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Daniel Dockery@dandock.bsky.social |
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Writer at Crunchyroll, Polygon, WIRED, Vulture, Inverse, Pokemon, Paste Magazine and other places / Rep'd by Aevitas Creative / Author of Monster Kids: How Pokémon Taught A Generation To Catch Them All / Picked Charmander
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Daniel Dockery
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I loved Xanatos so much growing up. Every other line of dialogue from him was something like "Damnation is a cold blade best gripped by one's own hand" and all five-year-old me could say was "Yes. Uh huh. EXACTLY that."
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Tony Corsentino
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shout out to Horn Pond in Woburn Mass. for being shaped like a cartoon whale with the face of John Quincy Adams
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Daniel Dockery
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Alan Moore adaptations are often accused of missing the thematic "point" of the comic. And I feel like that's sort of true, but not as big of a deal as the fact that they miss out on all of the cool stuff that Moore implemented in a way that's only possible IN comics.
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Matt Singer
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My book was a question on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire tonight. Wild.
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Daniel Dockery
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I still love the fact that when Rob Zombie announced his The Munsters movie, everyone was like "Oooh, I wonder how vulgar and awful it's gonna be" and then he ended up making the closest thing we'll ever get to a modern rendition of Munsters episode from 1965
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Paperback Paradise
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Book
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Daniel Dockery
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(Would love to write at length about this for someone!)
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Daniel Dockery
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Yes! Inevitably the credits will hit on a movie. But that ending to The Killing Joke is eternal. Those two men, dead or alive, will be haunted for as long as they exist.
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Daniel Dockery
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Anyway, I think that's what I'm most apprehensive about when I see "Based on the comic by Alan Moore." Not that it won't be like the comic, but that it won't feel like it.
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Daniel Dockery
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Even something like The Killing Joke will inevitably miss out on the staging that makes the comic so simultaneously beautiful and horrific. That shared laugh in the end where it feels like a cruel universe speaking instead of an actual character as it spans across panels.
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Daniel Dockery
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It's such a weird, empty movie. Like trying to play the same notes with a different instrument.
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Daniel Dockery
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The same goes for From Hell (you could make it as a murder mystery, but no other art would allow for its patient yet towering melancholy and surrealism) or League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (What other medium would allow for such an intake of visual information and reference?)
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Daniel Dockery
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Like, Watchmen is so simultaneously sprawling and fractured in both its narrative and the way that it's designed. You get a certain sense of pacing, worldbuilding and discovery that you can never recreate in any other medium. It literally isn't possible.
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Daniel Dockery
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Alan Moore adaptations are often accused of missing the thematic "point" of the comic. And I feel like that's sort of true, but not as big of a deal as the fact that they miss out on all of the cool stuff that Moore implemented in a way that's only possible IN comics.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!
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Riley Black 🦕 🏳️⚧️
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Have a Barnes & Noble membership? Then you can pre-order my new book When the Earth Was Green for 25% off with the code PREORDER25
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And if you don’t have a membership yet, you can make a free one to still get the discount.
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Order your copy at: bit.ly/WhenTheEarth...
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Daniel Dockery
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I'm on the side of "I believe that it happened, but was not the dramatic event that everyone turned it into."
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Daniel Dockery
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Godzilla Minus One was a lot of people's first Godzilla film and that's great! So if you've seen it and are wondering what to check out next, try out this little guide I wrote:
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merritt k
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I'm trying to get in touch with some ex-Sega and Sonic Team people for a project I'm working on. If anyone has any connections that might be able to help with this I would really appreciate it!
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Sam Kuching Draws
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Dipped In Sunlight
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Feeling the last slivers of sunlight before the evening is over~
#diplodocus #sauropod #SciArt 🐡 #PaleoArt #dinosaurs #dino #dinosaur #paleo
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Mina Li (she/her)
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turns out my state is having a contest on "I Voted" sticker designs, and I would like to show you the most metal one by a middle schooler:
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J.R.
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Controversial Miami Vice movie discourse: it would be extremely cool to go speedboating at sunset with Gong Li as your floppy Scott Stapp hair whips around in the breeze
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Zack Davisson --> SDCC
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Our new book, MANGA: A VISUAL HISTORY is out in November. The history of manga from Hokusai to modern day.
By myself, Frederik L. Schodt, Rachel Thorn, @okazu.bsky.social , Jonathan Clements. An absolutely stellar list of contributors I am proud to be a part of
www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...
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Daniel Dockery
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I would LOVE to write a Gamera recommendations piece.
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Daniel Dockery
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Godzilla Minus One was a lot of people's first Godzilla film and that's great! So if you've seen it and are wondering what to check out next, try out this little guide I wrote:
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Yatta-Tachi
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Wondering What To Watch After Godzilla Minus One? Try These Other Godzilla Movies! by @dandock.bsky.social
You don't need to feel overwhelmed by Godzilla's seventy year cinematic legacy.
yattatachi.com/wondering-wh...
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Daniel Dockery
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Big fan of the 20/20 "Batman's Back" segment where Barbara Walters questions the idea of "yet another" comic book character getting a movie adaptations, but because it's 1989, the only two examples are Superman and Popeye.
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Daniel Dockery
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Love the fact that in the town hall scene in JAWS, there's nothing on the chalkboard until Quint shows up, meaning that he made a little drawing to show off how scary a giant shark is to help his sales pitch.
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Daniel Dockery
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Congrats, Tasha!
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Zoe Tunnell
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Thinking about this page from Urasawa's Pluto where he managed to do a heartbreaking bit of emotionality from a robot physically incapable of emoting all entirely through panel composition and framing. One of the all-time greats of comics.
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Alasdair Stuart
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I would buy an artbook of TV Guide micro posters like this. I would attend an exhibition if I could.
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Daniel Dockery
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Big fan of the 20/20 "Batman's Back" segment where Barbara Walters questions the idea of "yet another" comic book character getting a movie adaptations, but because it's 1989, the only two examples are Superman and Popeye.
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Daniel Dockery
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To be fair, I would do the same thing
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Daniel Dockery
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Love the fact that in the town hall scene in JAWS, there's nothing on the chalkboard until Quint shows up, meaning that he made a little drawing to show off how scary a giant shark is to help his sales pitch.
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Daniel Dockery
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Happy birthday, Nami! In this installment of the One Piece Anime 25th Anniversary Spotlight, I dive into Nami and the strength it takes to trust and ask for help in an uncertain world: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
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Daniel Dockery
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I mean, if it's an adaptation, I can grant it a little bit of wiggle room because there's already a story there. But so much of the joy of watching a series comes from being there for all of its little intricacies.
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Daniel Dockery
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Like, congratulations. You've chosen the blandest possible way to experience a piece of art. I hope it was something that you thought about and engaged with and potentially valued and not the latest drip of an eternal sludge of content.
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Daniel Dockery
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I don't know how you fall in love with a story that way. "I only want to watch the parts that matter and skip all of the rest" turns the full course meal of a TV show into a bullet point protein shake.
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Daniel Dockery
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Whenever people ask what episodes or seasons of a show that they can skip, it always sounds like they don't actually want to watch the show. They just want to check it off their list.
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Daniel Dockery
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I'm glad that you're enjoying it! Favorite Straw Hat?
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Daniel Dockery
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If you missed them, here's the article about Luffy (crunchyroll.com/news/feature...) and here's Zoro's (crunchyroll.com/news/feature...)
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Daniel Dockery
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Happy birthday, Nami! In this installment of the One Piece Anime 25th Anniversary Spotlight, I dive into Nami and the strength it takes to trust and ask for help in an uncertain world: www.crunchyroll.com/news/feature...
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Daniel Dockery
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My four-year-old listened to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" for the first time this morning, a song that he believes is "good" but needs "more tambourine."
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Daniel Dockery
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Tod Browning's films have grown on me a lot. For a while, I judged him solely based on Dracula, a film that I only half enjoy thanks to much of the middle section being so flat. Watching things like Freaks, The Unknown, The Mystic, The Unholy Three and Iron Man changed my mind.
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Daniel Dockery
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I'm really excited for this movie. Middle Earth is meant for animation (and live action, of course, but we've got a lot of that.)
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Daniel Dockery
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Also, anyone that has ever actually read Tolkien knows that his work is a pretty wild blend of incredible amounts of detail and open-ended "What is that actually supposed to be?" moments. There is so much room for adaptation and interpretation. Using it to fuel a culture war lite is pretty dumb.
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Daniel Dockery
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Didn't have a great day so I put on a feel-good movie
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Samantha Ferreira Wants to Talk About Anime History
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Seen in the Concord Monitor, 1999:
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Daniel Dockery
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I wrote about Suicide Squad Isekai, a series that could easily be the most annoying thing in the world, that turned out to be an extremely fun romp through a fantasy kingdom with some of DC's most delightful weirdos.
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J.R.
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Everyone is talking about the new viral sensation, Bungus Flimp. Bungus Flimp is now opening for Olivia Rodrigo. If you haven't heard of Bungus Flimp, fuck you. We've just heard that Bungo Flimp is now canceled. Bungus Flimp has been killed in a standoff with SWAT officers in Des Moines.
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