Right about now, subscribers should be receiving their copies of PiQ, Issue 2 and for those of you just discovering PiQ, you should be seeing copies popping up in stores across the country.
This month, our cover story is all about Sam & Max and the history of the franchise, from the games to the comics to the TV series. We also had the opportunity to chat with series creator Steve Purcell and even worked with Telltale games to create an exclusive cover you won’t find anywhere else. For anyone who’s been following the franchise all these years, you won’t want to miss this issue, and even if you’ve never of Sam & Max, you’d be remiss to not check it out.
People talk about anime piracy a lot these days, but do you see anyone doing anything about it? Of course not. That’s why you’ve got pirates like these operating with utter impunity all across Japanese territory.
Virgin Comics announced today that a new animated trailer for Guy Ritchie’s Gamekeeper, the first in a series of new promotional videos for the Directors’ Cut line of books (including Ed Burns’ Dock Walloper and Jonathan Mostow’s The Megas.), is now being featured on MySpace.
If you’re a fan of the action-packed murderation that Ritchie packs into his films, do yourself a favor and catch up with the second series out now. With its distinct cinematic style, it’s no wonder that Gamekeeper is also currently in development as a feature film at Warner Bros.. I think we’ve all been waiting for Guy Ritchie’s film career to get a proper kick in the pants, so this is certainly one to keep an eye on.
When in the lovely resort town of Hakone, you should make every effort to take the Hakone Ropeway between Gora and Lake Ashinoko. The website I link to goes on about the breathtaking views of Mt. Fuji and how you can watch sulfur shoot out of the ground and blah de blah de blah, but what it doesn’t mention is that these gondolas get what seem like a good thousand feet off the ground at its highest point. It’s the greatest thrill I’ve had in ages; looking straight down is enough to make you feel like you’re about to lose your balance.
If only they had made the gondolas had glass bottoms… people afraid of heights would probably have nervous breakdowns.
Nearly 13 years after the Aum Shinrikyo sarin-gas attacks on the Tokyo subway that killed 12 people, three suspects — Shin Hirata, Katsuya Takahashi, and Naoko Kikuchi — remain at large, their last known photos still decorating police-department billboards across Japan.
This artist’s rendition (well, OK, more like manga writer’s rendition) of what the three cultists might look like today was found at a local police box in Kyoto. It’s all well and good that the authorities are finding new ways to keep the suspects in the mind of the general public, but — I mean — come on, everyone in Japan looks like this. That’s especially true right now, when it seems like one out of every six pedestrians are wearing cold masks to keep all the spring pollen from bothering their noses.
It may be a little while longer before justice is served, at least until the police hire better manga artists…
Now that the first issue of PiQ has come and gone and everybody’s had their chance to chime in, I’d like to talk about one particular criticism that I’ve heard several times. While I anticipated it, I had hoped that the article content itself would deflect such criticism, since I wrote it specifically for the [...]
Right about now, subscribers should be receiving their copies of PiQ, Issue 2 and for those of you just discovering PiQ, you should be seeing copies popping up in stores across the country.
