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Breaking It All Down - the ‘Zine, He Didn’T Provide One Cover, He Provided Two Vol: 1. No: 2. Winter 2014 About the Front Cover When I asked Brian, who I’ve been friends with since High School, if he’d like to do a cover for the first issue of Breaking It All Down - The ‘Zine, he didn’t provide one cover, he provided two. After we decided which one to use for the first cover, I asked if I could use the second for the ‘zine’s second issue, and he said sure. About the Artist Brian A. Caslis is an artist living in Oregon. You can find more of his work at http://greencoat7.tumblr.com/ Breaking It All Down – The ‘Zine has reached its second issue! Hurray! In the time between issues, I’ve been swamped with schoolwork (boo), but I have been able to go to OryCon and say hello to Ben Yalow, Susanne Thompkins, and Jerry Kaufmann (yay). However, alas, due to all the excellent panels I went to, I didn’t get to spend as much time with them as I would like (boo). Though, I was able to meet some new people as well (yay). I also had a continuation of my Introduction to Anime series in Chris Garcia’s The Drink Tank (issue 361), which can be read at eFanzines.com. While the first part covered series from after 2001, that article covered some older series. This issue has the conclusion of the introductory sequence, with an article covering SF and fantasy manga. I do want to take a moment to give an open call for people who are interested in doing cover art for the fanzine. As this is a fanzine, I can’t pay you, but I can link to your site or DeviantArt page (or Etsy page, if you have one of those). Please send me an E-Mail at [email protected] if you’re interested. - Alexander Case Contents The Mailbag 5 Book Review – The Final Programme 12 Anime 103 – Manga 13 OryCon 2013 Con Report 20 Movie Thoughts – Thor: The Dark World & The Day of The Doctor 21 Video Game Review – Dead Space 23 The Mailbag I got a bunch of wonderful letters of comment for my first issue of my fanzine. I realize that I haven’t been able to send as many of my own out as I’d like (in part due to this last school term being busy as hell). Still, I do want to thank all the people who sent me LoCs, and to respond to them. The text of the letters will be displayed in Elementary SF. Chris Garcia writes: Howdy! Great to see ya up on eFanzines. While I don’t have nearly enough time to do a justifiable LoC on your first issue, I’m heading to England and have to do little things like packing and making sure the Kid stays alive while I’m gone, I had to say a few things on your first issue. First, great cover. I’m not much of an Anime guy (in fact, I wish we’d all go back to calling it Japanimation!) but I do love me some giant robots. Yeah, I loved Pacific Rim... There are a lot of folks talking about FIghting the Aging of Fandom. I get why, younger folks don’t seem to have the reverence for those older generations that I grew up in fandom with, but I know we need to refresh some. I’ve always loved having the Old Timers around to hang with, to suck the knowledge out of their heads. I would like to see more of a focus on film in fandom (and if you haven’t, give my zine Klaus at Gunpoint a read - http://klausatgunpoint.weebly.com) but I understand the desire to dedicate fandom to literature. Then again, there are few cons I’ve been to that don’t have serious media tracks. Spirited Away didn’t win the Hugo for Best Dram Pres Long Form, though it was probably the best thing on the ballot that year (and how do I dislike the final Lord of the Rings movie and all its false finishes!) though there are several other Japanimations (see, I’m taking it back!) that I would have liked to have seen on the ballot over the years, notably Vampire Hunter D, Akira, and Chobits for my taste, but also, it’s hard for ANYTHING that’s not US or UK produced to make the ballot, ESPECIALLY in Dram Pres. Note the absense of ANY French films from the ballot ever, The Fifth Element is the closest we’ve ever come. Pan’s Labyrinth won, that was a plus, but Iron Sky didn’t even make the ballot! It’s hard out there, especially when Hugo Acceptance Speeches can make the ballot and something like City of Lost Children can’t. Cross-promotion can certainly work, though here in the Bay Area, we have a large anime convention that purposely set itself against the long-standing local Literary con, BayCon, in an attempt to squash it. Bad mojo! I have to admit, Tiger & Bunny was OK, but Full Metal Alchemist pissed me off at how much I hated it. Just terrible as I couldn’t follow it at all and it felt like the tone which just switch every few minutes for no good reason. BAH! Then again, almost all my favorite cartoons from Japan are all from the 60s and 70s and 80s. Robotech, Space Battleship Yamoto, and Tiger Mask (and what I wouldn’t give to get my hands on a full set of those cartoons today!). I loved Pacific Rim so very much. A throwaway line about how the first Kaiju made landfall and it made it thirty miles and destroyed three cities sent me off on an investigation of what possible path it could have taken to have ONLY destroyed 3 cities in 30 miles! We’re a dense area up here by SF! I’ve never made it to the RetroGaming Expo, which is odd as my day job is as a Curator at the Computer History Museum and my emphasis is on Games, Computer Music, Graphics & Art. I’ve been to California Extreme a bunch, but honestly, I end up playing pinball all day! Bester is a write I’ve enjoyed, but has never become a fave of mine. This may be because I so often confuse him with any number of other SF writers from the 1950s and 60s! Sweet RUSH shirt! I freakin’ love RUSH! Thanks for puttin’ it out there. Gotta give your podcast a listen! I’m on Nerdvana (nerdvanapodcast.com) and Fanboy Planet (fanboyplanet.com) and I do one myself called Leaf and Let Die (leafandletdie.weebly.com) I really enjoy the Podcast form, though I usually pretend like I’m doing a really low-power radio show! Thanks Chris So, this E-Mail lead to me contributing an article for The Drink Tank! Thanks, Chris, for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I did double check after reading your LoC, and indeed, Spirited Away did not win the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form that year. For some reason, the Wikipedia entry at the time said that it had run, and I took that for granted, as the film won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. I’ve been meaning to come down to California at some point to go to California Extreme. I’ve heard great things about it from my friends who live down in California, as well as from the hosts of one of the video game podcasts I listen to, The Giant Bombcast. Interesting story about the Rush shirt – Rush was the first concert I ever went to. It’s been my good fortune to have never gone to a concert that was a bust: Rush, Video Games Live, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, and Iron Maiden. Warren Buff writes: I wanted to take the time to welcome you into this weird little corner of the SF world. Like you, I’m young (30, which is definitely young for the field), and write for (and occasionally publish) fanzines. You’ve come across the hobby just a little too late -- there was a Corflu (the fanzine convention) in Portland this year. Next year’s (in Richmond) is the first one in my awareness of them east of the Mississippi (other than the one in the UK, which isn’t any easier to get to), and the first on the East Coast in over a decade. If the current pattern holds, you’ll have one close by soon enough. You’re not the only new addition to the fanzine fold, either – Pablo Vazquez has recently put out a first issue of Lake Geneva, and while I haven’t asked his age, he’s pretty clearly in our cohort. And we’re not alone, of course -- John Coxon is younger than any of us, and Chris Garcia and James Bacon are a little older, but still young by fanzine standards, as is Espana Sheriff (I don’t know her co-editors, but reckon they might be in our cohort, or just ahead of it, too). So, I should actually demonstrate a bit that I paid attention to what you wrote. I’m not convinced that directly drawing in anime fans is a productive pursuit for traditional SF cons. I’ve seen it tried, even at relatively young conventions, and the typical anime fan finds that there’s just not enough anime (even with a few voice actors, anime panels, and an anime room) for them.
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