What They SayThe Great Space Show of 4701 is about to begin! With less than two months until Moad's destruction, Ahab and his crew are still without Dew, without a plan and without so much as a hope for survival. To make matters worse, the Federation has...
What They SayFrom a sea of stars to a sea of sand, Ahab\'s journey knows no bounds!
As Ahab and his crew finally arrive on Planet Moad, Lucky\'s home planet, they are greeted by none other than Moby Dick himself. Facing off with his old adversary, Ahab i...
Fennie Yuen returns as Blue Phoenix for this sequel to SWORDSMAN, but almost everything else has changed. Cost overruns which drove the original into the red prompted producer Tsui Hark to scale back production on the sequel as much as possible and replac...
What They SayHeroes under fire!!
It\'s been 4 years since the Twilight incident shook The World, the most successful online role playing game ever created. However dramatically it changed the game, all who witnessed the event have since quit playing and m...
What They SayIn the future, our planet will be transformed into a strange new world where human life struggles on an Earth without rain or oceans - only vast, parched deserts. Mysterious objects from space known as the Rodo have gathered a cult following ...
First, it would be appropriate to warn all you good readers that there are various spoilers afoot in today's column. Second, it's vital to warn everyone to take this list with a grain of salt.
I was commissioned elsewhere to put together a video list of...
A screw-you-Pat amount of books came out this week with a little something for everyone: several anthologies for the SF reader, new fantasy / horror stand-alone novels and series installments, and even a widely neglected, early novel from George R.R. ...
From some well placed sources, we've gotten some new information regarding
the recent information we posted about the possibility oftheLegendof GalacticHeroes coming to region 1 someday.Mr.Kikukawa
and Wright Staff have read hundreds of comments from t...
Creative TalentWriter/Artist:Ryoji HidoTranslated by:Melanie SchoenAdapted by:What They SayHeroes (hee-rows) noun, plural, Earth variation: species of teenage Earthlings that come in groups of five, transform into "rangers" with color-coordinated outfits,...
What They SayIt is an age of swords and sorcery. Betrayed from within and overwhelmed by dark sorcery, the valiant armies of Pars are overrun by the warrior-fanatics of Rucitania.
Escaping the destruction of his homeland, the heroic Prince Arslan begins...
You probably noticed that my colleague of questionable esteem, Al Brown, wrote last week's column. I had to return to New Orleans for a few days to help my parents with their house (hurricane, flooding), so I called Al and told him I'd turn over more evid...
What They SayRena is trapped in a strange area, cut off from the rest ofThe World! No matter how she tries, she cannot contact her brother, Shugo... Meanwhile, Shugo has other things to worry about. He\'s become a wanted man and with the Cerulean Knig...
What They SayOne man will be reborn by the power of friendship. Another will awaken into an endless nightmare. When Ahab challenges Murato to a one-on-one cage match he soon learns that the 9-foot heavyweight space champion may be a bit out of his league...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONSZhang Yimou's film, HERO, released in Asia in 2002 but debuting in America this summer, is a spectacular visual experience. The film is richly textured in both its color pallet and its sound design. Using spectacular aerobic swo...
What They SayOn its last breath, a dying planet cries for independence. In an underground base, hidden deep within a labyrinth of tunnels, Ahab and his crew meet with Lucky\'s brother Shiro, the leader ofthe Moad Civilian Movement. When a celebration is ...
Check On In by CAPTAIN GORDON EDWARD (Mon 01-22-2007)
Welcome to the Countdown, where the weeks keep coming, but the future never arrives. This week I had the pleasure of visiting Vancouver trying to get a few interviews for the site... But that can be a bit difficult at times, if you do not tell them in ...
What They SayGoemon and Mudanashi have blasted each other with all kinds of firepower, from giant bazookas to oversized vacuum cleaners. The arms race has escalated, the guns keep getting bigger, but theheroes and villains keep coming back for more. Wh...
What They SayJonathon Tiberius is a young robot pilot who is falling for his bunkmate, the tall blonde Leonard Schteinberg. However, their grotesque unit commander has his eye on Jonathon himself. Leonard manages to save Jonathon from their commander\'s...
What They SayRina is a SWAT officer who is faced with a series of bizarre murders. The victims have chunks oftheir flesh bitten off, and are often found eviscerated or slashed with claws. Then a new string of crimes begin, the murders are similar but the...
What They SayTheir quest to find the Sorcery Globe takes Claude, Rena and Celine to Port Harley. However, before they can arrive, they are sidetracked by an encounter with Ashton, a swordsman who single-handedly faced a hideous two-headed dragon, but wou...
What They SayProduced by Ouji Hiroi (creator of Sakura Wars and Virgin Fleet)!
War ignites among enemy camps, and both sides desperately seek Himiko, an Earth girl with the power to save, or destroy them all. But even as a fugitive, Himiko has found all...
What They SayJourney to a world living under the shadow of evil. It is an age of darkness, of sorcery - and ofheroes. As the monstrous legions ofthe Dark Lord spread across the land, the sole surviving warrior of a devastated village hungers for vengean...
What They SayA god of unparalleled evil lurks at the edge ofthe Game World. This vile creature, Makuamuuge, declares a revolt against the Game World and sends his loyal and steadfast foot soldiers into the Human World to unleash his master plan. Not if ...
Sinbad is one of those characters that everyone has heard of, but who most people, if you were to ask them, couldn't really tell you much about. "Um, he's a sailor?" or "He fights skeletons that came back to life" is probably all you would get from those ...
What They SayThe year is 4699. A young adventurer sets off to find Captain Ahab and his crew of outlaw whale hunters. Only Ahab can save his home planet from the most horrific beast known throughout the universe-The Moby Dick.The Review!The journey to Moa...
As the Fall season rapidly approaches, one of fiction’s most popular manifestations ofthe Other is lurking from the shadows and sizing up your jugular in a slew of new horror, fantasy, and even science fiction literature.
Hello Maniac read...
Leaves' Eyes, the German/Norwegian band formed by ex-Theatre Of Tragedy singer Liv Kristine Espenaes Krull and members of Atrocity (who are fronted by Liv's husband Alexander Krull) have uploaded their video for thesong "Legend Land" on their web site a...
What They SayVampires are among us. Or are they? The lines between cryptic dreams and horrifying reality become blurred as Shiki searches for answers to an apparent murder that\'s tied into his uncanny ability to see perceived lines of death. Along the wa...
What They SayGoemon, Ebisumaru, Yae, and the rest ofthe video game gang continue to fight to protect the human world and are constantly amazed at everyday things we humans take for granted. Tsukasa and his family and friends don\'t quite understand what ...
What They SayThe year 4699. A young adventurer on a desperate mission sets off to find Captain Ahab and his crew of outlaw whale hunters. Only Ahab can save his home planet from the most horrific beast known throughout the universe: Moby Dick. But firs...
Swords and sorcery in adundance - if that doesn't hook you, then this probably isn't your cup of tea.What They SayFrom the golden pen of Ryo Mizuno, comes an all-new adventure set in the aftermath ofthe Lodoss Wars! Ashram, desperate to find a home for h...
What They SayThey\'ve crossed dimensional bridges to defeat evil. They\'ve fought bad guys of all shapes and sizes, in the city, in the country, even in a time warp. But when Mudanashi hijacks a shuttle and launches himself into outer space, Goemon and ...
What They SayFrom the golden pen of Ryo Mizuno comes an all-new adventure set in the aftermath ofthe Lodoss Wars! Ashram, desperate to find a home for his people, is tricked into selling his soul. Three hundred years later, Pirotesse\'s devotion to her k...
With two consoles being released within 2 days of each other, plenty of games have hit the market. Something different from the PS3 launch though is that there are a lot of Wii games that can be played. The competition has also held off, so that it is...
Two Brainiacs! Two Supermen! Two episodes left in the series run of 'Legion of Super Heroes'. "Dark Victory" starts this Saturday on the Kids WB! on The CW.
'Legion of Super Heroes' splits its swan song over two weekends beginning with the prem...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS 1986 was the perfect time for David Newman, eldest sibling ofthe Newman composing clan (brother to Thomas Newman, son of Alfred Newman, nephew to Emil and Lionel, and cousin to older composer Randy Newman to youngster Joel New...
What They SayMakuamuuge has unleashed a new threat! Dr. Mudanashi, the creator ofthe cyber tunnel, has been summoned up to match wits against Goemon, Tsukasa, and the rest oftheir friends!The Review!The adventures in the real world continue for Goemon a...
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A big-robot anime, and I enjoyed it. I\'m getting too old for this.
One of my friends, with a peculiar sense of humor (and apparently a bursting wallet), knew I hated big-robot a...
Before the 1980's if you were to say the word 'Zelda' to someone, they would tell you that it was the name of a woman, probably in her late seventies, that most likely lived in a house about five blocks from you and had 29 cats. However, a won...
So I'm minding my own business yesterday morning, when the friendly neighborhood FedEx man shows up. What's under his arm? I don't really know, and I didn't seem to care right away. I pop open the box and found a Bobblehead Link inside, and then suddenly ...
Creative Talent Writer/Artist: Yi DongEun - Yu ChungTranslated by: Ji-Eun ParkAdapted by: Jamie RichWhat They SayOnly the best can survive in the world of professional thieves, and Tublerun is the best ofthe best of thieves. Meanwhile, Chroma is the best...
What They SayAn evil king conquers the land by transforming innocent people into monsters. Earth girl Himiko must use her newfound skills in magic to defeat this army of darkness.The Review!Himiko comes to a close and manages to play out much like youR...
The genius of Neil Gaiman lies in his freshness of vision, in the beauty and cleverness he coaxes out of everyday comics subjects. In Green Lantern/Superman: Legendofthe Green Flame, Gaiman shows us what it would be like to tag along with the titular he...
2006 ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK RECAP
By far the best soundtrack release of 2007 was certainly the majestic, 3-CD release ofThe Lord ofthe Rings: The Two Towers: The Complete Recording – but that’s a revived archival score, and we&...
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Long before Tim Burton paved his revisionist path through the haunted trails of Washington Irving’s `TheLegendof Sleepy Hollow,` Walt Disney and his team of animators produced their own take on the prolific author’s age-old folktale of schoolteacher Ich...
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What They SayClaude and his crew cross theocean and arrive at Port Linga of Lacour Kingdom. They encounter Precis Newman, a cute and prolific inventor girl there. They decide to help her find mysterious moonlit flowers called Metox that have a special po...
I am glad to say that this week that we have been flooded with a lot of great games. There seems to be a game for everyone out there, and it continues to grow exponentially. This week we have many games that range from combat, to flying. We also have game...
The Review!Ayashi no Ceres, or Ceres: Celestial Legend as it's billed in America, is another series by Yuu Watase, the writer ofthe extremely well-known Fushigi Yuugi series. Love Fushigi Yuugi or hate it, Watase Yuu has written another shoujo story, and...
As Dreamworks and Paramount gear up to resurrect a franchise this Independence Day, Random House Publishing Group is capitalizing on the hype by printing theofficial prequel novel to the live-action film.
Hello everyone and welcome to this Tues...
Cartoon Network's JUSTICE LEAGUE really hit its stride in last year's second season. Bruce Timm and his writers seemed to really be getting handle on characters such as Green Lantern and Hawkgirl, who didn't have the benefit oftheir own prior animated se...
What They SayIn less than 24 hours, a photonic bomb will reduce the war-torn Planet Graceland to nothing but a memory. That is, of course, unless Mister has his way! He and his misfit crew of Coyotes are plotting a daring raid against the Federation warsh...
What They SayAttack ofthe Space Terrapin
Center Neptune, a world defense base constructed off the West Coast 900 fathoms beneath the surface oftheocean is attacked by a monster radio-controlled by Zoltar, leader ofthe alien Spectra invaders, seeking t...
What They SayToya receives a jolt to the head and suddenly remembers everything about his past - a simple life with a girlfriend who is a dead ringer for Aya! Regaining his memory has somehow caused Toya to forget everything that\'s happened in the past y...
Readers often lambaste comic writers for screwing up their favorite characters. From EMERALD TWILIGHT to IDENTITY CRISIS to CIVIL WAR, nothing burns comic fans more than a wildly out-of-character depiction of a treasured childhood icon. Writer Ron Marz ...
What They SayThe ability to see the threads that bind everything and to be able to destroy anything just by severing it is known as the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception. Shiki has such a power, or would that be a curse that he must endure? Thankfully, he w...
Greetings, Maniacs. Welcome to another week of comic shopping on Thursday. I hope you didn’t break down sobbing at the counter yesterday afternoon when you tried to pick up your books. I remember one Internet journalist describi...
What They SayA must-have for fans ofthe movie and Ah! My Goddess in general! This original soundtrack contains 26 musical tracks and the bonus track: Cantilena Angel.The Review!Content: A
Audio: A-
Packaging: B-
Extras: n/a
Packaging:
Pioneer has ...
What They SayAs the direct descendant of a celestial maiden, Aya has been branded as an enemy of her own family?but now, she may actually be an asset! To unlock the secrets ofthe Celestials and gain eternal prosperity, the Mikage family enacts \"Project ...
What They SayThe annual school culture festival has begun and with it comes the debut of Haruhi\'s surreal film! Who did she threaten this time to have her movie shown? More importantly what other event has she schemed up and what impact will it have on t...
What They SayReconnect to The World!!
It\'s been 4 years since the Twilight incident shook The World, the most successful online role playing game ever created. However dramtically it changed the game, all who witnessed the event have since quit playing ...
I'm really not trying to turn my repeatedly delaying this STAR WARS/STAR TREK column into a running joke, I swear. I fully intended to delve into that rich subject material this week, after finally closing out George Lucas' franchise last Friday night. ...
Sometimes death sneaks up on you. I had every intention of devoting this week’s Comicscape to an in-depth look at the film adaptation of Frank Miller’s 300, which premiered last week to both box office success and mostly positive cri...
What They SayMankind has moved into space. Thousands of people live on giant orbiting space colonies called \"Sides.\" However, the Earth Government, which rules the colonies, is unjust and cruel.
A group of revolutionaries builds five robotic weapons c...
What They SayIn a far distant future a would-be master race seeks to dominate the galaxy. Against these merciless Afressians, mankind has just one hope: the mysterious female warrior know as Emeraldas. Driven by the tortured memory of her lost love, Emera...
In breaking with tradition this week, a Pocket Star release has given me an excuse to spend most of my discourse on something I positively love: WARCRAFT.
Ever since playing a demo version ofthe original Warcraft (on a Shuckysoft shareware CD) a...
Since the dawn of speculative literature, fiction has held the power to exemplify facets of our world and shed light on the complexities of human nature. Orchestrating truth through lies, SF, fantasy, and horror have become some ofthe strongest vessels f...
What They SayThe Review!If Nippon Columbia had not chosen to include the Love, Live, Alive OAV on the series discs, the 5th volume would have been the final volume if all the DVDs had 5 episodes. Mospeada?s plot points are wound together as the series and...
Hey! For the next few days, the folks at the Right Stuf are having a giveaway, and since we don't have anything in the Prize Closet today, I thought I'd let you in on it. The prizes are those great PATLABOR THE MOVIE Limited Edition DVDs with the extra di...
BARNYARD held on to the number 2 slot at the box office last week, making it a solid three CGanime features along with THE ANT BULLY and MONSTER HOUSE in the US top ten at the same time. Together, the three ofthem have pulled in nearly $100 million at ...
What They SayThe Earth has been invaded by the mysterious Inbit, and it\'s up to a handful of survivors from Mars Colony to liberate the planet. After an unsuccessful first attempt to retake the Earth, the inhabitants of Mars Base are ready to try again. ...
Remember that scene in George Pal’s THE TIME MACHINE where George goes to the library and listens to the Talking Rings? Just spin ‘em on the magic mirror and they tell a story. That seemed pretty far fetched in 1960, but not anymore. Let me whip out my cr...
John Van Tongeren's music for the animated short, VAN HELSING: THE LONDON ASSIGNMENT, is as full-blooded and musically direct as that of Alan Silvestri in the feature film the animated short prefaces. The short has to do with Van Helsing's first encounter...
You may be confused by the word "thinpak" in the descriptions of several box sets in the DVD Shopping List and especially here in Anime Avalanche. Some video labels are re-releasing seasons or entire series in box sets, which is a great idea in itself, si...
From the men who brought you SASSY SUE, MONDO MOD, KISS ME QUICK, COUNTRY CUZZINS, and MIDNITE PLOWBOY comes two ofthe most impressive adult themed historical pictures of all time, THE SECRET SEX LIVES OF ROMEO AND JULIET (“the most beautiful exploitatio...
I guess everyone took their happy pills this week. I got a surprisingly constructive batch of reader mail about SIN CITY, with little in the way of name calling, death threats, or unsavory comments about any of my female relatives. It's like you were al...
GAG is a new independent thriller about a pair of professional thieves who break into a house and discover a man held captive in a hidden room, beaten beyond recognition. In trying to help, the thieves become trapped by a torturous serial killer. Set enti...
In 2001 the Dabel Brothers founded a publishing company in search of a niche. Under the name “Roaring Studios” Ernst, Les, Pascal and David Dabel took their love of comics and fantasy to a new height, capitalizing on the vacancy of book-to-com...
THIS WEEK’S RECOMMENDATIONSBasil Poledouris’ magnificent epic score to the 1987 ABC miniseries, AMERIKA, has finally made it to CD, courtesy of Belgium’s Prometheus (PCR 519). The film, the logical next step after Poledouris’ RED DAWN (Intrada RVF 6001D) ...
Wow! There’s a lot of great new releases in all different directions this week. Can you decide which one to watch first? I sure can’t! Maybe I should clear my mind and get in touch with my center by watching a David Carradine Tai Chi infomercial before cr...
What They SayFirst, it’s a battle beneath theocean when Galactor tricks the Science Ninja Team into unleashing devastating pollution into the Tarushia Sea. How can they save the sea while battling a giant magnetic tanker that is cracking the God Ph...
The Review!At long last, we've come to the end of Rurouni Kenshin's TV run. Is the last volume worth the purchase?
If you just want the answer to that question, then let me get it out ofthe way: Yes - by all means, go out and buy it.
If you want to...
What They SayGet ready for the third uncut action-packed volume of Gatchaman!! Originally re-cut and released in the 70's and 80's as \"G-Force\" and \"Battle ofthe Planets,\" Gatchaman is an anime Legend!! Now for the first time ever see it totally uncu...
What They SayThe Spheal of Approval
Ash and his friends arrive at theOceanic Museum, only to learn that Team Magma is after a rock formed by a legendary Pokemon Groudon.
Jump for Joy!
While Ash and friends are on their way to Mauville City, Ash decides...
OPINION: Did anyone else catch the excellent NEW YORK TIMES article on graphic novels in the magazine section this past Sunday? If not, you can find it on-line here (once you've registered for a free membership, of course). And make sure to check out the ...
THELEGENDOF ZORRO didn't leave a Z swashbuckled in the Internet, but Columbia Pictures did carve the first official picture of stars Antonio Banderas and Catherine Zeta-Jones into the pages of USA TODAY (see left).The picture, sequel to 1998's THE MASK ...
If you've watched any of NBC's Heroes television series, chances are you've seen some ofthe work of artist Tim Sale. He told us how his paintings and other drawings came to be used to further the story and his take on this show.
Sale said his ...
A great collection of DVDs is nice to have, but even better if you can enjoy them with a friend around the house, whether that friend has two legs or four. Try tying a DVD on a string and dangling it a couple feet off the ground – your cat will go nuts! A...
Company To Offer A Dynamic Array Of Manga Titles For Children, Teens And Adults At Preeminent Publishing Event In Booth #1647
San Francisco, CA, May 30, 2008 - VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one ofthe entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehens...
Whee, it's .hack in SD! I think the atmosphere, OP, and story of this one all combine to make the new .hack series cuter and therefore more enjoyable!
The story starts out with some weird monsters attacking a player after he arrives to find an entire la...
What is it about director Steven Soderbergh that has Hollywood's top stars clamoring to work with him? Aside from a recent track record that threatens to knock Spiel-what's-his-name from his perch as the movie biz's favorite Steve, that is. "Mostly you fe...
Blizzard Entertainment unleashes their first novel surrounding the Ghost assassin Nova, Paul Kearney and James M. Ward blend good old-fashion magic with maritime warfare, and Mercedes Lackey debuts another novel in the Scepter’d Isle sequence wi...
Ancient powers surface that threaten the stability ofthe world as Naruto discovers while trying to rescue… a ferret?What They SayNaruto, Shikamaru and Sakura are in the middle of returning a lost ferret to its owner - the easiest mission ever. Or ...
What They SayAccording to legend, there was a group of warriors known as the Mutsu clan who were a match for any samurai even though they fought without weapons. To keep a young nobleman safe, a passerby with the name of Yakumo Mutsu becomes his bodyguard...
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What They SayAs the end of Kenshin\'s legend draws near, the scarred swordsman meets an opponent like none other. Saeki Mizu is a master of Feng Shui, a mysterious form of Chinese astrology that prevents him from ever being defeated by a sword!
During t...
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After two weeks of venom directed at the comic book industry for the resurgence of 1990s marketing gimmicks, this week I'm going to write about something I actually like. Consider this week's COMICSCAPE my love letter to the American comic book shop. Fo...
Hurray! It's winter! Time to unpack the sweaters and stow the Speed-o! Time to drag out your electric blanket, and curl up next to a fire with a big bowl of popcorn! Sure summer is long gone but we still got to thinking about it... Every summer, we're alw...
The Walt Disney Studios unveiled a diverse and ambitious slate of 10 new animated feature films from Walt Disney and Pixar Animation Studios to be released through the year 2012 at a New York press conference held today by Dick Cook, chairman ofThe Walt ...
An anime based on a racing game... that could mean nothing else but throwing some standard shounen kids-type plot into it and giving it a green light! ^^
That being the case, F-Zero didn't turn out that bad, considering. The story focuses around a Ryu S...
Marco Beltrami was linked with the forthcoming movie TMNT (that’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for those not in the know [TNITK]), but instead it is Klaus Badelt who provides the music for this CG re-launch ofthe once uber-popular franchise abou...
What They SayIn the dark reaches of time and space, an age of oppression smothered the masses...
Vetti Sforza, under the guise of creating an empire by and for the people, waged war against the Allied Nobility. One corrupt ruling class was destroyed, but...
The Review!In UC0087, a relative peace has broken out among the Colonies and Earth. On the colony cluster formerly known as Side 7, now known as Noa, a mysterious black Gundam is being tested by the Titans, an organization dedicated to eradicating the re...
The full schedule for this year's Comic Con has been released here but as always, we're going to sift through the press releases and give you the panels covering Movies, DVD and TV events. You can check out the first two days below.Wednesday, July 23, PRE...
After a successful run with indie publisher Shooting Star Press, Tom Waltz and Casey Malone's CHILDREN OFTHE GRAVE has found a new home in trade paperback form at IDW. The black and white miniseries tells the chilling story of a black ops squad of only ...
Hey Gamers! Feeling buried under the veritable landslide of recent DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS releases? CINESCAPE is here to save the day with a brake-down of three recent D&D publications that every gamer should know about.D&D Publication #1: CITY OFTHE SPIDE...
In our last week’s column, I alluded to how passion for the arts molds that star to be elevated to a whole other echelon of achievement inside Hollywood’s history books. Certain actors find such passion with every word they utter in the gla...
OPINION: Hope everyone had a good Memorial Day and that, if you weren't out remembering those who have fought and died for our freedom, you were at least enjoying the fruits (and nicely grilled meats) of that freedom at the park or campgrounds of your cho...
Well, after a two-week absence I got another column up last week, and low and behold a new Forum Buzz went up! Nothing like a bit of rivalry to keep things fun! Of course, I feel there was one important fact missing from Sean's column. That would be th...
OPINIONHonestly, I'm starting to think I should just head this column with "Mea Culpa" in big bold letters every week, the amount of apologizing I end up doing. It seems that not only did I completely get the JLA's current minority line-up wrong (John Ste...
This Week's RecommendationSThis week, FSM releases two ofthe '70s strangest science fiction scores on CD for the first time. Pairing Fred Myrow's tuneful music for SOYLENT GREEN ("Soylent Green is People!") with Jerry Fielding's atonal ambience of DEMON ...
THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONHans Zimmer, who produced Klaus Badelt's masterful score for the original PIRATES OFTHE CARIBBEAN: CURSE OFTHE BLACK PEARL (but who, as Badelt's immediate protégé, was also believed to have had more than a slight hand in its co...
OPINIONI've just reread AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #36 for what is probably the 40th or 50th time, and whatever else we may say about it, there's one incontestable fact: it's lost very little of its original power. I thought that, after having read it so many tim...
VINLAND SAGA by Randall D. Larson (Fri 08-12-2005)
The second album by the German/Norwegian band Leaves' Eyes, Vinland Saga, is a concept record that conveys the listener through Scandinavian history as it tells the story of Norwegian explorer Leif Erikson and his crew, who set off by boat to visit his fa...
The Italian epic metal band Rhapsody proclaims what it plays is "Symphonic Epic Hollywood Metal," coining a new term in a species of music that has already become over categorized but in their case the appellation is quite accurate (some have even called...
Anyone hanging out on the CINESCAPE web site should know just who and what the FANTASTIC FOUR are, but on theoff chance you don't, here's a bit of history.Background:In 1961 the publisher of Marvel Comics, Martin Goodman, told his editor and head writer ...
It has been another slow week for HD news this week. The week between Christmas and New Years is traditionally dead as far as DVD releases and announcements go, and the same seems to apply to HD video too. The most exciting thing is that so...
Interviewer: Way Jeng
If you're a fan of New York dubs, you've probably seen some of Jeff Thompson's work. He has worked on many shows, including Boogiepop Phantom, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor, and His and Her Circumstances. I had a chance to speak w...
What They SayThe Imperial Star Forces has suffered a catastrophic blow under the might ofthe United Mankinds new weapon! Admiral Bebaus is faced with losing nearly half his fleet and the main battle has only just begun! On the front lines, the Basroil\'s...
With the recent conclusion ofthe Urusei Yatsura series, the Kimagure Orange Road license about to end and the releases ofthe upgraded versions of Bubblegum Crisis and Oh! My Goddess, there isn't a lot left...
What They SayThe anime series \"Azumanga Daioh\" is a hilarious look into the daily lives and classroom antics of a group of normal (and not-so normal) high school girls and their teachers based on a popular comic strip turned-anime series. Featuring 10-...
What They Say\"Born into an aristocratic family in Paris, Albert sets out on a journey with his best friend, Franz, to escape his privileged yet dull life. They travel to Luna, which is on the surface ofthe moon, and meet a very wealthy man named The Co...
What They SayWith a two-tone hairstyle and a streak of immaturity, Hikaru Shindo finds an old Go board with a hidden surprise - trapped within the Go Board is Fujiwara-no-Sai, the ghost of an ancient Go master! In the blink of an eye, Sai becomes part of ...
The first volume in the new Heroes print collection may be debuting this week, but Heroes: Origins, the NBC hit’s next TV incarnation, isn’t faring nearly so well. This Halloween saw the expiration ofthe WGA’s contract with the Alliance...
.hack//SIGN - Koichi Mashimo
Koichi Mashimo (President of Bee Train, director of .hack and Noir), Ken Iyadomi (Bandai Ent. VP & panel host), and another Japanese guest (who didn\'t say much) were present at the panel.
This is one ofthe more interestin...
The Review!A wounded hero. An invincible foe. A plot to take over Japan. A contest of ideologies. A hidden love. Power turned against the bearer. Betrayal. Death. Restoration. Spontaneous human combustion. If these are the things you look for in...
What They SayComposed, arranged and conducted by Masamichi Amano; performed by the Warsaw Philharmonic and the Versailles Orchestra. The Review!5 out of 5
Music found in the Anime Super Atragon
The CD comes with a ten page insert that boasts many interes...
OPINION: OK, I goofed. Although it's been amended since then, any of you who read this column before Thursday will have noticed that I misattributed the recent words of Warren Ellis to M. Ali Choudhury, who reported them to me. (Amongst those who caught t...
Main Event Audience Member to Win Trip to Japan
Anaheim, California (March 7, 2008) ‹ Think you got what it takes to be the next AX Idol? Thousands will audition for the most coveted singing and voice acting contest at the nation's largest Anim...