#apocalyptic!tko

[carpooltherapy]

Carpool Incorrect quotes part 4!! Featuring @bubbleberryuniverse

[convexfuss]

goodbye and good luck turbo. we'll be... fucking off now. again... we are sorry. for everything that's happened. suddenly having all of this come out of nowhere and change everything. it's okay to cry. to run. to hide. please try to be safe. it will be okay someday. It's gonna be alright~

[Unfortunately, he doesn't notice the anons are leaving until they're all gone. He's alone.]

[ask-beast-o-tonicko]

Session 52

He walks on his way to the train, muttering under his breath, "Please don't let me see him again he's so annoying--"

[ask-kimerako-therapycarpool]

took a while for you to get over the cage yeah? nobody's telling you to just get over that. you were hurt and it sucked to the point it still messes with you. same with him, just with a whole lot of other stuff on top of it. ...have patience with yourself.

I wasn't even talking about the cage before you brought it up, genius...

[ask-apocalypticko]

scary? oh no... and you've been working so hard on facing your fears as well.

tttbb.. t.. t.. t... tk.. tko...

[ask-mutant-ko-n-tko]

how does crux being a flower make you feel?

"I don't know..... I'm... not sure how to feel about it right now. I'm still upset at what Decomp said and what I tried to do to him, but... I just don't know..."

[librarycomic]

Djeliya: A West African Fantasy Epic by Juni Ba. TKO Studios, 2021. 9781952203244. 180pp. http://www.powells.com/book/-9781952203244?partnerid=34778&p_bt

The Wizard Suomaoro destroyed the world from high in his ivory tower. Now Awa Kouyaté, last in a line of djeli guiding the rulers of Keita, is helping Mansour, the surviving heir to the Keita throne, race the holy man Mbam to the tower's secrets. (Awa and Monsour are actually to blame for the situation -- the pair stole a criminal lord's powerful juju for Mbam, which allowed him to break into the tower.) Mbam sees himself as on a quest to restore order by replacing the wizard. But Awa and Mansour need to beat him to the top, to stop him from ruining the world.

This post-apocalyptic tale has traits of superhero and manga comics, along with giant djinnes, monstrous criminals, magic, and high technology. The art is as kinetic and energetic in places as FLCL. It runs the gamut from wild colors to black and white, and turning from one page to the next I never knew what to expect. From berserk layouts to old school manga screen tones, this book has everything and it all works. The story itself is demanding, going backward and forward in time in a rhythm that needs more concentration than the average graphic novel, but which is so worth reading and rereading. What a book!

#bookreview #graphicnovel #graphicnovelreview #fantasy

[askedgylonefighterko]

Ah, right... Well... Crux is a younger KO who was separated from his TKO because of Shadowy and was living in an apocalyptic environment for over a year and started staying with Edgy after everyone died and now he's a deity. of powerlessness. Cool huh.

that’s certainly…uh…interesting.

[dustedmagazine]

Algiers — There Is No Year (Matador)

hey say the end of the world is coming. An apocalyptic cavalcade of equine flogging clowns gallops across a devastated planet drowning in noise. Algiers’ front man Franklin James Fisher casts a jaundiced eye over this landscape, observes, describes and despairs. On their third album Fisher and fellow multi-instrumentalists Lee Tesche and Ryan Mahan and drummer Matt Tong strive to maintain the impact of debut Algiers and its follow up The Underside of Power with mixed results. There Is No Year is the first Algiers album to be recorded by the band in a studio together rather than through file sharing. Ironically it seems to have sapped some immediacy from their music.

So much of Algiers’ power resides in Fisher’s voice and the call and response with both his band mates and the gospel backing. There Is No Year hits hard at the start but lapses into some turgid moments where the band seem enervated by screaming in the darkness and lose momentum, not through lack of passion or commitment but more from the fatigue of preaching to the never will be converted. It is testament to the vision of Fisher, Tesche, Mahan and Tong that the relative low points only marginally dampen this collection. “There Is No Year” opens with a juddering martial beat over a bed of synths as Fisher declaims “Now it’s two minutes to midnight/And they’re building houses of cards/It will spiral out until the day we all fall.” Already there seems a Beckettian resignation but the hollering response of the backing vocals push the song along. Likewise “Dispossession” combines Fisher’s febrile sermon “Run around, run away from your America/While it burns in the streets/I been here, standing on top of the mountain/Shouting down what I see.” with gospel backing, double time hand claps and deeply layered keyboards that create a palpable excitement and tension which dissipates over the next couple of tracks which lose their way in mid tempo meandering and an over reliance on fire and house of cards metaphors.  

It’s the moments Algiers push their sound forward that make this album worth your attention —  the squalling saxophone solo and distorted bass synth of “Chaka”, the church organ on “Nothing Bloomed” and a welcome blast of punk energy on “Void” that brings to mind the wig out at the end of Mos Def’s “Rock N Roll”.  

Algiers has always been about the collective, identity, action and movement. Their combination of political lyrics, gospel and soul with post-punk energy is a potent one that brings the righteous anger of both to bear. If Fisher and co feel wrung out at times it’s not through lack of commitment or creativity. No one said fighting the good fight would be easy and There Is No Year lands enough punches to win at least a TKO decision.  

Andrew Forell

[asylumkollectibles]

Gremlins animated series in development at WarnerMediaGet ready for another infestation of Gremlins.

WarnerMedia has announced that an animated series based on Joe Dante's iconic 1984 film has been put into development for its as-yet unnamed streaming service. The series will serve as a prequel, according to a report by Variety.

The story will focus on Mogwai steward Mr. Wing, the mysterious character from the original film who laid out the rules for treatment of the adorable/terrifying creatures (which were all, of course, promptly broken, leading to a near-apocalyptic Gremlin-based catastrophe). He was played onscreen by the late Keye Luke, who reprised his role in the 1990 sequel Gremlins 2: The New Batch.

The new series will be a "period piece" which will follow a younger Wing as he embarks on strange adventures accompanied by Gizmo, the friendly Mogwai whose mishandling by the well-meaning Randall Peltzer and his son Billy led to the increasingly insane series of events portrayed in Dante's film. It will be produced by Warner Bros. Television in association with Amblin Television, the TV arm of the Steven Spielberg-founded production house which also co-produced the films.

Attached as writer and executive producer is Tze Chun, who has an interesting pedigree, to say the least. A writer and story editor on the long-running series Gotham and Once Upon a Time, he's also the scribe behind the 2013 Bryan Cranston vehicle Cold Comes the Night and the award-winning 2009 drama Children of Invention; in addition, he's a co-founder of TKO Studios, a new comic book publisher who made a splash in the industry late last year with its signing of an impressive roster of talent and announcement of an innovative "binge release" model for its titles. 

Source : Looper

[carpooltherapy]

Carpool Incorrect quotes part 2

[convexfuss]

Anon!TKO: If you can face all that, be yourself and NOT try to be Shadowy 2... You can get there someday. To what you REALLY want and not what you think you want. ...I hope to be seeing you... Me. *he gives a genuine laugh (get it cause they're both TKO) and stretches... looks up at where the sun was and then breaks into a sprint and then through straight another window several blocks away*

[The sounds of the glass breaking in the distance gets drowned out by his now-quiet sobs.]

[ask-beast-o-tonicko]

*sigh* classic Decomp...

He sighs with the person. "At least I took care of it by hiding him somewhere... I hope he becomes easier to be around with and talk to soon..."

[ask-kimerako-therapycarpool]

also other villains. which are probably why he has such a potty mouth. honestly surprised he doesn't know more.

Ech.

[ask-apocalypticko]

how did talking with Spec's TKO go?

i d— i d.. i didn't...

[ask-mutant-ko-n-tko]

Well,what else can we do about it 😔

"It would be nice if he apologizes, but with the way his brain is... well....."