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Alex Carrillo
Age: 19
Location: Southern California
Ethnicity: Latin/Hispanic (I'm Mexican)
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. Daft Punk - Alive 2007

. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath

. DangerDoom - The Mouse and the Mask

. The Inkspots - The Millennium Collection

. Andrew Jackson Jihad - People Who Can Eat People Are The Luckiest People In The World

These are subject to change.







Frank Miller's Robocop
Frank Millar - Steven Grant - Juan Jose Ryp
Avatar Press

The original Robocop was fantastic. It was funny, violent, and it had some things to say about society (though not intelligently). The movie bordered on a thin line of acceptable ridiculousness, and was rather enjoyable cyberpunk flick. Robocop 2 and 3 on the other hand, were awful pieces of shit.

Everyone seems to place the blame on poor old Frank Miller for the dreadful sequels, but he says otherwise. According to him, Hollywood took his screenplay and made drastic changes. Producers of the film claimed that most Miller’s vision was “unfilmable”. Nevertheless, it left a bad taste in his mouth. Miller wasn’t too happy with the way Hollywood worked.

From 2003 to 2006 Avatar Press published nine issues of Frank Miller’s Robocop, now deemed to be the real Robocop sequels by nerds across the globe. The book follows Miller’s original Robocop 2 script, and bit off of Robocop 3 as well. He didn’t write it though. The adaptation was written by Steven Grant, but was looked over by Frank Miller.

With all that said, I don’t know if what Miller had written in his original script was worth all of the drama. The outlining story is practically the same. Detroit is still shitty, OCP still replaces the cops with a private military of criminals, and there is still a “Robocop 2” that Robocop has to battle.

I won’t tell you what differences there are between the movie and comic specifically. What I will say is that they make very little difference towards the end quality. Lewis still has no character, as well as everyone else in the book. Nothing is explored -- a generic and tired formula that begs to be ignored.

Grant does inject a bit of that satire found in the original film, and while it isn’t as good, he still manages to land a few on the bullseye. What is landing one hundred percent is the violence. Some of you could have fun with watching a woman’s burning, melting corpse slam against a wall.

The art was a tad difficult for me to review. While I can’t say it’s necessarily bad, it sure is “busy” (for lack of a better term). Too busy. Many times I’ve had to take a while to figure out what I was looking at. The detail work was somewhat impressive. In a way, it sort of channels that sense of chaos that comes from this universe’s version of Detroit. You can take it either way.

I can’t recommend this to everyone. I can’t even recommend it to most Robocop fans. You gain nothing from reading it. If you’re looking for something violent, or just want to rinse out some of what you saw in Robocop 2 and 3, then this could be for you. Everyone else should just…



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Older reviews:
Shooting War
Coward - Criminal Vol 1.
Frank Miller's Robocop
Fell: Feral City - Vol 1.
Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse - Vol 1.
Batman Death Mask
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life - Vol. 1

Coming Soon:
Halo Graphic Novel
Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Reborn
Preacher Vol. 1
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360 Racing Wheel - When Buying Peripherals Goes Wrong vexed alex | 2:25 PM on 01.05.2008 15 comments

Two days after Chrismas I went into a Circuit City (Best Buy was too packed) to check out some after Holiday specials. After checking out the stereo area I strolled into the games section and saw two 360 Racing Wheels. I checked the price and it was the new lowered $100 price point. All of a sudden I started making all kinds of scenarios in my head about how much cooler Forza 2 would be, and how better I would be. I was pretty much selling the wheel to myself without even knowing it. I went ahead and walked out with one and was left with $100 (plus tax) less than I had come in before. I got home and immediately opened the box. I pulled out all of the things and set it up on my couch. I realized that playing it on your lap is the worst place to play it on. The force feedback and the rumble turns that controller into some sugar rushed kid. It will not sit still and it slips all over the place. Trying to keep it still was a bitch, and the thing wasn't much more precise than a controller. So what was the point? I thought, "maybe I'll give it another try. I probably need to get used to it." The next day I saw a small tray table reasonably priced at $7. I thought, "shit, I can use this for the wheel." So, I took that home. I clamped the wheel to it and the fidgety wiggling was reduced but not eliminated. The table's wooden legs could not keep the wheel from shaking it around. That was just making me angry. It wasn't the wheel's fault, either. It's supposed to do that but you can't really enjoy it unless you have some sturdy dedicated spot to put it on. You have to really love racing games to own this wheel. And I do love Forza, but not enough to buy this wheel and feel like it was worth the money. Also, this thing is too big. It may be your cup of tea, but I honestly feel stupid for buying it. Even my girlfriend thought it was retarded on my part for getting this and she bought something from an infomercial. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE COOL!