| MSNBC has an entire cult marathon on Sunday. MSNBC, you so strange. |
[Oct. 23rd, 2009|09:37 pm] |
You should basically just plow through ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) remixthedrabble and look for goodies. The anime fics are here.
Written for me was the gloriously wicked Flimsy Excuses, Shigure/Hatori, and the dark and thoughtful Otherside, Crawford/Shuldig. Thank you, phantom writer!
I am still chewing over the $60 million dollar sale of the TMNT to Nickelodeon. I hope all ends well for everyone involved, especially the writers and artists I've been privileged to meet over the years. It's a good group of people. The one thing I can say with absolute certainty is that it's not remotely like "Conan Doyle selling his rights to 'Sherlock Holmes' to Stephenie Meyer." If you want to know more, Peter Laird talks about it at his blog here. He sounds so tired.
I had something else...guess I'll just have to spam more later. |
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| It's International Blog Against Racism week! |
[Jul. 27th, 2009|08:06 pm] |
Since I am too brain-dead for a Comic-Con report at the moment, I'm going to cheat a bit and steal from Rachel's challenge here, with a slight modification: From Monday through Friday, I'm going to pimp a PoC comic author/artist/both. Some of this will be proper reviews and some will just be me going OH LOOK AT THE SHINY.
Today is a LOOK AT THE SHINY day.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fans may remember long-eared ronin rabbit Minamoto Usagi from some episodes or issues, but Usagi Yojimbo, as Stan Sakai's flagship comic is titled, is a kickass canon in its own right. Based (extremely!) loosely on the life of famous swordsman and Book of Five Rings author Minamoto Musashi (Usagi is Japanese for rabbit), it's witty, dramatic, sharp and beautifully drawn and lettered. (Stan has lettered Groo the Wanderer for more years than I'd care to count.) There's almost nothing bad that can be said about this comic, seriously; the beautifully developed characters, the meticulously detailed setting, the amazing linework... I have thought for many years it's one of the best Western comics around, and-- perhaps even more remarkably-- the quality has remained consistent. (In this age of furries, it's probably also worth noting it's not fetishistic or exploitative in any way.)
At Comic-Con, I bought Volume 22: Tomoe's Story, which collected a number of stories about Usagi's good friend Tomoe Ame (based on famous female warrior Tomoe Gozen). Sakai pays the same careful attention to detail and establishing character to Tomoe as he does all his characters, and Tomoe is fierce, loyal, and has a great sense of humor. In this collection, she saves several lives-- including our hero's-- and tangles with a clever con woman. The final story depicts a tea ceremony; there is almost no dialogue, but so much goes on in Usagi and Tomoe's unspoken conversation.
The man is a master. You should check him out.
Visit Stan's official Usagi Yojimbo website to learn more. |
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| Watching TV and reading stuff! |
[Oct. 3rd, 2008|10:31 pm] |
Project Runway: "My dad was a tugboat captain." Well that's good, Kenley. I feel sorry for you now. I mean, Korto's just a Liberian refugee, you had to be on a tugboat. God, everyone cried! So much crying.
Bones/SPN crossover. Read it. You may never stop laughing.
Supernatural: Moar incest. Oh, Supernatural. And damn, what a heartbreaker in places.
CHURCH FIGHT! Check it out. :D
louiselux writes Saiyuki genderswitch pron. Read it. Love it.
Have extra books and hoping to have space again? Here's a good cause to send them to.
Oh, and I changed my LJ layout! |
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