DoomRocket @doomrocket_

Your second-favorite repository for film, comics, and TV criticism since 2013. Edited by @jarrodjones_. Inquiries: [email protected] doomrocket.substack.com Chicago, IL Joined August 2015

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

4 weeks ago

In the latest installment of REQUIRED READING, @arpadokay zooms in on Emil Friis Ernst's WOMB RIDER, a comic that does velocity in all sorts of thrilling new ways. doomrocket.substack.com/p/womb-rider-i… @unciv

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

3 weeks ago

Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is "a rambunctious, form-busting new angle on a storied hero." doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-95… @DCOfficial

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

4 weeks ago

"In design and narrative alike, Batman #1 reads like the apex of modern comic-making. Apparently, this is the new bar for what comics can and should be. I hope it aims to do more." doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-95…

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

4 weeks ago

HOT PRESS 9/5/25: If it makes me happy (also: Batman #1) doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-95…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

a month ago

over on @doomrocket_, @MatthewAmuso cracks the first arc of THE INVISIBLES Vol. 2 to see what happened when Grant Morrison and Phil Jimenez brought Vertigo's mad counterculturalists to the U.S. of A. doomrocket.substack.com/p/bloody-hell-…

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Uncivilized @unciv

4 weeks ago

Fantastic @doomrocket_ review of Emil Friis Ernst's Womb Rider. "What's it about? BRAAAAA VRRRRR KRSSS CH-KRK BRRRRRRR ZOOOOOOMMM TONK TAK TAK BA-BOOM — absolute visual chaos." Link below

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

2 months ago

That time the Fantastic Four teamed up with Superman doomrocket.substack.com/p/that-time-th…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

2 months ago

.@MatthewAmuso takes us back to 1999 when Marvel's First Family teamed up with DC's Man of Steel in a neat but otherwise forgettable crossover doomrocket.substack.com/p/that-time-th…

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LEGITIMATE BUSINESSMAN @PatrickKindlon

3 months ago

The people have spoken: they want comics that read quick and invite the reader to double-back and soak in the art!

DoomRocket @doomrocket_

3 months ago

The people have spoken: they want comics that read quick and invite the reader to double-back and soak in the art!

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

3 months ago

With @LDComics in full swing, @arpadokay takes a look at Mereida Fajardo's The Keluarga Cable Ship Company, a medium-expanding work that we're calling this month's REQUIRED READING doomrocket.substack.com/p/the-keluarga…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

3 months ago

so here's where I'm at with all these ding-dang Superman movies: doomrocket.substack.com/p/superman-mov…

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

3 months ago

GEHENNA NAKED AGGRESSION is an action comic made by people who know what they're doing and know who they're making it for: readers like me who want little more than to be led by the lapels to a place of ridiculous danger and tawdry thrills doomrocket.substack.com/p/gehenna-nake…

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

3 months ago

Tramps of the Apocalypse #1: "Debut ish with a vicious sense of humor and a keen eye on the thematic prize, that busts past its perverse Gerwig-Barbieish setup by slathering Russ Meyer all over it. Great idea, and a pretty damn good comic, as it happens." doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-62…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

3 months ago

this week's edition of HOT PRESS: I review the oddball lycanthropic horror film ALMA AND THE WOLF, read Alice Darrow's TRAMPS OF THE APOCALYPSE #1 and Zander Cannon's SLEEP #1 — and unpack why Nic Klein is a cover-making powerhouse doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-62…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

3 months ago

.@MatthewAmuso returns to RETROGRADING this week with a perfect summertime read: the fleet-footed six-part Flash epic, "Terminal Velocity" doomrocket.substack.com/p/terminal-vel…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

4 months ago

and now, the first film out of @Tribeca to floor me: HOW DARK MY LOVE, Scott Gracheff's unflinching, raw-nerve doc about true love in a messy, vicious, profane world that charts the bloom of a vision and its inevitable surrender. hot dang, what a film doomrocket.substack.com/p/how-dark-my-…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

4 months ago

my @Tribeca coverage continues at @doomrocket_ with a review of the lovely NYC doc MAINTENANCE ARTIST and two charming short films: the proto-Partridge melodrama THE HICKS HAPPY HOUR and, from France, LITTLE MONSTERS doomrocket.substack.com/p/tribeca-in-r…

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Jarrod Jones @jarrodjones_

4 months ago

my latest Tribeca dispatch covers a gnarly animated film out of Latvia (DOG OF GOD), a gripping Australian prison story with three incredible performances (INSIDE), and a breezy New York dramedy (THE TRAVEL COMPANION) doomrocket.substack.com/p/tribeca-in-r…

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

4 months ago

"'[Lucía Garibaldi's] A Bright Future has a shoestring sci-fi aesthetic that conveys containment economically and poignantly, [with] playful compositions that flirt with the meticulousness of Wes Anderson on a municipal budget." doomrocket.substack.com/p/tribeca-in-r… @Tribeca

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DoomRocket @doomrocket_

4 months ago

"Underland, Robert Petit's gorgeous and perilously photographed documentary, is a deceptively simple excavation of human curiosity... Its descent is both literal and mythic, philosophical and physical." doomrocket.substack.com/p/tribeca-in-r… @Tribeca