Media Roundup (March 2024)
i forgot to do this for like the first third of the month oops! life is hard. quite a little list of stuff i consumed
AD:TRANCE 10 - Diverse System
TRANCE MUSIC IS FUCKING BACK, BABY. man this was a real solid compliation, just some excellent stuff throughout. it never quite got beyond the heights of 2, but still a very strong showing.
best tracks: "Warrior", "Visiophanum", "Stella Walker"
X-Men: Days of Future Past
this is that good comic book shit. some really fantastic sequences although it left some stuff on the table - i kept expecting quicksilver to show back up and attach himself to the team and he just...didn't, i guess, despite what seemed like obvious interest. presumably a set up for the sequel
i feel a little disappointed the future stuff was just not at all prominent and the story focused almost entirely on the 70s. not that i'm opposed to the 70s but it felt like something interesting could be done with the future, and i was expecting some weird timeline flashing shit with new future realities being created and wolverine having to jump back again and that...doesn't really happen, he just starts thrashing the table and making hurting kitty for really no reason - they already had the sentinel ticking clock, they didn't need to attack elliot page too. also they keep fucking stiffing beast, he doesn't...really do anything here and his design kinda sucks. please write him good just once, i'm begging you
otherwise it was pretty great. love young erik and charles's dynamic. they really need to kiss about it that would probably fix the timeline for real
The American Dream - Tedrich Lendum
i wasn't expecting much from this, and it starts off feeling a little trite, so perhaps there's only so much to expect when you're chopping and screwing country, but then it ballooned into this nigh on apocalyptic feeling. weird yet cool.
best track: "Down"
Ahsoka
laughable that everyone involved was like "oh, i guess you can see this as rebels season 5, but it's really just its own standalone thing that you can enjoy on its own terms without needing to do homework" and then it was just rebels season 5. just name it rebels season 5, man.
is this what the people want? is this really what we're satisfied by? sabine can do force stuff now even though that was like, never the point of her character. we get no idea of what ezra's life has been like since the end of rebels S4 and his character has changed not one bit from spending literal years in exile on a mudball so, whatever, he gets to go home i guess. did ahsoka change, like at all? she had some clone wars fanservice in the middle there but like. she didn't have an arc, she never stopped doing what she was going to do and she ends the show the same as she started it but she's just in a different part of the galaxy. is this all set up for the mando movie? what is the point of doing any of this when no-one's going to go through any kind of journey? filoni, what happened? you used to be pretty good at this, sometimes even great!
when is andor season 2. good god
Guardians of the Galaxy
heartbreaking: chris pratt is the star of the best MCU movie thus far
i laughed AND i cried. much more enjoyable for feeling largely unshackled from the binding narrative that's starting to wrap around the MCU at this point, where the film can focus on its characters and their journeys. especially immediately after watching something so arc-less as the mandoverse, this feels like a bright star. wonderful stuff. looking forward to more
GioGio's Bizarre Adventure II: GOLDEN HEART/GOLDEN RING
not much to say about it - despite the title it takes place in the middle of vento aureo. still, some cool fights to enjoy. joy division is a fun stand imo.
Skizz - Alan Moore, Jim Baikie
E.T. by way of alan moore seems like it'll be interesting, and the original run is decent, but it doesn't do anything truly groundbreaking, and once baikie takes over writing it becomes pretty dull. still, a neat curiosity
The Bob's Burgers Movie
Crime Hole
just a good fun hour and a half, and also a tear came to my eye when they talked about louise's hat. the villain is kind of obvious but i like how they make his earlier actions make sense. my only real complaints are that gene and tina's subplots just kinda get left by the wayside, only remarked upon occasionally, and the dovetailing of bob and linda's plot with the kids just felt a little too forced to really work. regardless, great music. some genuinely wonderful animation, not just on the dancing, but there's these delightful little actions that are done so fluidly. teddy crying in the alley, felix trying to get the toothpick out of his drink with his tongue. its a joy to watch
Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures
I Love Yoda's Indoctrination Camp For Kids
(it's fine)
American Gangster - Jay-Z
i've always kind of struggled to connect to hip-hop, and this took some close listening, but i think this is where i finally get it. learning that jay does it all off the top of his dome completely changed how i viewed it.
best tracks: "I Know" "Party Life" & "Fallin'"
Fullmetal Alchemist
i think what i liked about this i presumably attribute to the original story. the original story that takes up the back half i think has some genuinely fantastic moments, but it fumbles a lot. this did properly get me into FMA, though
From Hell - Alan Moore & Eddie Campbell
perhaps the deepest, most well researched dive into not only the whitechapel murders, but the entire society that surrounds them, and tying it in beatuifully with a genre transcending exploration of time and evil. moore does it again.
American Idiot - Green Day
the fucking album ever. more lefty than i gave it credit for: this isn't just stupid "ooh bush bad" stuff, this was a mediation on what it means to grow up being told your country stands for freedom, while it does something completely different. salient, even now.
best tracks: "Jesus of Suburbia", "Holiday", "St. Jimmy"
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This week’s theme: Magnificent Lettering!
Chewie always gives letterers a chance to strut their stuff. I love that every letter is a different shape and size. The design makes Chewie sound a little scarier than he is, but that seems appropriate for him. This comic is still old enough that its lettering was done by hand; I always prefer that authenticity. This is masterful craftsmanship by Lois Buhalis!
Other things of note in this panel:
that acidic, irrepressible color palette!
poor Leia and 3PO have to take care of the kids while Han heroically poses, facing danger dick-first
Vima is there
yes, that is that Emperor... Dark Empire gave us a post-RotJ “reborn” Palpatine clone decades before The Rise of Skywalker did (and it wasn’t a good idea back then, either)
you’ll recognize Iziz if you’ve ever played the KotOR games or read the Tales of the Jedi comics. Writers used to love that place. You can still find Onderon in the Clone Wars cartoons -- it’s the homeworld of the Gerreras and Bonteris, and its whole deal is that its politics are eternally fucked.
Basically, there is a lot going on here, but Lois’ lettering is the only thing I can take seriously.
“Dark Empire III: Empire’s End, issue 2: Rage of the Emperor.” Dark Horse. November 28, 1995. Writers: Tom Veitch and Mike Beidler. Penciller, Inker, and Colorist: Jim Baikie. Letterer: Lois Buhalis.
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The Perishers strip art, rare first issues of British comics on offer in latest Phil-Comics auction
The Perishers strip art, rare first issues of British comics on offer in latest Phil-Comics auction
eBay comic auctioneers Phil-Comics latest sale features 265 listings, including original comic art that includes a great example of “The Perishers” newspaper strip, and much more.
Battle Picture Weekly No. 1, cover dated 8th March 1975 with Free Gift – World War Two Combat Stickers
Beezer Book 1980-2003 inclusive (24 books to last issue)
Mighty World of Marvel comic #118-155 (1975) x 26 Most…
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