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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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True Life: My 360 Broke vexed alex | 7:26 PM on 05.12.2008 38 comments

Up until now I had not realized how much I really loved my XBOX 360. Now, I'm not saying this to start a fanboy war. I don't own a PS3 so this love comes from it just being my main gaming machine. I have a Wii, but goodness does it bore me. Sorry, Nintendo defense force, it just does. I have sitting in front of me, a copy of Grand Theft Auto. It's one of the greatest games I've ever played. When I first got it, I couldn't put it down. It was gaming crack, and now it just sits there taunting me. Any type of police chase or act of crime on TV hurts me like salt to an open wound. All of this fuels my newfound hatred towards Microsoft and the fact that they've royally fucked up the chance to be one of the greatest consoles of all time. All they have to show for their bullshit is an extended warranty (that only includes RRoD and not disc read errors) and a month of XBOX Live. To top things off, my XBOX damaged my copy of Grand Theft Auto. No, I wasn't moving it when I was playing. It just did. Somehow this isn't Microsoft's fault and they can't do anything about it. I'm left to deal with it on my own. Thankfully it still works, but it scratched it nonetheless. Deep scratches as well. This isn't something new, obviously. My story is just one in a pool of many, many tales of fail thanks to the big M. Microsoft can sit there in denial all they want, but I hope that their next system trips a little in terms of sales. They deserve that punishment for messing up so bad. People should be worried about buying a system from that company. No one should buy something and be afraid of it dying. That's insane. If things weren't bad enough that I have to come home from work and can't play what I want, I get a call from my mother that my dog ran away. If there's a God, he can eat my shorts. In other words, he can suck my dick. I FOUND MY DOGGIE! YAY! P.S. - To the faithful Halo 3 players, I'm sorry. I can't host anything without an XBOX. If anyone wants to take over for me next FNF go ahead. P.P.S. - Mario Kart sucks. It's been over 10 years and the motherfucker is exactly the same. I just don't give a fuck anymore. This is in response to me renting the game and being bored out of my mind, of course Attached photos: