In his debut episode of Pen Pen Evolution, our favorite penguin takes on an obscure movie called Penguin Memories, about a shell-shocked war vet who finds it difficult to ease himself back into civilian life. Also, everybody is a penguin.
Cross Ange Episode 25 [FINAL] – Interdimensional Post-Birth Abortion
For the record, that subtitle can apply either to your feelings to the anime if it has remained negative to the end, or the events that will transpire in the episode involving Mr. Nice God.
Well, we’re finally at the end of Cross Ange and boy did this episode excite even if it didn’t explain much in lurid detail. While Embryo’s past is finally revealed, the details of something like the Whoremonic Convergence (the one involving many alternate universes with the Cross Ange cast) are barely touched upon. I guess Embryo’s plan to perfect the world is the first of possibly many, given how his inordinate focus between the World of Mana and the World of DRAGONs. Kindof disappointing really, as he could have mentioned that he is eager to apply his trade to the rest of the multiverse when he becomes able. Maybe something will come for this in a theatrical movie or extras, as per the last episode preview, but for now it is disappointing.
Grids of Gotham: My Reviews of Grant Morrison’s Bat-Epic – Part I: Batman and Son
Sibling rivalry.
Look, I love Batman. I’m 31 years old and I’ve been reading Batman comics most of my life, and I’ve read a great deal of them, decades worth, just within the past few years. I have a pretty respectable collection of Batman collected editions, from trade collections to original graphic novels. I’ve seen all the movies, watched most of the TV shows, and I’ve reviewed 51 issues of Batman Eternal (with the final issue to come next week) for my blog. Aside from Japanese animation, and maybe James Bond, my big fictional preoccupation is the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, the World’s Greatest Detective. I know my Batman.
Batman Eternal #51 Review
The villains are foul, Bruce loses his cowl, to Steph Harper scowls, someone’s going to need a towel, and surprise! The man who’s an owl! The penultimate issue of DC’s weekly Batman event sees a lot of revelations, an overconfident C-lister, Selina asserting her power, Jim Gordon’s return to form, and the villain anyone with two brain cells to rub together guessed it would be, turns up. With all the raw nerves exposed and Gotham crumbling and burning, can Batman and his team keep the city from becoming a mountain of ashes? Well, I’m guessing yes, but there’s bound to be even more blood spilled before the end of this story!
Batman Eternal #50 Review
The city’s in flames, some villains are tamed, but one makes a claim, and is that C-lister to blame? DC’s weekly Batman affair is coming to a conclusion, but where is the great mastermind to this master crime? Damn it, writers, stop faking out the readers with these non-revelations so late in the game! But it’s a little easier to forgive the issue because when Batman hits his rogues again, he isn’t fucking around. But unfortunately all this action is dulling his endurance, and by the time he arrives in Beacon Tower, even a worthless loser can take advantage. But can the man with the name of the 16th US President and third month of the year appear before the audience loses interest? Well, he’d damn well better, the owl bastard.
Cross Ange Episode 24 – Embryo confirmed for Interdimensional Chris-chan (Or: Supporter’s Medley Part III)
The face of a Nice Guy who just M’ladied his pantaloons.
M’ladying one’s pantaloons – The act of a Nice Guy soiling himself due to a realization that his object of affection (usually a woman) has had sex with another.
This must be a first for a Sunrise mecha show. Usually in these final battles most of the banter is about ideological divides or betrayals. Here, we have Tusk rubbing it in Embryo’s smug face that he did the nasty with Ange in wonderfully lurid detail. Oh no it is not just the fact that he had sex with her, it is how he now knows the number of moles on her body, the number of days the consummation lasted (although that may be exaggeration) and the way he describes the softest, warmest, part of Ange. It’s an awesome thing, and is so totally Cross Ange that I can’t help but want to clap my hands in delight. What a great way to rustle Embryo’s jimmies.
Batman Eternal #49 Review
Blackgate erupts, Alfred shuts Hush up, Steph still disrupts, and this book’s time is almost up, all in this action-packed, and yet revelation-deprived forty-ninth installment to DC’s weekly Batman event. As the Bat family struggle with their various enemies, Stephanie rejects her father’s “We can rule the galaxy together!” offer, Jason Bard races to get to Jim Gordon in time to save him, and Batman makes a flashy, dangerous entrance. Meanwhile, the guy from Gotham Spoilers is hemorrhaging over a lack of main villain reveal (I think he’s ready to drop it by next week). Lincoln, Lincoln, I’ve been thinkin’, readers’ patience is a’shrinkin’! Are you dense? Are you ‘tarded? The big reveal has long been charted!
Cross Ange Episode 23 – Is the Misurugi Empire’s Princess a serial skidder?
I think deep down that’s what all of us are thinking. In light of the final battle, of all the keepsakes Ange could give to Tusk as a good luck charm, she gives him a freshly worn pair of panties. To be sure, the only major keepsake she has is the ring but she needs to use it for the Vilkiss, but still. I’m betting if there was an alternate ending to the show (in the vein of Fukuda’s purported plan for SEED to end in a super murderfest), I would want it that Ange dies and Tusk in despair takes the panties out of his pocket and sees that the Princess needs some control in certain areas.