Royce's Random Thoughts

The Nelvana Tintin cartoons are now available for streaming on Netflix!

Courtesy of allah_sulu I am now in possession of a bootleg copy of the big (relatively) budget, live action Toho Studios remake of the classic anime Space Battleship Yamato. Thanks, dude!

Hoo boy, the Five Minute Review of this one is going to be fun.

In unrelated news, God is a cock. (no, it's nothing to do with me. Just a pro writer on LJ whom I like who has multiple family members with medical difficulties and would rather not beg for sympathy thankyouverymuch)

Once again the moronic ahem patriotic Right in my country is up in arms about Muslims being treated as, y'know, individual human beings instead of a faceless horde.

Short Version: The latest Detective Comics annual has Batman running into a Parkour inspired superhero calling himself Nightrunner. Who just happens to be a Frenchman of Algerian descent and a Muslim. This is apparently a problem for some people because of course French citizens who immigrated from former French colonies and who have lived in France their entire lives can't be, y'know, French.

Bear in mind this is coming from the same political spectrum decrying France as being full of "Cheeze Eating Surrender Monkeys" back when they declined to participate in Bush Jr. trying to work out his Daddy issues by invading Iraq. Headdesk

Frankly, my beef with this comic has less to do with using real world politics in a comic than the idea of Bruce franchising his Dark Avenger of the Night schtick. I'm definitely buying this one when it comes out on the stands though. And the "99" cartoon is utterly extraordinary. Hopefully Netflix will carry it after the first season comes out on DVD.

It only goes to really show that racism is being increasingly marginalized, the louder the Right screams about it. Try to imagine a show like 99 coming out twenty years ago, when the most positive non-white, non-Christian character in an adventure cartoon would have been Hadji in Jonny Quest reruns.