A disagreement among the female pilots among Earth Fleet Tenku leads to a training exercise… that gets interrupted by the Gamillans.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 251 – Co-Starring Beauty & Power I
Oh! My Goddess – Thoughts on the first 13 Volumes
Over the past few years off and on, I’ve read the first 13 volumes of Oh! My Goddess, and I’ve written about them on various other places (including Bureau42), but never on my blog. Having finished the 13th volume of the manga, now is as good a time as any to give some general thoughts about the series.
Read moreX-Men: A Case for Diverse Voices
Recently Marvel announced that, as part of Jonathan Hickman’s upcoming run on the X-Men books, the X-Line would be contracted to just two books – House of X and Powers of X, each with a 6-issue run. According to an interview with ComicBook.com, the decision was pitched by Hickman essentially to create a jumping on point for the line for new readers.
The argument makes sense – two books are cheaper than 10 and require less effort to keep track of a story across those books. However, the fundamental idea of the Mutant Metaphor – of Mutants being representative of multiple discriminated minority populations – requires representation not only in the form of the characters on the page but also in the form of the people writing stories with those characters.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 250 – The Future V
We finally bring the Boss down and get to the prison planet, only to make a tragic discovery.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 249 – The Future IV
We continue to take down the boss’s minions, in order to bring them down.
Read moreJohn Wick Chapter 3: Movie Review
This week, the grace period is over, as John Wick Chapter 3 has hit theaters.
Please refrain from spoilers in the comments until July 2019.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 248 – The Future III
The battle is not yet over, as a Boss Invaders arrives.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 247 – The Future II
I get the SR Point this episode.
Read moreUltraman (Manga): Thoughts on Vol. 1-4
If you think about it, superheroes have been a part of Japanese pop-culture ever since the post-war period, and in particular the 60s and 70s. Astro Boy is Pinocchio with Super-Powers. Characters like Shotaro Ishinomori’s Android Kikaider and Kamen Rider featured protagonists fighting a supervillain organizations and their superpowered minions, and so on. And, of course, there is the tokusatsu classic – Ultraman from Tsuburaya Productions.
Read moreKirby Star Allies: Video Game Review
Kirby games are generally conceived as kinder, gentler platformers. Not easy, but not punishingly hard either. Kirby Star Allies for the Nintendo Switch is no exception. While the narrative gets weirdly dark at times, the gameplay stays generally friendly.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 246 – The Future I
Earth Fleet Tenku reaches the prison planet, only to discover the planet is besieged by the Invaders.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 245 – Gulag Rura Penthe
Yuki is being held in a Gamillan prison planet, and Earth Fleet Tenku is planning her rescue before the Gamillans realize she isn’t from Iscandar.
Read moreDetective Pikachu: Film Review
We get the first of the slated live-action films featured cute fuzzy video game mascots who can snark. Let’s see how this one fares.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 244 – Space Wolf VI
We finish our fight with Domel and prepare to go after Lt. Yuki.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 243 – Space Wolf V
With the Invaders out of the way, it’s time to go one one on one with the Space Wolf himself, Admiral Domel.
Read moreDC Comics: Zero Year (New 52) – Comics Review
DC Comics: Zero Year is meant to be something of a starting point for various characters in the DC Universe, showing Superman, Batman, and Catwoman in the early days, if not the start, of their superhero careers. The book also shows Dinah Lance, Barry Allen, Jason Todd, Dick Grayson, John Stewart, and Oliver Queen either before they started superheroing or, in the case of Barry and John, before they got their powers.
Read moreLaid Back Camp: Anime Review
Never has an anime been so perfect in its title as Laid Back Camp. This is a chill, relaxing, and also educational anime.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 242 – Space Wolf IV
When it rains it pours – after fending off the enemy fleet, a force of Invaders has just shown up.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 241 – Space Wolf III
Enemy boarders have snuck onto the Yamato and kidnapped Lt. Mori!
Read moreLegends of the Force Part 32: Children of the Jedi
This month I’m returning to Star Wars novels with the first appearance of Callista, with the novel “Children of the Jedi” by Barbara Hambly
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 240 – Space Wolf II
The Yamato’s Wave Motion engine has been taken out of action, forcing the rest of the fleet to fend off the enemy attack.
Read moreLet’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 239 – Space Wolf I
We run into a fleet of four enemy carriers, and prepare to take them out in turn.
Read more[Where I Read] NextGen Magazine #2 (Feb, 1995)
I’m continuing with NextGen Magazine with the NextGen #2. With the second issue hitting in February of 1995, it makes keeping track of what year I’m on a lot easier.
Read moreChildren of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly: Book Review
There were a couple more Star Wars Novels in 1995, with the first two Callista novels, starting with Children of the Jedi by Barbara Hambly.
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