Blaine joins us again for a discussion of Bubblegum Crisis, along with the tabletop RPG.
NextGen #43 (July 1998)
NextGen gets a bit of a format and layout change this issue.
Continue readingIt’s the beginning of the end, as Bruce trains with Lady Shiva, and Azrael becomes more unhinged.
Book Review: Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries
Emily Wilde’s Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett puts a bit of weirdness into the urban fantasy genre. It’s not urban – not even close – it’s a very pastoral story. It’s not contemporary, being set in the 1800s. However, it’s definitely not heroic fantasy or horror, and certainly fits more into some elements of urban fantasy than it does to the other subgenres I’m familiar with. It’s also very enjoyable.
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Anime Review – Texhnolyze
So, the second of the anime series on my New Year’s Resolution list that I’m done with is one I’m dropping – Texhnolyze. I did give it a reasonable try – getting about a cour through the series before I had enough, and because I had the show on my resolution list, I do feel it’s important to talk about why this series failed for me when two other Chiaki Konaka projects – Serial Experiments Lain and The Big O – were fine.
Continue readingI get into a discussion of Lost Media – and how being “Lost” is less a binary, and more a spectrum.
Remembering my Kitty, Patacon
So, I’ve posted a bunch of pictures on the blog of Patacon, but I never really got around to talking about Patacon. I should do that.
Continue readingIn the past, when I’ve been tired, rushed, burned out, or just hadn’t been able to put a blog post together, I would post pictures of one of my two cats – Patacon – who basically adopted me as her person. My profile photo on Twitch even had me with her on my lap.
She passed away today. She was 16 years old.
My Kitty Passed Away
It’s time for another book review – as I take a look at one of the titles that was a recent Sword & Laser Book Club pick.
Also RIP Romhacking.Net
I didn’t intend to be memorializing two entities in the video game fandom and media space this weekend, but this has been a hell of a week, as Romhacking.net has also gone into archive-only mode.
Continue readingRIP Game Informer
So, I will admit I fell behind in writing blog posts for today, so I had planned to post some cat pictures – and then this morning I learned that Game Informer had closed its doors.
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