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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 Friday Night Fights: No Baby-Peen Edition vexed alex | 4:15 PM on 04.11.2008 22 comments

America seems to think a naked baby is something disturbing and disgusting. I guess I have to follow its sad, pathetic, religiously influenced rules. I wouldn’t want to be charged with child pornography with a picture of myself innocently naked in a crib. A picture my own mother took because she thought it was cute and a good memory to have. So from now on I can’t post that picture, even if it was an awesome and silly tension breaker. I really want to, but I don’t want to get Detructoid in trouble. I love this site too much to risk it being shut down. However, if you’d like to see me fully naked now, please go ahead and direct yourself here. I’d like to thank everyone who thought it was funny. Seriously, please breed. Please have kids and teach them your ways, because American society is absolutely ridiculous right now. To think that people killing each other is far more acceptable to view on television than two people making love. It’s absolutely outrageous, and to the sad, pathetic, fucker who flagged my picture as “offensive” on photobucket, eat a cock. Eat a cock and let the sperm choke you to death. Now, with that out of the way, it’s time to Halo! Tonight’s festivities will begin at around 10 PM EST and 7 PM PST. Look for my gamer-tag to show up online around that time. I have to ask that if you have any non Destructoid friends, please try not to bring them. This is a community thing. We can’t have the room filled with random people. Last week for the small amount of time I was on there were about 6. I can’t have that. The party will be invite only, so joining will require an invite. If I forget to invite you, please send me a message with the text “FNF” and I’ll quickly send you an invite. This goes for newbies and veterans, but I’ll most likely catch the people I know coming online. As for what we’ll be playing? A fuck-ton of stuff, and that’s all you need to know. I don’t have any type of organization when it comes to what we play, so that’s that. I’m an improviser, but like all the greats, many times I fail. Or as that all the losers that fail a lot? If you have any questions, please PM me or send me an IM on g-talk (alexandorator@gmail.com). My IM window is always open so I can’t miss you when you ring me. For those new to FNF there’s an awesome c-blog post that will appear or is probably already up. Just click on this here link. For those across the pond, you’re on the wrong blog, but you’re welcome to join anyway! Go check out Wardrox’s blog for your Euro needs. Same thing goes for you PS3 owners. Head on over to Jimbo’s blog for the deets on your Blu-Ray player that sometimes, kind of plays games (I kid.). Attached photos: