your update from me

Like most everybody else I haven't been posting as much on the LJ, and much of that is because this time of year is when things get really busy with shopping and all that Xmasy sort of thing. I've been trying to get one more Let's Anime out before the end of the year so I'll at least match 2010 in terms of post counts. Once we hit the road next Thursday - yes, this time next Thursday I hope to be sleeping soundly in a Motel 6 somewhere in West Virginia - I will not have a moment's spare time until sometime in January when our plane returns us from Los Angeles and my brief, shining moment in the nerd spotlight.

In the meantime you can hit Found Sound and enjoy a big whack of standup from some TV comedy stars like Bob Newhart, Don Knotts, and Johnathan Winters. You can also saddle up for some stupid Western comics starring everybody's favorite cowboy John Wayne.



Yes, John Wayne had his own comic book and his own sidekick and his own typeface and logo, it appears to be. Don't miss even a moment of the exciting Western action involving ghost towns and jugglers! Yes, jugglers.

To be honest I have way too many Western comics, mostly Kid Colt, Two Gun Kid, etc, from back in the day when I'd buy anything that was old and cheap. You'd think more westerns would be fodder for Stupid Comics, but it's a frightfully dull genre. When I start to think about dispensing of entire categories of comics, the westerns are top of the list, I believe.

devil man

This is another manga that needs to get reprinted, or printed and distributed properly, in North America - Go Nagai is shamelessly under-represented here and dammit, that's a crime.



D-d-d-d-DEVILMAN! He could team up with Hot Stuff.

It's from the new Let's Anime column, the last of the year! Enjoy! http://letsanime.blogspot.com/2011/12/devilman-saves-christmas.html

I honestly think that the 1972 Devilman manga is in complete harmony with pop culture at the time, both here and in Japan - this grungy, biker, smack-addled sleazy grindhouse longhair post-hippie death culture that possessed us all once we learned Nixon got his second term and that the space aliens weren't really going to save us from eco-destruction. Once the drugs and the hippie wore off. You can see it in the movies, you can see it on the record jackets, a real nihilistic worldview that Devilman would have fit right into - can you imagine this being sold in head shops next to SLOW DEATH FUNNIES? We could have had a manga invasion then, not 30 years later. On the other hand I imagine Jack Chick and Vincent Bugliosi would have had a freaking FIELD DAY. "Look at what they're trying to sell our children now = "Devilman"? SATAN IS ALIVE AND WELL ON PLANET EARTH!!!!!!