Oh we're making matches specifically for me now, are we?

System of a Down and Mindless Self Indulgence are basically the same, right, but different. You know? Y-... you know?

E-mail's gone out about the Bookwalker changes and does an excellent job being clear about what everything means and explains lightweight content protection pretty nicely. Feeling optimistic about it all.

"let people enjoy things"

Sal Buscema's contributions to shaping the Hulk into the lovable, endearingly weird comic it became can never be overstated.

Immortality and Punishment! The first volume of this bleak zombie apocalypse manga dropped yesterday and I was tasked with some challenging, complicated bits of localization. So let's talk about it!

Basically nothing matters until you can finish a comic. Doesn't have to be long but I talk to so many people who ask how they can pitch to a publisher and I'm sorry but the abstract idea isn't important. Publishers only want to know if you can do a beginning, middle and end and get it done on time.

All the Weezer albums are on the list and like it's not *exactly* like most fans' rankings, but it is very close to being exactly like most fans' rankings.

New album list entry! Van Weezer has some good songs. Not many. Mostly it feels like they wanted some arena rock that fans could chant along to, similar to blink's California, you know? In at 718, a mixed bag at best. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New album list entry! The Lemonheads mostly blew up for a cover song (bonus track, not eligible), but It's a Shame About Ray is an incredibly solid, reliable bit of alt rock that I could see being worth owning for must listeners. In at 515. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Sexually suggestive label has been applied, because bluesky cannot appreciate the artistic integrity of papier maché nudes.

New album list entry! Ritual de lo Habitual is a marked improvement as a sophomore effort from Jane's Addiction, which is saying something when their first album was *real fucking good*. Banger after banger at 267. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New album list entry! I love when I get a recommendation that shows how much someone gets my deal. TRB do amazing things with Power in the Darkness, an album as essential now as ever, righteous but still fun at 207. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New album list entry! It's... it's "Heroes". What can I say? The middle child of the Berlin trilogy is lesser than Low, but still an immortal piece of art that few can match. The way the sound shifts over the album is mesmerising, in at 24. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Goodbye, Harukaze Mound. Incredibly competent series without enough life behind the eyes. I'll miss it.

youtu.be/UVC2QEprJUo?... Wise up or get fucked.

Transphobia is a cancer of the heart and mind. It is a useless fear, based on ignorance and cruelty. Trans people are not responsible for a single one of the problems we face. Do the world a favor and grow the fuck up.

QTP with the game you're currently playing

I was thinking about Aston Machan earlier today- a horse that really has only gotten famous alongside Umamusume, even inside the horse racing community. She was a promising mare of the same generation as Daiwa Scarlet and Vodka- both legendary mares in their own right.

I’m an Austen apologist for (most of) his X-Men work but this is the absolute pits.

Two new reviews on backloggd, starting with Wilmot Works It Out, which might be my favourite game in YEARS backloggd.com/u/LetMeBeBee...

What really happened.

New album list entry! Meat Puppets' second album is some interesting cowpunk, but sounds a lot like they don't really know what that should be yet, making for a record that lacks cohesion. In at 651. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Incredible anecdote from Thermae Romae’s Mari Yamazaki

2026 albums #3 Robbie Williams' record-breaking latest is a do-over and a love letter, as sharp and self-aware as ever, but more able to recognise the perils of excess. Britpop enters at 466. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New album list entry! The Libertines, as a band and album, are a glorious fucking mess. Dysfunctional volatility turned into indie rock bangers, it should never have worked. And yet, it does. 418. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Returned to New Grappler Baki after a big break (not for lack of enjoyment, just got distracted), and it really is the king of cool moments.

A whole page of Strangers in Paradise where like every panel I was saying “damn this lettering is real good” a little louder every time. Comics rule.

Reading Strangers in Paradise for the first time and even one issue in I'm like yeah this is gonna be fucking great.

I'm always saying variations of this. Like a part of why Weekly Shonen Jump has felt stagnant the last few years is that so many titles are clearly inspired by other WSJ titles. You gotta bring other interests to the board.

Eight albums going onto the list this week. Should have started posting earlier, but ah well. Five 1001 album generator entries, a recommendation, Robbie's new album, and the last Weezer album.

Add synths to all music

This May will mark *nineteen years* of Weekly Shonen Jump failing to run a successful baseball series. Basically every other magazine and web platform can make baseball work. This is a uniquely WSJ problem.

Advergames are usually a breeze to play through, right? WRONG. Mission Pom-bär (the chips) is an absolutely brutal 1997 DOS 2D platformer. Levels brimming with enemies, death traps and no help. The icing on the cake is the "resume" feature that brings you back to the last level with ONE life.

Mr. Fan of Fan Translation is back with his yearly video about PS1 Fan Translations. Please watch it and be marveled at the power of old video games and singing cats. youtu.be/FPN_KUQyPIs

Lammy & the Rammy 🎸🩸

I should get more blink albums on the list. I feel this strongly.

For meeeeeeeee????

New album list entry! Don't mention the fucked up jailbait song don't mention the fucked up jailbait song don't mention ah shit well at least there's some good songs on ace of spades too so uh 737. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

New album list entry! Mitski's Puberty 2 captures all the adolescent angst and sadness and horniness and cum (a remarkable amount of cum) of teendom, filtered into complicated adult life. Beautiful multi-genre magic at 201. Full list: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Reading Daredevil: Born Again. The best Marvel comic of all time? Maybe. Ben Urich’s journey throughout speaks to a faith in journalism in the face of tyranny that I want to believe in again, if only more people dared to try.

Evergreen Comix.

"You may touch it."

Okay, a thread to track all the volumes (i'll spare issues and chapters) of comics and manga I'm reading from this point on. Let's try and keep this up

Distraught to learn that the Hank Pym/Wasp sex scene is removed from collected editions of the Johns Avengers run. Let them be kinky little freaks.

It’s really funny that I’ve read 54 fucking volumes of comics and manga since posting this like why is this the format I follow for sharing the books I read when it captures under 20% of my actual reading. … this is gonna be how I end up doing a media thread, isn’t it.

🏈 New OSW review - The Longest Yard! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENk4... (77mins) Adam Sandler's prison football film starring STONE COLD Steve Austin, Bill Goldberg, Kevin Nash, The Great Khali and LOADS of people you'll recognise! Please repost! 💚

I actually read enough of weekly shonen jump for it to be worth noting this week. Great week by its standards, and glad I stuck with Otr to the end, even if it didn't make much of itself.