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Conventional Wisdom: Ret-Con 2023 - page 1

Conventional Wisdom: Ret-Con 2023 - page 1

Because after the scramble to get working speakers in the first place, time was running short and adrenaline was running high.  The moment that box put up ...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 8

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 8

Um, spoilers?  I guess?

Then again, even if you haven't already seen Macross, ANY reasonably genre-savvy viewer would watch episode 8 and instantly think "Oh wow, that Kakizaki guy is SO dead."  Like, no joke, I was actually a bit ...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 7

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 7

I mean, I'm just saying, if it were ME designing a huge Mars base, it'd try to make it at least a BIT more inconvenient to deliberately set the whole thing to self-destruct.  Like, it would need to take at LEAST a minute to set up, not seven ...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 6

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 6

I mean, I know they made A video game out of Macross, I actually own it.  But it's ju...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 5

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 5

Hey, you gotta find whatever little victories in life that you can.

And speaking of not putting in much effort, it really amused me that somebody actually went through all of the trouble to properly type out a contextually appropriate and gr...

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Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 65

Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 65

I should be more concerned than I am about how easy, let alone funny, I find it to write dialog this pointlessly, needlessly, openly mean-spirited.

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 4

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 4

I joke, but that freakin' fish really is one of the first things I always remember about Macross for some reason.  See also that one really stupid Slaye...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 3

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 3

...and I didn't even mention the bit about the big weapons platforms our title ship was supposed to dock with getting blown up before they could even combine.  That's like if Voltron opened with one of the lions getting destroyed bef...

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A Matter of Black and White - chapter 2

A Matter of Black and White - chapter 2

The central hub of the original colony complex was designed to be given over entirely to communal recreation and social interaction, outfitted with all the best games and literature and art and playground equipment the Radial Emperium could provid...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 2

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 2

...I mean, it's obviously not ENTIRELY that.  Roy alone exhibits the competence of, like, four normal men.  But still, there is something perversely fascinating about the sheer number of whoopsies that make up the bulk of this episode's ...

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Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 64

Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 64

"Meh, that's the just the heiress of a fantastically wealthy family with massive geopolitical influence.  BOOOOORING."

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Far Out There: MadLib 5 - page 10

Far Out There: MadLib 5 - page 10

Putting your mecha on autonomous mode during a zombie-smashing competition is like doing a speed run with cheat codes on.

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 1

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 1

Okay, now we REALLY start doing episode one... and you can tell this is a show I've got a lot of history with, because I first watched it back when I actually LIKED finding out about the production history of anime.  Of course, this is also a...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 0

Weekly Anime Comics: Macross - page 0

I mean, let's be honest here, I love Macross and everything, but there IS a case to be made for it representing a tipping point in terms of anime pandering to the otaku crowd.  Not that anime wasn't already doing fanservice before th...

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BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 5

BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 5

It should surprise absolutely NOBODY who reads anything I make that, out of the two, The Jetsons: The Movie has a much larger and more influential place in my personal film experience than Apocalypse Now.

And that's it! &nb...

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BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 4

BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 4

...granted, that's at least partially because I've always SUCKED at Wipeout in its various incarnations.  But still, if they made a Wipeout motion picture, I could easily imagine it being "The Running Man" just with more terrible techno music...

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BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 3

BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 3

It's this song.

No joke, I legitimately thought this was one of those Kevin MacLeod stock music snippets for the LONGEST time before discovering it was a "re...

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BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 2

BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 2

Eh, screw it.  Not only are all the pages inked and scanned at this point, but I got this one done last night, and as I write this, the THIRD comic more than halfway done.  I'll just charge ahead and post these as I finish them and hopef...

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BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 1

BONUS Anime Comic: Neo-Tokyo - page 1

It's a bonus, both because this is in addition to the coming Macross comics, and because I still haven't worked out for sure if these will be comic out on a weekly basis or not!  I've got four more pages penciled out, and I'm gonna t...

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Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - page 26

Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - page 26

If I had the time, I'd totally try to edit up an AMV of clips of the Slayers intro set to "Cruel Angel's Thesis" just to prove my point... but these comics have been running too late as it is.

AND YES, I am fully aware that Slayers Next aire...

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Weekly Anime Comics - MACROSS WINS!

Weekly Anime Comics - MACROSS WINS!

AND WE HAVE A WINNER!  After a tight race with Cowboy Bebop, I can officially announce that Super Dimension Fortress Macross is officially our next Weekly Anime Comic series!  Thanks to everybody who voted!

Now fo...

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Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - page 25

Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - page 25

Insert line about how becoming a patron helps insure that I never have to work at one of THESE again.

And speaking of which, IT'S YOUR LAT CHANCE TO VOTE ON WHAT THE NEW WEEKLY ANIME COMIC SERIES WILL BE!  ...I mean, not actually the la...

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10 WESTERN Songs I Wish Were Anime Themes - part 10

10 WESTERN Songs I Wish Were Anime Themes - part 10

I’ve noticed a surprising number of my “carefully considered anime theme picks” also happen to be “the very first song I ever heard by that artist.” And yes, this is another one of those cases. In fact, it’s also my introduction to a w...

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Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 63

Jenna & the Fanclub from Planet Heart Throb - page 63

That's the most important union in the entire entertainment industry.  EVERYBODY'S a part of it!

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Far Out There: MadLib 5 - page 9

Far Out There: MadLib 5 - page 9

The real question is: did Ichabod even tell the Mecha-Wombat rental establishment what he was planning to use it for in the first place?

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Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - episode 24

Weekly Anime Comic: Slayers Next - episode 24

I will never turn down a chance to mash 80s/90s anime and 70s/80s exploitation movies into a single, sleazy whole.

BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY: the vote for...

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We have a winner! (for one of them, at least)

We have a winner! (for one of them, at least)

That's right, the voting is over! ...for the second poll that only upper tier patrons got in on.  In case you missed it: since I accidentally set the next Weekly Anime Comic poll so that EVERYBODY could vote on it, I decided to make it up to ...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Slayers Next - episode 23

Weekly Anime Comics: Slayers Next - episode 23

Yes, I know I already pointed out the obvious once before... BUT THEY MAKE IT SO EASY!  Like, that helmet actually looks very UN-Vader-like when vie...

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Weekly Anime Comics: Slayers Next - episode 22

Weekly Anime Comics: Slayers Next - episode 22

I mean, who can tolerate somebody constantly making jokes about a show you're trying to watch?  Don't you just HATE that?

Also, I just want to freely admit that it took about five minutes to draw the characters and write the dialog, the...

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Conventional Wisdom: Wake Forest Mini Comic Con 2022

Conventional Wisdom: Wake Forest Mini Comic Con 2022

I started to say "That's Summer in The South," but that's also most of the Spring and Fall and random stretches of Winter too. Just a year-long armpit to the face.

So, you'll notice a conspicuous lack of a page number on this one.  That...

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