J.L. Switzer
@captainjls.com
Surrounded by comics they never have time enough to read. Always tired. Writing nonsense about Robotech on the internet since the late '90s.
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When a cancelled performer reënters the culture, we expect them to offer us a great work, channelling their newfound clarity into the finest art they’ve ever made. With his new comedy show and début novel, has Louis C.K. met the bar?
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
www.newyorker.com/culture/crit...
Louis C.K.’s Next Chapter
In a new standup special, and a début novel, the comedian navigates murky, post-#MeToo terrain: not quite exiled, not quite welcomed back.
www.newyorker.com
November 30, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Jen can’t save the world right now, her paralegal needs to file a motion to dismiss.
November 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Jen can’t save the world right now, her paralegal needs to file a motion to dismiss.
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Larry Hama had his finger on the pulse of the last 50 years of American culture when he wrote that Cobra Commander started out as a used car salesman
November 29, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Larry Hama had his finger on the pulse of the last 50 years of American culture when he wrote that Cobra Commander started out as a used car salesman
The Digi Charat English language ad @miketoole.com just played reminded me that back at AX '01 my sister went in for the open audition to be the English voice of Dejiko -- she was one of the FINALISTS per this old ANN article, which I completely forgot.
DigiCharat Voice Actress Selected
Karen Hsin selected from over 30 semi-finalists and 5 finalists to play the voice of Dejiko, the catgirl mascot of Gamers!
www.animenewsnetwork.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
The Digi Charat English language ad @miketoole.com just played reminded me that back at AX '01 my sister went in for the open audition to be the English voice of Dejiko -- she was one of the FINALISTS per this old ANN article, which I completely forgot.
I worked for that company for 6 years, ending with their (first) bankruptcy, and if his article is to be believed to-the-letter I'd say Jon's experience was only a LITTLE more cartoonishly absurd than mine. (I still have a collection of those magnetic name badges -- yay rebranding! -- on my fridge.)
Every Black Friday I take the time to read what is perhaps my favorite piece in the history of online media— @jonbois.bsky.social on RadioShack’s slow, painful death.
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
www.sbnation.com/2014/11/26/7...
A eulogy for RadioShack, the panicked and half-dead retail empire
This may very well be RadioShack’s final holiday season. Jon, a former employee, looks back on a strange, craven, five thousand-fingered strip-mall monster from a forgotten age.
www.sbnation.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 AM
I worked for that company for 6 years, ending with their (first) bankruptcy, and if his article is to be believed to-the-letter I'd say Jon's experience was only a LITTLE more cartoonishly absurd than mine. (I still have a collection of those magnetic name badges -- yay rebranding! -- on my fridge.)
Finished Super Robot Wars Y last night. Am I remembering right that SRW 30 ALSO ended with most of the cast going "yeah, we'll stick around for a bit" so as to keep post-game missions making in-universe sense?
Also would've been nice for the new DLC characters to have dialog w/ the last boss.
Also would've been nice for the new DLC characters to have dialog w/ the last boss.
November 29, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Finished Super Robot Wars Y last night. Am I remembering right that SRW 30 ALSO ended with most of the cast going "yeah, we'll stick around for a bit" so as to keep post-game missions making in-universe sense?
Also would've been nice for the new DLC characters to have dialog w/ the last boss.
Also would've been nice for the new DLC characters to have dialog w/ the last boss.
Also worth looking at even w/out the toy plane to fly around (and also it works like a light gun so it wouldn't work with your screen anyway) because all the "training footage" was, if I remember right, animated by AIC in Japan and looks PHENOMENAL. Love those variants of all the Bio-Dread designs.
Captain Power also had an incredible VHS "game"
Captain Power - Future Force Training
YouTube video by It Came From the 80's
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November 28, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Also worth looking at even w/out the toy plane to fly around (and also it works like a light gun so it wouldn't work with your screen anyway) because all the "training footage" was, if I remember right, animated by AIC in Japan and looks PHENOMENAL. Love those variants of all the Bio-Dread designs.
One of my absolute favorite things ever.
Anyway y'all should go watch what is arguably the first North American tokusatsu in the tradition of Metal Heroes or Super Sentai, 6 years before MMPR, with entirely original footage and story.
"Earth, 2147. The legacy of the Metal Wars, where man fought machines—and machines won..."
"Earth, 2147. The legacy of the Metal Wars, where man fought machines—and machines won..."
November 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
One of my absolute favorite things ever.
Out and about and bought a new Pizza Thrower at Ollie's (one of the few Turtles vehicles I had as a kid and I'm pretty sure my original is long gone/broken somewhere) and also the barista at Starbucks made multiple wrong guesses how to spell my name in one go. Not the *worst* I've seen, though.
November 28, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Out and about and bought a new Pizza Thrower at Ollie's (one of the few Turtles vehicles I had as a kid and I'm pretty sure my original is long gone/broken somewhere) and also the barista at Starbucks made multiple wrong guesses how to spell my name in one go. Not the *worst* I've seen, though.
Did somebody mention Pioneer's early jewel-cased anime DVD releases? (For the record, Dead Zone here has a 1997 copyright date and World's Strongest says '98.)
November 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Did somebody mention Pioneer's early jewel-cased anime DVD releases? (For the record, Dead Zone here has a 1997 copyright date and World's Strongest says '98.)
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one of those color wheel memes but with video game mascots i like
July 25, 2023 at 12:48 AM
one of those color wheel memes but with video game mascots i like
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"This is not a rough draft later remakes would build and significantly improve upon: the Ys everyone knows and loves is already here."
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/08/21/y...
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/08/21/y...
Ys Ancient Ys Vanished: Ys is eternal
Welcome to the dawn of time. Well, 1987—it’s almost the same thing. The PC-88 version of the game you see splashed all over this page is the seed from which all other Ys’ sprang forth f…
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
"This is not a rough draft later remakes would build and significantly improve upon: the Ys everyone knows and loves is already here."
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/08/21/y...
kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2023/08/21/y...
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Too many people get shot in America. They shouldn’t get shot. But they get shot because of a legacy of bad law and bad court decisions that have bastardized our founders’ bequest to us in the bill of rights. The problem isn’t mental health or Afghanis. It’s the guns.
November 27, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Too many people get shot in America. They shouldn’t get shot. But they get shot because of a legacy of bad law and bad court decisions that have bastardized our founders’ bequest to us in the bill of rights. The problem isn’t mental health or Afghanis. It’s the guns.
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Dorothy Big O Sketch
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[ twitch.tv/genczilla ]
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Dorothy Big O Sketch
[ twitch.tv/genczilla ]
[ twitch.tv/genczilla ]
My next to last issue of X-Force from my 1st go-round w/ the X-books. As cool as Pollina's art is, I was STILL salty about Nicieza's "operating out of an abandoned Murderworld" status quo that had gone on for barely a few months being blown up by Loeb so they could *sigh* move back into the mansion.
Released 30 years ago this week:
-X-Force #50 by Jeph Loeb and Adam Pollina
-Green Lantern #70 by Ron Marz and Paul Pelletier
-Veronica #50 by Kathleen Webb and Dan DeCarlo
-Simpsons Comics #14 by Jeff Ronsenthal, Jon Aibel, Glenn Berger and Christian Roman; Scott Shaw!
-X-Force #50 by Jeph Loeb and Adam Pollina
-Green Lantern #70 by Ron Marz and Paul Pelletier
-Veronica #50 by Kathleen Webb and Dan DeCarlo
-Simpsons Comics #14 by Jeff Ronsenthal, Jon Aibel, Glenn Berger and Christian Roman; Scott Shaw!
November 27, 2025 at 4:45 AM
My next to last issue of X-Force from my 1st go-round w/ the X-books. As cool as Pollina's art is, I was STILL salty about Nicieza's "operating out of an abandoned Murderworld" status quo that had gone on for barely a few months being blown up by Loeb so they could *sigh* move back into the mansion.
Blind box victories at Walmart today: a Blokees last-half-of-IDW-MTMTE Autobot Megatron and yet another Spider-Gwen for the collection from the Lego Spider-Verse wave.
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Blind box victories at Walmart today: a Blokees last-half-of-IDW-MTMTE Autobot Megatron and yet another Spider-Gwen for the collection from the Lego Spider-Verse wave.
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Dragonar-1 (機甲戦記ドラグナー) by Ken Otsuka
November 26, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Dragonar-1 (機甲戦記ドラグナー) by Ken Otsuka
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The CR store's doing early access Black Friday doorbusters for subscribers and yeah, I'd tell you to hop on this one.
store.crunchyroll.com/black-friday...
store.crunchyroll.com/black-friday...
November 25, 2025 at 9:12 PM
The CR store's doing early access Black Friday doorbusters for subscribers and yeah, I'd tell you to hop on this one.
store.crunchyroll.com/black-friday...
store.crunchyroll.com/black-friday...
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Pinned down! 🚑
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Pinned down! 🚑
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Love me some X-Men. Slim. Scott Summers. Cyclops. Cyke. Mr. No Nonsense. The list goes on. 😂. I’ll be adding more original art to my Big Cartel store soon.
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Love me some X-Men. Slim. Scott Summers. Cyclops. Cyke. Mr. No Nonsense. The list goes on. 😂. I’ll be adding more original art to my Big Cartel store soon.
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227. Never ever use CGI or AI when you can simply recast. There are 160,000 members of SAGAFTRA alone. Someone can do the job. A casting director’s job is to find them.
November 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
227. Never ever use CGI or AI when you can simply recast. There are 160,000 members of SAGAFTRA alone. Someone can do the job. A casting director’s job is to find them.
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A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"
November 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"