that pictures actually pretty fuckable……

exactly.

This guy
gets my vote as the ted mcginely of the 21st century: anything he touches will be canceled within a season, maybe two.

I'll be there….
with ANOTHER box o' paperbacks……

@ uranus: yea, I admit it. Almost signed on as hinata to plead my case.

as
i read these comments i realize how this is kinda ridiculous: it's kinda like having a gateway to geekery: movies or music or books.
anime is a medium. at minimum we'd need gateway to geekery: mecha anima, shouju anime, etc….

GOD FUCKING DAMNIT HOW DID I MISS THIS POST
how could i have missed this one? and now there's all this chatter…. Oh well.
Well, its pretty obvious, but I think you are REALLY REALLY wrong on this one and, surprise, surprise) I think the best gateway is

HAHA. Talk about a meandering argument boistered by half digest critical theory.

stupid stupid stupid
just look at sites like one manga - they past scanlations, take 'em down when requested by the publisher and sure as hell have grown the community. Granted much of the material is not easily available in the US but that which is often is discovered on one manga.
Two weeks ago I dropped $90 at my…

FUCK THE CAPES
manga is where its at.

NONONONONONONO
Europe 72 is not a good intro at all. It's good, yes, and the performance are as tight as you could get at the time; however, it is way way way too long and with todays attention span, without chemical bindings, all 72 is gonna do is confirm what people think of the dead: and endless wah wah pedal and…

This
is very interesting coming after your recommendation of Sullivan's travels - which (with some other obscure crap you have referenced) has convinced me we must share a chromosome - just one. But something here doesn't jibe: it upsets my little man and has me reaching for the bromide. And I think it's the lazy…

Oh no you didnt
/snaps fingers in an S pattern in front of himself.

HOORAY FOR THE INTERNETS
i know there's no stopping it and no, I am not a Luddite but this is a direct result of the "distribution/paradigm" shift. And I know we cannot stop this beast but once again, a shitload of people are now out of a job they dug (i am guessing - beats working at fucking macy's or old navy) and…

FOR ALL YOU LAZY FUCKS
Moore "worships" Glycon which was a a supposed snake god "created" in the mid 2nd century by Alexander of Abunutichus and written of by Lucian - WHO ALL OF YOU SHOULD READ. Alexander prophesied a god called Glycon would manifest in the town. He put a new born reptile into a goose egg, sealed it…

let me introduce you to two russian friends of mine, name of Aloysha and Dmitri.

If ilsa fischer
wants a wad of cinematic cotton candy, I'll be glad to oblige.

DON'T YOU HATE PANTS?

no, what I am saying is that for if you compare the ease of digitizing music (i.e. ripping a CD which is already digitized) or DVD's (already digitized) versus the requirements for digitizing a book (standing there and scanning each page), you will find that there is very little incentive for you or me or anyone else…

@pheeze - true enough. and sad enough.