From Ken Levine’s latest entry:
Go back through your script. I bet you could lose two pages. (Probably page 8 and one other.)
I swear, just picking a panel in a page or strip to axe sometimes crystallizes things so damn well.
OK, if this is the result of the free-rein capitalism that so many conservatives and libertarians love, then call me Mao Tse Church. $4,000,000,000 a month for an unpopular war, and this is happening on the home front?
(For the record, I live in the only state that requires its citizens to have insurance, something that comes out of my own damn pocket since I’m a freelancer. Yes, I sort of hate that I am spending a huge chunk of my own money, but I can afford to, unlike many, many citizens.)
If you like hip-hop bookmark this search and check with it every so often. I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the last few weeks’ worth of Solid Steel - they’ve been really embracing the experimental end of things lately, with the year-end episode being an especially good example. How can I resist any mix that goes from Venetian Snares through New Order and ending at Donovan in the span of ten minutes?
I’ve been reading Tekkon Kinkreet: Black and White
and was trying to find a link to a review to show it to a friend and came across the About.com profile of the book, in which the following items were listed as cons:
- Numerous violent and bloody fight scenes make this a title strictly for mature readers
- Surreal story sequences can make it difficult to follow what’s real and what’s not.
- Unconventional story and art may perplex readers expecting ‘normal’ manga
I fail to see any of these as a con, particularly, but then I am a bloodthirsty sort who likes to read books for grownups sometimes. I’d think the “Parental Advisory: Explicit Content” label on the front, when combined with the “RATED M FOR MATURE” icon on the back would sort of inform just about everyone that it’s not for kids, but just when you think there’s some headway in the war against the public’s perceptions blah blah blah you’ve read this part before.
(Yes, I’m very impressed with the book so far.)
Speaking of manga, I just finished Yuichi Yokoyama’s New Engineering
, which left me cold. I understand why it’s popular with the arched-eyebrow crowd, but I need more than the repetitive, explicit presentation of the book’s theme to engage me is a reader. Points for the eye-catching design, though, and the (unintentional?) hilarity of subtitles that say things like “The sound of Astroturf unrolling” has some value.
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