Paper Moon

First! In my continuing quest to completely ruin Watchmen for my flist, I now present you with two links of brain-breaking awesome:

One!    Two!

You have no idea how much I wish that that last one was a real thing. No idea. If only because it would send Alan Moore into an apoplectic, frothing raaaaaaaaage that would inevitably provide far more entertainment value than the series itself.

Oh hey, speaking of that bit between Eddie and Laurie...

It's time to recap three weeks' worth of Tsubasa again. Siiiiiigh. Oh well. I'm home sick on a Friday night, so I might as well channel my snarky rage into doing something productive. For certain limited definitions of "productive."

So, here we go. Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle chapters 213, 214, and 215.

One Sakura to rule them all,
One Sakura to find them,
One Sakura to lead them all
And in the darkness bind them.

(Sorry, couldn't resist. Sakura has been more of a lifeless prop than an actual character for the majority of this series, anyway.)

( Blah blah blah. )


Next up, a two-week break. Thank God. Is your brain melted yet?

So like, I was just watching the American Dad episode "Oedipal Panties," and it made me realize that I haven't recapped Tsubasa in, oh, three weeks.

( Dammit, Syaoran, that's still just gross. )

Grad school applications: 2.5 out of four complete and submitted. The .5 would be the NKU app, which unfortunately is a two-part process. Yes, that's two steps in paper submission before you even get to the interview stage. Thank goodness they have a final application deadline in freakin' June for the fall semester.

Reading: Tsubasa (this week's chapter actually made me cry!!!), Ah! My Goddess (HOLY CRAP you guys this story arc is getting awesomer by the minute), and catching up on the past two years' worth of X-Factor. Oh, X-Factor. You are so, so good. Even with your insistence on revolving entire storylines around Sparklepunk Mary Sue Layla Miller, you're still so, so good.

Linky-links: Derek Kim on the Avatar movie. Read it. NOW. Derek Kim is an amazing writer, and if his words can't convince you that "racist" is exactly the right word for this shit, then nothing can. Also: It just keeps getting worse. However, there may be a way to make lemonade from all those lemons.

Doing: Yes, I am scanning stuff. Hold yer horses.

Merry Christmas Eve, to those of you who celebrate it!

As a special Christmas gift from me, here: Have some crap.

( Utter. Crap. )

This is going to be short, again. Because Cloney? Not so much with the witty banter.

( Look out! He's been huffing feathers! )

No chapter next week. Tsubasa will return with more clone-kicking action on December 24th!

My livejournal has been sadly lacking in three things lately: X-men. Saber. And puppies. So let's remedy that.



This gem of an advertisement has been running on the back of several of the previous issues of Shounen Magazine. Is it sad that I find my weekly dose of doe-eyed puppy more exciting than my weekly dose of Tsubasa? Probably. Especially considering that nothing about the puppy advertisement ever actually changes. Then again, neither does anything about any chapter of Tsubasa anymore. Oh, snap.



Lily Saber, from this month's Comptiq. Somehow that outfit looks a lot less stupid when she's in an action!pose.



An oldie but a goodie. I dug up this image because for the past week, I've been flipping through all of the American comics that I still have with me in Japan, desperately searching for a panel (or two) that would make a decent header image for that bloggity project that Jess and I are working on.

Anyway, this is probably my all-time favorite image of the fourth generation X-kids, if for no other reason than because of Julian's deliciously ridiculous pose. I mean, WTH is he doing, anyway?! Revving up his invisible motorcycle?! And I also love the sexy back-to-back pose that Noriko and David are striking. This is made even funnier in context, BTW. "Context" being "these two characters dated for years and then had a hugely traumatic and angsty breakup, which all subsequent writers and artists working on the X-books immediately totally and completely forgot about." Right, because this image? Which is supposed to be "placed" immediately after the breakup? Sure. They totally look like they just had a gigantic, ugly breakup. Totally.

Oh hey I'm still about... four months behind on the X-books. Sigh. And with the holidays coming up, I ain't planning on spending money to catch up anytime soon. Uh, so now there's a current storyline or something about Cypher coming back... as a black woman? Oh, X-Men. You so crazy.

Young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled, Americans have sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of red states and blue states. We have been and always will be the United States of America. It’s been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this day, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America.

Change has not come to Japan, however. And this week's Tsubasa still sucks big floppy donkey balls.

( If you thought that the Oedipal incest was bad, wait until you get a load of the pedophilia! )

Next week: No new chapter. Maybe we should be grateful.

Evangelion by Okumura Sachiko



Gundam by CLAMP



Sakura would fit pretty well in any Gundam series, methinks. What with her tendency to keep dying and coming back to life and all.

(Note: If you cannot see thumbnails above, try viewing this post from nenena.livejournal.com.)

Okay, so, the Tsubasa ch.201 spoiler has been leaked all over the internet, thanks to a sneaky Kodansha employee. The actual chapter does not come out until Wednesday morning, but for those of you dying to know....

( I cannot be the only person who predicted this. I mean, DUH. )

Rrrright. End of spoiler. Moving on. So, speaking of spoilers! Spoiler Space #2 is looking for submissions! Here is the shameless promotional copy-n-paste:

In case you haven't yet seen it, SPOILER SPACE, Girl-Wonder.org's brand spankin' new bi-monthly 'zine is now up at http://www.girl-wonder.org/webzine. Wish you were among the ranks of the enviable and famous people who got to be published? Guess what...

We're looking for even more submissions for SPOILER SPACE'S second issue, due out December 1st.

Written submissions can cover a range of topics discussing the intersection between race, gender, religion, ableism and sexuality with comic books and comic book characters. We will also accept for consideration short fanfiction, reviews, and other commentary on comics and comic books. ALL written submissions must be 1500 words or less.

Graphical submissions can include cover or interior artwork, comic book pages, and fanart.

Please include with all submissions the name you would like to be published under (real name or Internet handle), an email address that can be used to contact you in the event of acceptance, and a brief 1-2 sentence biography written in the third-person. ALL SUBMISSIONS ARE DUE NOVEMBER 15TH, MIDNIGHT at jenn@reappropriate.com, or through the SPOILER SPACE website (http://www.girl-wonder.org/webzine).

Caption Contest
Also, take part in our regular caption contest feature. Send me your caption to this panel (http://www.reappropriate.com/comic/2008-10-caption.jpg) before November 15th, midnight, and be entered into the contest to win a fabulous basket of Girl-Wonder.org goodies. All caption contest entries will be put to a vote on the Girl-Wonder.org Forum, and the entry that earns the most votes is the winner!

Subbbbbmmmmmmmmiiiiiiiittttttttt! You know you want to.

One more thing.

This is the most amazing thing I've seen in a long while.