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Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 0.5

WHOA!  What is this madness?  It's what happens when I'm genuinely excited about a project I've wanted to start for a while, THAT'S what!  Don't worry, I'm not gonna burn myself out trying to crank pages out ever twelve hours like this any longer, but I WILL try to get more than one page done next week.  And seeing as how we got all this content out and I still haven't REALLY even talked about the first episode specifically yet, that shouldn't be too hard.

But yeah, ...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - page 0

Heck yeah I'm gonna reuse the art from that one print I did in this comic!  I'm dang proud of it!

But yeah, it's hard for me to fully express just how much Tamers came along and it me at JUST the perfect moment to dig itself deeeeeeep into my psyche.  I was already a bit older than the target audience for both Pokemon an...

Weekly Digimon Comic: Digimon Tamers - EARLY START!

Heeeeeeey, remember how I made such a big deal out of the fact that I'd be doing more Digimon comics, but said I wouldn't start until after I finished those Gunbuster ones?  Well, yeah, I did NOT expect to wind up doing as many of those as I have.  I mean, I just a few hours ago posted comic number 12, and I haven't even gotten into episode 6 yet.  I've been at it for a while now.  And here's the thing: There's a bunch of official Digimon Anniversary things going on in Mar...

BONUS Anime Comic: Gunbuster - page 12

I do not generally consider myself good at doing caricatures, but darn if I'm not proud of at Hideaki Anno right there.

...and seriously, even setting aside the overall seriousness and shift in tone, it's really amazing to me just how much the final installments of Gunbuster look like Evangelion in all the LITTLE things.  I mean, it's technically the other way around, since Eva didn't exist yet, but you know what I mean.  Just from looking at a few s...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 6

It's funny how tropes absorb things that weren't originally tropes, isn't it?

Actually, it's funny that I make the "tragic dead Mom" joke in an episode with an atypically LOW amount of on-screen deaths for a Dirty Pair adventure.  I guess a big benefit of being in the dead void of space is that there's fewer unsuspecting bystanders.

BONUS Anime Comic: Gunbuster - page 11

I'd have added a bit about being naked in front of the whole class, but this is an 80s OVA we're talking about.  That pretty much goes without saying.

Also, I think it's worth noting that I don't actually have the infamous school-mare very often, but I DO have dreams of being at an anime convention and realizing I've forgotten to do something.  That, and inexplicably having gone back to one of the places where I used to work.  Those are the worst.

Also also, I just ...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 5

I'm always saying how I love the random engrish text anime used to use as filler back before anybody could just type anything into an online translator and copy/paste the results.  It really does open me up to a plethora of rabbit holes, though, and my Google Fu isn't always up to the task of getting me where I want to go.  It certainly LOOKS like the names on the second screen are also musicians, though Ginji Ito is the only one of the bunch I was able to find enough information ab...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 4

I mean, the entire Dirty Pair idea originally came from Haruka Takachiho watching women's wrestling (the 3WA organization is literally named after the World Women's Wrestling Association) so it's only natural that the show would work in some references to that origin at some point.  But I am absolutely too much of a coward to actually go on record with any of the actual topical references I came up with, because they're pretty much ALL some form of toxic.  It's probably for...

Conventional Wisdom: Otakon 2023 - page 2

No, seriously, there's documented evidence.  This was a VERY dangerous thing for me to see.  Basically, the only thing stopping me from just buying this whole box was the fact that I'd ALREADY splurged on getting G Gundam on bluray... and even THAT didn't actually stop me from buying something else<...

BONUS Anime Comic: Gunbuster - page 10

Okay, look: going three whole episodes without the big title 'bot doing anything isn't ACTUALLY that egregious, especially when you compare the pacing of Gunbuster's plot so far to that of other Mecha shows of the era.  I mean, Giant Gorg doesn't actually introduce its title mech until episode 5, and Dancouga doesn't have the team finally combine to form its namesake until episode SIXTEEN.  But the thing is, those shows are 26 and 38 episodes long respecti...

Tamers Wins!

AND WE HAVE A WINNER! ...that will surprise ABSOLUTELY NO ONE who has ANY idea who I am.  I'll be honest, I left the vote open for a LOT longer than I really should have just to make absolutely sure nobody could claim I'd closed it down EARLY to ensure I got the result I wanted.  Because OF COURSE this is the result I wanted!  There's no way I'd EVER have picked a Digimon season other than Tamers unless somebody else told me too.  Well, anyone who might h...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 3

(Repost because there was a typo in the comic and, for some reason, Patreon wasn't letting me edit the post)

Of course, the funny part is how, statistically speaking, that dress still covered more of Kei than her usual wrestler outfit.

Oh, and speaking of wrestling, that mutant they fought was totally based on Abdullah the Butcher, right?

AH!  And before I forget, I really am about to call a winner on the Digimon comic vote!  If you were ever thinking ab...

BONUS Anime Comic: Gunbuster - page 9

Headline: "Local Man Draws Connection Between Evangelion and Literally Any Other Gainax Production"

Look, it was this, or me latching on to the line about the fleet returning to Earth in mid-2023 to bring up a bunch of awkward Ripped From The Headlines jokes about last year.

ANYWAY: This is literally the last time I'll be saying anything about voting on which Digimon series I'll do weekly com...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 2

Granted, I'm saying this about a series that also suggests that people still write complaints down on paper and send them in the mail, all so it can have the gag of big stacks of letters on the boss' desk.  I'm fully aware that the Dirty Pair universe operates on "because it's funny" rules most of the time.  Still, there's just something extra funny about this episode being full of scifi shenanigans and flashy space-age aesthetics, and here come The Blues Brothers as if those outfit...

BONUS Anime Comic: Gunbuster - page 8

And today we learned that I cannot draw Hugo Weaving.

Alternate Quip: Why, it's almost as if The Wachowskis watched a lot of anime or something!

AND DON'T FORGET! There's still time to vote on which Digimon series I'll start doing comics on when THESE comics wrap up!

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 1

I've said it before and I'll say it again, I LOVE to pick out all the wonky bits of engrish that would get sprinkled all over anime screens back before anybody could just type anything into Google and get a relatively coherent translation in seconds.  Heck, we're watching Cat's Eye at Anime Night right now, and we still haven' quite gotten over how the english text all over the OP and ED are apparently copied off of an advertisement for some furniture company in Chicago.  You can't ...

Weekly Anime Comic: Dirty Pair - page 0

ABSOLUTELY based on Real Life events.  And the most embarrassing part is the knowledge that, while it's nowhere near THAT bad... it's also not exactly squeaky clean either, so I can't just get on my high horse and be all "Just watch it yoruself and find out!"  Anime is bad and we're all bad people for liking it.

But seriously, DIRTY PAIR COMICS BEGIN!  And I know I said this already, but just to avoid any confusion: the fact that I'm using the cover of the OVA collection ...

Weekly Anime Comic: Macross - FINALE!

...aaaaaaaaand we're done!  With a comic that's admittedly more about the entirety of the Macross franchise as a whole than the final episode specifically, but I've had this one kicking around in my head for a while now, and just needed to get it out there.

Because yeah, when I was was first getting into Macross proper, I was under the impression that the whole "They went out into space and nobody know where they are" bit was a Robotech thing, just there ...

Quick Little New Year Note

What with the whole starting of a new year and all that, I just wanted to take a sec and thank you kind people who've actually been willing to put money into what I do.  Like so many other people, I've really felt the pinch lately, and last year in particular turned out to be a lot more expensive than anticipated.  So rest assured that whatever you've been able to spare, even if it's only a buck or two,  really makes a difference and I appreciate every bit of it.

Here's t...

Weekly Anime Comic: Macross - page 40

I mean, of all the shows out there, Macross is the one that could most get away with actually doing this for real, in-universe.  I feel like it probably took some self-restraint on the part of the staff to not have the resolution of Minmay's plot arc being her singing somehow powering the ship.  I mean, they already had Mari Iijima record a version of the closing theme that's in this episode, why NOT have her do the opening too?

Speaking of endings, I've still got ONE...

My Top 25 Most-Played Songs of 2023

Yes, I’m STILL rambling on about what music I’ve been listening to all year.  Look, until the world finally gives me uncontested control of my own network or radio stations through which to inflict my musical tastes upon the populace directly, I gotta find an outlet in whatever way I can.  And you know what?  I legitimately do think this year’s round up is pretty interesting.  To reiterate what I said on the Christmas blog: I put these lists together in the most basi...

My Top 25 Most-Played Christmas Songs For 2023

You thought that the simple fact of it being after December 25 meant you’d be free of hearing me talk about Christmas songs.  YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHO I AM.  Yes, I have once again returned to my list-making ways and exhaustively compiled a detailed chart of my holiday listening habits for 2023.  And by that I mean told Apple Music to sort everything in the “Holiday” genre by “Plays” and just wrote down whatever the top songs were by Christmas night.  Now, if you’r...

DIGIMON COMICS ARE COMING BACK! (VOTE!)

THAT'S RIGHT!  I miss doing Digimon comics every week.  That was really fun!  And if they're not gonna make a NEW Digimon series for me to watch every week, then I'll just have to go back and watch one of the OLD ones again!  It'll be the same drill as I was doing with all those Adventure 2020 and Ghost Game comics -a new page every week for ea...

Far Out There: MadLib 5 - FINALE

IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!  Since it turned out I'd already started page 15 MONTHS ago and literally forgot about it, I had enough gas in the tank after finishing up that to go ahead and do THE LAST PAGE OF MADLIB NUMBER FIVE!  At long last, we have the thrilling and in now way anti-climactic ending to:

Stilez wanders into Cherimoya Memorial Stadium, where Ichabo...

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