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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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Halo 3 FNF Contest: Win 1600 MS Points vexed alex | 3:14 PM on 08.27.2008 28 comments

Cue the fireworks and confetti! No, not because I’m back, but because I’m back, and I’m giving away something nice this Friday! What perfect timing as well. The week Castle Crashers is released I’m hosting a little contest where you get a chance to win enough Microsoft points to grab yourself a copy of the highly anticipated XBOX Live Arcade game, and still have enough points leftover for something else. Don’t worry, though. As you can see from my title, all you have to do is show up this Friday Night Fights and play a few rounds of Halo 3 with your fellow brotherhood (destructoiders). If you’re already a fan of the game this means fun on top of a nice prize. The Rules: If you’re a veteran of Halo 3’s FNF you probably played the last time I held a contest. Granted, it took a while for me to get to it, (I was busy - sorry) but this time I’m fully prepared and have cleared my schedule for the night. The rules are fairly simple. You show up, play, and for every game you win you get a point. Each point will give you a chance to win those points. I’ll draw a winner after we finish playing and announce it the following day in a recap blog. Now, winning doesn’t mean you have to be MVP of the match. As long as you’re in the winning team, you get a point. It doesn’t matter what’s going on, who’s playing, or who we’re playing against. A win is a win and you’ll get the point. This way I can give the newbies a chance at winning. The last contest I had wasn’t the most organized. This time I’m going to have people sign up by placing a comment or sending me a PM that they want to be registered. I’ll add your name to my list and you’ll be all set. This way I won’t be adding you bastards during the game. It takes up too much time. I will be posting up another blog on Friday as a reminder to those who didn't check it out today. That doesn't mean you should sign up again. It'll also explain how the night will go on and DLC scheduling as well. I know some of you still don't have the newest DLC so know you'll be taken care of. So, come on down, enjoy the company of us unlucky assholes who won’t be attending PAX. Got any cool maps you want to show us? Send me a PM or link me in the comments and I'll be sure to check it out. Otherwise, don't be afraid to ask for host if you forget. Also, know that I will credit you for your finding in the recap if your map is good.