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 even the SLIGHTEST resistance, it was forfeit.
Also, HELLO 2023 COMI...
2023-05-24 01:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 surprised to re-watch this episode and find that he DIDN'T just immediately die ...
2023-05-17 18:47:42 +0000 UTC View Post
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 seconds.
Also, one of my great loves in this era of anime is pausing to lo...
2023-05-11 17:23:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, I know they made A video game out of Macross, I actually own it. But it's just a standard shooter. The whole trackball control gimmick is just such an...
2023-05-04 03:59:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 grammatically correct page of English text for Minmay's letter... when just one sh...
2023-04-27 03:55:03 +0000 UTC View Post
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.
2023-04-26 03:57:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 Slayers comic I did for what appears to be a recurring theme.
Also, I just ...
2023-04-20 01:09:32 +0000 UTC View Post
...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 before they formed the mecha even once! ...although that's probably not even ...
2023-04-13 07:12:56 +0000 UTC View Post
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 provide, free for any worker to enjoy. Of course, everyone hated it, and the central c...
2023-04-10 04:25:24 +0000 UTC View Post
...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 runtime. Like, yeah, Hikaru gets the iconic "catching Minmay out of mid-ai...
2023-04-05 22:59:43 +0000 UTC View Post
"Meh, that's the just the heiress of a fantastically wealthy family with massive geopolitical influence. BOOOOORING."
2023-03-31 20:34:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Putting your mecha on autonomous mode during a zombie-smashing competition is like doing a speed run with cheat codes on.
2023-03-30 19:46:53 +0000 UTC View Post
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 prime example of why I mostly avoid learning that kind of stuff now, because MA...
2023-03-29 15:21:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 this, or that there aren't a LOOOOT of shows that do way worse to enable the worst...
2023-03-23 11:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post
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! Honestly, a lot more than I was expecting to get out of a single movie, even ...
2023-03-19 13:41:53 +0000 UTC View Post
...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. And presumably less ill-explained psychic powers from the main character...
2023-03-18 23:35:41 +0000 UTC View Post
No joke, I legitimately thought this was one of those Kevin MacLeod stock music snippets for the LONGEST time before discovering it was a "real" song. Heck, as I was in the process of editing this very page, I had s...
2023-03-17 21:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
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 hopefully get it all up by the end of the week. It's amazing what a change of p...
2023-03-16 22:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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 try to at least ink & scan them all before the week is out. I might jus...
2023-03-16 00:01:13 +0000 UTC View Post
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 aired two years before Evangelion, so there can't be any direct influence. And...
2023-03-11 00:23:51 +0000 UTC View Post
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 for some quick housekeeping: First off, obviously, Macross comics aren't ...
2023-03-08 20:43:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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 last chance right at this very moment you're reading this, most likely. But ...
2023-03-03 20:02:15 +0000 UTC View Post
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 whole genre, or at least something pretty darn close to it. I’m sure I’d enco...
2023-03-01 19:26:27 +0000 UTC View Post
That's the most important union in the entire entertainment industry. EVERYBODY'S a part of it!
2023-02-23 12:37:04 +0000 UTC View Post
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?
2023-02-23 09:48:31 +0000 UTC View Post
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 our NEXT anime will be wrapping up soon! The winner will be declared ...
2023-02-23 01:50:59 +0000 UTC View Post
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 the higher paying folk by letting them vote on a movie for me to watch and do so...
2023-02-16 07:41:05 +0000 UTC View Post
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 viewed from the side, so you can see just how bit the "beak" on the front actually ...
2023-02-16 07:15:09 +0000 UTC View Post
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, then AN ENTIRE NIGHT trying to track down the specific model of TV my family has wh...
2023-02-10 17:07:02 +0000 UTC View Post
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's not me slipping up while writing the title, there's only one page this time. ...
2023-02-09 22:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
