and yet more fake sleaze

[davemerrill]

Look, I know comic books are largely trash for subliterate morons, but comic books don't have to keep rubbing our noses in it.



Stupid Comics is back again with a terrible 90s "bad girl" vampire comic crossed with a terrible 90s "fake manga" comic that pushes all the buttons of hacked-out cynical exploitation in a way that only the greed of the 90s can really highlight. Who bought these things? Why? Why were they made in the first place? Who knows? The answers will NOT be found at this week's Stupid Comics.

So what else have we been up to? I've been working on another Let's Anime review, been assembling footage for the Anime Hell presentation at the upcoming Anime North, swapping emails about both AN and AWA in an attempt to get panels and things sorted, been putting new headlights in the car and new stuff up on the Mister Kitty etsy and drawing something every day.

This weekend is the Ad Astra SF convention, and it's also supposed to be warm and sunny, and there's a "collectibles show" in Kitchener on Sunday, so we might drop in on Ad Astra or we might just go out to Kitchener and look at old junk and get some sun. I haven't decided. There's a whole bunch of straightening and cleaning and laundry and general housekeeping things that have been sort of sliding during the long, demoralizing winter that ought to be taken care of at some point, I think; that's probably Saturday. I've been putting a lot of stuff off (like, Anime Hell) for most of February and March, and now it's time to really get to work. See you in June, I guess.

Comments

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

That comic....hurt me. And it...keeps on hurting me. Buried alive...buried alive...

*ahem*

What makes me laugh, helps ease the pain, is the wacky way the art swipe goes from Kenichi Sonoda to Adam Warren and back again. Not exactly DIRECT swipes because that would make the art competent, but more like swipes of swipes.

Isn't it funny how in this time of year, you get a nice day, temps in the high 50s or so, and some nice sunlight, and just...walking around makes you actually feel OK. Like solar powered.

I gotta drain the gas and change the oil in the lawnmower. NOT THAT YOU CARE MR. CONDO MAN with your not mowing the lawn anymore and stuff. And maybe some cooking out if the wind calms the f**k down.

[davemerrill.livejournal.com]

yeah, I'm Mr. Condo Man, I don't mow, I don't shovel NOTHIN', and that's how I like it! Actually I don't mind yard work, but if we ever owned a house up here I don't know what I'd do, because that shoveling snow stuff, it's just not happening. Back at the co-op, I had to keep my parking spot shovelled out and it was a super pain in the rear.

Thank goodness it's warmed up. I'm starved for the mighty rays of our yellow sun.

[tochiro998.livejournal.com]

a. hire a service. b. buy a really good lawn tractor and take the mowing deck off and put a snow blade or blower on. Soundtrack to the movie 'Airport' optional. c. don't do a damn thing because you're living in Florida when it snows. :)

(note, this is fairly Michigan-centric but I hear it works other places too.)

I am in dire need of warm weather and sunshine. I am sick to DEATH of the graveyard skies we've had.

[cmndr-x.livejournal.com]

Oh, the rotten fake manga of decades past. 80s fake Amerimanga is often just too goofy in it's badness, in it's tracing but once you get past 1990 it just seems to get tackier. Through the Aughts and even now you can run across bad manga-knock off webcomics that are at the same level as Vampire Girls here, complete with all of the ones set in Japan drawn with no reference material and the only nods to Japanese culture will be peoples' names, school uniforms, occasional use of horrifically butchered fanboy Japanese and everybody liking anime and ramen.

Back In The Day, I knew a fellow who spent years on an epic "manga style" adventure comic he kept shopping to publishers with no success, it was an unholy mashup of elements begged, borrowed and stolen from practically every reasonable popular action/sci-fi anime or manga from the 80s and early to mid 90s - a dash of Akira here, some Appleseed and Ghost in the Shell there, some Bubblegum Crisis, some Venus Wars, maybe some mech designs lifted from Patlabor and the faces and character designs were something on par with an 80s faux-manga like Reggie Byer's "Shuriken" or that comic "Metal Bikini". A grisly stitched together experiment, like when a mad scientist puts together a monster out of parts from different animals. He never got around to selling it to anyone, at least by 2004, which was the last time I had any contact with him.