To be fair, if it's aim was good, that little maneuver looks like it could have squashed a LOT more zombies than just punching them would have.
...and no, this is not the end. Even I'm not gonna do something THAT anti-climactic (besides, there's still around a third of the original madlib that hasn't been addressed yet)
2022-09-28 17:06:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, our unintended journey through my high school/college days as a pretentious Indie snob continues with… honestly an incredibly unpretentious and not all that “Indie” song. But the important thing is, just about nobody in the English-speaking world ever heard of Juniper Moon outside of self-congratulatory critics and record store owners, and that’s all a turn of the millennium band needed to have Indie cred. And yes, you’ll have noticed that “El Resto De Mi Vida” is not, in ...
2022-09-27 22:08:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy crap, I did NOT realize I'd fallen so far behind on these. This is what I get for bringing back so much of the Patreon stuff I'd put on hold, huh? Well, as I write this at the end of September, my last con for 2022 is already pretty far in the rear view mirror. Hopefully, that'll mean one less distraction keeping the last few con comics of the year from coming out in a more timely manner.
And yes, I'm absolutely reinforcing every negative stereotype you've ever he...
2022-09-26 22:42:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, since I don't think I'm doing a good job of explaining this (quite ironic), let's do this again: Episode 2 of Slayers Next begins with Lina's voice over providing a quick recap of what happened in episode 1. However, underneath that audio, there's a montage of clips playing that show Amelia's entourage from Seyruun bringing her some luggage, allowing her to change out of the beat-up Princess clothes she had on in episode 1 and into the familiar white pajamas we're used to seeing h...
2022-09-21 10:09:55 +0000 UTC View Post
...aaaaand we're back! Slayers returns! ...and MAN did it get a lot more 90s between seasons.
Look, I'll be honest with ya'll: I have seen Slayers Next before, but it's not a show I've revisited the way I do the first one, and watching the first episode again really reminded me why. I don't remember HATING the show or anything, but I absolutely do remember being a bit disappointed with the shift in tone. Then again, I also find that I DON'T reme...
2022-09-14 10:32:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Before you ask, yes. I absolutely had to go look that up.
2022-09-13 08:07:50 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, folks! The Polls are closed! (Well, more like I won't be paying attention anymore, but still) Weekly Anime Comics start back up this time next week, and when they do LINA INVERSE IS BACK! I'll officially be covering Slayers Next! A second whole season, probably making Slayers the most comic'd anime in the history of Weekly Anime Comics! Yes, I did both seasons of KonoSuba back to back, but that whole show put together stil...
2022-09-07 16:03:42 +0000 UTC View Post
On the one hand, the fact that the patrons filling in these "MadLibs" can actually see the sentences they're completing sort of cuts down on the absurd randomness that the original game is supposed to generate. On the other hand, this is still Far Out There. Randomness still reigns supreme no matter what.
2022-08-31 12:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
There's several jokes I could make about about a swarm of people getting all handsy with a famous movie star... but we'll all be better off if I don't.
2022-08-30 15:46:00 +0000 UTC View Post
(Confession: I wrote most of this during a stretch of me getting VERY little sleep, so apologies if it’s even more rambly and unpolished than usual.)
It’s not often I can claim to remember the exact moment I first heard one of these songs. I can only partially claim that here, as while I know I heard it on the local Indie-centric college station while driving out to… SOMETHING one morning, I’ve got no memory of what that thing was. But that’s mainly because I DO remem...
2022-08-28 19:31:10 +0000 UTC View Post
No really, this has been sitting in my folder since the end of May, waiting for me to figure out SOMETHING to do with it... and given that the whole point of Zilch is supposed to be add a punchline to ideas I don't know what to do with, that's really saying something.
Still, despite what this might lead you to believe, I've still got ONE MORE Animazement '22 page in the chamber, waiting to be unleashed!
2022-08-12 13:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I mean, Tax's flashes of weirdness aside, don't tell me you wouldn't be curious what the inside of a stadium like that would look like.
2022-08-11 16:35:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Alternate punchline: "I'VE GOT GARBAGE IN PLACES I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW I HAD!"
...and no, I'm NOT going to put the Jenna comics on hold while I do the new set of Far Out There MadLib comics... because these come out so rarely that the amount of time that would actually be saved by NOT doing them is negligible.
2022-08-01 02:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
See? SEE? Didn't I say it? You didn't believe me, did you? Yet here we are! I'm finally, FINALLY starting to post the set of comics based on that madlib I posted ages and ages ago! See? The $5 tier really DOES get you something!
And speaking of which, don't forget about the Weekly Anime Comics vote that's also open for $5 and up patrons! The main reason I...
2022-07-30 04:38:08 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s funny, then, that “The Garage Band Revival” didn’t really have much of a unified image or sound. Just about all the bands that rode to fame in The White Stripes’ wake honestly didn’t resemble that group very much, let alone each other. The Black Keys certainly had a name that made them sound like The White Stripes’ other half (not to mention a similar guitar/drum duo line-up) but their Blues sound had a gritty authenticity that Jack White’s art school pretentiousness coul...
2022-07-28 03:16:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Of course, the main reason everybody sitting in this particular room WAS in this particular room was because everybody ELSE had decided to cram into The Dealer's Room and... well... made things rather unpleasant for themselves.
Still, though, getting these levels of burned out non-energy so early in the weekend was really weird... when it came from OTHER people, that is. It's 2022-07-22 22:36:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m making this post public so that everyone can stay caught up on the news, especially people who aren’t patrons yet, but are thinking about it. If you’re not familiar with how this goes, here’s the deal: One Dollar patrons get to read all the comics I post here (weekly anime and otherwise) right away, well before they go public anywhere else. FIVE Dollar patrons (and up) actually get to vote on decisions involving those comics, and the time for one of those decisions has come!
You get what I mean though, right? It’s not really about the knowledge of whether or not there’s actually more of the franchise in existence somewhere, though that definitely CAN be a factor. Here, I’m just talking about how the human brain seeks out patterns and, upon finding them, gets used to their presence. When the brain expects something to be there, even something as simple as a “next episode” preview with that one familiar musical cue, the absence of that thing is sad. I kin...
2022-07-21 22:15:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I know, I know, it's whole clip show, it's just a single montage... but still. That's a really out of nowhere montage, isn't it? I mean, the character who's been around the LEAST is the one having a flashback? Between that and Lina's whole "here's how the magic works!" PSA bit, it really feels like they had to pad this episode out a bit. I guess they had to spread the climactic stuff out a bit too far. But hey, compared to a lot of anime I've seen, Slayers did re...
2022-07-13 14:53:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I literally had to Google "words that start with X" to come up with enough good stuff to fill out a whole comic. Imagine what a NON-native English speaker must feel like in this situation.
Okay, so the more astute of you may have noticed that season 1 of Slayers is almost over, so you'd think there would be some kind of patron vote starting up on whether or I do season 2 or some other show. You'd be right, I should have started the voting process by now. But here's the...
2022-07-08 00:44:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had the doodle for this page sitting in my folder for WEEKS waiting for the episode where they actually call him "Copy Rezo" so the joke would work.
Also, since this is my last chance to bring it up, Eris' voice actress has one of the WORST Evil Laughs I've ever heard. Like, it's hard to express in a sound-free medium, but she sounds like she's "quoting" a laugh rather than actually laughing. Like when somebody intentionally tires to sound like they can't act. She...
2022-06-30 03:19:48 +0000 UTC View Post
As usual with these types of things, I got a much bigger laugh out of the space-filling extra bits in the back than the "real" comic.
But still, look! Two pages within a single month! The text-and-black-panels page actually did its job!
2022-06-30 01:33:14 +0000 UTC View Post
I used to think that all those sitcoms I grew up with where the grandparents were comically wild and crazy were just jokes. Shows what I know.
And yes, conventions continue to be the one time where I indulge in this terrible vice.
Oh, and just for the record, this batch of Patreon comics will be a bit... odd. I was in such a hurry to get all the regular Animazement comics onli...
2022-06-29 23:41:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Some of these blogs have leaned heavily on personal anecdotes about my connection with the band or genre in question, and how it figures into my broader musical tastes or life story in general. If you’re sick of all that, good news! I can honestly say I have no emotional investment to HammerFall or Power Metal in general. I discovered this was a thing the same way pretty much everybody else outside of upper Europe did –hearing “Through the Fire and Flames” by DragonForce in ...
2022-06-29 02:10:49 +0000 UTC View Post
You can totally see why I had to spend a whole month drawing this page, can't you? Truly PAINSTAKING attention to detail in every panel!
...yeah, I know. Sorry, but the weirdness of having multiple cons so close to each other this Summer REALLY messed up my time management over the past few weeks. I'd actually planed this page specifically so that I could jump into the NEXT page right away, but doing so much Conventional Wisdom in a row just gobbled up too much time and ener...
2022-06-23 21:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I guess I've still got that KFC joke from all the way back in episode 14 on the brain... or I'm just really hungry.
I was going to include a bit on the front of the box saying that you could collect proof of purchases from these boxes and send away for your own Claire Bible, but at the last minute I got worried it wouldn't be legible once I stretched and squished everything to fit on the box. ...
2022-06-22 19:34:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to render Crow's net/hair thing in a blocky, solid form just turned out looking like cat ears. That, or a bear.
To be honest, I had a totally different comic idea based on my memories of the last time I watched Slayers, and got pretty deep into penciling that idea whole the episode was playing... until the episode suddenly ended and I realized the bit I was drawing a comic about doesn't actu...
2022-06-16 08:18:10 +0000 UTC View Post
I dunno what it is, there's just something about fishmen in Slayers that inspires the absolute dumbest ideas I could possibly have. I mean, there's no way I'm the first person to make the Sonic connection, and it's at least POSSIBLE that there's at least one other person on God's green Earth who was inspired by the "red hair" connection to equate Lina with Robotnik... but I feel safe in assumin...
2022-06-09 02:25:44 +0000 UTC View Post
So THIS is how I learned all my photo-ruining skills! The ninja in my crawlspace taught me!
But seriously, I looked it up, this really is an actual company. I guess I can work my way into seeing some logic in naming your business that maintains the dark, cramped, mysterious corners of your house after the silent assassins... but that's still a REALLY weird set of words to just randomly see on a billboard while driving along. And I see some REALLY random billboards out ...
2022-06-05 19:44:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Simon's Laws of Comedy #235789: ANY tiny, squat, cute versions of full-sized characters is automatically "Jim Henson's ______ Babies". No exceptions.
2022-06-02 02:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post