2017 is over, and what better way to mark the beginning of a new year in animation than a two-part look back at the previous year. With that in mind, we decided to do something a little bit therapeutic (for us), and get all of the bad stuff out of […]
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Keyframe 99 – Scrooge McDuck’s Human Trafficking Operation
Shocking revelations abound this week! First we discover that Batman is actually a ninja in the trailer for the cunningly titled animated film Batman Ninja. After that we’re left positively thunderstruck by Akira Toriyama’s claim that Saiyans need S-cells to become super. All together now … MIDICHLORIANS! It’s enough to […]
4-Panel 118 – Not By The Hair On My CG Lip
4-Panel 117 – Don’t Taint My Slime With Your Filth!
4 Panel 113 – Judge Death Does Bollywood
It’s time for your weekly dose of comics and manga with 4-Panel! Hidden in the mist of tangents and nonsense are the trailer for The New Mutants, Cable’s existence as a movie character (but nobody is committed to saying much else), Marvel’s plan for their very own brilliantly-monikered convention, and […]
4-Panel 110 – Nightwing’s Naughty Shushy Face
Syfy are making a pilot of Rick Remender’s school-based assassin story Deadly Class. Meanwhile there’s shenanigans involving Agents of Shield, ABC and Disney, and following the success of Kotobukiya’s Bishoujo line of figures based on DC’s female heroes and villains a male equivalent called Ikemen is being introduced – starting […]
Literary Loitering 74 – He Who Holds The Most Stickers is King!
Keyframe 89 – I’ll Have a Bahamut on Ice
We kick off with our featured anime this week (Rage of Bahamut: Genesis and A Certain Scientific Railgun S), before things degenerate into an impromptu discussion about dubbing, redubbing, and rebooting. All of that leads to a post-show hunt for an All-Purpose Cultural Catgirl with a Scouse accent on Ebay. […]
Keyframe 86 – A Harem of Wolverines
One Piece is apparently getting a live-action adaptation, and we’re very curious about how this is going to be accomplished. In addition to that we continue our first look at the Summer 2017 season of anime with Welcome to the Ballroom, Gamers!, Made In Abyss, Fate/Apocrypha, Elegant Yokai Apartment Life, […]