What, you didn't think that blog about the gas station house was going to be ALL of my Otakon 2023 content, did you? ...I mean, I wouldn't blame you, seeing as how long it took me to actually finish the first of these comics. But yeah, there is indeed real regular Otakon comic comics for you all.
Also, in my own d...
2023-12-06 01:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
YES, I STILL FOUND MORE OF THESE THINGS. This is the fifth year in a row I’ve written a blog 2023-12-03 11:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, if it weren't for the fact that the movie Highlander didn't come out until three years after this episode aired, I'd seriously believe that somebody working on the show might have included that deliberately. I mean, episode 34 also has a completely out of nowhere reference to Shane, or all th...
2023-11-29 09:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, I'm calling it! Once the Macross comics wrap up, we're diving straight into a weekly dose of Dirty Pair! And just to reiterate what I was saying earlier, I'm currently only committing to the original 1985 TV series. I'm certainly not AGAINST doing the '87-'88 OVA series as wel...
2023-11-24 21:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, confession time: I've never actually watched Macross Zero myself, so I probably shouldn't be dunking on it without direct personal knowledge. However, the main reason WHY i've not watched Macross Zero is because I've pretty much never heard anything good enough to make me want to. Seriously...
2023-11-22 17:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Admittedly, this joke probably would have made a LOT more sense if it focused on equating Gunbusters "aliens" with the forces of Chaos directly... but sometimes a guy just really feels like drawing a chick in Ultramarine armor, ya know?
Of course, I also could have thrown everybody a curveball and used that line as a sp...
2023-11-18 20:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Granted, that's also the ONLY shot in the entire sequence where that guy appears. In literally every other angle of the crowd at Minmay's concert in episode 32, all the big Zentradi are clearly sitting behind the little folks. So in all likelihood, our guy was SUPPOSED to be further back and this is just an especi...
2023-11-16 18:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not even kidding, the pre-credits bit at the start of episode 3 absolutely BROKE my brain. It's already tricky for me to keep up with translated on-screen text while also following separate dialog subtitles, but THOSE FREAKING CLAPS, man. That kind of flagrant lack of a beat would have distracted me like a bit...
2023-11-08 08:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This comic is specifically inspired by episode 31, but really I could have drawn it about ANY episode Kaifun appears in, because it's always true.
ANYWAY, not only am I working to get back to doing these in the MIDDLE of the week instead of scrambling at the end, but ANOTHER VOTE IS COMING! Yes, people had their c...
2023-11-08 06:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's be honest, though: in the darkest days of the 80s video games crash, would it seriously surprise you to see a "Baby Toss" game?
Also, sorry this one is so late. Aside from recovering from a big ol' convention trip, I'm also sorting through the mess of a hard drive failure at the moment. Otherwise...
2023-11-04 08:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh dear. Oh dearie dearie me. Where to even begin with this one? The Terror really is the stuff of B Movie legend. If fact, it sounds more like the kind of thing film buffs would say to each other as a JOKE: Roger Corman worked so fast that he got a movie finished ahead of schedule, and ...
2023-10-31 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Vincent Price didn’t stop making horror flicks for American International Pictures just because they gave up on continuing Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle. If anything, he had another minor career resurgence in the Doctor Phibes movies, which led directly to the pseudo-career send off Theater of Blood. &n...
2023-10-27 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Okay, before anything else, I REALLY should have just drawn the '70s hair over an actual photo of Lovecraft instead of trying to do a caricature. That 'stache and fro do a bit TOO much to make my doodle version of ol Howard unrecognizable)
As I’ve mentioned elsewhere, American International Pictures ha...
2023-10-24 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, don't get mad at me, I'm just reporting the facts as I see them. In fact, they showed an admirable amount of restraint by ONLY tearing her sleeves. I mean, we're talking about a female character in a post-apocalyptic setting with a background in violence AND ALSO an antagonist. By most rules of fiction...
2023-10-24 06:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's been percolating in the back of my brain for literal YEARS, but it was worth it. I am exaggerating exactly nothing here, the entire room literally erupted in a chorus of boos the second Minmay's poster appeared on screen. I'd always heard that large portions of the fandom weren't exactly fond of her, bu...
2023-10-20 21:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I'm just gonna rip the band-aid right off and say it at the very start. This is the single most well-regarded film out of all these blogs... and I don't much care for it. If you're one of the many who hold this one up on a pedestal, and you also get angry when other people don't like that one thing you like,...
2023-10-20 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I occasionally see it said that Roger Corman’s Poe movies were responsible for Vincent Price being reborn as a horror star, though this is fairly misleading. He’d played bad guys in everything from costume adventures like The Three Musketeers, Son of Sinbad, and The Ten Commandments to film noirs l...
2023-10-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, there's just no way a person in my line of work can be presented with the Rip Van Winkle effect and NOT make a joke like this.
On a slightly related note, I've just started a SECOND poll for $5 and up patrons regarding the future of these Gunbuster comics. (One that's totally separate from 2023-10-14 23:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If you know pretty much anything about the production history of Macross, you know that episode 29 is where they finally pass the originally intended conclusion of the show and basically have to start making a whole new postscript sequel series. And don't get me wrong, I really respect that they resisted the ur...
2023-10-13 16:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, fun fact: I got so used to seeing this movie filling out TCM's marathons of the Roger Corman’s AIP Poe movies that I thought it was another American International product until, well, about a minute before sitting down to write this blog. See, this is why it’s always important to check your sources, kids. &nbs...
2023-10-13 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When I did the first set of these blogs, I complained about not liking The Raven all that much, thanks mostly to the abrupt left turn from Moody Horror into Broad Comedy. I tried to make it clear, however, that I don...
2023-10-10 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember, even if you excuse the fact that all this tech is supposed to be in use aboard A SPACE STATION, there's still the basic fact that this is taking place in the year 2023. So, yeah. Either way, this is pretty funny when you stop to think about what you're looking at.
Also, IMPORTANT REMINDER: 2023-10-07 18:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
1969’s The Oblong Box is one of the two movies most likely to be grafted onto somebody's “official” Poe Cycle list (though don’t expect me to talk about the other o gets tacked onto the Poe Cycle list is thanks to having Vincent Price in the lead… except he’s really NOT the lead. Oh, the first act c...
2023-10-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMost people probably won't care about this one way or the other, but since it involves other people's money I wanted to make sure everything had been mentioned at some point.
I just put up a poll that $5-and-up patrons can vote in to help me decide on the next Weekly Anime Comic series. This poll isn't to actually...
2023-10-05 19:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, it is REALLY dangerous for me to take a break from watching a show for even one week. Yeah, since I already had the second page from episode 26 penciled the same night as the first one, there was no need to actually watch anything last week... and whatever semblance of a routine I had leading up to that point was T...
2023-10-05 12:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
...and the worst thing, at least in MY mind, is that my convention notes don't even contain any part of their conversation. So Present Day Me couldn't even show you whatever they were talking about if I WANTED to, all I have written down is the instruction to write a comic about whatever it was.
And pathetically e...
2023-10-04 10:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Halloween I did a series of blogs about the “Poe Cycle:” a series of Gothic Horror movies that Roger Corman made for American International Pictures, based on the works of Edgar Allen Poe, staring Vincent Price. It w...
2023-10-03 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The more things change, huh?
Well, at least pointing and laughing at stupid names will be timeless no matter what. Like, even setting aside the fact you'd have to REALLY thing all foreign names sound alike to think that "Jung Freud" is a convincing name for a Russian girl, who looks at a cocky pilot character and ...
2023-10-01 13:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Now this is ABSOLUTELY my opinion of what dance clubs are like.
2023-09-29 15:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Not really anything to add to this one, it pretty much speaks for itself. Also, I immediately regret the fact that I probably gave some ironic memelord fanartist out there some ideas.
But yes, as promised last week, this is actually a SECOND comic from episode 26, meaning the page numbers will be out of sync with ...
2023-09-27 21:37:03 +0000 UTC View Post
