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• Project Blue Earth SOS Review: Science Fiction Anime Unlike Anything Seen Before

  By Franklin Raines on October 2, 2012 • ( 3 )

  At CotBF, we have a predilection for late eighties and early nineties anime, not that we have what we have been reviewing them much lately, but you will see visual trends common between them and our review tonight. But for… Read More ›

• Franklin Raines’ Month Long Tour of East Asian Horror: Because I Felt Like It

  By Franklin Raines on September 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Seeing that it is October and all, I believe that you good girls and boys out there in Internet Land deserve a little extra from me this month. I will be posting more Horror reviews (do I really need an… Read More ›

• So Guess Who Just Accidently Deleted All Of The Comments?

  By Franklin Raines on September 19, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Well Internet, it was bound to have happened sooner or later. After spending the last three-to-three-and-a-half hours writing an article, I felt the need to sort through our comments section. It appears that whenever one of use links back to either someone else… Read More ›

• The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode Review: It Is All In The Execution…By Way Of Decapitation

  By Franklin Raines on September 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  When you suffer the self-imposed affliction known as “Intense Media Saturation”, contempt breeds an inborn resistance to recognizable tropes or elements. You find yourself reacting to new plot ideas as simply the bi-product of a slight tweak to an already… Read More ›

• The Five Deadly Venoms Review: You Want Me To Pick My Favorite Venom…Impossible

  By Franklin Raines on September 4, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the reasons that I personally have not covered many Martial Arts (especially the Kung Fu subset) films on this site stems from the exact same reason that I tend to not cover a lot of (Spaghetti) Western films…. Read More ›

• Walkin’ Butterfly Review: Basically A Fighting Manga…About Modeling

  By Franklin Raines on August 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Previously, I have written about Josei manga and how there seemed to be no real push for them to ever reach US soil.  A title I brought up before was the efforts of now-defunct Aurora Publishing, their almost complete release… Read More ›

• The Mask Review: Comic Fandom! Why Have You Kept This From Me?

  By Franklin Raines on August 10, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  I found myself looking up a list of all the films based originally on comics for an article I was going to do for another site. The obvious Marvel and DC canon majority aside, I learned that there were a… Read More ›

• Magic Knight Rayearth Review: Wait? I Have Seen This Before, Yet It Is Somehow Different.

  By Franklin Raines on August 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  I feel like recounting my first expose to Shojo manga; thus drastically dating myself in the process. Starting as a ten-year old purchasing the first issue of Viz’s premier Shonen anthology magazine Shonen Jump, I grew accustomed to a boy… Read More ›

• Santa Sangre Review: The Circus Gains A New Level Of Impact When Jojorowsky Is Involved

  By Franklin Raines on July 31, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  A few months ago, I spent a few days visiting some of my favorite high school teachers and discussing just general things during their off period. One of those conversations was with my sophomore year Film teacher; we compared attitudes… Read More ›

• Rohan at the Louvre Review: If Only I Could Posture Like Rohan, But Unfortunately I Have A Spine

  By Franklin Raines on July 26, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  One of the two digits worth of things that keeps me tossing and turning at night (this is no joke, I might actually have a serious problem) is whether something is considered manga. As someone who will just as simply… Read More ›

• Blue Pills Review: Sometimes You Just Need To Write About A Romance Comic…Found Outside Of Horror

  By Franklin Raines on July 21, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  During the ten plus years that I have been routinely reading comics in all of their forms, I came to a point where I figured that I knew the countries where most were created: the UK, Japan, France, America, and… Read More ›

• Feature2-Five Numbers! Special: Hope You Like Orange Prison Uniforms

  By Franklin Raines on July 16, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  Five Numbers! was directed by Hiroaki Ando, who, as you will notice when watching Five Numbers! for the first time, is successful in working in CG animation. From his own segments in the anthology Digital Juice, to CG credits in… Read More ›

• Godkiller Review: My God Does His Blood Taste Fantastic!

  By Franklin Raines on July 11, 2012 • ( 0 )

  

  There comes a time in every media hoarder’s life when they learn the cold truth that something has eluded them. It does not matter how hard you try to keep up with publishers or distributors, no matter how often you… Read More ›