Ian Simmons launched Kicking the Seat in 2009, one week after seeing Nora Ephron’s Julie & Julia. His wife proposed blogging as a healthier outlet for his anger than red-faced, twenty-minute tirades (Ian is no longer allowed to drive home from the movies).
The Kicking the Seat Podcast followed three years later and, despite its “undiscovered gem” status, Ian thoroughly enjoys hosting film critic discussions, creating themed shows, and interviewing such luminaries as Gaspar Noé, Rachel Brosnahan, Amy Seimetz, and Richard Dreyfuss.
Ian is a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He also has a family, a day job, and conflicted feelings about referring to himself in the third person.
Chapter 102 Verdict: A delightfully absurd power fantasy that finally leans into its creative potential.
Previous chapters hinted at a hidden ability: Nagi can pull characters out of his sketchbook into a parallel dimension called the Sketch Realm. Chapter 103 may finally show him using this as a defensive pocket dimension. Imagine Nagi drawing a door on a wall, stepping through, and emerging inside his own unfinished manuscript page—safe from reality-altering enemies. Chapter 102 Verdict: A delightfully absurd power fantasy
For those who have been following Drawing: Saikyou Mangaka wa Oekaki Skill de Isekai Musou Suru , Chapter 102 marks a satisfying pivot point. It serves as a culmination of the "Foundation Establishment" arc of the story, where the protagonist moves from simply overpowering enemies to manipulating the very laws of his new reality. Imagine Nagi drawing a door on a wall,
Unlike Solo Leveling ’s system-based growth or Overlord’s static supremacy, DSM aligns closer with Bakuman meets Re:Zero —creation as both power and curse. Chapter 102’s innovation is making the itself a source of dramatic tension, not just the result. Where other isekai protagonists hoard skills, Kanata must now delete skills to progress—a radical inversion. Chapter 102 Verdict: A delightfully absurd power fantasy
: Akira has become a "disaster-level" individual, and the kingdom of Strohheim is currently attempting to bind him through a marriage alliance with royalty.