Chainsaw Man good, Fire Punch great, all his one shots worth checking out (old and new). Watched the live action movie of I Am A Hero and it was awful.
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Yeah, no one has really recommended that to me. But I did see art-eater speak enthusiastically about it, which is sometimes just enough for me to want to take a look. I read a couple chapters of it when it was first starting, and I was basically a different human being then, and it was before I ever knew about the walking dead, so I can’t really go off how back then I thought it seemed a little cool.
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really hope we get a godawful live action straight to netflix chainsaw man film in my lifetime
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directed by adam wingard for extra hack energy
death note 2017 was a perfect film and his talents are being wasted on the godzilla king kong empire
i also like chainsaw man though i fell off at some point as i do with all comics/manga/whatever
I’m waiting for the anime to read more of chainsaw man, super recommend his one offs though they both made me cry
goodbye eri, and look back
if someone can tell me chainsaw man isn’t bleach 202x I’ll try it
oh yeah this is so so good
bleach sucks chainsaw man rules they’re totally different
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knew i could count on you
Chainsaw Man rocks that dude just wants to touch a titty I can’t believe there’s a modern shonen manga I’d want to read but it’s chainsaw man, can’t go wrong with it
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I’ve never wanted someone to touch a titty more! you just can’t help but cheer for his dumb pathetic ass
what is chainsaw man’s toilet-cleaning episode
chainsaw man is this generations golden boy is just something I’m going to tell people now
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That’s not wrong
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I came in here to talk about Ducks (which is good) but hell yeah CSM. I wouldn’t say Fire Punch is better but it is absolutely worth a read. Planning on owning it physically at some point.
During the pandemic I decided that the only two good things in this world are comic books and people very publicly trying to work through gender so I have been reading way more TS/TSF manga than anyone should submit themself to. About a month ago or so I found out Fujimoto Tatsuki had done a TSF one-shot and I was like, ‘Holy shit, this is Christmas.’
It was not Christmas
Going to somewhat spoiler Fire Punch but I don’t think it will give anything away: Fire Punch has a trans man in it and Oto Toda, who wrote Stripping the Flesh, was an assistant on it. Stripping the Flesh was a one shot about a trans man getting top surgery (which is fine but nothing to get worked up about outside of representation stuff) so that all kind of hung together in my mind and I didn’t really put much thought into it other than ‘oh hey manga people down with the trans’
It turns out that Fujimoto did a dry run for writing a trans man in the hackiest, most YA mom way possible: he wrote a story about a cis boy whose body magically turns into a girl’s and then he learns that you can still be a boy. It’s… not good but god ‘the only way I can imagine being a minority is by imagining a world where someone exactly like me is placed in that situation’ is always funny to me
Comic books are the best 10/10 highly recommended if you want to get to the bottom of this whole gender thing
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So, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands is the new Kate Beaton book which has reviews in all kinds of major newspapers and shit and they’re all super positive, which usually is a bad sign but luckily it’s actually very good.
My girlfriend and I saw Men in theaters because I have a crush on Jesse Buckley and we were both like, ‘yo that was pretty bad even though it’s good that Jesse Buckley wore a dress with boots’ and then I saw some essay that was like, ‘If you wanna watch a real movie about how much men suck, you should watch The Nightingale,’ and I was like, ‘well, I have been meaning to see that so why not.’ Short review of The Nightingale: if your movie has a rape scene in it, it needs to be pretty fucking good to justify that. If your movie has FIVE rape scenes, it needs to be the best fucking movie ever made. We had a post movie conversation that basically consisted of us saying to each other, in exhausted voices ‘Maybe everyone should just stop making movies about why men are bad? Maybe that is actually NOT a conversation worth having.’
I’d tell a similar story about autobio comics but I honestly am blanking on why I soured on them. I read a whole bunch and then I hit a point where the thought of reading one was like, I’d actually rather just read nothing. I do think they’re very difficult to do well. I absolutely think you should lie in your autobio comic if it makes things better, but you can very easily throw off any sense of authenticity when you start doing that. Unless your focus is very tight, you’re not going to get nice and neat character arcs for anyone but the protag (if that lol), and it’s nearly impossible not to be myopic when it comes to fleshing characters out.
The good news is that the girl Kate Beaton did actually pull it off. Doing a webcomic for years without much continuity is probably the best practice you can have for writing a long comic that’s mostly 1-2 page vignettes where the majority of characters don’t get any real arcs.
Discussing actual real life and not doing metaphors or any sort of distancing nonsense helps a lot with the ‘men are awful’ conversation, but I think the real secret of why it works here is it comes from a place of fundamentally liking men. Men are great; they’re certainly awful too but so many things approach it from a perspective of like, ontology. Not productive, assholes.
Ultimately my main criticism is that I think her conclusion is a little… idk too nice? Like, you can be all ‘people act out when placed in extreme circumstances,’ sure, but your average man thinks of humanity as two groups: women, and people, with the caveat that women can be upgraded to people if they’re your mom or a friend, ect ect ect. There’s a bit where she’s talking to her sister and they’re like, ‘how would our dad behave if he was living in a oil sand camp away from our family? I dun wanna think about it’ and, yeah, sure, but what you’re actually saying is, what if your dad was removed from being surrounded by people (who happen to be women), and was in a situation with people, and also women?
Comic is very good at making me thankful that I look extremely gay in a way that is not attractive to straight men
My biggest takeaway was just how nice it was to see a comic about someone like me. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about the internet recently and how completely fucked it’s made everyone’s brain. It’s nearly impossible to not think of the internet as ‘everyone’ but it’s really, really not! There are all kinds of people in this world that you will straight up never meet on the internet, or in books, or whatever, and it’s not just, ‘oh, I don’t believe in going online’ or ‘I don’t have broadband’ or fucking ‘normies’. They just fucking microdose internet on facebook or fundamentally would not get anything out of it. The example I like to use is, we have a pretty solidified stereotype of your average trans women and we all go, ‘yeah it’s limiting but lol it’s funny b/c, yooooou know’ and yeah sure but there’s tons of trans women who are just, you know, happy in their day-to-day life and they go clubbing on the weekends and what the fuck could twitter possibly offer them? Tweeting ‘I went clubbing and it was fun I’m happy :)’ and then their friend replies and goes ‘I also went clubbing and had a good time but it was in a different city because this is the internet lol we did the same thing but in different places lol’ like who in their right mind could possibly get anything out of that? You get online by being a fucking crank. There’s things in this world that make you a crank, such as being a programmer or going to college or whatever your various form of brain damage is, and I’ve spent my whole life having brain damage on the internet while working blue collar jobs with people who mostly don’t. It’s a weird sort of, idk, work/social life dissonance because blah blah blah class in America blah blah but it’s something a lot of people deal with? I’m not sure I’m being coherent right now (I’m on nights rn, rip) but there is something so gratifying about someone whose work appeals to ‘smart,’ liberal, ect sort of people who is willing to say ‘yeah, I worked this job you think is shit,’ and not in a ‘haha isn’t that just wild’ sort of way but like, ‘yeah, this is something I did and it’s actually a very important part of who I am’
shit’s lit, comic books 10/10 highly recommended if you want to feel the way your dad feels about Bruce Springsteen but about a Canadian woman who draws funny cartoons
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I sometimes try to reckon with this by just assuming everyone who is not online in a predictable modern social media way is actually just a regular on some archaic BBS devoted to something utterly mundane and insane like microwave food recipes or rping as characters from a sitcom that ran two seasons thirty years ago. Most of the 15-20 regulars on those places have just become a community of friends only marginally related to the actual forum topic but there are still like 5 people who have never posted anything off topic
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