Was Sambo supposed to be African or Indian? Tigers would suggest India, but racist childrens' books were hardly renowned for their accuracy.

Certainly the makeup must have been a hassle, and I doubt it was artistically satisfying work.

Yeah, usually replacing western colonialism with a Japanese colonialism that was as harsh if not harsher than the one before. That said, the Japanese propaganda did have an effect on some of the colonized peoples, and caused dissension in places like India and Vietnam that were already chaffing at colonialism's yoke.

Heh, very true. There are some other good stories hiding out in Tales of the Shadowmen, but a lot of dross as well.

You don't sound glad. Why, I don't think you're glad at all!

Hope you survive the experience.

How's he feel about giant Lovecraftian alien monsters?

Fu Manchu intrigues me in this post-colonial, post modern (but sadly not post-racial) world we live in. He is clearly a villain measured just in the cruelty of this methods, but his goal would not be unreasonable: the end of white supremacy and freedom for the other oppressed races. It would be interesting to see…

"Got him, Dad!"

Well, if she's cool with it…

I know that people aren't Oriental anymore, but I didn't think referring to the area as the Orient was racist. We can still call rugs and vases Oriental, can't we?

Yes. The first round of Diogenes Club stories feature dashing hippy Richard Jepperson in stories that take place in the swinging 1960s and '70s. The second collection features stories with Geneviève Dieudonné and Charles Beauregard, though in this reality they are not a couple. Instead, Charles has a relationship with…

It is incredibly trippy, especially the stop motion animation.

His new one, Angels of Music, isn't in the Anno Dracula universe, but fits nicely in the Diogenes Club world. And it is very entertaining, even if (like me) you don't get all the references.

You wouldn't appreciate the candy as well as a white man would!

What's wrong with Duck Soup?

You can get one that's in Like New condition for $52. That's still cheaper than tracking down the issues.

And it is apparently on both YouTube and the Internet Archive.

Was he playing Fu Manchu as Italian?

And by me. There just isn't anything there. It manages to make Fu Manchu and company incredibly dull, while the films last ten minutes are a disjointed jumble.