NonPro Shows
Villains Month: The Mooninites
Okay, I am breaking my own rules here somewhat, since the Mooninites are not exactly serious villains. Still, based on the fact that I love […]
Shows
Villains Month: Yurimaru
Part of the reason that Ninja Scroll is my favorite anime of all time is because of its villains. The Eight Devils of Kimon are […]
Villains Month: Count Olaf
Villains in children’s stories often wind up played for laughs rather than menace. The idea, I think, is to teach children that being selfish and […]
Villains Month: Jan Valentine
Genuinely funny villains are probably more rare than they should be. I suppose it relates to the idea that villains are supposed to be scary […]
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 […]
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 […]