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Manga-A-Day 17 – BLAME! v1 Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

A dark, violent, and utterly alien cybernetic dystopia, where no one can remember what the ground or the sky are like and new horrors lurk around every corner. Exactly the sort of setting, storytelling, and characters I love, I really should have read this ages ago, and started to at ...


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Manga-A-Day 16 – Slayers Special: Spellbound Monday, June 8th, 2009

Well, I probably should have paid more attention there... Seems this is the fourth collection of a series of Slayers shorts, I thought it was a one-off :\ Still, given the nature of the book, there wasn't any sort of overarching plot that I could see, and ...



DVD-A-Day 16 – The Work of Michael Gondry Monday, June 8th, 2009

One of the collections in the Director's Label series of DVDs, this collects 27 music videos, miscellaneous stories, and a 75 minute film, though for the purposes of this, and my particular interests, I'm only looks at the music videos (someday I'll get back to the rest of the ...



Manga-A-Day 15 – Shaolin Soccer v2 Sunday, June 7th, 2009

And the weekend of bad continues. Picking up where the first volume leaves off, our team of kung fu soccer 'brothers' work their way through the tournament, racking up an impressive string of victories. That is, of course, until they meet up with Team Evil in the ...


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DVD-A-Day 15 – Battle Warrior Sunday, June 7th, 2009

Behold the power of Tony Jaa's name, it can make me buy a completely terrible movie. Playing the villain's lead hench, even his pair of fight scenes couldn't save this movie. Very much the definition of a B-movie, but unfortunately one that doesn't quite swing back from ...



Manga-A-Day 14 – Shaolin Soccer v1 Saturday, June 6th, 2009

Tenuously a manga, closer to a manhua given its Chinese artist, but commissioned for the movie, it really is the awesome of the movie that drove me to pick it up (as part of that bag of as much as possible for $20 thing). While it sticks pretty close ...


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DVD-A-Day 14 – X-Men TV Volume 1 disc 2 Saturday, June 6th, 2009

The trouble with reviewing a collection like this is that often the second disc doesn't bring much new to the table to talk about. Still, there were some surprises, I don't ever remember Jean and Scott almost getting married, or how fucking creepy ...


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DVD-A-Day 13 – X-Men TV Volume 1 disc 1 Friday, June 5th, 2009

Another skip day yesterday to consume this 2-disc collection of the old 90s X-Me cartoon. This was probably my first introduction to the X-Men way back when, but as with much of the cooler 90s cartoons, I was never able to watch much of it. Its ...


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Manga-A-Day 13 – Comic Party v5 Friday, June 5th, 2009

Another series down, and certainly pleased with how it all turned out. After being scouted by a weekly manga magazine for a professional gig, our lead (who has only been at it for a year and has barely broken past the smallest tier of doujinshi publishing) is quickly swept ...


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Comics for the week of 6/03/09 Friday, June 5th, 2009

A lighter week here, but some doozies to be had none-the-less: DC Batman And Robin #1 - The one everyone's been waiting for, the new Batman and Robin hit the streets runningflying in a ...


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