So, sorry that took so long. That page has been done for a while, but I’ve been so busy working on Heckbringers that I hadn’t the time to post it. Shrimpy’s in for it now, seeing as Molly doesn’t seem like the type to take a little boy’s crap lightly. We’ll see what nastiness is in store for Shrimpson soon enough…
Sooooo…. VIDEO GAME TALK TIME! First off, Volume 3 of Life Meter is apparently on sale now at www.lifemetercomics.com, which is cool I guess. I don’t have a copy, but a friend of mine ordered one, and although it took its sweet time getting to him, he said it is quite nice! I’m not trying to shove this down anybody’s throats, but if you like the whole whimsical video game comic thing, or just like indie comics in general, check it out. Secondly, Super Mario Galaxy 2 is pretty awesome. So is Red Steel 2, as a matter of fact. I don’t remember if I talked about it at all when it came out, but I highly recommend it. I’m not gonna go all “this is the best game ever” or “its the second coming of Christ in video game form” or any of that nonsense, but I will say that it is a very rewarding action game that I personally had a blast playing.
OTHER STUFF! Dragon Ball Kai is on Nicktoons now, mysteriously renamed Dragon Ball Z Kai. I think alot of stupid people are probably lamenting this fact, but honestly I think its great. Funimation has really give DBZ a great localization, the one it deserved all along. The OST appears to be intact, the dub is pretty accurate from what I can tell, and the opening and ending, although a little hammy, sound pretty cool translated. There seems to be some minor censoring going on, probably due to Nicktoons, but its no worse than the original run of the show. I’m mostly excited at the prospect of a new generation coming to love what is really a classic series, as it makes me downright giddy to see my nephew watching Gohan kick Nappa into a mountain and loving it. Cartoon Network really dropped the ball by not picking this series up, I think.
As I said earlier, I’m hard at work on Heckbringers. The free comic book day promotional issue turned out pretty good, so I’m in full blast mode working on the full issue one. Hopefully that will be done before the end of June, but I guess we’ll wait and see.
THAT’S IT! Hopefully a new page next week!
welcome back!
dekker · 12 June 10 · 05:32:25 AM
welcome back! and speaking of back(sides)she is one voluptuous fish-girl, I CALL CLAIM-ZIES :D
dekker · 12 June 10 · 05:34:16 AM
Christopher Sabat even did the over-the-top Ocean Dub-style “OVER 9000” reading. Kai is pretty awesome, although some of their cuts don’t make as much sense as others.
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I doubt it’ll make as much of an impact today as it did on our generation. Back then, you never saw a cartoon with an overarching storyline and high-energy fight scenes where people ACTUALLY hit each other. Now there are more than a few running on television. Kids today might just think it’s another show like Avatar.
RWill · 15 June 10 · 04:43:44 AM
I was thinking jus tthe same thing, about Avatar, but there is a pretty noteworthy difference. Although Avatar has an overarching story, episodes rarely end without some sort of conclusion; each episode is more or less a self contained story. Dragon Ball Z’s story is much more like a serial story, with each episode ending on a cliffhanger, directly continuing the events of the episode before. As far as I know, there are actually no other cartoons structured like this on tv, at least not for kids.
The fights are also of an entirely different scale in DB. Although the choreography in Avatar is awesome, the fights rarely reach anywhere near the intensity or desperation of Dragon Ball’s.
Then of course there is the frequent death. It’s been decades, but few shows deal with death as openly as Dragon Ball. I remember being shocked at the sight of Yamcha, Tien and Chaotzu’s deaths when I first watched Dragon Ball Z. I don’t think there are any other cartoons on TV right now where the viewer witnesses death of any gravity.
So yeah, as much as shows like Avatar have become common place, I think Dragon Ball still has something that young viewers will find hypnotizing. I know my nephew gets totally absorbed when it comes on.
matchead · 15 June 10 · 02:32:49 PM