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  1. Mutsumi Inomata, who besides working in animation (City Hunter, Leda, Gundam Seed) and manga (GB Bomber) was the character designer for the Tales series (Destiny through Berseria)
  2. Kuehnle didn't run for governor of NJ, but was supporting the Republican candidate Vivian Lewis, who lost to Wilson in 1910. Kuehnle was the boss of the political machine in Atlantic city at the time. It was reported in the New York Times that Keuhnle, on behalf of Lewis, did deliver more votes for Lewis in Atlantic City that there were voters. He was paying people to vote for deceased voters still on the rolls and for seasonal hotel employees in Atlantic City who weren't in town in November but whom he'd gotten to register to vote. Wilson ran partially on cleaning up politics in NJ, and was able to successfully pursue criminal charges against Kuehnle after he got elected. Kuehnle was chairman of the water commission and Wilson was able to uncover where Kuehnle was changing contract terms to pay companies he owned more money from government contracts that was originally bid. Knucky Johnson took over the machine, and while Kuehnle came back after his conviction and got elected to the city commission, he never wielded the same power again. This happened prior to the Volstead Act / Prohibition (1920-1933); Atlantic City however was home to a large number of criminal rackets (gambling and prostitution, primarily I believe) and a political machine believed to be as effective as Tammany Hall or the Vare's in Philidelphia.
  3. RIP. I remember first reading about Toriyama in Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics. He was then mostly known in 1983 when it was published for "Dr. Slump" and was just starting out. I think the entry might have mentioned him launching Dragonball in passing as it would have launched the same year Manga! Manga! did. So imagine my surprise years later to see the popularity of DragonBall and his character designs in video games when they started hitting here not knowing what a phenom he'd become.
  4. Comic artist Ramona Fradon
  5. This seems the natural way to keep it going. Not sure what Phase we get to Willburys and All-Starr Band, though.
  6. Kinda stacking all the big names in the first wave. Should have been like - Wave 1: Paul, George, Pete Best, George Martin (Streaming: Stuart Sutcliffe Season 1) Wave 2: John, Ringo, Tommy Moore, Geoff Emerick & Glyn Johns buddy movie (Streaming: Stuart Sutcliffe Season 2, Yoko Ono Season 1) Clearly they're not thinking about what the Beatles Cinematic Universe could really be.
  7. Looks a lot like the original film but with digital effects to me. But then again, the original film was (to me) just a good popcorn film. Hopefully they've cooked up something similarly iconic, but I imagine if they'd shown a flying cow everyone would be like "OMG how unimaginative, they're just retreading the first film right down to the ****ing flying cow...". Can't really win whatever they do. Or maybe I'm just cynical about humanity.
  8. David Dastmalchian is an actor I've liked in anything I've seen him in. Also a horror fan, so I have hugh hopes for this one.
  9. I'm guessing a few of the oldsters are hitting 20 on here today...
  10. I saw Tetsuo: The Iron Man in 1992 when it got its US release and went through the independent film circuit. There's nothing really like it; I seem to recall the sequel Tetsuo II: Body Hammer (which I saw a few years later, not 100% what year) having more a plot rather than sort of the fever dream / nightmare quality of the original but wasn't quite as good.
  11. My phone is logged out again (I just logged back in on it Tuesday) but my computer is still logged in.
  12. While I have sold stuff (almost all of my VHSes, for example), I've kept an extensive library of other physical media. I've had to resort to breaking them down though, they're too much otherwise, so I get why some would declutter. That said, my comic collection still overshadows it from a sheer how much space it takes up. >.< Unfortunately, I don't really trust streaming to provide something when I want it, and even though physical media has its perils (disc rot, etc) I'd rather risk that than playing hunt the show on through the streaming channels. And the more obscure stuff, they won't have anyhow.
  13. Ad Populum innit? "Appeal to the Public" - implying that something that is popular is right/good/best.
  14. Ditto for me on getting the Our Services message occasionally.
  15. Dofus is based on a french video game series (including the games Dofus and Wakfu). There's also a tv animated series Dofus: Aux trésors de Kerubim and Wakfu and some Wakfu OAVs. The movie Dofus, livre 1: Julith I think suffered in France based on its release date if newspapers at the time are to be believed. The lack of box-office success caused them to drop the 2 planned sequel Dofus films and a Wakfu film Anakma (the game, publishing and animation company) have made some other movies since this, though. They were part of a co-production for Netflix' Mutafukaz aka MFKZ and did a film called Princesse Dragon. Also did some other animated and live action series/shorts.
  16. old thread - https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/132558-random-video-game-news-games-are-the-most-elevated-form-of-investigation/
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