I’m found out by the Havenage Council.
Nintendo Power Retrospectives: Part 137
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 32 – Supply Run II
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 31 – Supply Run I
Anime Review: Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included
Often with an anime series, you get the caveat of “Oh, it has a weak start, but it really sticks the landing in the conclusion” or the warning of “Oh, it has a good start, but really fumbles the landing”. Studio Apartment, Good Lighting, Angel Included has the weird instance of being a series with a weak start, a weak end, but a really strong middle portion of the series. The series, which I’m going to just call Studio Apartment for the sake of brevity – starts out as a pretty standard magical girlfriend series, and ends as a magical girlfriend harem series – but there’s a moment in the middle, where the series really finds its feet as the supporting cast builds up – and where it has some interesting humor to go with it.
Read moreNextGen #42 (June 1998)
We’re getting ever closer to the release of Ocarina of Time this issue.
Read moreWhere I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 30 – Bon Voyage
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 29 – Meat Puppet
Book (Vlog) Review: Shards of Honor & Barryar
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 28 – Paid in Food
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 27 – Mole
Comics: Thoughts on the end of the Krakoa Era
As of this writing, the end of the Krakoa Era of X-Men comics has concluded. I’ve read this whole era as it was coming out from beginning to end, and I have some thoughts on its conclusion, and some of my high points of this period of the comic, and things which I wish had been explored further.
Read moreManga Review: Ultraman Vol. 6-14
I’ve fallen behind a bit on my reviews of the Ultraman manga, from the last one I’ve reviewed. To a large part, that’s because I’ve hit a stretch of the manga that wasn’t covered in the anime, which feels kinda weird – considering how important this stretch is.
Read moreWhere I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 26 – Where Everybody Knows Your Name
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 25 – One with Gaia
Breaking Down The Knightfall Saga: Knightquest – The Crusade Part 14
We have our last little plot arc before the end of The Crusade, with AzBat fighting GunHawk and GunBunny.
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 24 – Hard Days Work
Where I Play Citizen Sleeper: Part 23 – Ship Talk
Book Review: Making Comics
When I was in college at Clackamas Community College (where I also met David, one of my co-hosts of the Anime Explorations Podcast) – one of my campus jobs I worked was in the library, where I worked the check-out counter. As one of the classes that was thought (occasionally) was Comics as Literature, a selection of graphic novels were on reserve at the front desk, and during terms where the class was not offered, I would help myself to read them during downtime. One of the books I read during this time was Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, and this inspired me to go on later to check out Reinventing Comics from my local library. It wasn’t until this year that I found out there was a third book in the series – Making Comics – and having found out about it, I checked that out from my local library as well.
Read moreBook Review: Barrayar
A little bit back I reviewed Shards of Honor, the start of the Vorkosigan series by Lois McMaster Bujold – which was a Swords & Laser book club pick. Well, that’s not exactly correct – it’s half of a Sword & Laser book club pick – it was instead selected as Cordelia’s Honor – a book that combines it with the novel Barrayar, which follows up right after it (and was originally intended to be the same book) – but got a few more passes for a later publication after the Bujold decided to split the two parts up, and which were later recombined. So, now it’s time for the rest of the story.
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