE and, obviously, that THE BATMAN […]
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by Molly Jane Kremer and Jarrod Jones. Happy New Comic Book Day! This is CASUAL WEDNESDAYS, a weekly podcast where we indulge in comics and comics-adjacent chatter. The DC Comics January 2022 solicitations are around the corner, and there’s so much to talk about: Mark Waid is teaming with Dan Mora, Nightwing’s got a new costume (sorta), and Tini […]
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