This week I’m taking a look at another SF anime from last year, that, like Bodacious Space Pirates, borrows thematic notes from 50s Juvenile SF novels – but without the shitty racism, misogyny, or other crap.
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Shinji Ikari Raising Project: Manga Review
The manga Shinji Ikari Raising Project does a lot with a pretty simple concept – what if we take the small slice-of-life rom-com anime vignette from the last episode of Neon Genesis Evangelion, and expand on that to its own series? Generally, it succeeds at that concept, with some solid humor, though with some missteps later in the series that gets things kind of awkward.
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Next Gen #12: December 1995
At long last, I’ve gotten caught up with NextGen magazine, at this month we are at in Nintendo Power.
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Batman: Legend of the Dark Knight Annual #3 Recap
It’s time to finally finish up the Bloodlines tie-ins.
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Detective Comics Annual #6 Recap
We continue with Bloodlines and return back to Batman.
Continue readingThis time the writers borrow a bit from two B-Movies to create an engaging side story.
Continue readingWe meet the fairy, and have a fight with a Lesser Demon.
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Let’s Play Wizardry Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 66 – The Two “J”s
On our way to the fairy, we have a reunion with Annemarie.
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Robin Annual #2 Recap
Getting back to some of the Bloodlines storyline, to take a bit of a break of the end of the world around me.
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Film Review: Mandy (2018)
I don’t know if I’m watching Mandy at the best of all possible times or the worst. I’m watching it while surrounded by a toxic cloud of smoke that makes it unsafe to go outside, in the largest wildfire season Oregon has faced in my lifetime or my parents’ lifetime, while under a Level 1 evacuation warning. On the one hand, I’m watching the movie with an ambient atmosphere that exudes dread going in. On the other hand, maybe that’s what’s helping me get the most out of it.
Continue readingWe unlock another shortcut back to Level B1.
Continue readingWe end up having a surprise reunion with Virgo!
Continue readingThis week I have another martial arts film review, as I’m taking a look at Golden Harvest’s Feng Shui fueled adventure film, “Bury Me High”
Continue readingWe return to the music shop and learn the proprietor’s story.
Continue readingWe restore the spring before falling back to town to pick up the next quest.
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NextGen #11: November 1995
Almost caught up with where we are in Nintendo Power Magazine.
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NextGen #10: October 1995
We’re a couple issues behind in NextGen where we are in the Nintendo Power Retrospectives, so it’s time to do a little catch-up.
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Let’s Play Wizardry: Tale of the Forsaken Land: Part 61 – Giant Problems
We fight our first giant before having to take a detour.
Continue readingWe return to town, heal and level-up.
Continue readingThis week I’m continuing with the video game reviews with Marvel’s Spider-Man.
Continue readingWe run into a band of ogres who give us a hard time.
Continue readingWe start properly exploring B5 and fight a lot of spiders. As in, we’re going to be fighting a lot of spiders on B5, so be warned.
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Batman Annual #17 Recap
Continuing with the Bloodlines tie-ins with Batman Annual #17, which is much more clearly with Jean-Paul in The Suit.
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Batman: Shadow of the Bat Annual #1 Recap
Before we get into Knightquest, we have an event that I’d like to go through first – the tie-in issues to the Bloodlines annual event, as they’re generally set more or less around this time (with some overlap with the end of Knightfall).
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