I started out reading DC comics. They were action packed and no matter who the hero or heroine was, there was a moral to the story. In place of any sort of guidance from my elders on moral turpitude, the stories served as a paradigm by which to live my …
Read More »Wolf Children Premiere at MIT with Mamoru Hosoda
Following MIT’s launch party for Professor Ian Condry‘s new book The Soul of Anime, there was a screening of director Mamoru Hosoda’s third full-length anime feature Wolf Children (2012). Hosoda’s first two features The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) and Summer Wars (2009) established him as a top animator, …
Read More »The Best Superhero show EVAH: A Tribute to Young Justice
Like any self-respecting geek, the announcement by Cartoon Network cancelling both Young Justice and the Green Lantern depressed a brotha deeply. It was bad enough to find out that the shows were on some top-secret hiatus, and “how to ‘whatevahdaheck’ your dragon” was on instead, but the cancellation was the …
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