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Neil Gaiman: Why defend freedom of icky speech? Sleazy manga vs everything else

| June 24, 2011

So, this just came up in Neil Gaiman’s facebook. Apparently an American got arrested in Canada for having creepy manga. Gaiman, a favorite author of mine, cites an old blog post of his in defense of the American…this one’s tough, and I suspect a lot of research will be needed to form a defendable position, [...]

Astonishing X-Men Review

| January 12, 2010

Another X-Men? Huh? That’s for kids! Well, this one’s written by Whedon, who is typically a pretty sharp writer. That whole mutant cure arc that X-men 3 drove into the ground? They originally stole it from Whedon. Anyway, I’ve read the original comic version, but you can find a very faithful video version of it [...]

Ugh.

| January 5, 2010

[I take no responsibility if you google anything in this post.] So I was reading a post on reddit about a kid who made a lot of money, when I came across a term that I had gladly forgotten long ago in one of the comments…I haven’t chatted up with any Japanese nationalists lately denying [...]

Berserk: The Abridged Series

| March 30, 2009

Oh man. This is hilarious. I was mildly entertained at first, but after a while I was just bursting out laughing. Pretty good writing and editing, some witty observation about anime in general (some reasons why I kinda got bored of anime). It probably won’t be as funny if you’ve never seen the original, though.  [...]