Anime
The Arche Gundam part 1
By Keith Hello, hola, and ciao! If you’re here, I’m going to assume you already know what Gundam kits are, and you may have even built a few yourself. If you haven’t, that’s cool too- […]
Month: April 2010
Cartoons
Stan Marsh Vs. Facebook (AKA The Master Control Program)
South Park, a program which I ashamedly admit I’ve only had a modest interest in since its debut despite a circle of friends who swear by its perpetual gut-busting charms, recently aired a spot-on episode […]
Science Fiction
Take Me Out to the Holosuite
What little free time I’ve had since this past Monday has been occupied by just one thing: Baseball. It’s one of the only forms of entertainment I enjoy more than comics, SF and other geeky […]
Gundam
The Strike series: Part 1
By Christopher Troy When Gundam SEED debuted on Japanese TV in 2002 (Cartoon Network would later air it in 2004 as part of the new Saturday night Toonami programming block), it was a huge hit […]
Events
To Do 4/7/10: The Creativity and Business of Comics
The Graphic Artists Guild of New York is holding an interesting event at the Manhattan Campus of the Pratt Institute tomorrow night at 7pm featuring Becky Cloonan, Al Jaffee, and Mark Alan Tamatay. Topics for […]
Gundam
Gunpla Double Feature: Removing Paint and Kitbashing Ramba Ral’s Zaku, Part 1
By Loran If you’ve been building kits for as long as I have, chances are you have a bunch that you worked on a long time ago, and look back at them now and say, […]
Comic News
I Went To PAX East So You Didn’t Have To: Video Game Expo
If the fine cartoonists at penny-arcade.com were going to all the trouble to have their record-breaking video game convention here on the East Coast, it would only be polite to attend, right? Forbidden Planet spared NO EXPENSE in flying me out to Boston last weekend to cover the con for the Weekly Planet. […]
Manga
The End Of Pluto: New Manga Releases from Osamu Tezuka
I know it’s a gloomy week so far, and no one really wants to go out in this weather, but if there was ever an excuse to get your feet damp and squishy I believe good books are it, and this week we have some good books. Let’s start with the 8th and final volume of Pluto, the Urasawa X Tezuka collaboration event. When we last left off in Volume 7 Photon just got obliterated, and his hands survived just long enough to protect the child Wassily and the guard-bot from the explosive force. And then Atom finally wakes up, but with 6 billlion personalities flowing through his brain, will he be the same awesome robot from before he was torn to shreds? THE SUSPENSE IS KILLING ME! I’m just glad that I waited for the first 7 books to come out before I started reading it, because I couldn’t imagine having to wait all that time between each release. PS: If you haven’t started reading Pluto already, what is wrong with you? […]
Other Topics
Play Arts Kai Review: Snow Villers
By Christopher Troy For those who’ve been reading my entries, you’ve probably noticed by now that I’ve mentioned “Final Fantasy 13” a lot recently. With the game dropping in dropping in early March, I’ve already […]