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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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Modding and How I Suck At It vexed alex | 9:23 PM on 03.11.2008 22 comments

Now first I must explain some things. I wasn't doing anything really complicated. I was going to do a bit of cosmetic modding to my PSP. I ordered a clear faceplate for my PSP from colordrives.com. It was around $10 including the shipping. I thought I was set. Well, the piece arrived today and I was pretty damn excited. I grabbed my PSP and went through the package. It was nothing special. Just a piece of clear plastic. No receipt, and no instructions were included. I had to jump into the internet for my instructions. I thought, "Youtube." I ended getting some pretty good video instructions. Granted, doing this is probably the easiest modification around, but still. Remember my title? I digested the video and figured out how to get everything done. It was just 5 screws that needed to be removed, and the buttons had to be swapped from one faceplate to the other. Simple, yeah? Well, not when you don't have the proper screwdriver. I needed a really, really small screwdriver. Of course, me being the dumb ass that I am, tried using a slightly larger screwdriver. I was able to pull the screw under the PSP and two white ones where the battery is at. I wasn't able to pull out the ones behind the PSP. Not only was I not able to pull them out, but I also damaged the screws in the process. At that point I just said screw it (eh, eh, eh?) and drove over to the store and picked up a bunch of small screwdrivers. After a bit of hard work, I was finally able to get them out with one of the screwdrivers I had bought. I pulled out those last two bastard screws and gently pulled off the black shitty looking faceplate from the PSP. I removed the buttons, the d-pad, and the nub and put them into my new faceplate. The PSP faceplate looked shitty because it had a lot of scratches. Not because it was Black. I'm not Necros. This last part was the easiest. I just slid the faceplate back on and put the screws back on, and these were the results: It looks pretty damn cool, in my opinion. Now I can see my games without being annoyed by the scratches. I'm crazy about that stuff. I can notice scratches you can't and it ruins my experience. Yes, I'm insane. P.S. No bannings this time, k? :D