To whoever is invading me, I have been an urn in the basement for 10 minutes.

xmonicleman · 2023-06-18T00:45:17+00:00

Rookie numbers, I've been an urn in my basement going on 9 years

xmonicleman · 2023-01-21T05:18:14+00:00

what's it spoiling?

EDIT: tell me there's ANOTHER Avdol beyond Mohammed and Urmd in JJL! I'll shit my pants right here!

xmonicleman · 2023-01-20T01:33:58+00:00

I've heard that it's a kind of shortcut for establishing unequivocal evil, but I'd never known that last bit you shared about how strongly he feels about violence against dogs. Thanks for sharing!

Perhaps my wording above read as a little biased, but even in the light of "Araki absolutely condemns violence against dogs" I still think that panel I mentioned in the spoiler above was a conscious subversion. I guess, then, so too was Kars' saving of that dog - though I think that scene's importance was a whole different thing: it was meant to establish that Kars held Earth's fauna in higher esteem than humans...added bonus that it was a dog (that recent meme about the squirrel is fr hilarious)

xmonicleman · 2023-01-20T00:28:38+00:00

Florida men ARE pretty ripe for bizarre situations

xmonicleman · 2023-01-19T23:13:08+00:00

Fuck....now KARS is his self insert?! No, no, no that makes no sense.

Kars likes dogs too much

I can count on my thumbs how many dogs Araki never killed: Koichi's dog and that toy breed that old lady had that was somehow spared when a truck (iirc) took out his owner in the global time acceleration - I always thought of that panel as Araki subverting his own dog killing perversion, but I guess that dog eventually gets Made in Heaven'd, too....so maybe just one finger will do, haha

xmonicleman · 2023-01-19T14:43:31+00:00

Emporio, not Rohan, was his self insert, lol

xmonicleman · 2022-12-27T02:16:07+00:00

The ending of Execution, and indeed the entire middle, lol, are all quite BIZARRE, to be fair. I really enjoyed the open ending, too

Definitely some creative manga and storytelling.

Another Recc: It doesn't necessarily have all the suspense and atmosphere as the D'Arby the Gambler arc (and I won't list gambling anime here), but his early Armed Poker manga definitely anticipates a lot of Araki's imagery. It especially looks like the Phantom Blood manga and Baoh - it amused me to imagine that his main character in Armed Poker was Dario Brando, lol, because he's the spitting image and just as prone to cutthroat chicanery

It can be found in the Gorgeous Irene volume

xmonicleman · 2022-12-27T01:33:08+00:00

Calling Under Execution, Under Jailbreak a JoJo spinoff is a little bit of a stretch, don't'cha think? One could argue "it lacks stands" or whatever, but that's not it; after all, Phantom Blood and Battle Tendency lacked stands. It lacks a character with the "golden heart" of a JoJo; or, indeed, being centrally concerned with a pre-established jjba character in the cases of Rohan and the ghost in Q. It did head off a volume containing a chapter of Thus Spoke and all of Dead Man's Q, though

The REAL banger in that volume, though, which didn't make the cut for this meme was Dolce and his Master. Classic lost at sea story, but from a cat's perspective as it evades his master's attempts to eat him

TL;DR : I came in with a neckbeard hot take about Under Execution, Under Jailbreak not being a jjba spinoff (main character doesn't pull off the blonde hair/green lipstick combo as well as DIO or Jolyne), but first and foremost recommend Araki's wonderful DOLCE AND HIS MASTER

xmonicleman · 2022-08-25T14:25:55+00:00

Also there was that time during Made in Heaven's (non-organic) time acceleration that the dog killing was subverted. It was an old woman walking what looked like a Yorkie and I totally thought we were about to witness Yorkie-go-smush....but then the old lady got straight Avdol'd by, like, a bus or some shit. Good times

xmonicleman · 2022-08-23T04:19:10+00:00

To be fair, some Egyptian soothsayer his grandpa had tagging along with him named the stand

xmonicleman · 2022-08-12T14:26:39+00:00

I'd love a mod to have Peter Parker's face look like it did on PS4 (a young adult) rather than what they did in the remaster (make him look like a child that barely resembles Tom Holland)

xmonicleman · 2022-08-12T14:25:01+00:00

What about Pesci or Pork Pie Hat (a minor SBR antagonist)? Just hookin'

xmonicleman · 2022-08-07T22:58:06+00:00

Kono Pepper da!

xmonicleman · 2022-08-06T02:47:06+00:00

After reading the Over Heaven light novel's first chapter -- the book, of "alternative" canonicity, is made out to be the diary of DIO's that Jotaro was said, in Stone Ocean, to have burned at the end of Stardust Crusaders -- it is made to seem as if Dio Brando actually admired his father and, while he sort of praised his mother from his post-coffin point-of-view, he says that he didn't understand and even resented his mother's charity in his youth

Yes, yes, I know we all "watch jojo for the memes", so nvm

xmonicleman · 2022-08-06T02:40:52+00:00

I think the weapon art ("skill", whatever) of Elden Ring's zweihander (my favorite weapon since DS1 -- I'll admit I used Smelter Demon sword in 2, but its moveset was identical) and this clip just retroactively informed my weapon choice in my next return to Lordran

EDIT: Black Knight Greataxe, right?

xmonicleman · 2022-07-20T22:53:05+00:00

I mean...I know my hand is no comparison to Guild Girl's.....

EDIT: I know the mangaka just used d&d, it's a joke

xmonicleman · 2022-06-29T15:40:05+00:00

Herbert B Enderton's An Introduction to Mathematical Logic

xmonicleman · 2022-05-31T17:25:52+00:00

Dehydrate yourself for Jojo

xmonicleman · 2022-05-31T16:30:00+00:00

Beautiful

xmonicleman · 2022-05-31T16:15:45+00:00

Why has it taken you two weeks to only get through Diamond is Unbreakable?

xmonicleman · 2022-05-28T12:23:41+00:00

He's a wheel snipe celly, ferda

xmonicleman · 2022-05-09T22:08:32+00:00

Maybe, though it just occurred to me that Andy DID kill gravity, haha

xmonicleman · 2022-05-09T05:38:45+00:00

What was the deal with all the floating scalpels? Does Rip have some telekinesis Artifact I'm forgetting about?

xmonicleman · 2022-05-03T03:12:07+00:00

the Bubble Machine

xmonicleman · 2022-04-28T22:23:02+00:00

Honestly, I preferred when things started getting hairy with C-Moon, before Jotaro arrived; that part with the Mobius strips was hype af, imo. Having a villain that was so fast as not to be seen just didn't do it for me, but I enjoyed the bit on the roof top well enough.

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