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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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IRC Cherry Popped/Emberassing Photo Time (NSFW) vexed alex | 9:51 AM on 03.03.2008 20 comments

Yesterday was the first time I jumped in to the unofficial Destructoid IRC...room? I don't know what you'd call it it. Isn't it just a glorified way of calling it a chat room? Anyways, regardless of what you'd call it, I had a really good time. I went on for a long time, actually. I think I stayed up until 3:20 AM, which is probably pussy shit for some of you. It's still a pretty epic hour for me to be up chatting with people. On the plus side I did get some school work done in between. It is a less hostile environment in there, but I think that's because all the fail people are most likely unaware of such a place. And you can get booted for ass hattery. I guess Macca is all the hostility you're going to get, but it's OK because he's European and probably has bad teeth. I can pity him for that. There's nothing much else to be said. There were some lulz, but I really have nothing to quote. We did end up playing a game for about 3 minutes that asked a disturbing "would you" question for a large amount of money. That was fun. Again, Macca's Europeness made him answer yes to everything (<3 U MACCA). But, it was a blast. AND NOW A BREAK! HUMILIATING PHOTOS OF MYSELF! My mom's hair is fucking epic. That's all that needs to be said. I was so cholo growing up. It's like...insane I didn't get shot. Balla'! I be in my Power Wheels Jeep. It goes 1 MPG and the battery dies in 5 seconds, but whatever, right? I had wheels and that's all that matters. Here's a picture that makes me look at my mom and think, "what the fuck?" I look like a freaking cartoon character! What was she thinking!? She had to have gotten that outfit at some clown's store. Had to. There's no way they'd sell that at a department store or any self-respecting store for that matter. I had a crush on that little girl in the pink Ranger outfit. Well, that was until I found out she was a snitch. She broke my heart when she told the teacher I was eating Juicy Fruit gum. Whore... [IMG]A naked picture of me used to be here. Took it down out of kindness. I still luled.[/IMG] OMG BALLS! PEDO ON D'TOID! I'm not getting in trouble for posting this because Colette did the same thing on the front page of Destructoid. I just have to get that out of the way. She had a picture of a kid holding his wee. Anywho, controversy out of the way, that's are my "area" up there. I'm sure a lot of you have a picture of yourselves naked as a baby. If you don't your parents are probably weird and most likely isolated you from the world by placing you on home studies. Also, I was a fucking weird looking baby.