Out From the Abyss
I would bore everyone silly about my rotten weak and my treacherous allergies, but who wants to bothered with that crap? On to the important stuff.
First and foremost, the main site has been updated! Woo-Hoo! There's a new King Smooth webcomic (that goes out to my amigo Tato) up on the site. Just head to www.torcpress.com and go to the SDF: Nonreal Link. Viola! On a side note, in Shafe's introduction, he states that the characters are Ortek agents. Sorry to correct ya, bud, but it's Ortex (admittedly, they're both nonsence words, but I'm anal retentive about these kinda things), and the agents in the strip are part of an as-yet-unidentifed organization.
Couple a Quick Reviews:
"I Heart Huckabees"- Kinda hard to describe this one. It's about a guy who hires a pair of Metaphysical Detectives to find out the meaning behind a coincidence in his life, but the Detectives instead burrow deeper into his world in an attempt to shed a little light on the deeper metaphorical links within his own life. There's a lotta psychology and philosophy and counterphilosophy and strange meditative techniques, but through alla the psychobabble there's a good story and some really funny bits. The cast is topnotch, with Jason Schwartzman (the kid from Rushmore) as the Lost Man seeking meaning, Marky Mark (from this director's previous film Three Kings) as his eventual buddy who's obsessed with petroleum, Jude Law (who was in half the movies that came out last year) as a plastic businessman, that hot chick from the Ring as the spokesperson for Huckabees (a fictional department store), Dustin Hoffman (with Beatles hair) as one of the Dectives, and the always underrated Lilly Tomlin as his counterpart. Great stuff, but a word of warning, this is not the kinda movie you half watch.
Shonen Jump: New issue is out, and we get the last Jump installment of Dragonball Z (no big loss since I've already watched the entire series on TV), slower, catch your breath installments of Naruto and Shaman King, negligible (spell?) installments of Hikaru no Go and Yu-Gi-Oh, and a preview of what looks to be a very interesting series called "Hunter X Hunter".
But the meat and potatoes for this Buhama is always "One Piece", and, as usual, this issue rocks it hard style. We finally learn the full story of Sanji and Chef Zeff's relationship, Pearl finally gets his comeupance, and Gin turns out to be far more dangerous than we thought he was. It's all coming to a head, and next issue's brawl for it all, featuring Sanji vs. Gin and Luffy vs. Krieg, should be a classic. Can't wait!
First and foremost, the main site has been updated! Woo-Hoo! There's a new King Smooth webcomic (that goes out to my amigo Tato) up on the site. Just head to www.torcpress.com and go to the SDF: Nonreal Link. Viola! On a side note, in Shafe's introduction, he states that the characters are Ortek agents. Sorry to correct ya, bud, but it's Ortex (admittedly, they're both nonsence words, but I'm anal retentive about these kinda things), and the agents in the strip are part of an as-yet-unidentifed organization.
Couple a Quick Reviews:
"I Heart Huckabees"- Kinda hard to describe this one. It's about a guy who hires a pair of Metaphysical Detectives to find out the meaning behind a coincidence in his life, but the Detectives instead burrow deeper into his world in an attempt to shed a little light on the deeper metaphorical links within his own life. There's a lotta psychology and philosophy and counterphilosophy and strange meditative techniques, but through alla the psychobabble there's a good story and some really funny bits. The cast is topnotch, with Jason Schwartzman (the kid from Rushmore) as the Lost Man seeking meaning, Marky Mark (from this director's previous film Three Kings) as his eventual buddy who's obsessed with petroleum, Jude Law (who was in half the movies that came out last year) as a plastic businessman, that hot chick from the Ring as the spokesperson for Huckabees (a fictional department store), Dustin Hoffman (with Beatles hair) as one of the Dectives, and the always underrated Lilly Tomlin as his counterpart. Great stuff, but a word of warning, this is not the kinda movie you half watch.
Shonen Jump: New issue is out, and we get the last Jump installment of Dragonball Z (no big loss since I've already watched the entire series on TV), slower, catch your breath installments of Naruto and Shaman King, negligible (spell?) installments of Hikaru no Go and Yu-Gi-Oh, and a preview of what looks to be a very interesting series called "Hunter X Hunter".
But the meat and potatoes for this Buhama is always "One Piece", and, as usual, this issue rocks it hard style. We finally learn the full story of Sanji and Chef Zeff's relationship, Pearl finally gets his comeupance, and Gin turns out to be far more dangerous than we thought he was. It's all coming to a head, and next issue's brawl for it all, featuring Sanji vs. Gin and Luffy vs. Krieg, should be a classic. Can't wait!
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Oops. Missed a key point on that last post and it wouldn't let me edit it. :(
Anyway, to recap, I'm poor, need to buy Shonen Jump, yadda yadda.
What I forgot to say was, next time, just email me any TorC Press editorial errors. Makes us look more professional if we don't announce such mistakes to the entire world.
Shafe said:
Makes us look more professional if we don't announce such mistakes to the entire world.
Haha. I'm laughing my ass off. Not only did Joe already web publish the fact of the mistake, but Shafe just reiterated it for use. Funny stuff. Thanks for the King Smooth strip, I'm looking forward to any future TORC installments of King, Tea Cup and Aliceislost that might be out there.
I'm looking to take my blogger blog to a different genre, reserving much of my commentary aspect to my myspace blog as well as indifferent ramblings. But I'm hoping to start writing a little bit more on blogger, well, creatively write anyway. Maybe even do some TORC fan fiction. Anyhoosits, I'm out of here, time to go to bed.
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