Manga Review: Kindergarten Wars 01 by You Chiba Rich, famous and/or powerful people sometimes have small children they’d like to be able to go to kindergarten. Problem! There are many baddies in the world who would like to kidnap, murder or do worse things to the kiddos. Solution: Kindergarten Noir, the safest kindergarten in the… Continue reading Manga Review: Kindergarten Wars 01
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Manga Review: Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku 1
Manga Review: Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku 1 by Yuji Kaku Since time immemorial, humans have sought the secrets of immortality and eternal youth. Medical science has gradually improved people’s chances of living long, healthy lives, but the lure of a quick fix, an “elixir of life” remains strong. Thus, in an alternate 18th Century, when the… Continue reading Manga Review: Hell’s Paradise: Jigokuraku 1
Manga Review: The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji 1
Manga Review: The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji 1 Created by Keiichiro Ryu, written by Mio Aso, art by Tetsuo Hara The Sengoku (Warring States) period of Japanese history is drawing to an end. In what will in modern times be called Gunma Prefecture, there lives a man named Maeda Keiji. The adopted son… Continue reading Manga Review: The Magnificent Bastard: The Legend of Keiji 1
Comic Strip Review: Blood Orange Volume 1: National Secrets
Comic Strip Review: Blood Orange Volume 1: National Secrets by Tim Avers & Paul Fricke Constanze is a famous fashion model, actress and platinum-certified recording artist. These days she’s the spokesperson for i0, a top fashion house. She’s also got a taste for blood orange mimosas. However, there was a time when she wasn’t any… Continue reading Comic Strip Review: Blood Orange Volume 1: National Secrets
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts written by Christopher Cantwell, art by Megan Levens One of the running jokes among Star Trek fans, especially when talking about the original series, is the “redshirts”, characters whose only purpose in the story is to die to establish that the situation was dangerous and how the danger… Continue reading Comic Book Review: Star Trek: Red Shirts
Movie Review: Live and Let Die
Movie Review: Live and Let Die (1973) directed by Guy Hamilton Three British agents die in 24 hours. One in New York at the United Nations, one in New Orleans, and one on the Caribbean island of San Monique. This may have something to do with the connection between President Kananga (Yaphet Kotto) of San Monique… Continue reading Movie Review: Live and Let Die
Movie Review: Robin Hood (1973)
Movie Review: Robin Hood (1973) directed by Wolfgang Reitherman A long time ago in England, there lived a fellow named Robin Hood (Brian Bedford), an outlaw who lived in Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. With his Merry Men, who included Little John (Phil Harris), Friar Tuck (Andy Devine) and Allan-a-Dale (Roger Miller), he stole from the rich… Continue reading Movie Review: Robin Hood (1973)
Movie Review: The Bloody Fists
The Bloody Fists (1972) dir. Ng See-Yuen It is the 1930s in China. A certain fugitive named Jang Wu-dip (Sing Chen) attacks a dignitary’s automobile, but it turns out to be a police trap. (Jackie Chan is one of the cop extras!) The fugitive barely escapes. Cut to a rural village best known for growing Dragon… Continue reading Movie Review: The Bloody Fists
Magazine Review: High Adventure #164: War Fiction – F. Van Wyck Mason
Magazine Review: High Adventure #164: War Fiction – F. Van Wyck Mason edited by James Gunnison Filling in a back issue here, this one is World War One stories, mostly by the fellow mentioned in the title. Francis Van Wyck Mason (1901-1978), the introduction tells us, was a veteran of the French Army and then… Continue reading Magazine Review: High Adventure #164: War Fiction – F. Van Wyck Mason
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider
Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider First, let’s talk about Kamen Rider. It’s a children’s superhero television show that started airing in 1971 in Japan. In it, the evil organization Shocker, founded by surviving Nazis and their collaborators, wants to take over the world. To do so, they used cybernetic and… Continue reading Anime Review: Tanzaburou Toujima Wants to Be a Kamen Rider