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Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 20.25

I'd say some "and we're back" thing here, but I already did over on the Baccano comic... and it might draw undue attention to the fact that I kind of already DID a Mandela Effect joke just a few weeks ago. But hey, this one's got an added layer of meta, so it's okay.

...and seriously, even when I first saw this as a kid, those shots of there being four silhouettes walking along even while the close-ups only showed three characters taking were low key one of the creepiest ...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 7.5

...AAAAAAND, WE'RE BACK! AGAIN! Let's see how long we can go before I need to take ANOTHER unscheduled break! Place your bets, folks!

No, but seriously, It's all but guaranteed that I will NEVER offer Utena as a Weekly Anime Comic candidate, simply because every single aspect of it's art style is utterly incompatible with my own. I already learned my lesson that time I covered JJBA. Heck, It's honestly a bit of a struggle doing Baccano a lot of ...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 20

Yes, I know, I'm thinking too hard about the cartoon designed to sell toys to children. But like I always say, this really IS the sort of thing I would have thought too hard about even when I WAS a kid. Like, I know from a storytelling standpoint it's a LOT more convenient to just hand wave away most people's reaction to seeing Guilmon around. We're all tuning in to this show to watch Digimon fight, not to watch a big box get shuffled around for half the episode, so just explaining it away...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 7

I know, I know, "weekly" is in danger of becoming aspirational again. Sorry, but I really felt like CRAP over the weekend, and just getting the rough pencil drafts of the next batch of comics took multiple days. I blame the weather, any time the temperature hiccups I just feel like death. Thankfully, I did end up also getting a rough draft of a second page from episode 7 also penciled out... but I'm not even gonna try and crank out second batch of finished comics before the end of the week...

Conventional Wisdom: Otakon 2024 - page 2

YES, I'M FINALLY GETTING AROUND TO THESE.

And just for some important context: we were watching Cat's Eye at Anime Night right around this time (or, at least, we had just finished it right before the con). This song was still VERY fresh in both our minds, so me actually finding a copy of the single was absolutely cause for celebration. And best of all, the dude running the Otaku Joe's booth witnessed this whole exchanged and officially endorsed it as good. So there.

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 19.75

Full disclosure: I have a deep, seething hatred of "Mandella Effect" nonsense, so if anybody out there feels the need to give their testimonial of who they totally for real remember whatever down in the comments, consider yourself warned that I WILL be mean to you.

On an unrelated note, a lot of the Deva designs are kinda... wonky, but Indramon is particularly displeasing to me. I just REALLY don't like those oversized arm/front leg things. You know something's gone wrong when even Mi...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 6

But on the other hand, he's got much nicer furniture in his office than me...

Actually, the funny thing is that I'm complaining about me drawing too much on a week where I've actually drawn LESS. After all this time, episode 6 is the first one where I've ONLY managed to get a single comic's worth of material. It's funny that an episode that involved multiple people getting stabbed, beat up, and hit by a car would end up feeling like "one where nothing happened." That just goes to sho...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 19.25

...and this blanket statement extends to that one analog horror series you really like. In fact, I'm SPECIFICALLY mocking that one, and also you for enjoying it. (Unless the one you like is Local 58, that's actually not bad)

Also, I guess it's technically a spoiler for me to already be referring to the kid as Makuramon before that's been officially revealed... except that this show is over two decades old by this point.

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 5.50

Hey, this show may get our names wird, but yo can't say it doesn't understand us as a people.

...and sure, for all I know, this might really be a think Mafia families did back in the day when inducting somebody. But seriously. Just look at that comic up there. Does that look like the work of somebody who actually cares?

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 19

Okay, be honest: when's the last time any of you even THOUGHT about Cromartie High School? Also, now that you HAVE thought of it, how many of you just got that theme song stuck in your head? Sorry.

Anyway, just in case you didn't see the Baccano comic first: sorry the comics are so late, I'm still pretty worn out after December. In order to make sure burnout doesn't have a chance to sink in any further, I'm not going to try to crank out a second set of comics ...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 5

That's an absurd thing to say, of course, since we know for a fact that the Top Gun Goose was most definitely NOT immortal.

Also, man, Baccano is full of character designs that strain my artistic abilities even worse than back when I did those JJBA comics. I am just NOT cut out for so many long, lined faces. It'd be tempting to blame the herculean strain of drawing a character who's face ISN'T round and cutsey for why the comics were delayed f...

My Top-30 Most Listened To Songs of 2024

Oh boy! It’s time for nobody’s favorite end of year blog that I insist on doing! It’s time to answer the question absolutely NOBODY was asking, which songs are at the top of my Apple Music Most-Played count?

So, even I had started to get tired of doing this kind of round up for a while, because the play counts up at the top of the list had gotten so big that there was little chance of the ranking actually changing much from year to year anymore. Seriously, the number one track h...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 18.75

...I think this one pretty much speaks for itself.

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 4.75

I had thought about holding this idea back until I got to the end of the series ...but then I started getting even GOOFIER ideas for what I could do at that point, so I figured I'd go ahead and burn this one off here. That, and since I'm gonna cover the OVAs too, the "last episode" won't actually be the last one I cover. Oh well.

My Top 30 Most-Played Christmas Songs of 2024

Well, we did it again, folks. Another Christmas is officially accomplished. And since this is whole season is the time of traditions that somebody else forces upon you without your consent, I’m gotta take this chance to stuff my Patreon with ONE MORE blog about Christmas stuff. That’s right, it’s time for another round-up of my Most-Played Christmas Songs of 2024! Yeah, I know no-one else cares about these things, but by an amazing conscience, that’s also the exact same of that I care...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 18.25

"I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!"

Actually, there's a whole second level of weirdness to Vajramon's behavior here, seeing as he's perving over Renamon IMMEDIATELY after Pajiramon just got blasted to bits. Bro moves on FAST.

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 4.25

Full disclosure, I've never actually watched any Monogatari anime, so I only really know this is a "thing" via memes. But hey, I have seen Madoka Magica, so I'm not completely in the dark here. The important thing is, I saw this one pose and immediately thought "meme." So I guess it's not so much an issue of me watching too much anime as it is me browsing too much internet.

Also, look! A second comic in one week! Hopefully this makes up for missing stuff earli...

The WORST Christmas Album I've Ever Heard

Okay, that’s a clickbait title if I ever heard one, and it’s one that would probably be impossible to actually decide definitively. I mean, what criteria would I even use to judge badness here? When some delusional rando who thinks “Hey, I sound great while singing in the shower, I should make an album!” then downloads a bunch of royalty-free midi files and warbles over them on a CD-R released directly to the Goodwill bins, that guy has tapped into a level of technical failure that ev...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 18

See the most recent Baccano page for my rambling apologies over the lack of comics recently, as well as desperate promises that IT'LL BE DIFFERENT THIS TIME, I SWEAR! No, but seriously, I've already got rough drafts for follow-up comics penciled out, so updates SHOULD continue through the rest of the month without any problems.

Anyway, I realize I'm not really qualified to speak on this particular topic, but WOW I've always found that dress to be ugly. I mean, I'm sure t...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 4

AAAAAAND, WE'RE BACK! Sorry about the lull in content, folks. I've had multiple surprise holiday adventures spring up on me with minimal warning, so getting stuff done in a regular manner has been all but impossible. But look at it this way: compared to the days when "weekly anime comics" would only come out around once a month, it's actually pretty impressive that we managed to go this long before I just straight up missed a week! And better yet, I've already got more material penciled o...

Amazingly There’s ANOTHER 10 Christmas Songs You Probably Don’t Know!

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Conventional Wisdom: Animazement 2024 - page 3

Boy, it sure is a good thing they work so hard at keeping everybody safe from these things. To be fair though, I didn't ACTUALLY get hit by the axe... just almost.

BUT ANYWAY, that's it for the Animazement 2024 comics! ...just in time for me to get started on the Patreon extras from Otakon! THERE'S ALWAYS SOMETHING ELSE TO DO!

Speaking of which, sorry the weekly anime comics aren't up yet. I had a really unexpected schedule upheaval, which resulted in me spending most of today ...

A Ode to Little Debbie Christmas Tree Cakes

HECK YEAH I’M WRITING A WHOLE BLOG POST ABOUT MY HOLIDAY NOSTALGIA FOR MASS PRODUCED SNACK CAKES. WHAT COULD BE CLOSER TO THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT THAN UNHEALTHY BLOBS OF SUGAR CRANKED OUT BY A MASSIVE CORPORATION?

No, but seriously, as much as I may shake my head and crack wise at the sight of the Little Debbie Christmas displays popping up grocery stores a week before Halloween, I’m secretly always excited by the sight. Forget seeing Santa at the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 17.75

THIS IS THE LAST PAGE I'M GETTING OUT OF EPISODE 17, I PROMISE. Next week I'll FINALLY get around to watching episode 18! Really!

But seriously, it's kind of amazing how hard it is for my memory to avoid blurring the Oikawa stuff from the end of Digimon 02 into this backstory stuff from Tamers. I mean, they both have that "dorks happily gathering around a screen showing Digimon sprites" shot!

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 3.5

Oh gee, THIS comic totally doesn't exist for the sole purpose of attracting lots of hashtags and having good Search Engine Optimization.

Also, for added effect, imagine "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" playing as this montage plays out.

Far Out There: 2024 Thanksgiving CLOSE UP

I FORGOT I SAID I WAS GONNA START DOING THIS!

Okay, so I'm pretty bad about misjudging how hard it can be to read the little details in pages of Far Out There. I'll have the thought to squeeze in a tiny little bit of fine print as a joke for eagle-eyed readers, and forget that I already had the comic zoomed in something ridiculous at the time. So then, when I scale the image down to normal web-size, it winds up being completely illegible. It had come up in conversation that I should ...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 17.50

Yeah, Digimon fans just LOVE to counter people who claim it's just a rip-off of Pokemon by pointing out that Digimon actually hit stores FIRST... but they're a lot less eager to acknowledge that the REASON the first Digimon devices hit store shelves was just to be a Tamagotchi rip-off. Seriously, that's what the original incarnation of Digimon was: Tamagotchi except you could make them fight. I...

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 3

I mean, I already made Digimon VPN jokes for both Adventure 2020 and Ghost Game, so the problem may just be that I've already mined that topic for all it's worth. Then again, I can absolutely imagine the Daily Days staff all pulling out their guns as being more or less Google's reaction to the monopoly charges, so there probably IS a fresh punchline here that I'm just not seeing.

To be honest, my brain was mostly overpowered with the idea for the OTH...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 17.25

Yes, I know, we're talking about a cartoon from twenty years ago about talking animals that only exists to sell toys to children. If anything, it's a testament to how smart the writing of Tamers usually is that something silly like this would even stand out to me in the first place.

Weekly Anime Comic: Baccano - page 2.5

I still remember the very first time I wanted Baccano, basically making a "well, that guy's doomed now." joke, and still being flabbergasted when he got jumped LITERALLY 30 SECONDS LATER! Sure, this anime might re-show the same scenes over and over, but you can't accuse it of wasting time!