#helluva boss laz

[lazerinth]

[forbiddentaako]

white hot desire and red hot anger

aka i wanted to draw my ocs as helluva boss sins, so we've got opal as lust and miriam as wrath. Laz as gluttony coming eventually (maybe aleria too once i figure out what sin to make her) but i got too excited with how these 2 turned out + thought they look fun as a duo with fire hair

[ofloyaliisms]

Lazarus my beloved imp~ they do a thinky

It's hard to take it seriously when me and a friend keep calling this the "milf skirt" lmao

[lazbriar]

some stella I did in june, the "queen of Lazcorp"

[historyhermann]

My Dad the Bounty Hunter Review

My Dad the Bounty Hunter is a coming-of-age animated sci-fi adventure series by Everett Downing Jr. and Patrick Harpin. Both have worked in the animation industry for many years, often as storyboarders or writers. However, this is their first series they have created on their own. This review will have spoilers.

Reprinted from Pop Culture Maniacs and Wayback Machine. This was the twenty-fourth article I wrote for Pop Culture Maniacs. This post was originally published on February 14, 2023.

This animated series centers on the story of Terry (voiced by Laz Alonso), a Black father who has a secret job: he is a bounty hunter named Sabo Bok. One day, his children, annoyed by his constant disappearances, stowaway in his flying car, and find themselves in a spaceship. Terry is forced to care for his precocious daughter Lisa (voiced by Priah Ferguson), and his nerdy, but anxious, son Sean (voiced by Jecobi Swain). All the while he faces his former business partner, Gorlox (voiced by Rob Riggle), and the Conglomerate, represented by The Fixer (voiced by Jim Rash) who is a bit like Agent Smith in the Matrix franchise.

Personally, I was not planning on watching this series, and knew even less about it, as no one has even bothered to create a Wikipedia page for it! In an effort to watch more shows made by Black creators, I decided to give this series a chance, and I was impressed by what I watched. The voice actors and animation was top notch, as is the music selection.

In some ways, My Dad the Bounty Hunter felt familiar. That's because voice actors like Yvette Nicole Brown, Kari Wahlgen, Yvonne Orji, Christian Lanz, Keith Ferguson, Andrew Morgado, and SungWon Cho, who voice Krs, Lootbat, Tess and other assorted characters in this series, are all well-known voice actors. They are known for their roles in The Ghost and Molly McGee, Velma, Fairfax, Elena of Avalor, Victor and Valentino, Craig of the Creek, High Guardian Spice, Gen:Lock, and The Cuphead Show.

Furthermore, the plot line of this series reminded me, in more ways than one, of episodes of Dogs in Space and Cleopatra in Space, which share some of the same voice actors. It even made me think of the first season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch, when Omega and the Bad Batch are on the run from various bounty hunters who want to kill or capture Omega.

Since the series is for all ages, there rarely blood spilled, just some laser battles, fights, and the like. Sure, no one is invincible, but also, no one gets seriously hurt, apart from Terry crash-landing on a planet and some scuffles. There aren't assassinations on the scale of the Immediate Murder Professionals in Helluva Boss or mass murder akin to the season one finale of Invincible.

All in all, I found My Dad the Bounty Hunter a fun watch. Even so, I would have preferred, just as I did with Season 2 of The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, for 1-2 episodes to air every week, rather than all the episodes dropping at once on February 9th. That would allow for more time to take in what is happening in each episode. On the other hand, the series almost seemed to be designed for a binge, since a lot happens in a short period of time, assisted by music and fast-pacing. The series was undoubtedly affected by the fact that, reportedly, 99% of it was produced "at-home" because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

There was nothing to dislike when it comes to the show's cast. This is despite the fact that this is Laz Alonso's first major voice role, while Jecobi Swain and Priah Ferguson are new to voice acting. They only voice characters in Hamster & Gretel and Firebuds. The same can be said for the more seasoned voice actors, including, apart from those I mentioned earlier, Jamie Chung (as Vax) and Maddie Taylor (as Torga). There are other new voice actors such as Leslie Uggams (as Grandma), Everett Downing Jr. (as Bogdog), and Devin Bright (as Player 2). This gives the series life and makes the characters much more relatable.

Just as The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is likely to garner a Black audience, the same is the case for My Dad the Bounty Hunter. It is designed for families, especially, like many other all-ages series currently out there. In addition, characters like Lisa, who is sassy and intelligent, may become beloved. Some might even connect to the fact that she organized a gambling den at her local school and held high-stakes poker games. She is like Maya in The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder, in that she when she gets passionate and determined, no one can stop her. In fact, Lisa becomes skilled with a sword, and plays a vital role, especially when helping her dad out of some tough situations, as does her brother Sean.

As I've said in other reviews, 3-D animation is not always my favorite. For instance, I think the Tales of Arcadia can be a bit hard to watch at times due to the animation style. However, the animation is done very well in this series. It is as strong as the flowing animation in D4DJ. Computer generated images can be good if they are animated with a distinct style, but traditional, 2-D animation, is just as good. The series was supposed to be 2-D originally, but it cost less to do 3-D, as they didn't have to build sets, while flashback scenes were 2-D, which separated "the present from the past" as Harpin noted.

Due to the fact that My Dad the Bounty Hunter is only 10 episodes, there isn't much time for lore, or even exploration of everyone's backstory. There's some backstory given for Terry, Tess (Terry's wife), and a bit for Lisa, but that's it. Even so, this doesn't take away from some of the messages in the series, emphasizing the importance of family, togetherness, and overcoming obstacles. This creates a wholesome series which sticks with you, episode-to-episode.

This fades away when the story centers on brutal exploitation of the Chillas by the Conglomerate. These creatures are imprisoned and forced to mine minerals for no pay (i.e. as slaves), with the materials only used to make the Conglomerate that much richer. Unlike Qui-Jon Jinn, who only freed Anakin from slavery on Tatooine, Lisa, with the help of Vax and her comrades, frees all of them. She ultimately convinces her dad, Terry, to side with her, once he realizes he is doing the wrong thing.

Watching My Dad the Bounty Hunter made me think of the exploitation of the worms in Futurama, especially exemplified by Slurms MacKenzie, who caused the caves to collapse, when he parties one last time. There are similarities to the Ewoks in Return of the Jedi in more ways than one, or rescue missions in Star Wars Rebels and Star Wars: The Bad Batch, which ends up freeing those imprisoned, often by the Galactic Empire, even if it puts their lives in jeopardy.

The season one finale of My Dad the Bounty Hunter leaves the door open for more seasons. It remains to be seen if Netflix will go that route, or whether it will treat it like City of Ghosts, a curiosity which executives deemed as needing no continuation. I remain hopeful that despite all the shenanigans going on at Netflix right now, they will renew the series.

After all, since the series is based on the dynamics within the family of co-creator Everett Downing Jr., there is likely more to explore in that realm. There are other plotlines which could be told in a second season. Perhaps Lisa will have a boyfriend, or even a girlfriend, and family conflicts may erupt, changing this from a happy family-friendly series into a more mature one.

Even so, it is likely, more than not, that a second season would continue to portray a loving Black family, and have additional sci-fi elements, which the creators said they incorporated into the series the best they could. When asked about another season, one of the co-creators said he would like to focus on Tess and "give her a shot in the captain’s seat."

Furthermore, since the first season of My Dad the Bounty Hunter was said to be a "love letter to animation, science fiction, and Black families" rolled into a wild action-comedy, it is possible that another season would go even further. There is a lot which can be done with animation, unlike any other medium, which makes it apt for storytelling. Of course, not every animated series is superb, and some are subpar. But, when animation is done well, it shines like nothing else. This series shines.

This series is unique, even on Netflix. While the streaming platform hosts shows like Princess Power, Ada Twist Scientist, Dogs in Space, Hilda, The Dragon Prince, Bee and Puppycat, and Dragon Age: Absolution, nothing even comes close to this series. The same can be said for the upcoming Agent Elvis and Mulligan.

The only comparison with this series is on other streaming platforms, specifically in the Star Wars franchise, a flagship grounding Disney+ in the streaming wars. Perhaps, My Dad the Bounty Hunter is being used to compete with those series. Although, if that is the case, it would be absurd, since the other series are much longer lived, and likely have more money behind them.

In the end, while My Dad the Bounty Hunter is not my favorite series ever, I thoroughly enjoyed watching it and I'd definitely recommend it, as it can be watched in its entirety during a morning, or an afternoon.

My Dad the Bounty Hunter is currently streaming on Netflix.

© 2023 Burkely Hermann. All rights reserved.

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[junker-town]

The Astros won the wildest World Series game in recent memory

The Astros came back against the vaunted Dodgers bullpen, even though that’s not supposed to happen.

LOS ANGELES — At some point after the hills around Dodger Stadium caught on fire and a drunken fan jumped into the Astros’ bullpen, there was a home run, a longer home run, an even longer home run, and a home run after the home run after that. There was an umpire moonlighting as a hockey goalie to prevent the winning run from scoring, and there was an immaculate bullpen that couldn’t stop allowing runs. The Astros were dead before they were alive before they dead before they were alive before they were dead before they were victorious, and as the smoke poured into the ballpark, it was impossible to know if the whump-whump-whump of the helicopters around the ballpark were for the fire or the World Series, and it’s not like anyone could tell the difference.

Deep breath.

Hands up if you remembered that Rich Hill and Justin Verlander started this game.

The Houston Astros have their first World Series win in franchise history, and they had to earn it. They had to clamber over the narratives and self-doubt to reclaim their identity as the lumber-thumping monsters under every pitcher’s bed, and they had to figure out which wire to cut, while the timer on the homemade bomb was ticking down to zero. They had to beat Kenley Jansen, who is an improbable analog to Mariano Rivera, who was improbable to begin with. They had to pick themselves up off the floor after yet another dismal offensive showing threw the first seven innings, and they had to focus after their bullpen blew yet another sure win. It was as if Ra’s al Ghul crushed up a blue flower and made the Astros confront their deepest, darkest fears from the last week, and they succeeded anyway.

Deep breath.

Hands up if you remembered that Josh Reddick scored the first run of the game.

There was a solid two hours of Game 2 where I was going to center this article around the Branch Rickey quote, “Luck is the residue of design.” Rickey was the former GM of the Dodgers and a sabermetric pioneer, and that quote was the perfect prism through which to watch this game. For the first seven innings, it was clear that the Dodgers had the luck, and they had the design. It didn’t matter where one started and the other ended. All that mattered is that they were never going to lose again, even if that’s not how baseball is supposed to work.

Take the Chris Taylor play in the fourth inning. Here was a middle infielder playing center field for the 58th game in his professional career, and somehow he hadn’t been tested. The ball didn’t find him, as it often finds inexperienced defenders. It’s luck that he hadn’t been tested with a game-changing defensive play; it’s design that the Dodgers sought him out and helped him reach his potential; it’s luck that the Mariners didn’t balk at the trade. This can go on for a while.

But he was finally tested with that game-changing defensive play, and he kind of whiffed it. A more experienced centerfielder would have made sure it didn’t get by him.

The @astros strike first! Alex Bregman with a RBI single off Chris Taylor's hat. https://t.co/jguQ5dy9Dd

— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) October 26, 2017

It hit off the bill of his cap. Not the side of his head. Not his nose. Right off the bill.

It didn’t carom back to the infield. It didn’t zing past him to the warning track for a possible inside-the-park homer. It went right to Joc Pederson in left field.

The hat prevented a run from scoring. It might have prevented two runs.

It was like that for everything. Yasiel Puig effortlessly moved the runner over to third with no outs (design). Corey Seager’s home run might have gone out on a cool autumn night, but it was hot again, so there was no question (luck), except he was around because the Dodgers thought more of him than over a dozen ostensibly smart MLB teams (design) and then they developed him into a superweapon (very much design). Everything that could go right for the Dodgers was going right for them, just as it had for most of the regular season, and at some point, you have to drop the l-word out of your vocabulary. A working factory is also the residue of design, and the Dodgers were just better at everything.

Except that’s not how baseball works. That’s never how it’s supposed to work. Baseball isn’t supposed to be solved. There’s no game theory that leads to a perfect bullpen and baseballs off caps. My notepad read “BASEBALL SHOULDN’T BE THIS EASY,” and it was underlined several times. The Dodgers were 55-11 from June 7 through August 25 this year, and this was that team again. They had solved baseball. Again.

It’s not like the baseball gods were going to correct the discrepancy immediately, though.

Except that’s exactly what happened. The key play of the game might have been a catch that wasn’t made, even if it was a minor miracle that there’s a human being alive who was capable of getting a glove on it.

That close. That was in the eighth inning, and it brought the Astros a run closer. It was poor luck that Puig didn’t catch it, except it was design that Bregman was capable of hitting an opposite-field shot like that, except it was ... hot damn, this is exhausting.

That run meant the Astros were just a run away from tying the game, with the only problem being that Kenley Jansen was a helluva boss level. He had put hitters behind 0-2 in 98 plate appearances over his career. Just five batters managed to get a hit after that. The last time he allowed a homer on a 0-2 pitch was in 2016.

Then Jansen threw a pitch here to Marwin Gonzalez:

It was the worst possible cutter from a pitcher who specialized in the best possible cutters. Is that good luck for Gonzalez or bad luck for Jansen because that’s the time his nervous system decided to float a cutter over the plate? Was it good design for Gonzalez or bad design from Jansen, or both, or ... hot damn, this is exhausting.

Also, the unseasonably warm weather and hot air probably helped this ball get out, too. It wouldn’t be the last homer of the night helped by the climate.

The Puig non-catch started an avalanche. After the Astros stayed alive because of a ball that ticked off a possible Gold Glover’s glove in right, there was a mystery cutter to tie the game, and then there wasn’t just a lone home run in the 9th, but another one in the 10th and another one just after that for insurance.

Nothing epitomized the silliness of this game, though, more than Chris Devenski’s throw into center field that should have ended everything. There was no luck in the Dodgers’ ninth inning. There was only design. Yasiel Puig hit a ball into the abyss, calmly laying his bat down, which is somehow even more disrespectful than throwing it in the air. Logan Forsythe took a hard-earned walk with two strikes and two outs in the ninth. The Astros kept screwing up, first with the walk, and then with a wild pitch. Kiké Hernandez shot a ball through the right side to tie the game. The crowd was berserk. The Astros’ closer was out.

And then, before Devenski could even throw a pitch, he gave the Dodgers the game.

I don’t know. It’s impossible to tell if that would have allowed the runner to score. The trajectory of the ball was taking it into left-center, and Cameron Maybin was shaded well into right-center, so I’m going to say that Laz Diaz is the reason why the Dodgers don’t have a 2-0 lead. Or, more accurately, Devenski’s pickoff throw was so bad, that it ended up working out.

Even if the runner wouldn’t have scored, it was still a mess. Devenski was feeling something like this:

The winning run would have been on third, and Devenski couldn’t do anything right. But then it all worked out. What was luck? What was design? None of it matters. Baseball is forever a jumble of that happened, now deal with it. This game was the purest example.

There were dingers and dingers and more dingers and record-setting dingers. If we’re going to swipe at Marwin Gonzalez’s wall-scraper, we have to acknowledge George Springer’s. The hot air was not a friend to the Dodgers. They thought it was, but it stabbed them in the back, comforting the Astros in Game 2, instead. Which is lousy luck. Except those Astros players have been designed to hit those balls in the air in the first place. It’s a complicated mess, but so is baseball. It’s your stupid fault that you’re into it.

There were wild pitches, long home runs, a fan jumping into the Astros’ bullpen, and fire, fire, fire! There were helicopters circling and police sirens whooooooping loudly into the night.

The end result was that the Dodgers and Astros combined for more home runs than in any other World Series game in history. They hit more homers in extra innings than any other team had ever done, including postseason. And they both needed baseballs to hit caps or umpires to win. Nothing about Game 2 made sense, even after you concede that the sport can be a little weird. This whole mess was beyond weird.

The only thing the Astros know is they have home-field advantage in a best-of-5 World Series now. The details will fade, unless you go out of your way to look them up. All we know is that the wildest postseason game in years, if not a generation, tied the series up, 1-1. There was luck on both sides, and there was design residue on both sides. It was the Astros won, even after the Dodgers looked like baseball’s perfect team throughout the postseason and parts of the regular season.

That’s not how baseball will ever work, though. There are no perfect teams. There are just good teams who get shot into the pinball machine and cascade down. The Dodgers were perfect, and then the Astros turned it all around. I’m not quite sure how it happened, but the important part is that they aren’t, either.

[lazerinth]

[lazerinth]

she’s a red flag, but red is my fav colour so what it do babyyyyy

[lazerinth]

[lazerinth]

[lazerinth]

Through magic may we have a verosika/laz child?

ofc!💕💖 :D

[lazerinth]

not sure what to do with these poses yet! was thinking casino bunny outfits v( ‘.’ )v

[lazerinth]

Now introducing… Laz! A Helluva Boss succubus-sona, who I shamelessly ship with Verosika hahah💕💖

Small backstory; The two met at a bar! Laz was the bartender, and Verosika was drinking her feelings away after Blitzo stole her car and maxed her credit cards 😭🫶🏻

[lazerinth]

How do they have kids if it’s two girls??

they are succubi xD