Smars Comics

well, another season/series of Kamen Rider has come to an end with the season finale of Kamen Rider Wizard. this was the series that got me back into KR and really made me gain a whole lot of perspective on what the heck i've been trying to do for the last... i dunno 15 years that I've been self publishing comics (yes it's been that long) it was a fun series, only slightly predictable in some places while in others, completely indulging my need for a good plot or character twist. I would say that this is the ultimate use of After Effects in a KR series so far, the use really punched up the ideas they were trying to convey and I hope they go forward with what ever team of effects animators they're using, for each series after this. I think the way this series looked in effects is how they've wanted the show to look since the very beginning, but the effect technology wasn't anywhere near where it is now. it's definitely a series with rewatchability in...

So, I only just started watching Kamen Rider Hibiki , I’m only 12 episodes in but I felt like I had to talk about it because I’m hooked. I like Kamen Rider, I have for a very long time. But sometimes life can drag you away and I missed a few years and so with it a few of the different series.     I started playing catch-up in a really random way, dancing around some of the series from the early 2000s. And while I was reading articles on Wikipedia about each series, trying to decide which one I was going to watch next I found Hibiki .  What interested me so much was that unlike any other series the entire creative staff was pulled off the show half way through and replaced by a different crew of people. For many people in kamen rider circles this is a big topic of discussion then and still to this day, because the tone of the series apparently shifted. Because of that a lot of people ignore the second half of the series regarding Hibiki as an unfinish...