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Alex Carrillo
Age: 19
Location: Southern California
Ethnicity: Latin/Hispanic (I'm Mexican)
Religion: None

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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 Friday Night Fights: I'm Back vexed alex | 3:37 PM on 03.21.2008 16 comments

I love you, Knives I'm sorry I wasn't here last week to organize and do my hosting duties. There were some family things I had to take care of and I wont bore you or in my case depress you with the details. I'm back though, and with that, so is Friday Night Fights' Halo 3. I'm going to continue following the "DLC maps will be pushed back later into the night (possibly pushed until the morning)" policy. It worked out pretty well the weekend before last weekend. So if you're one of those people who have not purchased those new maps, you can join and play worries free. With that said, come one come all. Ignore that overrated Call of Duty 4 and enjoy some super hilarious moments with plasma sticks and splatters. The fun starts at around 7 PM Pacific and 10 PM Eastern. Depending on how busy I am it may start about an hour sooner. All you have to do is send me a message that says "FNF" and I'll add you to my friends list, and from there I'll invite you into the room. You can also place your gamertag in a comment below and I'll add you. My gamertag is right over to the right so don't be frightened when you get that random friend request. All map and game-type suggestions are appreciated. Please send me a PM beforehand because trying to do that during the night is a real bitch. If you have the gametype in your file share then that's OK as well and if all else fails I can just hand you hosting duties so we can play what you want to play. Just make sure it doesn't suck. We'll be doing a lot of rotating between casual games and competitive games, but there is no real schedule for that. I'm just letting you know so that both the hardcore and the people who love random weapons with assloads of vehicles can be happy campers. I guess that's all the needs to be covered. Join, guys. Even you new people and you lurkers. Getting together with people from the community is a lot of fun. Hell, playing with a lot of people is generally fun only this time you're guaranteed a good group of people. Yeah. This post did not need to be made as I've made this same post a week before last week. Nothing's really changed since then. I just had post that Youtube video up there because it's so epic. Also, it's good to remind the newbies. Halo 3 FNF is now officially over.