Some of these soundtracks really just write themselves. I mean, just look at Hiro. Really, LOOK at the kid. He’s a spiky-haired sports junkie in a group of kids obsessed with seeing themselves as hot-blooded heroes and looking awesome. Heck, his name even SOUND like “hero!” What could this kid even POSSIBLY listen to ot...
2020-11-26 01:41:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Not gonna lie, half the reason this page exists the way it does is because, all those years ago, I realized that page 14 seemed to set up this mustache guy like he was going to appear again... and I wanted to finally have that pay o...
2020-11-12 22:26:21 +0000 UTC View Post
So, back in the blog about L’arc-en-Ciel's greatest hits, I confessed that I only bought it that CD because I thought it’d have their FullMetal Alchemist theme on it, which it did not. I further said that I WANTED to make a big milestone out of the first Japanese album I bought that wasn’t a soundtrack, but thi...
2020-11-12 02:07:07 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I already posted a big, general ramble about the state of everything over on blitzthecomicguy.com, but I wanted to give a more detailed update specifically about Patreon stuff, Conventional Wisdom in particular.
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2020-11-12 01:50:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, THIS time I really am lumping several albums into one blog post. After all, this time there’s a nearly absolute level of overlap between the disks AND a multitude of tracks that clock in at under two minutes. What could go wrong?
A lot of things, actually. This blog might end up being even more rambly than...
2020-10-29 11:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I started to say this was what I feel like every time I have to leave the house, but that's not entirely true. I actually love me a good road trip... in which I spent 95% of the time enclosed in a moving box, out of contact with other humans. This is just how I feel about having to go places where other people act...
2020-10-28 08:15:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I’d love to see a chart which graphs out the plot relevancy of all the Far Out There characters who’ve gotten soundtracks, because there’s gotta be some DRASTIC fluctuations from blog to blog. Last time was one of a gang of characters who all but took over the comic as soon as they arrived, but now we have a side c...
2020-10-27 12:55:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh man, remember when L’Arc was, like, the biggest thing in the history of ever? Not that they aren’t a big deal now or anything, but MAN I was getting hit with stuff about them from every single direction back when I was first learning about Japanese music. Fullmetal Alchemist was blowing up everywhere, and “READY STEA...
2020-10-12 18:01:19 +0000 UTC View Post
My internet went down, like, every hour the whole stretch of time I was working on this page. That is TOTALLY the same thing as a the chute that burns up your trash not working.
Also, dig all those totally-not-forced mentions of characters' names to get people caught back up after such a long break. SO natur...
2020-10-12 17:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this was already going to be a weird one just because of how these blogs came into being. As I said before, my original plan had been to lump all the Cowboy Bebop soundtracks into one big blog post, but that post was getting SO big that I had to break it up into chunks. That was fine with the full albums, but I knew fro...
2020-09-27 14:45:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so page 35 was rather obviously written up specifically to the "the first new page" and reference the lengthy hiatus. This page, on the other hand, was what was always supposed to go next... and it's been waiting a LOOONG time to actually be seen by anybody. The original penciled draft was sitting in a folde...
2020-09-27 13:40:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Lynne is a character perpetually covered in neon pink and pastel blues, often with squiggly 90s patterns. What kind of music do YOU think this kid listens to? Clearly, the answer is ANGRY GROWLING ATONAL DEATH METAL. Get ready for lots of umlauts and blasphemous band names! No, but seriously, Lynne likes Vaporwave. Of COURSE ...
2020-09-27 13:18:08 +0000 UTC View Post
GET IT? IT'S META! BECAUSE I'M SO LATE WITH EVERYTHING!
But yeah, to reiterate what I said earlier, do NOT expect these to come out on a weekly basis again. I mean, you almost certainly WEREN'T expecting it to happen, whether I promised it or not, and that's all the more reason NOT to promise it. ...
2020-09-16 17:32:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Can it be? Is it real? Will it last for longer than a week? MAYBE! At long last, after a loooooong time of saying I want to do it, I'm FINALLY updating Jenna's Patreon comic again! And it really has been a LONG time, so long that even the most "recent" page of the comic predates Patreon's tagging...
2020-09-16 17:25:33 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, let’s get the single biggest nitpick out of the way right off the bat: the cover of Blue is REALLY boring. Cowboy Bebop and No Disc both had covers that looked like old school Jazz records, but Blue just looks like a generic New Age album. It’s especially insulting because the albu...
2020-09-16 00:28:16 +0000 UTC View Post
First of all, that is one trollish album title, even more so in the age of MP3s. With that out of the way, I must reiterate something I said in the previous blog: Cowboy Bebop felt like an album, No Disc and Blue feel like soundtracks. That’s no slight on the quality of the songs themselves, but <...
2020-09-05 19:02:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Don't get me wrong, after how groggy I got on the drive back Saturday night, not even leaving Concord until around midnight would ABSOLUTELY have been the wrong move. I still stand by heading on home instead of doing a whole separate thing that night. But even knowing that, it's still hard not to look at how this ...
2020-08-26 07:07:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this is another soundtrack I was a little iffy about whether or not to do right now. I THOUGHT that by this point in 2020, Marshall would have made enough appearances in the comic for everybody would have a clear idea of, ya know, who he even IS. As it happens, though, everything everywhere went and fell apart RIGHT as ...
2020-08-26 06:44:51 +0000 UTC View Post
So I WAS going to cheat right off the bat here, and lump four CDs into a single massive blog post: the generically titled Cowboy Bebop, No Disk, Blue, and the Vitaminless single/EP/mini-album/whatever it is. That’s not even the whole of the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, of course, (hello Cowgirl Ed...
2020-08-15 03:57:00 +0000 UTC View Post
So I just finished going on about how I couldn’t come up with any more ideas for blog posts, and immediately afterwards I had an idea for a whole series of blog posts. Then again, the only blogs I HAVE been consistently making lately were music related, so I guess this is just a variation on a theme. I like music, in case y...
2020-08-08 15:06:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, time to talk shop. Like, for real. It’s no secret that I’ve done a pretty miserable job running my Patreon for the past… well, EVER. Just look at that list of stuff you’re supposed to be getting: a new, exclusive Far Out There and Conventional Wisdom comic every week, special blogs related to ...
2020-07-29 03:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
We’re back to the Short Pants Squad again for this soundtrack, and to a very specific sliver of the world’s population, this is going to be the most misleading character soundtrack yet. For reasons long lost even to myself, Tarkus is named after the Emerson, Lake & Palmer song. That “Tarkus” is a dense, twenty-min...
2020-07-28 22:55:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It helps if you understand that 90% of the directions for the drive between Raleigh and Charlotte is "Don't spontaneously drive off the side of the interstate." As long as you're pointed in the right direction, you can just keep going straight and not get lost... MOST of the way. The flipside of that straightforwa...
2020-07-28 22:13:15 +0000 UTC View Post
The last time I did a “general update” type blog was back in January. It’s currently late June. That’s a loooooong time where a loooooot can change in even the best of times, never mind the actual reality we’re in right now. I HAVE done a few blog/update/recap/rant things over on blitzthecomicguy....
2020-06-23 04:50:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, this is the soundtrack I’d started writing for last month, before I decided to give myself a present and did Aunt Domino’s instead. It’s also another entry on the “Seriously? You gave THAT character a soundtrack?” list, especially since it’s been YEARS since she’s appeared in anything ot...
2020-06-23 01:37:38 +0000 UTC View Post
So, fun story: I've mentioned that I had to drive out to Ichi super early to try and avoid getting stranded without a parking spot. One of the numerous side effects of arriving so early was having a LOT of down-time between arriving at the hotel and when things actually started happening at the con. Thus, I ...
2020-06-23 01:25:04 +0000 UTC View Post
WHAT? A soundtrack for Aunt Domino? That one weird side character who’s only appeared in, like, six pages so far? Why the crap does SHE get a character soundtrack? Well, I’m not gonna lie, there are still other characters with MUCH greater relevance who could have come next. In fact, I’d actually started writing the blo...
2020-05-27 06:50:57 +0000 UTC View Post
With hindsight, part of me wishes I HAD gone ahead and tried to make the show, just because I'm not sitting in a world where doing ANYTHING in front of a crowd might not be a thing again until next year. But aside from the fact that I really DIDN'T need to be waiting until midnight to even start the drive home, there's ...
2020-05-25 21:13:04 +0000 UTC View Post
As if all my various cosplay stories over they years weren't proof enough, here's yet another example of how my personal comfort and enjoyment is the absolute BOTTOM priority for me at a con.
I have a rather embarrassing behind the scenes confession to make here, this page SHOULD have come out weeks ago. I got all...
2020-04-27 15:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I mentioned in May’s blog that I’d had her soundtrack more or less worked out YEARS before any of the Little Rich Boys showed up, even though she’d had way less screen time than them. Obviously, this implies that the four boys have soundtracks as well, but that they’re still nowhere near as fine-tuned as the oth...
2020-04-27 15:37:29 +0000 UTC View Post
