On My Shelves: Namesake

       A little less than two years ago, something startling and magical began: a webcomic called Namesake. I discovered it very shortly after it started, and it immediately became one of my favorites – shortly thereafter becoming my absolute favorite webcomic, even outracing the formidable competition of Schlock Mercenary (which I will be discussing in another entry) and Girl Genius (ditto). As they recently released, through Kickstarter, a hardcopy of the first volume, Namesake is now truly On My Shelves.        Namesake is the [ Continue reading... ]

On My Shelves: Chrono Trigger

       When my wife and I were married in 1995, one of our wedding gifts – partly as a joke – was a Super Nintendo gaming system. There were a few games we occasionally played but it was more an in-joke for the group than anything else.        At that time we were also heavily into Dragonball/DBZ fandom, with my wife specifically a fan of Akira Toriyama's art. So when, some months later, we heard about a new video game, a so-called "RPG", that Toriyama had done the design work on, we decided to get it, mostly for the neat character [ Continue reading... ]

On My Shelves: Metal Fighter Miku

  There are shows and books you can describe in a capsule form and the coolness of the idea is immediately apparent: "Test pilot crashes and is rebuilt with super-cybernetics for a top-secret agency", "Valley Girl discovers she's destined to be The Slayer, mystical warrior against vampires and other demonic forces", "Ancient Egyptian artifact turns out to be an alien gateway".   Then there are those in which the capsule form ranges from the stupid to the "what drugs are you ON?". For example, "In the future, the most popular sport [ Continue reading... ]