Waiter! Waiter! As many more Masahiro Shinoda movies as they have, please. (Samurai Spy, 1965).

embargo is up so I can give my review of Digimon Time Stranger: very early on there's a detective agency on the second floor of a movie theater and hold on........this is a fkn Maiku Hama reference goty

Rewatching The Fire Hunter as I let the second season slip me by when it aired. Fantasy worlds built upon the remains of a post-apocalyptic modern day my beloved.

Hey! Starting tomorrow I'll be posting a strip a day of the 1951 manga, Tenshi no Tama-chan by Hiroshi Fujimoto and Motoo Abiko. But you probably know them by a different name: Fujiko Fujio! That's right, it's obscure debut from the name that would bring the world Doraemon! hope you like it~

Sap time: I really love that Ultraman Omega's brand of hope and optimism is just to be in a community that gives you as many avenues as it can to just at things (jobs, hobbies, passions), with as many opportunities as you need to keeping trying at them.

so...I guess now is a good time to read my post about one of my favorite games ever, Banshee's Last Cry????? The essay also does a very good job at capturing what my brain feels like seeing this game in Street Fighter lmao

Such a mixed week! Lots of underwhelming segues sandwiched between some amazing books! Good As Dead #1 scratches the itch, All three of us finally read 2000AD and unanimously agree it’s Our Shit, And our book club devours Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen!

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New post! The Summer of the Ubume is a titanic work of Japanese mystery fiction, a horror-soaked loosening of reality wrapped up in locked rooms and impossible pregnancies. Read my thoughts about it — and the cruel truth of all mysteries — here!

Also of course wrote a tiny bit about the film over at the blog, so go over there too!

New translation! The movie that shocked a young Hirokazu Kore-eda and has followed him his entire career...from the director of Dream Island Girl and Utopiano, Shoichiro Sasaki, I'm happy to share English subs for the gentle masterpiece that is "The Flow of a River, the Sound of a Violin" Enjoy!!

@chloecade.bsky.social whenever an issue of Kryptonite Spectrum comes out:

Incredible episode! We talk about: Red Hood #1 (great!) Absolute Batman #12 (great!) Kryptonite Spectrum #2 (great!) Racer X #1 (huff) And Wes Craig’s Kaya vol 1 for our book club (I’ve prayed for books like this)!

OL Shinkaron is extremely good

my first podcast appearance!! my friends at the Bog Frog let me absolutely ruin their lovely show with an unhinged NSFW deep dive into one of the most unique mangaka there is Listen or DIE

New Bog Frog! We're talking about the most influential manga you've never heard of! And to help us we brought on the leading English language Saint Muscle expert: @cosmicspooks.bsky.social! Join us as we discuss horse peen, Cum Angels, and Fleshbomb! sites.libsyn.com/485343/minie...

Don’t be fooled by the episode title: there’s so much 2000AD talk in here, with a side of Absolute Batman! Our book club also continues with a dive into Bitter Root by Greene, Brown and Walker! (It’s exceptional)

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Superman: The Kryptonite Spectrum is near perfect? True… @peposed.bsky.social’s Space Ghost #1 surprised us with its quality? Perhaps… Alan Moore’s Saga of the Swamp Thing run is maybe the best comics have ever been? You better believe it! All that and some losers talk about how good 2000AD is!

Episode 10 is out and we're asking the BIG questions like, how many dragons does Wren actually know, what's up with Imp's sock, and how does Reddit work these days? sites.libsyn.com/524638/episo...

And another pamphlet scanned! This time it's the massive double feature for Yoshiyuki Tomino's seminal The Ideon: A Contact and its sequel, Be Invoked! Enjoy!

It’s just Chloe and Jake this week, so they take the opportunity to go HAM on their special interests (2000AD and Hellboy)! Also some more belter Batgirl, and Monkey Meat continues!

Doing this on dates now.

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I've even seen my new all-time favourite film since then, but I'm still chasing that exact feeling of surprise and awe I felt when I first saw Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning.

In 1956, a small group of artists were told to write stories for a book of crime manga. What they did instead was change the medium forever. Join me as I start translating the birth of gekiga with the first story in the influential publication, Kage -- "The Mischievous Detective" by Takao Saito!

YOOOO this week we spend like 20 minutes on Absolute Martian Manhunter #5 and it’s brilliance! We’re also joined by @arbitrarygenius.bsky.social to discuss the first 3 volumes of the astoundingly incredible Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye!

New Bog Frog! We got Tales From The Stacks very own @chloecade.bsky.social on to talk about Counting Casualties! sites.libsyn.com/485343/minie...

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New short story! A pile of chairs and a mountain of memories... “Mom used to say all our furniture had soul…” Read my 1000 word story, Tripping Backwards into Heaven, right now!! (if you don’t i’ll beat u up)

Sluggo-maxxing my conversations.

While I’ve become the Gear Guy I really enjoy doing features like this and the Sanrio piece; deep dives that on topics that mainly interest me. They take so long to write but they make me happy. aftermath.site/27-years-lat...

Pictures of my new cat for those interested

New Bog Frog! We discuss such important issues like, The Impossible Mission Force, Loki(???), and what the fuck is wrong with atlus sites.libsyn.com/485343/episo...

New post! This week I’m exploring a single episode from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex and all the things it has to say about memory, fiction, time, and genre. You know, GitS stuff! Check it out, ya dork~

angrily throwing everything I've ever written away because Oshii already said it all better and cooler in Talking Head

Oshii's Talking Head is truly everything and I will be talking about it everyday forever.

Unlimited Saga art by Tomomi Kobayashi (scanned from the Unlimited Saga for Beginners guide)

New scanlation! Ripped straight from the legendary alt manga mag COM comes the beautiful and surprising one shot "Tomorrow a Bride" by Tatsuhiko Yamagami and Hiromichi Kinjo! It's the kind of story I really needed when I read it, and hey maybe someone needs it too

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Chozo statue #art #artwork #painting #illustration #metroid #fanart

I feel like it's been too long since I've gotten into something untamably large, so I'm going to start watching Taigas and Asadoras... First up, Naotora or Ryomaden!

Finally got around to ranking what I've seen from my boy Shiraishi (difficult because I like them all)

Started Ridge Racer V and immediately had to get at least a little bit out because wow what a game

the angry gay video game nerd: this game sucks dick like me because im gay and i suck penis

ANOTHER new episode?! When will these hosts learn?!? Anyway, there’s a little bit more Marvel love in here, we keep yapping about DC’s Absolute Batman and then dive into some more of the best comics of all time that we’ve never read before! (It’s mainly Swamp Thing)