Skip to content
dot and line logo
  • Newsletter
  • Latest
  • Interviews
  • TV
  • Movies
  • About Us

Author: Molly Brenan

I’m Molly. I’m a New York transplant who still loves it when people mistake me for someone who can’t drink yet. I was born too late for the zeitgeist of the personal essay industrial complex. I got a Twin Peaks reference on the back of a volume of manga.
News TV

KyoAni Taught Me What It Meant to Become Special

July 25, 2019December 30, 2019 Molly BrenanComments Off on KyoAni Taught Me What It Meant to Become Special

Remembering those lost in the attack at Kyoto Animation through their work.

EDITORS PICKS

really wild animals

‘Really Wild Animals’ Turns 25 Today

By John Maher

The world is burning and melting. Poor Spin would be in anguish. And yet this show still inspires, in its sumptuously silly way.

An Urgent Question About ‘The Pagemaster’

By Rebecca Long

IS IT STILL GOOD!?

dragon ball z explosion of anger

This Is the Best Scene in Every Version of ‘DBZ’—No Matter What

By Eric Vilas-Boas

Applause for this moment.

stitch

‘Lilo and Stitch’ Taught Me That I’m No Monstrosity

By Elly Belle

A little blue baby alien and his friend, a little Hawaiian girl, were all I needed to show me I could choose my family—and that I was deserving of their care.

wild horses cowboy bebop

D+L Podcast: Just What Was “Wild Horses” About, Anyway?

By The Dot and Line

The Cowboy Bebop podcast looks at the bond between bounty hunters and their spaceships.

digimon adventure tri

The New Digimon Movies You Need to Watch Right Now

By Amanda Ramsaran

A spoiler-free review of the ‘Digimon Adventure tri.’ films, because the nostalgia is REAL.

“Big,” A Poem for Peridot of ‘Steven Universe’

By John Maher

A pantoum in which Peridot, one of the toughest gems on ‘Steven Universe,’ reflects on her new life on Earth.

Cartoon Dads, Ranked

By The Dot and Line

With only the finest — the pères de la pères — of animation. Happy Father’s Day!

  • Newsletter
  • Latest
  • Interviews
  • TV
  • Movies
  • About Us

GREATEST HITS

mobile suit gundam universal century

40 Years Later, Gundam Has the Universe

By The Dot and Line

The franchise’s anti-war argument for the future is still potent.

the great pumpkin charlie brown

Why The Great Pumpkin Still Haunts You and Me

By John Maher

Halloween, the descendent of Samhain, is about the overlap between the realms of the visible and invisible. Isn’t that enough?

2017 editorial | Editorial by MysteryThemes.