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Comment on Adam Chaplin: are the 80s and 90s back? by Rubenesque Italian tokusatsu gobsmacking comics: Detrocboi | Blog of the North Star

Wed, 16 May 2012 02:03:17 +0000

[...] Maybe this can become a thing… me writing about compelling weird shit coming out of Italy. [...]

Comment on North American Fantasy Comics That Will Rock Your World: Orc Stain by Elton B. M.

Elton B. M. — Tue, 01 May 2012 22:56:42 +0000

I like it!

Comment on Redline: Everything Will Be Different Now by The two firm, supple elephants in the room (a Fujiko Mine post.) | Blog of the North Star

Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:18:16 +0000

[...] Koike (of REDLINE fame) did the character designs on [...]

Comment on Franco-British Comics from Hell: “Requiem” by Olivier Ledroit and Pat Mills by Books of Art: Olivier Ledroit | Blog of the North Star

Books of Art: Olivier Ledroit | Blog of the North Star — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 14:06:42 +0000

[...] a broke college student reading pirated comics. Low quality scans of his Pat Mills collab Requiem (an insane comic I totally endorse) lit my imagination on fire, and the artwork posted on theevilsnest.com had me looking at [...]

Comment on Redline: Everything Will Be Different Now by Emperor J

Emperor J — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:54:51 +0000

Easily the best film named Redline ever made in my opinion. As for Rutger Hauer’s career, the less said the better.

Comment on Painting Simon Bisley in Broad Strokes by Milo (northstarblog)

Milo (northstarblog) — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:45:49 +0000

Bisley cites Frazetta as a huge influence, so I’m not surprised to hear you say that!

Comment on Painting Simon Bisley in Broad Strokes by Aer

Aer — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:43:54 +0000

Funny, that looks a bit like Frank Frazetta. I should dig out what he had done. For what I see, I like a lot.

Comment on The Moebius Post for People Who Don’t Know Moebius by Milo (northstarblog)

Milo (northstarblog) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:46:43 +0000

We got some of Blueberry… little bits here and there were published by a bunch of different companies back in the day. Not since 1993 though =/

Comment on The Moebius Post for People Who Don’t Know Moebius by Aer

Aer — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:41:12 +0000

The first work of Jean Giraud I’ve read and I was what, 11 years old at best ?
Truly a masterpiece.

Do you have Blueberry in english ? If not that’s a shame, past the few first books, it’s damn brilliant.

Comment on Mighty South Korean Thrillers: The Yellow Sea and The Chaser by GoodbyeNavi

GoodbyeNavi — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 18:04:40 +0000

I will probably watch both. They sound like really exciting films.

Comment on Ninja Papa: sometimes assassins can be fat like the Buddha by GoodbyeNavi

GoodbyeNavi — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:45:41 +0000

Gah! Vicious boy stuff. Haha. No flowers and chocolate here. Just gouge your eye out and break your nasal bones with fingers. You sound like you’re really enjoying this.

Comment on 7 things I’d rather spend $60 on instead of a new video game by Hums

Hums — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:49:42 +0000

This isn’t how retail works. The store buys stock from the distributor. If you buy it at full price or at an emergency blow out at 90% off that is still a unit sold and the publisher/distributor still got their money. Of course if something is unsold long enough most of the time the store can return it back to the distributor for the money it paid. But by this time the store would have tried everything to off load the something because even at sale prices they probably still make money.

The trick to publication and retail distribution is to have your out going stock out weigh your returns. So you should never feel bad about buying something at a discount because a sale is a sale.

Comment on You Already Have Cirrhosis of the Liver by emerald

emerald — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 00:47:57 +0000

Wow. A unique blend of the pathetic and the awesome.

You need more toys.
But maybe not more beer.

Comment on You Already Have Cirrhosis of the Liver by Joseph Luster

Joseph Luster — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 22:35:37 +0000

This is the best purchase you’ve ever made.

Comment on You Already Have Cirrhosis of the Liver by GoodbyeNavi

GoodbyeNavi — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:58:03 +0000

LMAO. That was a disaster but a hilarious one.

Comment on 3 Reasons Toriko is the Best Shonen Jump Manga Coming Out Right Now by Milo (blogofthenorthstar.com)

Milo (blogofthenorthstar.com) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:02:22 +0000

I wonder how many Westerners are watching the anime compared to stuff like Naruto and Bleach… and I also wonder if it’s going to be released on Blu-ray anytime soon. I do prefer the manga, but I can’t underestimate the effect of a nice Blu-ray set floating around…

Comment on 3 Reasons Toriko is the Best Shonen Jump Manga Coming Out Right Now by GoodbyeNavi

GoodbyeNavi — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:30:25 +0000

Inviting 10 year old boys for a drink of the good stuff? Righteous! Yeah, I just said righteous. Well, Japanese is known not to be the best place to go if you’re a vegan and vegetarian, they appear to be obsessed with eating meat and get really excited if a dish has beef in it.

I think people also enjoyed the anime. A hunter that eats everything he catches? Cool.

Comment on His Talent has Talent: The Magnificence of Tetsuo Hara by Anti-Social Geniuses Reference Resource Mondays « Organization Anti-Social Geniuses

Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:12:38 +0000

[...] Ah, Fist of the North Star. As this post highlights, Tetsuo Hara just turned 50. And he’s still drawing by the way… [...]

Comment on Rainbow Retrospective: Expectations by themooninautumn

themooninautumn — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:58:57 +0000

Still no DVD release, but I bit the bullet and watched this all from Funimation.com, and it was amazing and brilliant and powerful and sometimes very much like falling on the ice and hitting your head or getting punched in the gut. I cried frequently. I thought about episodes for weeks after I watched them, arguing with myself about whether this or that was going overboard and being melodramatic or just being harsh and realistic or whether something was supposed to be a happy ending or not (the fate of a certain female character in particular). What a soul-crushing and gloriously inspiring show.

I suspect you’re right about the reasons people didn’t watch it. This makes me sad, but I think your analysis scans. (I don’t think it’s really all ages because there are lots of conversations I wouldn’t want to have with sharp kids who watched this. So many conversations . . .) It’s almost relentlessly dark. It goes places nothing else I’ve read or seen (legally in America from Japan) has gone. Somehow, it’s also still hopeful (with a few exceptions), and it manages to be so without being the least bit saccharine about it. All (relatively) happy endings are EARNED, and none of them feels fake. Thank you, Milo, for bringing this show to my attention.

Funimation, I want to give you money for taking a chance on this show. I want to own it and watch it every few years like some of the other gut-punch anime I’ve seen (Grave of the Fireflies, Now and Then, Here and There, etc.). I want to tell other people to watch it, and I want to watch it with them. I want it to remind me that other times and other places are different from my comfortable life and that people have and have had hard, hard lives, and I need to meet people where they are and not pass judgment before I get to know them, and I want to rejoice in the fact that people still have hope if someone showed them how.

In short, I liked it.

Comment on Legends of the True Savior… dubbed! by TTK500

TTK500 — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:08:36 +0000

I completely agree!

I’d love Sentai to license this movie/ova saga and dub it.

Apparently just a portion the production cost was 23 Million Yen (about $300,000 US). Wouldn’t be surprised it the total cost to make this was seven or even eight figures.

The license cost is probably at least in the hundreds of thousands.

Maybe Sentai is just waiting for the price to drop (or waiting to save up).

Anyways every now and then I email Sentai requesting them to get it.

E-mail: info@sentai-filmworks.com