01Jun
This Week’s Arktoons Roundup
It's live now on Bounding Into Comics. Read it there.UPDATE: The hard copies are at a different website.Arkhavencomics.com
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31May
Ghost of the White Man’s Burden
REPOST: I have old friends over this weekend. Which has left me zero time to write today. Hope you had a good weekend.The American game studio Sucker Punch is launching a new game for the Sony Playstation 4 called Ghost of Tsushima. The story takes place on the Japanese Island of Tsushima during the Mongol Invasion. Here's the backstory, Kublai Khan decided to invade Japan and lost. Yeah, there was a little more to it than that, but it's not really...
28May
Heavy Gamma
UPDATE: They are still doing it!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo9W-SdYgJ0 Bounding Into Comics brought this one to my attention.The character of Taarna the Tarakian was first introduced in the movie Heavy Metal (1981). It was an anthology movie whose various stories were stitched together by an evil green ball called, the Loknar. The Loknar’s powers were whatever they needed to be so the stories could happen. Fine. It wasn't a great film.In the final segment, the Loknar lands on some random planet and turns the locals into...
26May
Blogs and Ends: The Stuff I Didn’t Believe Edition
I don’t run with every rumor that crosses my radar, despite the ever-hungry beast that is the need for daily content. I don’t want a reputation for being Little Doomcock. So, once in a while I pass on posting a rumor that I’m not buying into on common sense grounds and it turns out to be true. This week there have been a couple of things that I didn’t go with that turned out to be true.FIRSTThe Powerpuff ScriptI’ll start by saying I...
24May
Yeah, It’s Gonna Suck – The Eternals
It's finally here!The trailer for the long hidden, soon to be Marvel's first (but hardly last) bomb; The EternalsHere it is. Look at it.LOOK AT IT!!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxYno8x7ES4 That.Was.Awful.It leaves the audience lost and confused. Plus, there's a Bollywood dance number!So has Disney given up on China and now it's going to snobbishly condescend to India? Not sure they are going to do that with this History Channel movie. But at least we will finally learn the Hindustani word for Baizou!Yeah,...
24May
The Gamma Boss: Director Josh Trank
Gamma Males simply can’t handle success, they just aren’t designed for it. But few Gammas were so completely destroyed by hitting the big time as Fantastic Four (2015) director Josh Trank. Back in 2012, 21st Century Fox was facing a problem. The superheroes they had licensed from Marvel came with a ticking time bomb clause. If a film wasn’t in the theaters or being filmed before the clock reached zero, the license exploded, and the rights reverted back to Marvel.Up until that time, the view...
22May
Is This Something? – Highlander Reboot
It is reasonable to assume that John Wick director's Highlander reboot just vaulted out of development hell.Henry Cavill is in. Any ideas who should play the Kurgen?
21May
The Dark Herald Recommends Mortal Kombat
“Such a promising start.”A phrase that is up there with “if only” as the saddest of words, isn’t it?A young man that was an athlete at the top of his class and ends up in the gutter. A roaring small business that is ready for the big time, destroyed by the lawyers. A great first scene in a movie but the rest of it…Motal Kombat opens in 1619 Japan. There is an idyllic scene of medieval Japanese life. A contented wife and her son...
20May
Kentaro Miura 1966 – 2021
Kentaro Miura, the legendary creator of the manga Berserk passed away today at the age of 54. "His US publisher Dark Horse Comics, describing Miura as a “master artist and storyteller”, said he had suffered acute aortic dissection and died on 6 May. “He will be greatly missed. Our condolences go out to his family and loved ones.”The Japanese artist was best known for Berserk, which he wrote and drew. It first launched in 1989 and has been running ever...
19May
First Impressions: Shadow and Bone
Upfront, this is a first impressions post, not a Recommends.So far, the show is actually good, and it shouldn’t be.It looks like it's soaked in Woke but they seem to have forgotten to let the Woke destroy the plot.This a gas-lamp fantasy that takes place in a Russia-based fantasy nation called, Ravka. For those of you not familiar with gas-lamp fantasy, basically, it’s steampunk but with magic.Ravka is in a centuries-long war with its neighbors, Fjerdland (Scandinavia) in the North and...