First critique

In 1984,Dragonball, written and illustrated by Akira Toriyama, debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump. I doubt Akira or the guys over at Shonen Jump ever imagined what would happen next. Dragonball was and instant classic. Dragonball would go on to spawn three anime adaptations, countless toys, movies, video games, and pretty much any product you could think of with a dragonball logo on it. I would imagine that most Americans are most familiar with the second anime adaptation, Dragonball Z. It gave us the Sayians, Freiza, and recently some very amusing "Over 9000 memes." I'd imagine that there are very few people in developed world that haven't heard of Dragonball or its spinoffs.

While it is common knowledge that Dragonball has left a giant mark on the face of global popular culture, I'd like to pose another question. What influence has it had on the art community? Or better yet, what influence should it have had? In my opinion there is no point to draw, paint, sketch, graffiti, or smear a wall with feces , in any image other than that of Son Goku. Any image of Goku is art at its best. After Goku, there is no point. Goku is the anti-life equation of art. And now we get to the point of my blog. in each post I will take a piece of art and rate it on its Goku-ness.

And now we get to our first post. Lets start with an image of Goku.

As you can see, This image of Goku is perfection.

This wonderful piece is brought to us by Alex Bussiere of Columbia, mo. First off, it's an image of a human being so we are going to award it 5 Super Sayian points, but it's also clearly a lady, so we are going have to take 30 Spirit Bomb points. Not that i have anything against women, but there are like no female Z-fighters. You could count Bulma, but she doesn't have any powers... unless you count babymaking(bom chika pow wow) and i don't. Guess you could also count Videl, but she sucks. What can i say, the women of Z-universe stay in the kitchen.

The female has black/brown hair so I'm gonna go ahead and throw down 50 Snake way points, but she's not in and orange karate gi so Im going to take those all back. Really I don't see why orange karate gis are worn everyday by everyone. They really are the best apparel you can buy. they are sleek, comfortable, flexible and that sweet orange is o so stylish. Imagine you're walking down the street and some hater steps to you. You're already rocking a gi so you're in prime position to Instant Transmission over to his face and roundhouse kick it. Then he gets to Instant transmit to the morgue. And since your gi is orange, you get to look stylish while you murder a man. Thats some John Woo, Wachowski type shit. 

I really love Alex's piece, but what its lacking is that ability to instantly grow golden hair while becoming one hundred times stronger quality that I look for in art. I give this submittion a grade of N.K.  NOT KAKAROT

If like Alex's work( and really you'd have to be dumb to not like it) check her out at http://alexandrabussiere.tumblr.com/