NonPro Shows
Villains Month: Metal-Masked Assassin
While the animated series Metalocalypse is first and foremost a comedy, it has a fairly dense and complex mythology (which I may have written about […]
Shows
Near Mint Radio – Comic Book Video Games
Everyone talks about movies based on comic books, which were once universally terrible and have became pretty amazing, but what of the other great comic […]
Villains Month: Psycho Mantis
The Metal Gear video game series is famous for both its experimental, genre-breaking gameplay as well as its rich, complex cast of characters. Series creator […]
Villains Month: Chernobog
Disney’s musical Fantasia is mostly a collection of animated music videos long before there were music videos, setting gorgeous animated vignettes to pieces of classical […]
Villains Month: Jody
The father/son relationship in fiction tends to be complicated. There is often a sense of competition between the two, of the new versus the old, […]
Horror Movie Quickie Rundown — Volume I
Manny, N’jaila, John, Dave, James, Frank, Al, and Matt go through a super quick rundown of a half-dozen or so horror films you should see/avoid/ward […]
Villains Month: Angel
Ever since vampires received the humanizing treatment in fiction, the idea of vampiric guilt has been used to the point of cliche. This doesn’t mean […]
Line Cutters – Man Caucus: Ticket Etiquette
The Line Cutters “MAN CAUCUS” pits a sampling of average Man-Geeks (meeks) against one another in a battle to determine Man Law once and for […]
Villains Month: Xykon
The webcomic Order of the Stick is known for its complex villains and somewhat muddied take on the normally objective and quantified morality of Dungeons […]
Villains Month: Megatron(s)
In some famous franchises, characters recur across timelines. Sometimes this is intentional, like with Black Adder and Baldric, and others it’s driven by popularity, such […]