September in the Rain — This Week’s Links

Keeping it brief, up top, as it’s a busy edition of this week’s links, below, and sometimes you have to dash out of the house, in order to answer a deluge of questions about exhibits at the Science Museum, posed by a seven year old, and resist the age-old temptation to go full Calvin’s Dad sicko mode with your responses. another fat dragon — Linnea Sterte (@decassette.bsky.social) 2026-09-01T15:15:20.748Z This week’s news. • Dipping into the comics crime files to start the week, as mangaka Masami Kurumada, creator of Saint Seiya and Ring ni Kakero, filed suit against a former executive colleague, who is alleged to have embezzled ¥4.6 billion (around $29 million) from three of Kurumada’s companies, with the help of six other individuals, before being discovered by the Tokyo Regional Taxation Bureau in 2024. • Elsewhere, a former production assistant on Amazon MGM Studios and Big Indie Pictures' TV adaptation of Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips' Criminal has filed suit against the companies, alleging that they failed to investigate claims surrounding Brubaker, currently serving as the adaptation's showrunner, who is alleged to have fomented a hostile work environment, by engaging in, pe...