Ulti Reviews:

Welcome to the most redundant aspect of my Smack Jeeves reuploads. Doctor Who wasn't my first foray into writing critical or reactionary write-ups in response to what I was engaging with. Back around 2013, I offered up an opportunity for my peers on the website: to any fellow comic creators who asked me to, I'd read through their comic and respond to it with thoughts and advice. It was essentially a critic board.

I made about 60 or so of these reviews before eventually disliking the process, having realized that I wrote most of these akin to things like Nostalgia Critic or AVGN, in concept: Reactionary and for others' entertainment as they read through my reactions. The reviews weren't serving their intended purpose of actually being a helpful bit of advice for the actual authors, so after some thought, I wound up ending my review comic in January 2016, and starting fresh and new with a new format in October 2017.

The new format of reviews were designed to almost entirely just be for the author's sake. They were far more organized, but less accessible for anyone else to look at, even back when Smack Jeeves was active. Perhaps ultimately, in retrospect, there could've been a healthier mix between the two extremes of "for the readers" and "for the author". But it's too late for any of that, now.

After a few instances in the original run of reviews where people overreacted negatively to what I had to say (most notably with the first Digimon comic I got asked to look at), it caused a few problems that aren't really preserved anymore, aside from small bits of commentary I say in a few reviews. Generally, this occured from co-authored comics run by people who had problems taking criticism, constructive or otherwise. This is also what killed my motivation to keep going with the second wave of reviews, after my final review in December 2017 was of a co-authored comic that got very poor reception from the authors. It made me question why I was even bothering, if people wanted to ask for my critique but then not bother accepting or listening to it.

Anyways, all that being said, this is the most redundant aspect of my reuploads because.... well, Smack Jeeves doesn't exist anymore. You can read all these write-ups, sure, but you can't actually read almost any of the comics they're for. It makes a lot of this rather awkward, but that's what happens when a Korean business decides to delete an entire website from the face of the internet. At least by preserving these reviews, some small bit of other SJ comics gets to survive in some fashion.

Updates

03/06/25:
Season 2 of Sailor Moon is fully complete, with all 89 episodes AND the movie having received write-ups. I also looked at the corresponding Manga arc for that, making the Sailor Moon R page entirely finished. AND, to top it off, I'm already 6 episodes into Season 3, Sailor Moon S! Basically, episodes 86 to 95 are now up to read!

02/27/25:

Episodes 84 & 85 of Sailor Moon R have write-ups, but of larger note is the entirety of the Live Action Sailor Moon has been added to the Season 1 page of Sailor Moon write-ups. A large overview is present on the main tab, and scrolling down provides smaller reactions to all 50 individual episodes of PGSM. Now I can finally stop thinking about that show, and focus all my efforts on watching the anime. Season 2 will be done this week!

02/20/25:

Sailor Moon R is almost complete! Episodes 79 to 83 are now up with write-ups. Only 6 episodes and a movie remain.

02/13/25:

I really ought to post more updates when I can, so as I go through Sailor Moon episodes, I'll probably try to update weekly here at least. Anyways, 73 through 78 are all up on the site's write-ups section. Yay.

01/31/25:

After a long break, there are now two more Sailor Moon episode write-ups, 71 and 72. Not much back-end progress has been made elsewhere, but I did move all of 2024's update history into a new Updates Archive section, just to preserve the history of what I've been working on without jamming it all into every page of the site in this little box.