Beecha is doing well in command of the Argama… aside from moving way the hell out into the open. Read more
Book Review: The Run-Out Groove
The Vinyl Detective was an interesting launch to a mystery series, with a mystery novel steeped heavily in 1940-50s jazz music, and in record collecting. The question to a book like that is how do you follow a work like that up and keep the framework fresh? Read more
Film Review: Krull
Krull feels like a film that is trying to cash in on a variety of trends. It’s a fantasy film like Conan. It’s a grand heroic epic like Star Wars, but it doesn’t quite pull all of them off. However, Krull has its strengths that make it worth watching. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 114 – Acting the Part I
In our next DLC mission, Beecha returns to the commander’s chair of the Nahel Argama… just in time to fend off a Neo Zeon attack! Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 113 – Thought Patterns II
Fu mo fu Mo fumo fu, fo mo fu fu mo fu mo fu… Fumo-fu!
(Translation: It turns out Gates isn’t dead, so it’s time to put him in his place… with Bonta-Kun!) Read more
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 82
We return to our regularly scheduled issues of Nintendo Power with a lot of SNES games. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 112 – Thought Patterns I
Fu Fumo fu fumo-fu fumo, fo mo fu fumofu!
(Translation: I’ve unlocked the Bonta-Kun mission, so it’s time for some wackiness!) Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 111 – The Way Home
The crew reflects on Tetsuya’s betrayal and the new options which have opened up. (And also Nine is unexpectedly mean to Ryoko from Nadesico). Read more
Comic Review: Superman Vol. 1 – Son of Superman
I am someone who likes Superman, but who has not read a lot of Superman stories. I’d read some Superman pre-New-52, and I read a bit of the Post New-52 Superman in the trade, but kind of fell off of reading that series. I decided recently to jump back on to Superman with the post Rebirth DC Comics universe and was interested in seeing how this turned out. Read more
Comics Review: Batman/Flash – The Button
When Flashpoint ended, the comic dropped a little hint suggesting that the new DC Multiverse could end up incorporating the world of Watchmen, because in the Batcave, embedded in a wall, was The Comedian’s Button. Batman/Flash: The Button follows up on that revelation, as Batman and The Flash try to figure out what The Button exactly means. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 110 – An Iron Blade and a Steel Bond IV
The Getter Robo Team is reunited, but we still have the mysterious Para-mail to contend with. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 109 – An Iron Blade and a Steel Bond III
Ashura may be defeated, but now we face Great Mazinger. Read more
Anime Review: Hayate the Combat Butler – Cuties
This week I’m covering the last Hayate series to date, with Hayate the Combat Butler: Cuties. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 108 – An Iron Blade and a Steel Bond II
We finish off Baron Ashura and their troops. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 107 – An Iron Blade and a Steel Bond I
We start off our fight with Baron Ashura and their golems. Read more
Comic Review: Batman/The Shadow – Murder Geniuses
I’ve been a fan of The Shadow for a long time. I’ve enjoyed his outings in the pulps, the radio plays, and even the film featuring Alec Baldwin. However, at least in the late ’80s and early ’90s on, comic book writers haven’t quite known what to do with him. The best depictions of the character after that time I’ve encountered have effectively skipped over any idea of characterization for the character, in favor of making him a force of nature, or an unknowable cipher, instead of giving him grounded motivations. Read more
Anime Review: Girls Und Panzer Der Film
Girls Und Panzer (which I reviewed at Bureau42, not here), was a show that I absolutely loved. It had a sports anime plot for a sport that didn’t exist in the real world, Sensha-do, the art of Tankery: the art of crewing and maintaining a tank, and succeeding in combat using that tank – though Sensha-Do competitions are not to the death. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 106 – Abominations of Science
In case you’d missed the ham – we have Go Nagai Super Robot Villains! Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 105 – Ellipsis
After the fight, Gendo Ikari and Bright Noa meet – and Shinji & Rei meet their new teammates. Read more
Legends of the Force Part XXIV: The Corellian Trilogy
We return to the Star Wars novels with a fairly underrated trilogy. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 104 – Descent from the Heavens IV
The unified forces of Londo Bell and NERV finish off the dragons and the Angel. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 103 – Descent from the Heavens III
Unfortunately, Team Mazinger/Londo Bell finds themselves facing another Angel hot on the heels of the last. – and it’s not alone. Read more
Comic Review: Batman – Death of the Family (Complete)
Not to get overly reductive in the way that is often mocked when people talk about criticism on the internet, but maybe a better title for Death of the Family is Fridging of the Family. Read more
Comic Review: Star Wars – River of Chaos
Continuing with my look at the Star Wars Expanded Universe with a stand-alone story from the creators of Power Pack – Louise Simonson and June Brigman. Read more