Recent content by mranonymous

A year ago I would've said FABLES, but Willingham's conservative politics, particularly with regard to Israeli military aggression, began to creep into the book. Not overwhelmingly so, but enough to disenchant this longtime reader. I love Warren Ellis' FELL, particularly the commitment to...

NY Times, Harper's Magazine, the occasional article from The New Yorker and New York Review of Books, and The Escapist, natch.

"It's hard to believe it's been only two and a half years since a hand-held Zelda title debuted." Au contraire. What about "Link's Awakening"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Legend_of_Zelda:_Link%27s_Awakening

Throw in some dust and a dash of Chinese and Bebop does begin to resemble Firefly. And I lurve me some Firefly (and anything else Joss Whedon, for that matter).

Of course being rather aloof when it comes to anime I'm sure I miss out on quality material all the time. I hear Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell: SAC are both excellent. Anyone care to fill me in on the other Big Hits?

"Cowboy Bebop" remains, for me, an unparalleled anime experience. It's one of the few series that sounds as good dubbed as it does in the original Japanese. The Adult Swim ubiquity hurt its cachet but revisiting it reveals a program that, while light on overarching plot, is incredibly strong on...

Is this really an argument you want to get into, Clorf? With anyone else, maybe, but you're barking up one vitriolic tree. [Edit: confused bush/tree thanks to this classic exchange: Homer J. Simpson: "Guess you could say he's barking up the wrong bush." Homer's Brain: "There it is, Homer...