Brief (non-spoiler) Review – Pluto
It is a great time to be an animation fan! There are multiple challenging mature series that have premiered online in the past month alone! So many new series, in fact, that keeping up with all of them would damn-near be a full time job. There are at least four other animated series I have […]
Animation Series To Watch 2023
We all know – Rick & Morty season 7 premiere Sunday, Oct. 15, at 11 p.m The R&M shenanigans continue with a major voice actor change. Co-creator Justin Roiland is out as the voice of Rick AND Morty after events that can be searched online. Roiland is being replaced by two different voice actors, one […]
Good News Everyone! Netflix To Premiere Anime PLUTO
The news seemed to blow up all over the net yesterday – “PLUTO” the multi-part manga that retooled Astro-Boy is coming to Netflix as an anime series and we got our first look at it – PLUTO lands in the more adult and serious category of manga along the lines of Ghost in the Shell, […]
Amazon Renews The Peripheral for Season 2
Amazon renewed sci-fi fan favorite The Peripheral for a second season. Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and even Reddit reported on it so it must be true. The show is listed as “based on the William Gibson novel” where in truth the more appropriate label would be “inspired by the William Gibson novel”. The producer Vincenzo […]
Copenhagen Cowboy – Nicolas Winding Refn’s Latest Kaleidoscopic Netflix Series
Nicolas Winding Refn’s art is hot and vibrant, colorful, and meticulously paced. He uses actors in a very deliberate way. His films and series cannot be mistaken for anything but a Nicolas Winding Refn effort (hereafter he will be listed as NWR). Some of his projects work better than others. Occasionally as with Drive it […]
Cartoonist Kayfabe [YouTube] Look at OTOMO: AKIRA Layouts & Keyframes
If you are a fan of art books and animation, this write-up is for you. Edgar Award Winning comicbook artist Ed Piskore of Cartoonist Kayfabe fame returned from Japan with an amazing oversized book covering the creation of the classic film AKIRA. The book: Animation AKIRA Storyboards (OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS) The video review of […]
It’s A Good Time For Sci-Fi Series
Never a fan of burying the lead, the shows discussed here are: The Peripheral (IMDB): a woman discovers a secret connection to an alternate reality as well as a dark future of her own. The Expanse (IMDB): a group of humans untangle a vast plot which threatens the solar system’s fragile state of détente. West […]