Posts Tagged “webcomics”

During last year’s set of reflections, three of the “moments” were from real-life events, two involved websites, and almost all of them were concepts about series rather than specific moments within them. I have been trying to write this year’s posts with a narrower focus (and I think I’ve done fine so far) but today I will stray from that trend and mention something that didn’t come from proper anime or manga but rather came to my attention while attending a few conventions.

I previously wrote about meeting artist Tim Ferriera at Sac-Anime, where I found his influences include Range Murata and Yoshitoshi ABe, and briefly mentioned getting volume one of his webcomic Techgal (which I can’t seem to find at the moment) at Animation on Display a month later but I didn’t talk about the comic itself.

It centers on the eponymous gearhead Kristi, her brother Derek who tries to protect her, and the attempts of a company to steal her inventions for their own purposes. It’s light-hearted and doesn’t try to position itself as OEL manga or manga at all since it’s a webcomic and only a side project of his when he’s not doing comedy magic shows and other things. You can read all of what has been posted so far on the comic’s website.

Original image from this comic

I talked yesterday afternoon with wildarmsheero of Mistakes of Youth about his webcomic, Gundam, that ANN-Kite Liberator thing (link), lolicon, and other subjects. By the way, I should have said “swing” instead of “jazz” or “bebop” in describing Oh! Edo Rocket’s soundtrack.

WARNING: there are some instances of cursing in this episode from myself and my guest.

Music:
“Naked Story” by Garnet Crow (Secret of Cerulean Sand opening)
“Umi Yori Mo Fukaku” by Etsuko Sai (G Gundam 1st ending)

 

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Yesterday’s Diesel Sweeties comic has a great line that reflects the attitude of many people in the anime/manga community as well as those of us who enjoy foreign films that have yet to see domestic release. This joins a collection of interesting one-liners from this quirky webcomic including:

• “Johnny Cash is a gangsta.”
• “The only good ideas are the ones I can take credit for.”
• “Bacon is a vegetable.”

By the way, the context of the quote was that the pictured character got a bootleg version of Spiderman 3, specifically the Japanese version. SP3 will be released in Japan on May 1 during Golden Week, three days before the US release.

Feel free to use the image in your scanlations/torrent/etc. arguments and here is the related blog post (by the artist) from which I downloaded the above image.