Small Press Combo Attack
Time to check in with a few small-press books. This is where where a lot of people get their start, and it’s also where the books can live quite happily apart from the concerns of multinational conglomerates.
Chinese Ghost Story: The Animation
“Nothing is easy when a man loves a ghost woman.” Not even for animated men in Tsui Harks Chinese Ghost Story: The Animation. (Keith’s piece also has a pretty thorough retrospective of Tsui Hark’s career).
I Can See Forever
It’s like the 1980s are a black hole and the event horizon reaches forever: The A-Team, The Karate Kid, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Tron, Ghostbusters, Conan The Barbarian, Red Dawn, Short Circuit and Wall Street.
Rin-ne Online
Miss Takahashi Rumiko? Sad that InuYasha is complete? Well, you could go over to Viz’ website, where they’re publishing her new manga, Rin-ne, online as its serialized in Japan…
Phobia 2 Trailer
Hey, Phobia 2, what’s with the “scare quotes?”
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose and the Haunted Hoo-Ha
At Chris’s Invincible Super-Blog read this heartfelt paean to Jim Balent’s fan-service-tastic, Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose and what could be the worst piece of dialogue in comics history… or the best: ‘You have to get out of here. Your vagina is haunted.’” Chris has lots more […]
The Cultural Gutter 