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: Batman – Death of the Family (Complete)
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
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 102 – Descent from the Heavens II
Team Mazinger and Londo Bell team up to take down the Federation drones and get Eva Unit 1 out of Berserk Mode. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 101 – Descent from the Heavens I
Shinji Ikari has his first sortie in Eva Unit-01 and it manages to go *worse* than it did in the anime and manga. Read more
Anime (Video) Review: Hayate the Combat Butler – Can’t Take My Eyes Off You!
This month I’m wrapping up a few loose ends, as I review the two Hayate TV series I hadn’t previously reviewed. First off is Hayate the Combat Butler: Can’t Take My Eyes Off You! Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 100 – Technical Difficulties
Londo Bell heads out from their base, as our scene shifts to Tokyo-3…
(Also, my cat caused me to shift scenes for a minute – sorry). Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 99 – Uneasy Lies The Head
The members of Londo Bell discuss Audrey’s departure and what that means, and everyone who hasn’t seen Gundam Unicorn already finds out Audrey’s true identity. Read more
Anime Review: Record of Grancrest War
One of my favorite works of anime fantasy is Record of Lodoss War. It’s a show that I try to watch at least once a year, and due to my appreciation of that, I’ve sought out the various works by its creator, Ryo Mizuno, which have gotten a US release, from the Lodoss series onwards. In any case, when Record of Grancrest War was announced, and that even more it was related to a tabletop RPG that Mizuno had created, I was definitely onboard to check this out.
Film Review: Fall of the Roman Empire
The Roman-Period Epic was something of a staple of cinema in the 1950s and ’60s, and one of the films of that genre that tanked the hardest was The Fall of the Roman Empire from 1964, which is a bummer because it’s really not that bad. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 98 – Isolation IV
We wrap up the fight, with at least two factions having mostly punched themselves out. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 97 – Isolation III
Londo Bell continues the fight, with Neo Zeon and the Titans being the next targets. Read more
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Special – Ultimania Archive Vol. 1
This month I have another special book review episode, as I give my thoughts on a book from Dark Horse that covers the making of the NES and SNES era Final Fantasy games. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 96 – Isolation II
Londo Bell makes contact with Amalgam forces while the Earth Federation forces and Zeon/Amalgam troops clash. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 95 – Isolation I
The Three-Way Dance begins. Read more
Movie Review: Night of the Lepus
The movie Night of the Lepus is a something of a joke in horror movie circles. While that is somewhat deserved, those reasons strictly lie with the film’s budget and some of the film’s effects. The rest of the film is put together incredibly well. Read more
Movie Review: Terror in Beverly Hills (1989)
When it comes to bad action movies, there are some names in action films that can be reasonably taken as a warning sign that the film you are approaching is a stinkburger. Frank Stallone is one of those names. Frank Stallone started his career as a musician and composer and has had a reasonably successful career at that. However, as his older brother Sylvester became one of the action juggernauts of the 1980s and ’90s, Frank kept also getting action movie roles, presumably on the basis that he looks enough like Sly, that if you put “Stallone” in large enough letters on the poster, people won’t look closer and recognize that it’s actually Frank. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 94 – Cry Havoc
The Vist Foundation sets their plans in motion. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 93 – Question Time
After the battle, Judeau ends up chatting with the Ples, and Nine drills various cast members about their love lives. (But not Love Live – that’s a different game). Read more
Book Review: Of Dice and Men
This week I’m reviewing Of Dice and Men, a personal and general overview of the history of role-playing. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 92 – The Power of Youth IV
With Banagher back in control, and with the Ra Cailum having linked up, it’s time to push back Neo Zeon. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 91 – The Power of Youth III
Banagher’s NT-D system has gone out of control, and the team has to bring him to his senses or bring him down. Read more
Anime Review: Akiba’s Trip – The Animation
Akiba’s Trip: Undead and Undressed was an interesting RPG & brawler with something of a novel concept – that it was set in a re-creation of Akihabara with a level of detail that was just short of being on par with the level of detail that the Yakuza series puts into not-Kabuki-cho – by which I mean that there were some loading screens dividing up areas of the game, not much in terms of real-world alcohol to drink (because your protagonist is underage), and sadly no playable arcade games. Read more
Video Game Review: Puzzle Quest 2
The original Puzzle Quest was an interesting title, which took the concept of the match-three puzzle game and translated it to something of a larger epic fantasy context – one which lead to numerous clones in other genres, some of which I previously did a review on. However, the original Puzzle Quest also had a more epic scope to it, with you having to fight an epic big-bad in order to save the world. The sequel, on the other hand, has a more grounded scope, feeling like it is taking the Puzzle Quest formula with Diablo. Read more
Let’s Play Super Robot Wars V: Part 90 – The Power of Youth II
The fight with Neo Zeon continues, but things are about to go pear-shaped. Read more