
Starship Velociraptor
They're from the future. They're immortal. Their drummer is a fucking alien, and their guitarist is a robot. They don't follow the rules. They're good and everyone else is bad.

Pale 16.4: "Left In the Dust" bonus content ("100 Years Lost, Excerpts")
Straight from Stephen King to Lewis Caroll!

Usagi Yojimbo: the Dragon Bellow Conspiracy (part 3 of 3)
Here's the thing: Gennosuke has been a better person than Usagi for this entire time.

Usagi Yojimbo: the Dragon Bellow Conspiracy (part 2 of 3)
I wish "Dragon Bellow" concentrated more on this central piece of character development. Much of the rest of it is pretty scattershot, with the story's lack of focus being by far its greatest flaw.

Usagi Yojimbo: “the Dragon Bellow Conspiracy” (part 1 of 3)
As a much bigger story, "Dragon Bellow" is also much longer than any of the previous Usagi Yojimbo titles, clocking in at a full 150 pages. Basically a graphic novel unto itself.



Usagi Yojimbo #19-21: "Blade of the Gods," "The Teacup," and “The Shogun’s Gift”
Eclectic mix this time.

Usagi Yojimbo #16-18: "The Tower," "A Mother's Love," and "Return of the Blind Swordspig"
So, that's Usagi and Spot.


Usagi Yojimbo #13-15: "Kappa," "Zylla," and "Silk Fair"
I actually wouldn't mind a spin-off series about Matsutaro's own dishonest, unambitious, cringefail adventures


Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (S1E4-6) (continued)
Either there's some incredibly subtle next-gen meme virus taking people over, or the Laughing Man is just an unbelievably effective stochastic terrorism apparatus

Ghost in the Shell: Stand-Alone Complex (S1E4-6)
Either incredibly prescient, or a remarkable case of life imitating art.


"Birds Anonymous" and "Three Little Bops"
A look at where American cartoons were at in the mid-to-late 1950's. "Johnny Quest" and its imitators would come a few short years after this, albeit from different studios.

The Medusa Chronicles: “Jupiter Within” (6.54-6.67)
This setting has potential. This story never had any.

Haibane Renmei E2-7 (continued)
Maybe the existence of an afterlife really just means you keep dying forever?


Sgt. Savage and his Screaming Eagles
When I say that he's Captain America, what I mean is that he's an elite special forces squad leader from World War 2 who got frozen, was declared MIA, and then discovered and thawed out decades later to serve his country again when it is menaced by the same nazi-aligned supervillain who he fought back in the forties. What I don't mean when I say he's Captain America, on the other hand, is that he has any of the pathos, charm, or idiosyncrasy that various depictions of Cap have been imbued with by their authors.