I'm not sure if I should be inspired or terrified by how often the idea that happens after I stop trying ends up being a MILLION times funnier than the ones I try really hard at.
Case in point, it's not that I had NO other ideas for episode 5. It's just that the punchlines all involve...
2022-02-24 03:05:26 +0000 UTC View Post
The important thing is, either way, I took the high road and refused to make the most obvious joke that episode four offered... because it was also the most tasteless joke possible. (If you must know, recite Lina's opening lines to the Dragon Slave, then think about what the running gang in...
2022-02-16 23:04:58 +0000 UTC View Post
"Now, are there any OTHER bits of exposition I need to recap in order to keep the audience caught up? No? Good."
2022-02-16 18:04:55 +0000 UTC View Post
It's a double-edged sword to pretty much only care about shows that haven't been popular in decades. On the one hand, that SOMETIMES means the show in question has been clogging up shelf space for years, so they can be fairly cheap. But on the other hand, if they've been in TOO low de...
2022-02-09 23:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post
I could crop this page down to the bottom of the second panel, and it could be my autobiography.
No, but seriously, I am EXTREMELY susceptible to getting the munchies from watching characters eating on screen. Heck, episode two has a whole gag about how gross it is to eat fish ...
2022-02-02 08:31:56 +0000 UTC View Post
What’s this? I bet you thought I’d finally run out of Far Out There Character Soundtracks, didn’t you? Surely there couldn’t STILL be more playlists left for obscure secondary characters, right? Well, I’ll have you know… you’re ALMOST right. I mean, there’s still am absur...
2022-01-30 11:16:09 +0000 UTC View Post
It's just behind "lasers that inexplicably bend mid-shot" on my list of favorite tropes from this era of anime. Nothing says a character is powerful quite like giving them shoulder pads that they could crawl up and live inside.
But yeah, SLAYERS! Sorry I didn't start of...
2022-01-26 08:46:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy crap, FIFTY PAGES? I'm sure I've already remarked on this being the longest non-main storyline Far Out There series outside of The Killer Station of Deadly Doom, but there's jsut something about a big, clean, even number like "50" to really bring things home to a person.
2022-01-23 17:26:38 +0000 UTC View Post
…aaaaand here we are! We made it to ten! Congratulations to everybody who endured me rambling on about songs I like and pretend shows that don’t exist! And wouldn’t you know it, we end this series with a reach waaaaay back to the past, all the way to the late ‘70s, and address a genre weâ...
2022-01-22 16:35:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Another one? Already? Well, yeah, because this is the last of the bunch. I'm only a few days away from Ichibancon 2022, so I really wanted to go ahead and get the last of the QCAC comics already done and out of the way before I started heading BACK down to Charlotte again. ...
2022-01-11 18:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Yeah, yeah, I know that the advent of streaming and the easy availability of everything has taken away one of the main reasons Video Rooms existed, but I still say that it counts as a strike against any convention if it's not actually screening anything. The "problem" with having just about...
2022-01-08 19:18:45 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right, folks! The second time around, Slayers takes home the win! We have our next Weekly Anime Comic! Now, once again, I'll remind everyone that I'm not committing to the whole Slayers franchise here, just the first TV series. As with Cardcaptor Sakura...
2022-01-01 05:56:18 +0000 UTC View Post
To anybody who though that the end of the Christmas blogs would mean that I was done rambling about music I like, YOU’RE ALL FOOLS! But seriously, the same time I swapped out my computer and wrote down my old Christmas music song stats, I also wrote down my top 25 overall most-played songs. And...
2021-12-29 06:10:23 +0000 UTC View Post
What, you thought that just because Christmas is over, I’d stop writing Christmas blogs? I WILL NEVER STOP WRITING CHRISTMAS BLOGS. Heck, if we stick to certain church traditions, Christmas won’t even be over until January 5th! I’ve still got nearly two weeks! No, but seriously, this is the...
2021-12-26 08:55:01 +0000 UTC View Post
IT'S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE! That's right, folks reading this years after the fact, this comic originally went up on Christmas Morning. My gift to everybody is restarting a series that had stalled YET AGAIN. Let's see how long I can go before having to take another break!
2021-12-25 10:31:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Every year when I unload around four month’s worth of Christmas content all at once in December, at least one person comes along and tells me I really ought to relax and take it easy over holiday break. You know, just chill and go to Christmas parties and eat junk food and play around like we d...
2021-12-24 01:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
YES. I’M WRITING ANOTHER ONE OF THESE, I’LL NEVER STOP AND YOU CAN’T MAKE ME.
As I’ve said on numerous occasions, Christmas songs may be one of my greatest joys in life, but I can still totally sympathize with anyone who gets sick of the same three versions of the same two dozen son...
2021-12-10 06:24:32 +0000 UTC View Post
...and remember, I still had to drive BACK the next morning. Truly, THAT was the dumbest part. But yeah, I'm not sure what worried me more, the fear that the car wasn't smart enough to turn its own lights off while the door was sitting open or the fear that a racoon had crawled in and...
2021-12-07 04:15:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, it's December! Time for me to bludgeon you over the head with more Christmas blogs! HO HO HO!
If there’s one thing Western Society seems to agree on, it’s that boring old Baby Jesus is waaaay too lame to build a whole holiday around. For centuries now, an ongoing quest has st...
2021-12-03 04:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post
THAT'S RIGHT FOLKS! After spending about a billion years on Cardcaptor Sakura, we're FINALLY picking a new series for Weekly Anime Comics! And yes, by "we," I in fact mean "I've alre...
2021-11-30 02:49:48 +0000 UTC View Post
I really like Whitby’s mask. That’s about all I have to say about Whitby as a character. He’s another one of those Nitpickers introduced during the Christmas 2020 comics, and thus hasn’t had many chances to appear afterwards. And even if we DID have the usual number of pages in 2021, and ...
2021-11-30 02:13:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(First off, the only non-region-locked posts of this song I could find on YouTube were live videos that felt totally different than the studio version, so I -GAH I MEAN A TOTALLY SEPARATE MYSTERIOUS YOUTUBE ACCOUNT- had to go and post a copy. Amazingly, the Japanese Recording Industry hasn'...
2021-11-30 01:04:33 +0000 UTC View Post
So, I used the same wig for the Dr. F costume a lot longer than I really should have, largely because it seems like they just don't make that particular wig anymore. I finally gave in and tried to replace it for got around 2018, but each new wig I've picked up since has been worse than the ...
2021-11-18 03:11:13 +0000 UTC View Post
THAT’S RIGHT FOLKS! The people (well, the $5 and up patrons, at least) have spoken! Now that I’ve covered all of Cardcaptor Sakura’s first season, it’s time for SOMETHING ELSE! And once again, I shall turn the choice of what that new Weekly Anime Comic show will be over to all of you! …...
2021-11-10 19:32:09 +0000 UTC View Post
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Yeah, you KNOW something's going on when I totally pass up a chance to do a Christmas comic, especially when the time of year almost lines up like this. But no, I can't let this slide. Cardcaptor hasn't pulled this trick as often as som...
2021-11-10 19:12:59 +0000 UTC View Post
Blah blah blah African or European blah blah blah your mother was a hamster. MONTY PYTHON QUOTES!
But seriously, these were some really weird questions for a "scavenger hunt." Also, I kept trying to remember how on earth Nelvana tried to work around all the Japanese puns for their Eng...
2021-11-04 07:08:27 +0000 UTC View Post
YES! Actual convention-related Conventional Wisdom comics are finally back on Patreon! I'm not certain how many more pages will come after this, though. I originally set aside five more ideas, though looking back at the notes now, I'm not quite sure about a few of 'em. I d...
2021-11-03 13:59:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Every year, I spend hundred upon hundreds of words gushing over Christmas songs, and you’d better believe I’ll do so again this year. But let’s face it, these days a sizable chunk of The Internet goes every bit as gaga over Halloween as I do Christmas, and I’d be a fool not to try a...
2021-10-29 07:37:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Awwwwww. Well, that concludes the fourth Far Out There madlib, in which THIS bit of heartwarming fluff somehow came out of:
"Tabitha discovers a portal to a Colander dimension, which only Tabitha and Dr. Caligari 2021-10-29 05:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Well that was convenient, wasn't it? It does feel a LITTLE bit like the show hits a bit of a holding pattern around here. Like, I dunno if they'd actually already gotten the order for more episodes by this point, but it kinda does FEEL like they're suddenly putting the breaks some som...
2021-10-28 00:54:12 +0000 UTC View Post