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
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
The Getter Robo Team is reunited, but we still have the mysterious Para-mail to contend with. Read more
Ashura may be defeated, but now we face Great Mazinger. Read more
This week I’m covering the last Hayate series to date, with Hayate the Combat Butler: Cuties. Read more
We finish off Baron Ashura and their troops. Read more
We start off our fight with Baron Ashura and their golems. Read more
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
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
In case you’d missed the ham – we have Go Nagai Super Robot Villains! Read more
After the fight, Gendo Ikari and Bright Noa meet – and Shinji & Rei meet their new teammates. Read more
We return to the Star Wars novels with a fairly underrated trilogy. Read more
The unified forces of Londo Bell and NERV finish off the dragons and the Angel. Read more
Unfortunately, Team Mazinger/Londo Bell finds themselves facing another Angel hot on the heels of the last. – and it’s not alone. Read more
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
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
Team Mazinger and Londo Bell team up to take down the Federation drones and get Eva Unit 1 out of Berserk Mode. Read more
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
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
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
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
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.
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
We wrap up the fight, with at least two factions having mostly punched themselves out. Read more
