Definitions by Snapper2001

Kubie

A Kubie is an artist taught by the late Joe Kubert and who also has graduated from the Joe Kubert School of art.

Thomas Yeates, a veteran Kubie, has made some of the most humorously written Tarzan and Prince Valiant comics of all time.

Kubie by Snapper2001 January 20, 2026

IDWit

An IDWit is someone who is an engrossed fan of IDW comics adaptations to many a geek favourite, such as Transformers and Godzilla.

Nelson, are you an IDWit?

IDWit by Snapper2001 January 20, 2026

Norakuro

Norakuro is a fifty year manga epic which has lasted from 1931 to 1981. The most famous arcs outside of Japan are the ones with wartime floofball hood antics and much more so the marriage between the titular hero and his sweetheart, birthing a whole family together.

Norakuro is definitely a spiritual ancestor of Kinnikuman and Naruto. Naive and street smart simultaneously yet not quite as definitely stupid as the Canuck version of George of the Jungle.

Norakuro by Snapper2001 January 17, 2026

Himbo of the House

A Himbo of the House is perhaps any stock Himbo Menace who owns a house, that’s shown in Dragon Ball and Tar-Chan well as Brooba, Ranma 1/2 and Kinnikuman.

Johnny Weissmuller as Tarzan surely popularised the Himbo of the House that swamped the shit out of Shonen magazines by the time of the Heisei period as well as the 1990s in general.

Himbo of the House by Snapper2001 January 17, 2026

Brooba

Brooba is a so bad it’s hilarious touch of shit of a Tarzanesque jungle film, which gives dweebs a pretty good look at how popular Tarzan really was in Japan.

Who wants to watch the Brooba movie where the titular protagonist yowls like a lion and yet turns out to be the pioneering Himbo of the House?

Brooba by Snapper2001 January 17, 2026

Retrodream

A Retrodream is when chronically online people glaze retro styles to the point of no return.

This is beyond strange. Someone could get it to maybe parody stuff, but by making it a style, these chronically online crackheads want the tech your grandmaw grew up with, but seem to mock at us as people, it’s like a revisionist Retrodream.

Retrodream by Snapper2001 January 12, 2026

Heisei Retro

Heisei Retro is a term that refers to the very bright colours and non-internet excess of early-mid Heisei years.

If anyone can claim authorship of the term Heisei Retro, it’s Mero Yamashita, a collector, exhibition curator and writer. He argues that the early Heisei years belong to a distinct cultural epoch, as different from today as Showa was from the Taisho Era (1912-26).

Heisei Retro by Snapper2001 January 12, 2026