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Alex Carrillo
Age: 19
Location: Southern California
Ethnicity: Latin/Hispanic (I'm Mexican)
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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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Comic Review: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life Vol. 1 vexed alex | 2:38 AM on 02.03.2009 0 comments

Bryam Lee O'Malley Oni Press We rarely get any western comics that deal with relationships that are actually worth a purchase. I generally don’t even seek these books out. I’m more of a capes and cowls or crime book kinda’ guy. The last book I read that even comes close to Sott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life is the Boondocks comic strip compilation (All the Rage). This book is a bit deceiving. It starts off like an average true-life story. Scott’s a 23 year old kid who’s living off of his gay friend Wallace. He’s in a band called Sex Bob-Omb (every gamer should get that refrence). He is inappropriately dating a 17 year old girl named Knives, and falls in love with an older “Amazon.ca” delivery girl. Yes -- this book takes place in Canada (Toronto), ‘ey.” It all really just seems like it’s based in reality and nothing really preternatural will happen. For the most part, that’s exactly it. It’s only ‘till you get to the end that you’ll realize why I say this book is deceitful and when the premise of these books is revealed. That’s not a bad thing though. It’s actually my favorite part of the comic. The amazing thing is that Brayam's writing makes even the most ridiculous moments seem normal. The characters aren’t the most unique, but they’re easy to fall in love with. Scott is a pretty known caricature. He’s the upbeat, lazy, semi-dumb nerdy guy who, while confident, has aspirations that seem impossible for him to reach. His friends are equally typical, but there’s a charm that comes from people you can relate to or feel you know. They’re pretty well written, and they’re not as silly as Scott. The art is very minimalist. It’s in that black and white manga style. Bayam draws and writes everything himself, and while it isn’t exciting, it is aesthetically pleasing. It did find it difficult to tell the difference between “Young Neil” and Scott at first though. It’s pretty easy to pass this book up. It doesn’t seem to stick out, but like the cliché saying goes, “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover.” It’s not the deepest comic out there, but damn is it fun. I say you should pick it up. You may end up falling in love like I have. Attached photos: