Don't worry, this is the last one from episode 7. And yeah, I know it's a bit indulgent to do a whole comic about how I can't come up with a comic after two weeks of other comics from the same episode. Really, the biggest issue is that I already made VPN jokes during both sets of Digimon comics I did before this one, otherw...
2024-05-30 16:25:18 +0000 UTC View Post
...and just you wait until AI Girlfriends become a thing!
Not a lot else to say... mostly because I find this particular subject matter to be one where a LOT of my potential extra comments could accidentally be taken as a lot lewder than intended.
HOWEVER, just a quick heads up: IT'S ABOUT TO BE VOTING TIME AGAIN....
2024-05-23 11:50:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, remember back when the notion of an OLD PERSON using The Internet was uncommon enough to be a punchline unto itself? These days, the only thing more dated than that is the totally-not-an-iMac that Grandma's using.
Also, does it show that I really don't care much for interacting with people online?
Finally, Y...
2024-05-23 11:37:24 +0000 UTC View Post
No, seriously. The second I realized "Oh wait, this THIS episode!" I basically spent the whole half hour just making sure something else didn't happen to distract me from the comic idea I already had.
...and I almost DID have another idea, or at least a different spin on the one you ultimately got. It's kind of funny ...
2024-05-18 11:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Foreshadowing is a narrative device
No, but seriously, I'm sure I've seen his episode at LEAST one other time since the original airing, but it still really caught me by surprise just how much episode 7 is calling ahead to future events. Gosh, remember when Digimon shows could actually feel like they were...
2024-05-17 11:40:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I WILL NEVER GET TIRED OF THIS STUFF, no matter how tired YOU all may get of me laughing at it.
Also, I was initially just looking to point and laugh at the use of some random song titles on what's supposed to be a spaceship's navigation layout... but then I noticed the "A113" up there. I mean, Dirty Pair ...
2024-05-12 03:49:51 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, I didn't discover Homestar Runner until a few years after Tamers, so it's hardly surprising that I wouldn't think this at the time. And I did just go on a pretty major Strong Bad Email binge right before watching this episode, so my perspective was definitely a bit compromised...<...
2024-05-10 21:53:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Certain people will think the funny thing about all this is the suggestion of a future where people still use physical currency at all... and I'm really holding myself back from some very cynical, pessimistic jokes at those people's expense.
I also really held myself back from another round of pointing and laughing at t...
2024-05-05 01:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, yeah, I really DO get there's plenty of real world reasons why they wouldn't want to give Rika this look permanently. I'm sure this would be noticeably more time consuming to draw than the regular shirt, even WITH the broken heart logo included, and that's not even getting into the question of whether or not early-au...
2024-05-01 22:51:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Wow, it feels like a whole since I busted out Grumbles for a comic... probably because these days I'm enough of a cranky old man to just be a miserable downer openly instead of hiding it behind a cute cartoon character LIKE A COWARD.
Speaking of garlic, I'd also had the idea of taking Namo shorting out from the smell of...
2024-04-27 20:19:18 +0000 UTC View Post
What can I say? I just like Impmon, to the point that I've actually got a whole second comic idea about him from this episode... on top of a whole OTHER comic idea about something else entirely. Yep, I'm doing ANOTHER three pages from this single episode. Jeez, it's gonna take me a couple years to work through this series,...
2024-04-26 17:53:50 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, it was that or make an election joke, and nobody wants to hear that (Understand, comment section? NOBODY WANTS TO HEAR THAT.)
But seriously, it's a testament to the often wonky pacing of DIrty Pair episodes that the whole fear hallucination thing is as minor plot point as it is. Most shows introducing a plot poin...
2024-04-20 23:27:38 +0000 UTC View Post
THIS IS THE LAST ONE, I PROMISE. Next week we finally move on to episode 6, really. But then, considering that I've spent the better part of a month referencing Haruhi, then FMA, and now Naruto, all the evidence suggests that "moving on" isn't something I'm very good at.
...but come on! This is literally what that ca...
2024-04-20 01:14:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, Yoink is really getting a workout this weekend, huh? And if the comic wasn't this, it would have been something ragging on the episode for saying that the monsters in the sewers were from the planet "Lovecraft." We'd have been seeing Yoink one way or another no matter what.
2024-04-13 23:23:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, I knew watching through Tamers again would be an exercise in nostalgia, but but I had no idea we'd being going THIS deep into the dawn of everyone's collective weeb days. First Haruhi, now Fullmetal Alchemist!
Oh, but before anybody suggests otherwise, I checked: Digimon Tamers star...
2024-04-13 07:17:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I will be very, VERY annoyed if it turns out there actually WAS an issue on Rats at some point and I just couldn't find it during a Google search. But come on, do I look like a guy with a Fangoria collection stashed away in my room? My shelves are full of old issues of Electronic Gaming Monthly an...
2024-04-06 21:54:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Heeeeeeey, so you know how last week I took what was originally going to be two separate comics about episode 4 but then did some editing and condensed them down into one single, concise page? Well, I've apparently forgotten how to do that, because this is the first of THREE comics I'm getting out of episode 5! And the craz...
2024-04-05 20:59:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm pretty sure I've already meme'd a few of these screenshots at one point or another over the years, but the point still stands... the point in this case being that I in no way respect people younger than myself. (To anybody not familiar with Conventional Wisdom's running gags: these three characters are basically my go-to...
2024-03-30 17:56:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, it had to happen eventually, but we're FINALLY got an episode of Tamers where I only got a single episode out of it... eventually. Actually, there WAY going to be two separate comics at one point, one dunking on the game graphics and another just about the weird Hypnos control panels, but then I decided they weren't st...
2024-03-29 15:51:17 +0000 UTC View Post
...and don't even get me started on the random C.S. Lewis reference woven into the episode (Seriously, the "prince of Caspia?")
But seriously, though, does anybody out there know if there were any actual Ghibli artists working on episode 10? I know that this one was outsourced to SOMEBODY different, but in the thirty se...
2024-03-23 12:20:19 +0000 UTC View Post
...and then I remembered that this is technically the SECOND time we've seen Gargomon in a Digimon anime, since Terriermon was also in The Movie as a partner for Willis... WHO IS AMERICAN. So, yeah, the joke actually doesn't work, but I'd already started drawing it SO HERE WE GO.
Also, I couldn't think of a way to form ...
2024-03-21 02:45:21 +0000 UTC View Post
SAKURA IS VERY UNHAPPY THAT I DIDN'T DO COMICS ON THE SECOND HALF OF HER SHOW.... or maybe because Tamers got way less edits when it first aired stateside than Cardcaptors did. I dunno.
Anyway, I've already got a second comic from episode 3 penciled, which'll be up next week. The point five...
2024-03-15 19:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, I'm not saying that would ever be a WRONG decision, I'm just a bit confused how we wound up here. And to anybody doubting if that's "actually" supposed to be a Godzilla mask the dude wears when we first see him, I remind you that this episode literally includes the legit Godzilla skronk when Mughi and Namo show ...
2024-03-15 06:56:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Admittedly, Union Station (where the other instance I'm citing) is hardly immune to sketchy behavior itself. But while I did totally get asked if my plastic robot puppet was a bong while on the way back from one con or another, I can safely say that none of my visits to the Union Station food court ever involved a skele...
2024-03-14 05:05:51 +0000 UTC View Post
This is really more a dig at anime that reuse their own themes in-universe as a general thing than a specific complaint about Dirty Pair specifically. They're not even THAT bad about it (otherwise Kei would have just been listening to "Ru-Ru-Ru-Russian Roulette" in episode five). Still, unless it's being ...
2024-03-09 23:03:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Anime Fandom is bad and we're all bad people for being a part of it.
But yeah, at first these were going to be their own separate comics, but then I realized that three whole pages just on episode TWO was setting a dangerous precedent, so they got mooshed into one. As a result, though, there's an observation that ...
2024-03-08 11:54:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Just before anybody asks: my brain only has room to learn the name of any given character ONCE. Thus, even though I'm actually watching the subbed version of Tamers for these comics, I'll still be referring to characters by their Saban dub names where applicable. So it'll be Rika and Henry, not Ruki and J...
2024-03-07 18:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Somehow, after YEARS of doing these anime comics in one form or another, it's only just in the past week occurred to me that I could just stick a "point five" at the end of the page number and keep the "main" number more or less in sync with the episode number. Clearly, I'm very very good at this. Oh, and before y...
2024-03-03 12:42:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Boy, this is already turning into an even bigger nostalgia journey than comics about a show from two decades ago would suggest, huh? &n...
2024-03-03 10:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post
...because there's only so many times you can just flip the McDonald's "M" over so it's a "W" and call it a day. At some point, somebody's gotta do something a bit more inventive. An darn it, "Big Nac" is just that. Of course, I also love the though of some sweet and innocent Japanese artist thinking that dr...
2024-03-02 09:07:08 +0000 UTC View Post
