May 16th, 2008
by Sam Pagan
I admit to buying the first TPB of the Marvel Mangaverse because I thought it looked interesting and I wanted to give it a chance. Sure the character designs looked silly and it was totally kid-afied so as to protect the youngins from what normally transpires in an X-Men comic, but I was willing to take a risk.
I have never been the same since.
Words cannot even describe the awfulness of that comic. Having not picked it up again in the many years since I read it, I can’t really recount to you what any of the stories may have been about - that, or my mind blocked it out due to the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Thank heavens.
The point I’m trying to make is that Marvel is going to do it again, and this time it’s going to be in traditional manga form and include such characters as Wolverine (who is apparently going to have his own separate story), Kitty Pryde, Iceman as a pretty boy, Nightcrawler (whose tail seems to come out of his back…?), and the Beast who looks kind of like a cartoonish badger. There are some other characters as well, but after that last one they are hardly worth mentioning.
I feel kind of ashamed to admit that I am a little bit interested in this.
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May 16th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
At least one Gen Xer has had it up to here with these newfangled twentysomethings. And who is he to call these upstarts whiners? Admittedly, my memories of the early nineties are incomplete, but what foggy recollections I can coax out of my long term memory make the unfortunate participants of the Bataan Death March seem optimistic in contrast. Does irony and sarcasm corrode one’s soul? The possibility is sobering.
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May 16th, 2008
by Sam Pagan
Tired of seeing female characters from movies and cartoons being objectified and over-sexualized just for the sake of it? Wish you could ogle some hot animated pectorals without crossing into hentai? Then Deviant Artist David Kawena has got what you need:
Disney underwear models!
Mmyep, you heard it. Some of Disney’s well-known heroes have stripped down to their modern skivvies to bring Disney aficionados and teenage girls alike something to dream about at night - screw wishing upon a star.
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May 13th, 2008
by Robert Starvation
Nobel Prize-winning author Doris Lessing has a message for serious writers everywhere: Sod the Nobel Prize. Lessing has experienced such difficulty writing a full novel due to the increased interest in her work that she is considering getting out of the profession altogether. The acclaimed Mrs. Lessing laments:
“All I do is give interviews and spend time being photographed.”
So does Paris Hilton, and she’s managed to put out a book and an album. The only discernible difference between the two authors is that Hilton hasn’t yet received a Nobel Prize, which leads me to suspect that the prize itself emits a subsonic frequency that compels the recipient to forgo creative ventures in pursuit of interviews with the national and international media.
Now you understand the precarious situation Lessing is in. She’d love to be in her study with a nice cuppa, working on her book, but like sailor to siren she is drawn to journalists and photographers every time.
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May 9th, 2008
by Sam Pagan
Icaro Doria is what one would call a visionary. He sees things that others may not see so readily. Truly an artist through and through. What is his specialty, you ask?
Creating new and brutally honest meanings for the colours of the flags of such countries as his home country of Brazil, China, and even the US of A. Doria’s series is called Meet the World, and it may not have many pieces in it yet, but he’s working on it. The best part is that real data and demographics are used to support the choices for the percentage-substituting colours.
The US one is pretty funny, in its own special way:
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