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Homestuck

March 21, 2013 BlackCatula

Okay, so…Homestuck. You’ve heard the name. You’ve heard…things. 14-year-old kids talk excitedly about it in the back of the class as they fill binders full of their John/Dave yaois. Convention-goers mutter about people in gray makeup with candy-corn horns and police light-colored glasses roving around and forming photo groups. Bryan Lee O’Malley offhandedly mentions Scott Pilgrim and Homestuck in the same breath. But no one seems to be willing to try and explain what Homestuck even is, much less tell…

Wakfu

January 9, 2013 BlackCatula

For all the “Ragtag-Team of Lovable Warriors On A Quest To Save The World” stories and cartoons we’ve been fed over the years, you’d think adding another one to the pile would just result in a ho-hum, neat little cartoon that reminded you once again of how cool you thought this stuff was when you were maybe ten years younger. Whether it was The Slayers or The Pirates of Dark Water or whatever, you know at one point you loved…

Warning: Contains Problem Solverz

February 6, 2012 BlackCatula

Heh, kind of difficult to be objective about something like Problem Solverz, since you’ve got a 95/5 split for a fandom…and what a small, isolated fandom they are. Anyway…Problem Solverz started airing on Cartoon Network earlier this year, coming off the heels and in the heat of the big reform they’ve been making over the past few years. Folks had just started migrating back to CN to partake of its new smashing successes (namely, the bizarre and imaginative Adventure Time…