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Irregular’s Intel – Pacific Rim and Mecha

I love mecha, I really do! I’ve longed to wake up and find out that I am a pilot of a Veritech fighter and can fly around and transform at will and kick some Zentradi ass! I’d even be happy to control a Gundam. I’ve hoped and wondered how would that even look on the big screen? We did have a glimps of that in the B movie Robot Jox and it was about as good as you could get with a B movie budget in the 80’s. So it was back to anime. But, decades later, we got our bigass robots fighting bigass monsters… and not the cheesy Power Rangers kind, either! We got 2 and 3 person controlled Jaegers, or hunters, who moved and fought with finesse – it was the mecha we had been waiting for for so long!  Continue reading Irregular’s Intel – Pacific Rim and Mecha

GW1 Issue 148 – Heroes and Monsters

We’re cramming a lot into this week’s episode – trailers, movies and tv! We talk about the plot and character clues from the new Deadpool 2 trailer, the premiere of the Constantine animated series, the return of the time travelers of Timeless and the premiere of the pre-Superman Krypton. Plus, we have a review of the giant robots fighting giant monsters in Pacific Rim: UprisingListen now!  Continue reading GW1 Issue 148 – Heroes and Monsters