( Henshin Metal )

The name change of the Sears Tower in Chicago brought on yet another bizarre piece of pop culture nostalgia.

Around the end of the 1980s the action figure craze and the laser tag craze met head on with the series Captain Power & The Soldiers of the Future. As a tie-in to the toys and the quasi-interactive TV series (written by future Babylon 5 ( Read more... )

( Three Title Clips From Anime Of The Awesome Eighties Behind This Cut! )

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DIRTY LAUNDRY 5

"Write Them Funky Comics, White Boy!"

One of the depressing things about becoming a fan of Japanese cartoons and comics after childhood is the discovery that ideas that you thought were your own are suddenly revealed to you as already being achieved by others. Case in point: Bubble Gum Crisis. A superhero who is also a pop ( Read more... )