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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
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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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 My title is a half truth. Recently I've been pushing Halo 3 away to jump into some Team Fortress and with the number of people, I can see that not happening much. There are about 3 open rooms open at any given time, but I do search for games to find that there aren't any going on. This saddens me. I really do enjoy playing and want to play some more. Not only is the Live TF2 community tiny, but no one communicates. No one's organized. I go into a game and everyone's either a fucking Spy or an Engineer. There may be that one Soldier or a Heavy and I'll have to jump in as a Medic. I have to, and it's not that it's bad, but it sucks that I have to pick up after people's stupidity. And when I am Medic, it seems as if they're trying to avoid me. They'll literally continue to run in front of sentries in attempt to destroy them. Of course, I'm not going to try and follow them because I want the Uber charge so we can stand a chance, but nope. And yes, I know the PC version is far more alive. Way, way more alive, but I can't run that game. So, your suggestions about playing the PC version are lost. I'm not going to upgrade any time soon because my laptop is OK for what I need it for (minus games). I can't afford a new PC. I was a bit down on TF2 when I first played it. I thought it was cool, but I wasn't into it. After playing a little more I've completely fallen in love. The game is just so damn charming and fun. It's a break from Halo's fragfest only (if you're in matchmaking) gameplay. My question is, why? Why don't people play this on Live? And if you're on Destructoid and do play TF2 (XBOX 360), send me a request. I'm not great, but I can hold my own in practically any class. I don't mind being the Medic. In fact, it's pretty damn fun sometimes. Also, for those that don't play, try it some more. Get off ____________________________________ Xbox 360 Top Live Titles ( based on UU’s) 1 Halo 3 2 Call of Duty 4 3 Gears of War 4 Guitar Hero III 5 Burnout Paradise Demo 6 Assassin's Creed 7 Madden NFL 08 8 Mass Effect 9 Kane & Lynch (Demo) 10 Guitar Hero II Mind you, these numbers are from December, but the only thing that will have probably changed is that Kane and Lynch demo.
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I say the next FnF, everybody gets on TF2, DO IT!
Oh, and my GT=HatePinata
Still working on COD4 but TF2 will be coming shortly =)
But just as often, there is 0 communication, and it's a pain in the ass.
It's the Halo Syndrome- when playing Halo 3 online, people automatically default to Slayer, regardless of what is being played. And since Live is 90% Halo players, there is a lot of spillover. But there are some good TF2 games to be had- it just takes patience.
It's sad too because I love the game. I've contemplated buying it again for PC but I'm not sure my rig can handle it, I don't have a mic for voice communication, and $30 for TF2 on Steam is hard to justify when I technically already own it.
I think there are a few reasons why it's not doing so well on LIVE. It's a PC centric franchise for one so a lot of the people playing got the PC version, Halo had just come out a month before, and the lag was unbearable and made the game unplayable at times especially coming off of Halo. Plus the server interface isn't very console friendly and I think it might have confused a lot of people. Gears of War's had a really good balance of the PC style and console style and I think most people are used to the Halo system which CoD4's mimics.
But yeah. It's sad.
My rig is 4 years old and I can run it fine on medium settings, so if yours is even older than that, you could run it on low (and get a little drunk so you don't notice the low res textures).
The drunk part is optional but you get the idea. The PC version rocks hard.
And to the "just play on PC" crowd, this is why I don't do it.
That's good to know. When I get some extra money I'll probably throw down for it. Also, I'll be wasted.
In the past few weeks I've added quite a few orange box friends who know how to play the game, and when I host a match they will frequently join. We usually have some good bouts. So just keep playing and add people that you like to your friends list.
It's nice to see that Valve hasn't ditched the game on the console(s). New maps are coming out as well, right?
I'll keep at it. Hopefully I will find some more people who play more seriously. Just not too seriously. I had one guy yelling at me, calling me a n00b, and cursing out my mother because I didn't live up to his expectations on how good I should be. I had to make fun of him for taking it too serious.
It's nice to see that Valve hasn't ditched the game on the console(s). New maps are coming out as well, right?
I'll keep at it. Hopefully I will find some more people who play more seriously. Just not too seriously. I had one guy yelling at me, calling me a n00b, and cursing out my mother because I didn't live up to his expectations on how good I should be. I had to make fun of him for taking it too serious.
I do enjoy TOB, but everyone that bought it, went with the PC version.
I have 1.73GHz processor and 1GB of ram according to my system properties.
I'm not into hardware so I'm not too sure, but I do know that I can barely run the original Halo and Half-Life 2 is nearly unplayable.
The PC version really is very nice, do keep it in mind.
I'll take you up on your offer and send you a request.
It's not looking too good for him.