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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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Nostalgia: When It Makes You Buy Sh*t vexed alex | 2:34 PM on 01.11.2008 11 comments

Today in the morning I was flipping through TV and I passed by Pokemon on Cartoon Network. The first thought going through my head was that they totally made the show weak sauce, but that's besides anything that this blog is about. The show also reminded me of my youth. I remembered a lot, including the way I got my parents to buy me a Game Boy Color. I don't remember how old I was. I was probably 10 or 11. My friends all had their Game Boys with copies of Blue or Red version. During recess while we were waiting for our turn on Kick Ball they'd have battles or trade. And I can't forget the times where the teacher was absent and we had a sub. Those days everyone who had a Game Boy would just sit in the back of the class and just play. So I remember after about the fourth week of being the kid without the game, I asked my mother for one. She immediately said no. It wasn't my birthday and it wasn't Christmas. I remember just begging all day. Asking my dad didn't help so I decided I'd work to getting it. I didn't realize that my perseverance was something that could be considered cute. I asked my mom if I could wash her car for money. She looked at me strange and gave me no answer. I walked into the garage and found all the things my dad used to wash his truck and walked outside. My mom saw me walk out. She called me and told me to come inside. I walked outside and saw both my mom and dad sitting in the living room. She told me that I didn't need to wash the cars. She said that she'd take me the next day to the store and get me one. She kept her promise. The next day we walked into a Costco and bought a bundle. It was the teal Game Boy Color, a copy of Pokemon Yellow version, some accessories, and a strategy guide. I played with that thing all day. The following week at school I was showing all my friends that had the older versions how cool mine was. I mean, Pikachu walked around with you! It was like playing through the cartoon show. I had all three starter Pokemon. I remember all of this crap. That old memory had me thinking about buying a Game Boy Color. My old one was sent to Mexico as a gift to my less fortunate relatives when I got my Game Boy Advance. That was my mother's worst decision. Yes, I'm a selfish cunt. So now I'm about $30 poorer and I'll be getting my Game Boy Color and a copy of Yellow version in the mail. I know I'm not going to regret this purchase like I did with something else. I'm keeping this forever.