Sporadic Ramblings and Nerdery

not female, but a girlboss nonetheless

Ōishigori Shintoism, pioneered by Meiji era clairvoyant Ōishigori Masumi (b. 1832 – d. 1913) – who feared that Shinto was falling behind the rival religions of Christianity and Buddhism as well as then cutting-edge scientific thought such as Darwin’s Theory of Evolution – conversely taught that the Japanese were not the evolutionary descendants of early hominids but rather arose from dragons born of stone pebbles filled with chi by the gods. According to Ōishigori these “dragons” – the ones mentioned in Shinto texts like the Kojiki and Nihon-Nihongi – were actually extant dinosaurs. Furthermore not all the dinosaurs had evolved into humans. Rather some had remained hidden deep in the sea where they lived on as Dragon Gods. Either way, what Ōishigori was ultimately advocating was a worldview in which the Japanese are both the descendants of dinosaurs and worship dinosaurs as living-gods.

HOW DARE!

He got his start doing Western manga adaptations of things like Dirty Pair and Bubblegum Crisis. On top of that, he served as the translator for Cannon God Exaxxion. He also worked in the Marvel Mangaverse before in (IMO) its best story: Fantastic Four.

He is also the creator of Marvel Rivals' Galacta.

But he's best known for his original series Empowered: "A Sexy Superhero Comedy" with more heart than you'd expect with that sort of title.

I was fine with Momoko’s “Ultimate X-Men”, other than it dragged on too long. The Marvel Tsunami 2000’s line I think had a good balance of drawing from Manga without trying to copy it/be its own thing!

I guess my main issue is I always feel like I would much rather read authentic Japanese Manga over the Western stuff- Berzerk, Haikyu!!, My Hero Academia, Attack on Titan, Fullmetal, ect…

Though if you like Berserk, be sure to read its spiritual Little Sister series, Claymore.

I completely forgot that Steph wasn't the only Batgirl we got to see team up with Diana in Wonder Woman #600! Cass did too!

I probably forgot because her voice was a tad off-- but Amanada Conner must have really liked her as Batgirl, because yeah, Steph was Batgirl at the time so the story had to be specified as taking place a while ago.

Anyway, apparently this story was just here to let us know that Cass knows about hentai. Canonically.

But yeah, Amanda Conner Cass is so cute!

(Too bad she's fighting a character who should count as a hate crime against her)

One other thing Gail really gets is Diana's sense of humor, which is extremely playful and occasionally deadpan. Some of my favorite "Diana is so fucking funny" moments from her run.

I also appreciate that her reaction to a statue of herself that's "prettied up" by an alien race to look positively ogre-ish is "dang I wish I could take a pic of this and send it to Donna so she could laugh at my expense":

Is Kamala the president in every future reality?