To me, the EU always represented the best way to handle a super popular franchise: Recognize that there are fans who want more content, allow a bunch of different creators to take a stab at making things in all different sorts of media, and do as little top-level work as possible to make it all fit together because…

I have to assume a lot of this was Terrio. Abrams has never struck me as someone who’s into the deeper, messier weirdness of the EU; one of the reasons why he was brought aboard in the first place was to make a “traditional” Star Wars movie after the perceived debacle of the prequels. There’s that old clip of him and…

fam, 90 percent of all anime is shit. if you think it’s verboten for a white man to say that mahou shoujo kindergarten panty idols isn’t actually worth the paper it’s printed on, then you do you, but maybe you could try to get some higher standards. dragonball is piss

First article you’ve ever read on The AV Club then, I take it?

There’s nothing unfair about an opinion that doesn’t stop you from enjoying the show and it certainly doesn’t “whitesplain” anything. Christ.

Are you the performative woke demon from "The Good Place?"

shut up.

Here’s you discussing The Outsiders:

Have to wonder if you would be so critical if someone from Japan was saying that Marvel movies were bad.

Just to clarify: Somehow re-adding a bunch of Pokemon in a free update is worse than never adding them back?

Yoooo, that’s what it is. These designs totally feel like something a cartoon in the west would use to parody Pokemon, rather than actually trying to design something that feels right.

People talk mad shit on Pokemon for making random objects and normal animals into monsters, but they put a lot of purpose and…

That’s the thing killing my enthusiasm for this one. The art team for pokemon really know what they’re doing, to the point that I can even feel comfortable (if not sane) saying that they make living ice cream or garbage bags seem natural and endearing. The designs for Tems come across like a parody/bootleg. They’ve…

Cool, maybe now we can see how pointless MMO functionality is in a Pokemon game so people can finally shut up about it.

Probably why it was such a bad one. It’s also a really awful (and I mean truly terrible) apple pie recipe. 

Not the funniest Life in Aggro comic this week, but I have a feeling they enjoyed drawing those expressions. =P

He’s not wrong, though. Virtually everything involved with the property since Z ended almost 20 years ago has been a low effort cash grab designed to keep the series on life support to suck more money from the fans. It’s not surprising that the two best properties that have anything to do with Dragon Ball in last 20…

I guess I could have said it nicer, but it’s also true. There was no reason whatsoever to expect that a DBZ RPG would be anything but the formula crap Ethan is describing - but as long as you guys with no standards keep buying it there will be more, so you win in the end.

Here’s a comic I made when this game got announced:

Tech moves so fast that it doesn’t make sense to pay too much for a TV because it will be outdated in a few years, unless you’re made of money or a fanatic.

Only a month for FFVIIR? That’s not bad at all.