• Askeladd: Vinland Saga’s Standout Antagonist

    Askeladd: Vinland Saga’s Standout Antagonist

    *Spoilers ahead for Vinland Saga; if you haven’t seen the first season of the anime, please watch that before reading this article.* The list of truly remarkable anime antagonists is much shorter than one might expect. Sure, you could list a whole ton of baddies from shounen anime, like Freeza or Pain or All For…

  • The Hunger of the Gods: Bones, Flesh, and Vengeance

    In case you didn’t read last week’s review on ‘The Shadow of the Gods’, here’s a quick TL;DR: Norse-inspired fantasy trilogy, excellent first book, go read it if you love weird monsters, violence, and rounded characters. Got all that? Good. And once again I’m going to misspell everything because I’m a dummy dumb-dumb, I’m so…

  • Modrons: Cosmic Clockwork Constructs

    Every 289 years, the entire multiverse goes mad. Like clockwork. Kwint Stormbellow, rock gnome adventurer Time to talk about a weird one. And by one, I mean five, because of course there are five of them. Lore: Machines of Law Inhabitants of the Mechanus plane, modrons are creatures of absolute law, their existences routine down…

  • The Boys (Season One) is Diabolical

    The Boys (Season One) is Diabolical

    You know what I have really come to despise? The ‘evil-Superman’ trope. We’ve seen it plenty of times now, such as with the Injustice games/comics with an actual evil Superman to that Brightburn movie that no one seems to remember. It isn’t a bad idea, but so often the writers don’t do anything with it…

  • Vinland Saga (Season 1): Vikings and Vengeance

    Vinland Saga (Season 1): Vikings and Vengeance

    I’ve been meaning to get around to this one for ages now. Let’s finally mark it off the to-do list, shall we? When it comes to Seinen, I usually see three names come up before anything else: Berserk, Vagabond, and Vinland Saga. Berserk is my favorite manga of all time, so seeing Vagabond and Vinland…