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Boosmahn wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 4:16 pm The reprint of the Shinya Tsukamoto set is good news — it was a little ridiculous how quickly it sold out. The loss of the book is a shame, though, as the contents were all very good reads. And I didn't even know the Graveyard of Honor set went OOP!

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:06 am

furbicide wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 12:56 am If you give Stanley money for the art he makes, I don't see how that's any different to paying an ex-con to serve you at a supermarket checkout. In each case, they're doing work that you're benefiting from, and that's the extent of the transaction. The notion that you're enabling them to be violent in their personal life just doesn't really come into it unless the work itself they are doing is tied up in exploitation. It's not that they shouldn't be held accountable for what they're doing off the job; it's just that there are good and bad ways to hold people accountable (good = calling the police; bad = getting a posse together and beating them up in the supermarket carpark, for example). I acknowledge that these lines aren't always clear, but I think they're necessary ones to draw and that – in businesses' rush to distance themselves from any and all undesirables – we as a society are categorically failing to do so at the moment.

Did I miss the part where Stanley has been arrested, tried, convicted, imprisoned, and released? (I haven't seen anything about the results of the charges in 2014, or the revenge porn incident, and obviously some of the public square outcry about these kinds of crimes is that there has not been adequate official responses to them.) Aside from a matter of scale and urgency, an "ex-con" would have at least in theory done his time and paid a price to society. The ex-con needs an income and a re-integration into society and people need food. The world can wait on an upgrade of Hardware until this guy has faced some consequence for his actions. In the meanwhile, if Stanley needs to get a job bagging groceries to get by, maybe he can find one of those.

Am thankful Michael B linked to Amaris' post. The writing's sharp and direct and compelling, and the fact she co-wrote Color Out of Space helped ameliorate some of the queasiness I got when Netflix shipped me that DVD the day before all this stuff broke.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 11:07 am In other news, Arrow is going to be releasing standard editions of Tremors, the Tsukamoto box, and the Graveyard of Honor series.

Maltic wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:58 pm

brundlefly wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 9:06 am In the meanwhile, if Stanley needs to get a job bagging groceries to get by, maybe he can find one of those.

How long is this meanwhile? He hasn't been charged, as far as I know. All we have is a well-written blog post.

Now there are another set of charges against him for Domestic Violence, Assault & Battery from another woman who was his partner. Another woman who believed him and loved him, and whom he beat the shit out more than once, and who was afraid she was going to die by his hand. I remember that feeling all too well.

Drucker wrote: Mon Mar 22, 2021 5:37 pm Arrow Academy to fully merge with the primary Arrow Video line. Not unexpected.

JSC wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:24 pm Kiss of the Spider Woman

dwk wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:29 pm It is apparently Irezumi, as that is the species of spider that appears in the film.

Other (potentially bad?) news is that Arrow has new owners

dwk wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 5:29 pm It is apparently Irezumi, as that is the species of spider that appears in the film.