Dustin Cabeal 5/10/22 Dustin Cabeal 5/10/22

Let's Movie - Choose or Die

Before 2020, I think this question would have been an easy answer. But how many of you picked die? Yeah, I feel you 2022 crowd. Shit is whack, but not as whacky as this movie gets. It's YA horror for the Netflix crowd. Don't worry, we don't care about stock prices so we're only going to spoil the entire movie.

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Dustin Cabeal 5/8/22 Dustin Cabeal 5/8/22

Let's Anime - Bubble

We're dedicating an entire episode to covering Netflix's latest animated movie, that's right it's Bubble time! Spoilers galore so if you wanted to watch the movie then you should turn the podcast off right away.

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Dustin Cabeal 4/29/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/29/22

Review: Kaiju No. 8 vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

The quick and straightforward way to describe this is a Kaiju take on Marvel’s Damage Control. Damage Control asked the question of “who fixes the city after a superhero battle” and has varying degrees of seriousness and success of the years. Kaiju no. 8 begins by asking the question, who cleans up after a giant Kaiju is defeated? Certainly not the people that put the monster down, that is for damn sure.

The story follows Kafka Hibino who works for a cleanup crew that hacks up and gets rid of defeated Kaiju. He is assigned a new part-timer to train, and they share an awkward exchange when it comes out that Kafka wanted to join the defense corps before setting into his role as a cleaner. The new kid, Reno Ichikawa, is interested in why Kafka gave up and at first, they do not particularly like each other. Eventually, they find themselves a ground zero for a new Kaiju appearance and Kafka saves Reno and vice versa. The two men end up in a hospital and talk about joining the Defense Corps together as Reno and reignited Kafka’s interest. Which is all great until a bug looking Kaiju flies into Kafka’s gaping mouth and turns him into a Kaiju.

Dustin Cabeal 4/29/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/29/22

Let's Movie - The Batman

Kevin and Dustin talk about 2022's The Batman... and a lot of other Batman related things.

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Dustin Cabeal 4/28/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/28/22

Review: The Clay People: Colossus (One-shot)

By Dustin Cabeal

I had no idea that this comic was based on a song. I didn’t know there was a band called The Clay People either. I learned both things at the end of the comic and while it didn’t change anything for me, it may be information that another reader could use before deciding to purchase this one-shot from Top Cow.

I have read this story in different forms, with different lead characters dozens of times. There is something to this story that is searching for an interesting outlet, and I can see the broad appeal to using it. Afterall a clay golem that Jewish people can use for justice/revenge and stems back to World War II feels like a treasure trove of potential stories. Yet, they all pretty much end up like this one-shot.

Dustin Cabeal 4/28/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/28/22

Review: Yellow Cab

By Dustin Cabeal

Yellow Cab is an interesting read to say the least. I spent the entire story waiting for the other shoe to drop and it never did. Instead, it’s just a look at the complicated nature of driving a cab in New York and how basically it’s a money pit trap for immigrants looking at getting their start in the country.

What’s even more disappointing is that it’s not even a true story, but instead the author of the novel has written themselves into the story to give a fake sense of realism. At least if the concept was based on fact, it would have perhaps been a story to bring up for this one interesting aspect.

Dustin Cabeal 4/26/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/26/22

Review: Little Monsters #1

By Dustin Cabeal

The concept of eternal children playing capture the flag and tag like the lost boys from Peter Pan is short-lived in this first issue of Little Monsters. It shouldn’t take more than the cover and a few lines of dialogue to figure out that our band of children are all vampires. And though some of them were growing bored of playing childish games, that concept of an empty city inhabited by children playing childish games for hours on end was more intriguing that the rest of the issue.

Dustin Cabeal 4/25/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/25/22

Let's Anime - Studylumpkiss

By Dustin Cabeal and Linday Mallard

You know we're covering more new episodes! That's why you came back this week to hear Lindsay and Dustin talk about A Couple of Cuckoos, The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn etc, Onipan!, Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie, Spy x Family and Don't Hurt Me, My Healer!

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Dustin Cabeal 4/18/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/18/22

Let's Movie - Arrival

By Dustin Cabeal

We head back to a simpler time... 2016. Before we diverged on this hellish time line that we now find ourselves on. Don't worry, if Arrival teaches us anything, time isn't linear and we may be able to turn this ship around. Anyway, it's Arrival, a movie neither of us had watched until this week... how the hell does Sony keep the lights on?

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Dustin Cabeal 4/14/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/14/22

Review: Tying the Knot with an Amagami Sister vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

I will never understand how three people from the same family can have three different hair colors and look different from each other, but that’s manga/anime in a nutshell. The story behind Amagami Sisters is easy to sum up. An orphan by the name of Uryu Kamihate has aged out of the orphanage he lives in. The caretaker of a shire has agreed to take him in, but when he gets there… there’s a catch. He must marry one of his granddaughters and take over running the shrine.

Now this wouldn’t be much of a story if all parties were onboard with the plan. Kamihate has turned his back on the gods due to his mother dying of an illness when he was a child. It’s alluded to that he did a lot of shrine visits, folded a lot of cranes and basically did all the things the “gods” said to do in order to save his mother. Now he only believes in medicine, especially since his surrogate mother is a doctor that raised him.

Dustin Cabeal 4/13/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/13/22

Review: Catch These Hands! Vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

I will be up front, the reason I wanted to read this book was the title. There is probably not a single circumstance in which if someone were to yell “catch these hands” that I wouldn’t laugh or show interest. What made it better were the two seemingly average women with scowls on their faces on the cover. I didn’t know what to expect, but I knew someone was going to catch these hands… and I needed to be there.

The story is about an aging delinquent that finds herself the only woman from her group of friends that is unmarried, without child and without a steady job. After yet another friend lost to marriage, she decides to get her life together and stop being a delinquent. The first step in her mind is to go clothes shopping. It’s sound logic, you need to stop looking like a delinquent to first stop being one. The clerk at the store pleads with her to stay after nearly chasing her away. She agrees to help her find whatever clothes she likes, but that’s when our main character Takebe notices the clerks name tag… Kirara Soramori. Suddenly the name is familiar. It turns out that Soramori is an old rival of Takebe’s from high school.

Dustin Cabeal 4/13/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/13/22

Review: Is My Brother A Zombie?

By Dustin Cabeal

After asking the question of “Is my brother a zombie?” for thirty-five pages, the story answers the question in two short pages. Leaving me the review to wonder if we really needed thirty-five pages to answer that question. I’m of the opinion of no… no we didn’t.

Dustin Cabeal 4/10/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/10/22

Let's Movie - Death on the Nile

By Dustin Cabeal

Little Herc is back with a new movie that got fucked over on it's release mostly due to it's cast... which all deliver great performances. For the most part, for the most part. Anyway, we're going to spoil the shit out of this movie so if you have any interest in watching it do so beforehand. Stay to the end for a mini-conversation about Halo and Moon Knight!

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Dustin Cabeal 4/10/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/10/22

Let's Anime - Band Dad and Adopted Girl - Spring Anime 2022

By Dustin Cabeal

Spring is in the anime! We're doing our Watch or Pass episode for all the new spring shows we can bear to make it through. While it's not everything, it's a lot. No list this time, just check it out and let us know on social media what shows you're watching or passing on.

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Dustin Cabeal 4/5/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/5/22

Review: Ghost Cage 001

By Dustin Cabeal

Much of what I am going to say about Ghost Cage is going to be unpopular. Artist/Co-Writer Nick Dragotta is very beloved from his successful Johnathan Hickman comics also from Image Comics. There will be a lot of people rooting for his success as he strikes out as a writer/artist, very few will offer criticism for him and Caleb Goellner to grow as creators. Such is fandom in its current form.

Dustin Cabeal 4/4/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/4/22

Let's Anime - Thigh High Crew Socks - Winter 2022 Wrap

Its that time once again to wrap the shows we've been watching and struggling to finish this winter season. Not our favorite cour by any means. The standout shows really stood out, while the rest was just a struggle at times to finish. If you want surprises stop reading now because we're going to cover: Akebi's Sailor Uniform, The Case Study of Vanitas, The Genius Prince's Guide to Raising a Nation Out of Debt, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, I'm Kodama Kawashiri, Love of Kill, Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department, My Dress-Up Darling, Police in a Pod, Salaryman's Club, The Strongest Sage with the Weakest Crest and World's End Harem. Please, tell us what you watched and enjoyed or what you hate watched from this past season on social media!

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Dustin Cabeal 4/3/22 Dustin Cabeal 4/3/22

Review: Medaka Kuroiwa is Impervious to My Charms vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

Manga and anime as a result have popular themes that run through them. You cannot compare it to American television because there’s always genres that succeed. You can count on their being a place for dramas and half hour comedies because they are always successful. The same is true of manga and anime, but you can peak at generations of work and figure out exactly what was popular in any given time. Currently there is a rising wave of singularly focused romcoms. No longer do we have the love story infused harem comedies in which one obvious character is pursued by every beautiful woman in the school. Instead, we have two characters simply unfamiliar with each other developing a realistic relationship while facing whatever quirky adventure into which they are thrust.

Dustin Cabeal 3/26/22 Dustin Cabeal 3/26/22

Let's Anime 153 - When His Leg Relaxed

Oh the plans we had for this episode. Originally we were going to start wrapping winter shows, but there wasn't enough wrapped... to wrap. We then pivoted to Attack on Titan for some Titan Talk, but discovered that wasn't finished yet either, but it presented us a chance to save the final episode for our wrap episode next week. That and it gave us the chance to talk about My Dress Up Darlings eleventh episode... get some clean underwear on.

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Dustin Cabeal 3/21/22 Dustin Cabeal 3/21/22

Let's Movie - Spider-Man: No Way Home

Let's finish the home trilogy... at home! That's right, no matter how many times Kevin says he's done with superhero movies, Dustin will be able to talk him into just one more. What else do you need for this description? It's Spider-Man... the biggest movie of the pandemic. We're not even covering it our usual way... Spider-Man! Thwip!

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Dustin Cabeal 3/17/22 Dustin Cabeal 3/17/22

Review: Step by Bloody Step #1

By Dustin Cabeal

While I do not foresee reviewing or even reading too many single issues, this one caught my attention because it was from Si Spurrier. I am not so delusional to say he can “do no wrong,” but he is a writer I am always willing to check out. His focus on story and how the reader digests a comic is a rarity in this current age of comics that seek commercial success in other mediums. Spurrier is also never afraid to let the art tell the story more than his written words.