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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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I'm A Zombie! I Return From the Dead! vexed alex | 1:09 AM on 03.28.2009 27 comments

There have been some blogs floating around about the death of a certain Mexican Destructoid community member. Me. I have gotten a handful of messages throughout the day asking if what these blogs said were true. The answer (and I can't believe I have to say this) is no. I am not dead. I will tell you what lead to this meme though. That way this doesn't turn into one of those annoying inside jokes. It all started with a skype party. I thought it would be good times to sit around on a virtual couch with a few Destructoid members and have some casual chat. And what better way to socialize than by introducing a bit of booze into the mix? I soon realized that the only alcoholic worth drinking around my was tequila. There were 2 bottles. A bottle of 1800 and a bottle of Jose Cuervo. By the time I was buzzing it, I decided I wanted to turn it up a notch. I wanted to be drunk. Why not, right? What I didn't remember during last night's shenanigans is that alcohol isn't "instant action". It takes about an hour for alcohol to fully enter your bloodstream. I took over 10 shots of tequila nearly one after the other. By the time I was drunk I didn't want to lose it. It's stupid. I actually thought that I was sobering up when I was only getting drunker. This eventually leads to me blacking out. I went from mildly drunk to fucked up in a very, very short time. It was ridiculous. So what had happened during me going out was that I vomited. I puked and I think I fell on something because part of my back and head hurt. The amazing part of all this is that I actually puked in my fucking trash can and I managed to crawl into bed and pull the blankets over me. I guess I'm just that rad. All of this happened while I was still connected to Skype. The reason why everyone was saying I died is because after all the puking I went into complete silence. Subsequently, the meme was born. So all of this happened because I'm an idiot. Relax though. I live. No need to be upset at the people posting those blogs. It was all in good fun, and I actually got a call from Tactix to see if I was OK. My punishment for my stupidity was that I was sick all day. I can still taste the tequila. You can be sure that I'll never drink like that again...I hope.