I think within the next five years or so a mangaka is going to publicly come out and it’s gonna be dominos. In the afterward to Alice Returns Oshimi basically said he thinks the solution to having dysphoria is, uh, no engage in Diogenesian praxis and I really can’t see that working out better than it’s worked for anyone else
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Ya’ll really say ‘engage in Diogenesian praxis’ outside of the context of ‘no engage in Diogenesian praxis’ to need a filter, huh?
I found my screenshots of Inside Mari and I guess I was in a mood at the time because they’re all about video games, jerking off, and Mari doing violence to men
I really do appreciate that Oshimi makes comics about kids in high school from the perspective that being a kid in high school fucking sucks and it’s mostly about anxiety and jerking off and feeling bad about jerking off.
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an unexpected surprise in my pull list: a new batman 89 series! i love the look and feel of this world so much. conspicuous by his absence in this issue is batman himself. new characters include jonathan crane, who is presumably going to be the main villain, judging by the cover art, and more surprisingly his professional rival harleen quinzel, who is doing the talk show circuit talking about her theory of “persona therapy”, explaining that batman and the joker are the way they are because of trauma causing them to create an untraumatised alter-ego for themselves. so he’s a serious clinical/criminal psychologist, while she’s the publicity-seeking pop psychologist. (it’s been pointed out on twitter that she’s being “played” by madonna in this, making this at least the second bat-story where madonna’s been faceclaimed for a villainous character)
also appearing is firebug, who in this world is a unabomber-style figure with a shack/bunker out in the woods.
i want ot make special mention of the fashion in this series, everyone really does look like they’re from one of those urban gothic stylised movies of the early 90s like the burton batmans, the addams family movies, and so on.
i know it’s early, being only one issue into this series, but if they ever do a third, i hope they redeem the riddler the same way they did for two face in the first series.
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Are they using a real actor for Scarecrow too? Iirc back when they were talking about actually using him in a sequel to Batman forever the rumor was it would be Nicolas Cage.
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yes, he’s jeff goldblum! and winona ryder is in there, too.
(i actually didn’t notice any of these myself until i searched for the comic on twitter and people were pointing them out)
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Ahh that’s cool. Idk why but I find that gimmick really charming for some reason. Weird how it is only a matter of degrees away from putting CGI Nicolas Cage as Superman in The Flash movie, but one is cute and fun and the other is like a crime against human dignity (to me)
I think the Batman ones are really the only attempt to do that right? They may have done one for Superman movies too maybe?
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there are sequel comics for the 70s wonder woman tv show and the 70s/80s superman movies, but i haven’t read either of them so i don’t know if they also do the casting thing.
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I mean the batman '89 comics are more clever because it’s like how do we extrapolate the tim burton aesthetic or whatever…what if he made more batman movies! It takes actual effort as opposed to being like LOOK DO YOU REMEMBER THIS? The xmen cartoon continuation comic is really good for the same reason, they have to actually create stuff out of whole cloth that feels like something old you like, and it doesn’t feel fucking lame because genuinely creative people are doing it
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This is the reason the IDW Ghostbusters run (RIP) is the second best Ghostbusters media. Not only did the writer manage to capture the voices of the movie characters, but they then went and did a crossover with the RGB cartoon characters, and kept the voices distinct enough that they could throw up a bunch of word bubbles on the panel with no confusion.
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Ted McKeever who did one of those comics with Lydia Lunch that I spent too much on did a piece for one of those X-Men poster magazines in 93, and he had the good sense to be contemporary rather than doing some 60s characters
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I just read Green Valley.
The creator is one of the many canceled white dudes out there. I don’t wanna address that.
But the book is shit.
So no spoiler warnings. It’s about a medieval, D&D sort of Knight guy who ends up dealing with who he believes to be a scocerer but is really a time traveler. It’s written where every character is swarmy and would have been read as likable about a decade ago but is just unlikable now. His maiden gets fridged early on. It was painful to go through, and I hope my warning will save you all from ever considering it.
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There is new Ralph Azham and i am excited about it because Lewis Trondheim is my favorite nihilistic fantasy cartoonist who draws DUCKS
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i read “a girl on the shore” and i now understand why it was the only book on the store shelf wrapped in plastic
vaguely remember a lot of people being panicky about it years ago and i guess i get it, but it just comes across as “real”
keep imagining it’s intentional that the cover has a texture that feels kinda gross to hold
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Just calmly watching this drama unfold, having a sip of my drink
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can some of you people recommend me good 80s manga thats’ readable online. i need to push some simple fun shit (nb: any manga counts as simple fun shit for these purposes) into my brain to keep it from throwing a rod
Galaxy Express 999 is pretty good? MANGA: Ginga Tetsudou 999 : Matsumoto Leiji : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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a bunch of chance occurances have just happened. I randomly decided to read the “saved by the belle reve” one shot that i’d had lying around for a while. it’s an anthology of school-themed stories in the dc universe, including a short gotham academy vignette that ends on something of a cliffhanger. gotham academy being one of my favourite post-2000 dc comics, this made me go looking to see if that had been followed up on, and i got my answer: there’s a three-parter starting in the current run of brave and the bold next month! exciting.
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i read the final volume of my hero academia: vigilantes. it’s way better than the main series, to the extent that i think it’s weakened in some ways by the association.
also it’s “only” 15 volumes, which feels shorter than the length of the current boss battle in mha.
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