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The Substance
In the pursuit of youth and beauty, you rob yourself. That’s the most basic message in the Substance. The very least you can get from it. But we can expand on that, can’t we? The disposal of aging women in our society, the need to meet male standards for women’s beauty, the men in position…
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Letterkenny Season 4
“You wanna know what? You got a problem with Canada Gooses, you got a problem with me, and I suggest you let that one marinate.”—Wayne I’m all about them Canada Gooses, bro, seeing as the geese are back to breed by my office. This time we kick off resolving Wayne and Rosie breaking up (they…
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Letterkenny Season 3
I noticed this a touch when Season 2 opened up and they just offhandedly mentioned Modean’s burnt down between seasons, but this season it jumps out at ya. Season 2’s last thirty seconds was Rosie coming out of her truck with a stud for Stormy, absolutely ringing Wayne’s bell, followed by his ex Angie who…
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Don’t Let the Forest In
*Once upon a time, Andrew had cut out his heart and given it to this boy, and he was very sure Thomas had no idea that Andrew would do anything for him. Protect him. Lie for him. Kill for him.* High school senior Andrew Perrault finds refuge in the twisted fairytales that he writes for…
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New World: An Anthology of Sci-Fi and Fantasy
Aaah… what a stupendous collection, with so many big names in comics! My favorite in this anthology ended up being Written in Stone, by Carla Speed McNeil. I ended up reading it three times back to back, and then once more before I put down the book. (I reread it when I opened the book…
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Stab the Rabbit
This book is just a way to alleviate some masculine violence, bro. I’m not joking. It’s got a few stories in it and it takes a juvenile delight in using slurs and doesn’t really have a care for being “politically correct”, as angry male comics would put it. They let you know right in the…
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Life with Picasso
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso – he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. Life with Picasso, her account of those extraordinary years, is filled…
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Clockwork Planet 1 – 3
Harem Scale H: MC will do anything for his clockwork, including the right thing. A: By volume three, he’s aware that he wants to collect more robot girls. R: He’s got a thing going with Ryuzu. E: It’s pretty middling on the fan service, and keeps it to double entendre and phrasing. M: I’m down…
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Kenka Bancho Otome: Girl Beats Boys
Harem Scale H: MC has a lot of empathy and is the type to defend A: MC is not angling for it. She’s in an all-boy’s school, so being surrounded by men is par for the course. R: It’s a companion anime to an otome game, so… there’s the kinda romantic and yet masculine relationships.…
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Let This Grieving Soul Retire
Harem Scale H: MC elects to duck out of responsibility and send people on errands, only helping when he might get in trouble. A: He knows that these women are very attached to him and there’s lots of them. He will go on dates. R: He doesn’t really look at any of them romantically. E:…