MPS.com v3.0

Posted by MangaPunkSai on April 13, 2007

‘Sup bitches, welcome to Sai’s Asylum verson 3.0! I’ve updated the site to Wordpress and I have to say I’m very pleased about it. Okay so the fanart is missing, the shop is scaled down, and alot of the art is missing descriptions but overall this will be better, trust me. Check out the galleries, they’re powered by the fabulous ANIGA and look pretty damn sweet. Parody into Dreams has its own spot on the main menu (for now) and is powered by LazyK Gallery. Yeah see the only problem with using gallery plugins is they can generally be used for only one thing. I’d have used the ANIga gallery for it all, but then PiD and people’s fanart would be in the sidebar image rotation and we can’t have that, cause obviously it’s ALL. ABOUT. ME.

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NiGHTS Journey of Dreams

Posted by MangaPunkSai on April 13, 2007

Recently a whirlwind of rumors concerning a follow up to the classic game NiGHTS into Dreams… more widespread and informative than any past bustled their way into the intertubes. Unlike all the NiGHTS rumors seen over the past ten years, however, these actually turned out to be true. NiGHTS Journey of Dreams is set to come out this fall, and like most NiGHTS cultists I’m just giddy as a little school girl.

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Making Comics With Scott McCloud

Posted by MangaPunkSai on April 12, 2007

A while ago I went on a sort of shopping spree at the bookstore. Somewhere between grabbing The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis, passing up a book on child molestation scandals in the Catholic church over the last few centuries, and picking up volumes 10 and 11 of Fullmetal Alchemist I spied a book with the word "Comics" and the name "Scott McCloud" and snatched it up without a second thought.

Now, I will admit to never actually having read any of McCloud’s comics, and yet I recognize him not only as the brilliant mind behind the 24 Hour Comic but also as a comic guru of sorts. His level of enthusiasm for the artform reflects my own which is probably why I respond so well to his books. Where his quirky ideas have also been criticized or even considered crazy, it’s definitely nice to hear more than the same old same old from cartooning books.

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