What, you didn't think that blog about the gas station house was going to be ALL of my Otakon 2023 content, did you? ...I mean, I wouldn't blame you, seeing as how long it took me to actually finis...
2023-12-06 01:45:18 +0000 UTC View Post
YES, I STILL FOUND MORE OF THESE THINGS. This is the fifth year in a row I’ve written a ...
2023-12-03 11:48:57 +0000 UTC View Post
You know, if it weren't for the fact that the movie Highlander didn't come out until three years after this episode aired, I'd seriously believe that somebody working on the show might hav...
2023-11-29 09:01:55 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, I'm calling it! Once the Macross comics wrap up, we're diving straight into a weekly dose of Dirty Pair! And just to reiterate what I was saying earlier,...
2023-11-24 21:25:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, confession time: I've never actually watched Macross Zero myself, so I probably shouldn't be dunking on it without direct personal knowledge. However, the main reason WHY i've ...
2023-11-22 17:02:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Admittedly, this joke probably would have made a LOT more sense if it focused on equating Gunbusters "aliens" with the forces of Chaos directly... but sometimes a guy just really feels like drawing...
2023-11-18 20:00:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Granted, that's also the ONLY shot in the entire sequence where that guy appears. In literally every other angle of the crowd at Minmay's concert in episode 32, all the big Zentradi are clear...
2023-11-16 18:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not even kidding, the pre-credits bit at the start of episode 3 absolutely BROKE my brain. It's already tricky for me to keep up with translated on-screen text while also following separa...
2023-11-08 08:02:17 +0000 UTC View Post
This comic is specifically inspired by episode 31, but really I could have drawn it about ANY episode Kaifun appears in, because it's always true.
ANYWAY, not only am I working to get back to...
2023-11-08 06:39:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's be honest, though: in the darkest days of the 80s video games crash, would it seriously surprise you to see a "Baby Toss" game?
Also, sorry this one is so late. Aside from r...
2023-11-04 08:52:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh dear. Oh dearie dearie me. Where to even begin with this one? The Terror really is the stuff of B Movie legend. If fact, it sounds more like the kind of thing fi...
2023-10-31 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Vincent Price didn’t stop making horror flicks for American International Pictures just because they gave up on continuing Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle. If anything, he had another minor care...
2023-10-27 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Okay, before anything else, I REALLY should have just drawn the '70s hair over an actual photo of Lovecraft instead of trying to do a caricature. That 'stache and fro do a bit TOO much t...
2023-10-24 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, don't get mad at me, I'm just reporting the facts as I see them. In fact, they showed an admirable amount of restraint by ONLY tearing her sleeves. I mean, we're talking about a f...
2023-10-24 06:56:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's been percolating in the back of my brain for literal YEARS, but it was worth it. I am exaggerating exactly nothing here, the entire room literally erupted in a chorus of boos the s...
2023-10-20 21:58:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I'm just gonna rip the band-aid right off and say it at the very start. This is the single most well-regarded film out of all these blogs... and I don't much care for it. If you'r...
2023-10-20 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I occasionally see it said that Roger Corman’s Poe movies were responsible for Vincent Price being reborn as a horror star, though this is fairly misleading. He’d played bad guys in every...
2023-10-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Look, there's just no way a person in my line of work can be presented with the Rip Van Winkle effect and NOT make a joke like this.
On a slightly related note, I've just started a SECOND pol...
2023-10-14 23:55:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If you know pretty much anything about the production history of Macross, you know that episode 29 is where they finally pass the originally intended conclusion of the show and basically h...
2023-10-13 16:23:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, fun fact: I got so used to seeing this movie filling out TCM's marathons of the Roger Corman’s AIP Poe movies that I thought it was another American International product until, well, about...
2023-10-13 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
When I did the first set of these blogs, I complained about not liking The Raven all that much 2023-10-10 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Remember, even if you excuse the fact that all this tech is supposed to be in use aboard A SPACE STATION, there's still the basic fact that this is taking place in the year 2023. So, yeah. &n...
2023-10-07 18:51:29 +0000 UTC View Post
1969’s The Oblong Box is one of the two movies most likely to be grafted onto somebody's “official” Poe Cycle list (though don’t expect me to talk about the other o gets tacked ont...
2023-10-06 12:00:02 +0000 UTC View PostMost people probably won't care about this one way or the other, but since it involves other people's money I wanted to make sure everything had been mentioned at some point.
I just put up a ...
2023-10-05 19:04:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Man, it is REALLY dangerous for me to take a break from watching a show for even one week. Yeah, since I already had the second page from episode 26 penciled the same night as the first one, ...
2023-10-05 12:33:53 +0000 UTC View Post
...and the worst thing, at least in MY mind, is that my convention notes don't even contain any part of their conversation. So Present Day Me couldn't even show you whatever they were talking...
2023-10-04 10:45:51 +0000 UTC View Post
Last Halloween I did a series of blogs about the “Poe Cycle:” a series of Gothic Horror movies th...
2023-10-03 12:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
The more things change, huh?
Well, at least pointing and laughing at stupid names will be timeless no matter what. Like, even setting aside the fact you'd have to REALLY thing all forei...
2023-10-01 13:35:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Now this is ABSOLUTELY my opinion of what dance clubs are like.
2023-09-29 15:54:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Not really anything to add to this one, it pretty much speaks for itself. Also, I immediately regret the fact that I probably gave some ironic memelord fanartist out there some ideas.
B...
2023-09-27 21:37:03 +0000 UTC View Post