Spilled Ink Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt Volume 1, “A Gundam Shame” By Austin Price • January 4th, 2017 Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt is achingly cool…cool in that grim, stupid, utterly unselfconscious way a Zack Snyder would eat up.
Spilled Ink Serial Experiments Lain, “Listening To The Suicidal Tendencies” By Austin Price • December 20th, 2016 “What swayed me was how well Lain conveyed the emotions that are attendant with and eventually lead to suicide.”
Spilled Ink Happiness Volume 2, “A Lovely Monstrosity” By Austin Price • December 14th, 2016 “The horrors in Happiness accumulate slowly…”
Spilled Ink Final Fantasy XV Isn’t a Road Trip; It’s a Day Spent Running Errands for the Folks. By Austin Price • December 7th, 2016 “Unlike the best of road trips, in FFXV, there is no urgency to your motions, no sense of propulsion driving you forward.”
Spilled Ink Akira or, “The Powers That Be” By Austin Price • November 30th, 2016 In Akira, politics only yield destruction.
Spilled Ink Blood Blockade Battlefront, or “Fight Nights, Blood City” By Austin Price • November 18th, 2016 “What Nightow understands is that New York City is a kind of barely contained chaos bursting with wild energy and implicit violence.”
Spilled Ink Unhinging the Familiar By Austin Price • November 16th, 2016 Shin Godzilla finally puts the horror back into the iconic kaiju.
Spilled Ink Happiness Volume 1, “A Monstrous Adolescence” By Austin Price • October 19th, 2016 The horrors of adolescence are even worse when you’re becoming a vampire.
Spilled Ink Bleach: The Sense of a Nonending By Austin Price • October 12th, 2016 Kubo Tite’s opus Bleach ran for over a decade, and caught plenty of heat for its ending, or lack of one.
Spilled Ink Bakuman. Hatred of Art Ain’t an Art By Austin Price • October 10th, 2016 Tsugumi Ohba has managed to make resident manga connoisseur bristle with Bakuman.