Get your ballet dancers and rollercoasters ready because it’s the most wonderful time of the year, and as always the nominations for Literary Review’s Bad Sex in Fiction award deliver. After that exciting opening (pun very much intended), it’s a veritable cavalcade of oddities including Sean Penn’s unknown author, Scrabble […]
Sci-Fi
4-Panel 118 – Not By The Hair On My CG Lip
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 […]
Literary Loitering 75 – Surfer Jesus and the Hang Ten Commandments
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 […]
Keyframe 90 – The Worst Kept Secret in Anime
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. […]
4-Panel 105 – Haunted Tanks Can Be Racist Too
4-Panel 104 – A Terrible Ninja Infestation
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, […]