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The Showa Era Criterion Collection Review (Part 1) “In His Fourth Decade, Daniel Takes a Critical Look at Toho’s First Era of Godzilla” Matthew Kutruff, Vocalist, guitarist, and creator of the band Beast Parade I cannot remember a time that I didn’t know and love the sometimes enigmatic, sometimes hilarious, and sometimes terrifying beast known…
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I finally pulled the trigger. I went to my (semi) local comic shop and decided to open a box there. A lot of this is new once again so it’s riveting to rediscover what once was a huge past-time for me in my teens. I haven’t been a regular frequenter of comics since I moved…
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On my journey toward writing a comic – something I’ve been wanting to do since my senior year of high school far back when I was writing incredibly offensive things like Phetus the Fetus and The Rad 4 (about various characters revolving around cancer) – and my subsequent return to the collection of comics, I…
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A Preamble I’ve never been a stranger to comic books. As a kid, when I lived in what I referred to as “the red house”, my father had a den that housed all of his comic books. I loved when he would reorganize because that meant I would go to a random box (usually X-Men)…
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If you’ve ever known someone addled with ADD or ADHD, you’ll know one thing that is glaringly obvious about them: their intense hyper fixation on specific things dwarfed only by their lack of impulse control regarding said hyper fixation. Last week I had written an ode to the idea of setting in fiction. Did you…
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What is it about settings that are so incredibly important to me lately? I’ve been on twitter lately using my account geared toward creative ventures. This allows me to bask in the creative works of others while propping up my own forays into the creative realm. It often contains within it people’s sketches and concept…
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We moved from Portland, OR to Georgia quite a while ago. These were my thoughts as they were occurring on our cross-country excursion! It was one of the best “vacations” I have ever had in my life despite what should have been one of the worst things people can do – moving. Day One –…
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Sometimes it’s imperative to poke a little fun at the life you lead. What could be better than an incredibly self-indulged foray through a last day of work told in as serious and aggrandized way humanly possible?
Ginothy Tonic 