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Movie reviews, news and interviews since 2004. We particularly love the unusual and absurd – kung fu, giallo, Czech New Wave, etc.

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Not even a PD?

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Oy

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I’m like that with those giant Berserk collections

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You all need to mount some firecrackers on those foils

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Yeah, again, not enough of my bag to read it regularly, but I love that’s he’s just doing whatever the hell ge wants.

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Tell me you were handcuffed to a railing and slipped out while the police were distracted. Make my day.

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I will say, I did get totally obsessed with Maggi ketchup. That shit is so good.

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Yeah, I read a few of those pornographic ones and was like “wtf is happening here?!” Buck wild is right. It’s particularly funny because so many of his women are drawn like Peanuts characters. That dude is a super freak and I am here for it.

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You may have found the one area on which I agree with Orange Mussolini. Irn-Bru, I used to eat Flintstones Vitamins when I was a kid, and the orange taste is EXACTLY the same.

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See, you should be getting yourself arrested more often so you can take advantage.

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Huh

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I wish it were easier to get Ting in the states.

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Would totally try a litchi one. At least we can get Jarritos, Tamarind Jarritos is my poison of choice. And we have root beer, which is hard to get anywhere else.

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I think The Maxx was the first Image book that really grabbed me story-wise. Savage Dragon I’ve never loved but I read one now and again and admire the hell out of Larsen for just doing what he wants to do.

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Well, that does sound like something I would enjoy

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Her very existence is a comic masterpiece.

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Is that like Irn-Bru? Because if so, you can keep it.

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The trick is to do no exercise whatsoever so your wrists stay very thin.

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I was reading both at the time and my view was that Image was all style no substance, looked gorgeous, nothing under the hood, and that Valiant was the opposite, telling great stories with mostly workmanlike art. Was into both.

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I was big into Valiant, got in via BWS A&A, for a couple years there it was super exciting, not everything holds up particularly well, but it was a breath of fresh air.

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I read the old Rai back in the day, which was a very mixed bag, but this was terrific.

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OMAC (Jack f’in Kirby) - I’d read the first issue but finally read the whole series. Full-ass Kirby, for better and for worse. All concept, no character. But man that uninhibited sci-fi cray-cray … And nobody draws weirder fish.

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Rai Book 1 (Dan Abnett and Juan Jose Ryp) - Really dig this, post-apocalyptic action and beautiful Darrow-influenced art from Ryp. Great update on the old Valiant material.

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Old City Blues (Giannis Milonogiannis) - tribute to the era of Akira/Dominion/Patlabor/GitS, fun murder mysteries and mech police from @musashinoelegy.bsky.social with his lovely scratchy art.

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Catching up on some near future post-apocalyptic comics this weekend.

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Hiding under the bed ready to grab some ankles like the damn clown from Poltergeist.

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Please, I think we’re in the same aged category 🤣

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Just remember that internet people are not terribly reflective of people as a whole. It’d be like judging restaurants as a whole based on Yelp reviews, only the craziest or most intense folks are out there expressing their opinions.

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I don’t think I’ve even ever heard of that site!

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I enjoyed it, think it’s worth watching

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I’ll check it out on MU, I do always enjoy Schiti’s work since he impressed me on that Sif Journey run.

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I’m lucky, my dog does not GAF

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I enjoyed it, but yeah, needed to be tighter, the sister needed way more character, and the score was super generic.

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I do want to see that

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Oh god yes

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I still don’t think I’ve seen the whole film, but I will watch ANYTHING Kostanski does.

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Manga horror authors get the evil of cats

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#Watched W Is for Wish (2014) - Best He-Man commercial ever. Kostanski is king.

youtu.be/co6sCbkkP68?...

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Haha, I thought I would hate it, but I ended up loving it. But either way, yeah, it screams America.

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Ha!

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Happy 4th of July, muthafuckas.

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That and Rebels. But there she wasn’t carrying the story.

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I usually like Dawson, but deadly serious Ahsoka is really not the Ahsoka I’m looking for

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(kind of low key been looking for a good sword myself, used to fence and do kendo, but all I have in the house is a bokuto and a shinai.) And also a great enormous Gurkha knife my sister bought me when she was in Nepal, but damned if I can find the thing.

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Oh wow, Everybody Wants Some made the list. Good call, collective people.

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I’m trying to be more discriminating in SW stuff, such a deluge of garbage. Not that it wasn’t 80% garbage between the movies back in the day, but there was much less.

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I couldn’t get past the first couple eps of Ahsoka, so boring. I’ll wait and see what the reaction is when more of Acolyte is out.

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I’ve bagged on the last few SW series (other than Andor), but if this one gets consistently good reports when it’s done, I’ll check it out.

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He was fucking AMAZING in The Good Place, I was so bummed when his role in Maverick got nerfed

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