Why’d this guy bring something so dense on vacation? If I’m on vacation my attention will be focused elsewhere and the ability to concentrate will be limited. Not taking that into account really sounds like a skill issue. Vacation reading is why “The DaVinci Code” and “The Beach” exist.

Family is back from Japan and brought back my manga haul. Unfortunately, I’ll need to check out the previous volumes for most of these to remind myself what happened

Finally got my free t-shirt from clipping the coupons that came with the first batch of books in Otomo The Complete Works collection. I chose XL cause I thought it would be a Japanese XL, but it’s pretty big. It also came with a desk pad (下敷き).

Don’t mind me, I’m just reading this here preview for “Someone’s Holding in a Shit.”

Figures that the only decent looking CGI animal in Disclosure Day is the bird, because birds are dinosaurs and the only animals Spielberg cares about in CGI are dinosaurs.

Yes, after Akira and as translated into English, it was translated back into Japanese, printed left to right, and word balloons were horizontal instead of vertical. You can see Kaneda with a thought balloon here. In the original Japanese he says it out loud. Also the Marvel version has redrawn art

Forgot I also have the Japanese boxed set of the Japanese translation of the Marvel/Epic Akira

Definitely AKIRA. I have the Japanese editions, Graphitti Designs editions of the Marvel/Epic series, the Japanese publication of the Marvel/Epic edition, and the Kodansha boxed set. Not pictured are the original Marvel/Epic single issues and TPBs

Headed to the local cinema to protest The Odyssey.

Capcom did give us thus

Remembering the game dev of yore when you’d get a bunch of beers with your friends and watch a bunch of American movies, then show up to work on Monday with a wild pitch for a game

Real shame that for the bicentennial we got America-themed ashtrays, but for the semiquincentennial we’ll be lucky to even get patriotic vapes.

Some nice finds at the used bookstore.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn’t look right.

Boss: You build that med droid like I asked? Engineer: Yeah, boss. Made him look like a freshly flayed skeleton in a WWI gas mask to remind patients of their fragile mortality. Got a dubious bedside manner to boot. Boss: That’s not— Engineer: He’s also sky blue for some reason.

Believe it or not, the BTS Oreos do not, in fact, contain butter

Post a poster you used to have in your room, apartment, or house

Reminds me of when Kenner repurposed the Ewok playset for Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves by adding some foliage

Since it’s a lazy Sunday, here’s the regular edition and special edition of the AKIRA laserdisc

“Aquiracx” is my all-time favorite book. Also sounds like a Neal Stephenson novel

Christopher Nolan—that crazy bastard!—finally listened to the fans (ME!) and replaced Matt Damon with SEAN BEAN in "They Odyssey"! Been waiting 22 years for Bean to reprise his role from Troy (2004).

Everyone throws around the word vibes these days, but Cyndi Lauper was way ahead of the curve

Trademarked holidays are the best. Can’t wait to celebrate My Birthday™️ this year

I feel it was only a means to an end until the tournament presented itself. At the end of SFII it doesn’t say she goes back to being a cop.

My hot comics take on FCBD is that if you just draw Lobo with normal bodybuilder arms, you're doing it wrong. He should be proportioned like a gorilla, and look unproportional when next to normal characters. Pic 4 is an example of Lobo done wrong.

We’ll get 40 more Star Trek spinoffs before the powers-that-be summon the courage to green light a second series of this.

Also appreciated the Yiddish dictionary in the back with definitions explained from the point of view of the protagonist

Today’s read was “Hornytowm Chutzpah” by Andrew Miller, a comedic noir novel about a private dick helping a demon framed for murder. If you fondly remember the Beetlejuice cartoon, this might be up your alley.

I did like the design of this page when a character goes incandescent with rage, but, also, I’m not reading all that. I don’t think you’re meant to either. Good luck to all the future translators on that one!