wonga

this is like five seconds away from being a tim & eric skit www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7r_...

i associated wonga dot com entirely with the adverts where a middle aged man looks to the camera and shouts WONGA which i am now learning for the first time in 15 years was actually an advert promoting a completely different company

like genuinely well impressed with these little figures

lovekov-ier

it's one of those runs where in the month-to-month it felt like there were all these huge moments that were building to something truly legendary but going back and reading it as a whole it never really feels cohesive or that it has, like,

anything to say?

beyond "comics are cool and dying sucks"

i gotta make the kamen rider jeanne re-edit SO bad

i kinda don't really know whether it's possible to create a label to distinguish "real" small budget/independent works these days without opening it up to being co-opted by capital, esp. because parasocial "relatability" is such a huge trend in corporate-backed works in the influencer era

when i made games back in 2013 there was a push to try and group up all the transgressive/experimental/actively hostile to convention works by solo devs/small teams as "altgames" instead and it flamed out for like a dozen reasons

then "alt-" everything got co-opted and the scene flamed out lmao

sign from the paralympics too, placing the footage around summer 2012. you can also tell it's a decade ago by the fact that House of Fraser is open i guess lol