I haven't seen the first one, but Appleseed:Ex machina really kicks ass. I agree on the cel shading, that's the kind of direction I like to see 3d art going in. It's really not all that hard to get something looking like the Final Fantasy Seven movie, but it's tough to actually inject style into something.

I'm a horrid manga addict, but I never really got into anime either. The Gibli movies are cool and I really dug Cowboy Bebop, but I like the pace and narrative of comics a lot better.

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I still have yet to see Ex Machina; my friend has it on DVD so I suppose i could borrow it from him but actually, I have to work on getting myself out my quarter-term trench that I've fallen into at school; for some reason, I always have that problem with winter quarter

I guess when it comes to a specific form of media as entertainment, for me, it's always been and always will be books. I've read graphic novels by the score and for a while, got into Heavy Metal in my late teens but comics like most of Marvel and DC's lineup got old for me very quickly; I suspect the artwork had a lot to do with it

mmmmmmm....Appleseed....Terry 'bout had a....well anyway! We have both and kick-assyness ensues. I miss the original one from like forever ago cuz I can't find it but I feel slightly cooler with the other 2.

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So there was another one? Huh, might have to look for that one. If it can be found. Still have to watch Ex Machina, though.

yeah, the original 2D version from 1988. There's great scene where Deunan's friend Hitomi gets drunk and tries to hit on a guy; it's so funny.

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hmm, that might be worth hunting down

Yeah, I actually got into comics through manga, indy books, Vertigo and 3000AD, so the whole superhero thing was really sort of a tangent for a run of years until these days I'm right back to being a manga junkie. I'd like to keep up on European stuff too, but all my favourite writers and artists are busy making cash on superhero books these days.

-Oh oh! Cept for Warren Ellis and Paul Duffy, they're doing a really cool webcomic: [link] Look at it!

Not that the superhero thing is totally bad, I really love a lot of the seventies and eighties stuff and some things here and there since, but you just get really sick of a new writer coming on and flushing everything that came before down the toilet. Hell, the genre itself has grown itself such a tight little nerd niche of what the fans will let you do or not too those books aren't anything but plot points and stupid twists anymore anyhow.

*cough* I'm terribly sorry. Once you let the monster out, it's hard to get a leash on him again...

Winter is really pretty tough for doing anything really. You get cooped up in the house so much, you figure you can get so much work done and feel obligated to step up the pace, but it's just such an emotionally exhausting season, you end up frustrated when the plugs just aren't sparking in the cold. It's hard to think of the long view too because you end using up your hopes and dreams ration on a few extra degrees or a lack of snow tomorrow.

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I can understand that, actually. That's one thing that really got me about Marvel and DC both; the constant changing of plots and worlds; I guess I prefer something that's a little neater. Don't mind plot-twists, mind you but when the "plot-twist" becomes a whole 'nuther universe is that sharp turn to the right where I fall off and go "Huh?!?"

Winter is one of the biggest reasons why I spend so much time reading I used to be able to get out more, well, I still could if Lyndale Farmstead were a bit closer than a mile. A mile is a bit far to walk when you know a good portion of people haven't shoveled their sidewalks

Well, a plot twist is one thing, but a new writer coming on and taking a shit on everything the previous writer was working on really gets old these days when a book changes writers every ten to twenty issues. It's almost like some Bolshevik sweep turning characters into evil clones, introducing clones of dead characters, killing off second string characters to boost some hype and sales and pretty much everyone goes through the Mother of all PMS while the new writer needs to beat his interpretation of their personas into your skull. Plus guys like Brian Michael Bendis who consistently do this to themselves because they couldn't write a solid narrative to save their lives are hot shit on the comic block. He pretty much writes every Marvel book these days. A guy like Warren Ellis, whom I respect quite a bit, has to turn to a web comic to really even be able to break out of the super hero biz. Another fave of mine, Phil Foglio does a webcomic I can't remember the name of and says damn, I should have done this years ago instead of trying to make it on the indy scene. He's been working for years and years, but the superhero nonsense has things pretty well locked up.

Blah, I'm really starting to ramble, sorry. *weep*

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