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Eephus Review: Root, root, root for the home team doomrocket.substack.com/p/eephus-revie…

for me, the best of the year so far. the one to beat.

HOT PRESS 3/26/25: Loeb & Lee's "H2SH, Chapter 1" doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-32…

I wrote up some thoughts on that new Batman comic since I'm between assignments and apparently needed something to make me grouchy

.Julia Gfrörer charts a wild course with World Within the World doomrocket.substack.com/p/julia-gforer… Fantagraphics

I knew when arpad okay started his review with "What unholy darkness is this?" that I was going to be in for a good time. from DoomRocket, the latest REQUIRED READING dispatch, and it's a good'n:

Misericordia & Eric LaRue Review: Misery loves company doomrocket.substack.com/p/misericordia…

two new reviews over on DoomRocket: MISERICORDIA, Alain Guiraudie's darkly hilarious meditation on death and desire, and ERIC LARUE, Michael Shannon's emotionally intricate and thrillingly bizarre directorial debut—both of which you can (and should) screen at Siskel Film Center now:

my first dispatch from this year's Chicago Critics Film Festival highlights a trio of films from three emerging directors: LURKER, ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT, and IT ENDS doomrocket.substack.com/p/ccff-2025-lu…

two new reviews over at DoomRocket: Albert Birney's OBEX, easily my favorite film from this year's Chicago Critics Film Festival, and Tallulah Hazekamp Schwab's MR. K, two oddball films about finding strength through adversity that I recommend mightily doomrocket.substack.com/p/ccff-2025-re…

over at DoomRocket, I reviewed the two-episode premiere of MURDERBOT, a comedic sci-fi series that’s heavy on exposition and light on laughs open.substack.com/pub/doomrocket…

that new SUPERMAN trailer, Paul Rudd's mustache in FRIENDSHIP, and Kerry Gammill & Butch Guice's immaculate cover to ACTION COMICS #692 — this week's HOT PRESS has me in a state. more at DoomRocket: doomrocket.substack.com/p/hot-press-51…

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New book announcement! SUPERMAN: THE KRYPTONITE SPECTRUM! A 5-issue miniseries by the ICE CREAM MAN TEAM!!!

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…

over at DoomRocket, arpad okay enjoys the wandering, pondering possibilities of Adam de Souza's BLIND ALLEY, a comic strip in the Peanuts tradition that takes the medium to peculiar and indelible places doomrocket.substack.com/p/blind-alley-…

at its peak, Alex Russell's pop-thriller feels so alive it almost shimmers off the screen, a depiction of narcissism in the influencer age with urgency and bite, a quintessentially messy film for the terminally online. my review: open.substack.com/pub/doomrocket…

I dunno, I think we're pretty good/cool: doomrocket.substack.com

my first dispatch from Tribeca '25 is here with reviews of the Darren Aronofsky-produced UNDERLAND, A BRIGHT FUTURE out of Uruguay, and DRAGONFLY, a disappointing movie with two terrific performances doomrocket.substack.com/p/tribeca-in-r…