Alright, here with are with my first batch of comic reviews. Everything will be on a scale of one to five something random of my choice for that installment. Also in each review session I’ll be highlighting five issues of note in a video review. These might be issues that are particularly important, are fantastic or horrid piles of rubbish. I’ll give scores for them too but no other info. I’ll also offer up a best line/section of dialog for each review time and also a best cover. I'll avoid spoilers as much as possible and the only time I'll definiately offer spoiler material is if the story flat out sucks, because in that case I'm just saving you the trouble of reading it.
This time I’ll be basing things on a score of one to five possible Mentok’s.
Now then, on to the stack of comics! I’ve got a very large stack this time, a few weeks worth, so this will be broken up into two parts.
Best Cover - Deadpool issue 11
Best Line - “I suppose you looked me up wanting fatherly advice. Well, first things first, son : seldom sleep with whores and never sleep with your sisters. I’ll tell you other important stuff as I think of it.” - Jack in Fables issue 85, part 7 of 9 of the Great Fables Crossover
Having recently come off of inFamous, I've been looking for another sandbox styled superhero game to fend off the shakes. Prototype, having been delayed several times over the course of the last few years, finally offered to be that easing fix I needed. Prototype was developed by Radical Entertainment (gaming for the X-TREME!), a gaming company with a development record that can be best described as being on the "Highway to Fail". But enough beating on Radical, they have their big brother Activision to handle that job.
Prototype is a sandbox style game centered around the recent events of a man named Alex Mercer. After suddenly springing to life in the middle of an autopsy, you discover that a strange virus is ravaging the city and the military has stepped in to help save the people of New York...with bullets. I know we have been down this road a dozen times before and the previous administration has helped draw attention to the federal punching bag that is the US military, but at this point bouncing the government between blood sucking vampires and drool dispensing retards is a little cliche. Can't we move on to something new? Anyways, with the military in full swing its up to Alex to not save this city. Your entire motivation is revenge, which might be able to move the little plot train to closure station if your family was murdered by the ectoplasmic pirate mafia, but leaves a great big gaping hole in the story when you rise from the dead with no memory of your life. You can consume people who will grant you knowledge about what is happening but there is no rhyme or reason to the knowledge gained. At any given rate you could be hearing about the inner most workings of the Illuminati from a Marine Private or obtain a string of questionless agreements from a genetic engineer, so either the government is compartmentalizing in an extremely unorganized fashion or the story board is fucked.
Everything that is occurring in New York present stems from an incident that took place in Iowa during the 1960's. The US military, who apparently wasn't evil enough so far, performed biological experiments on the wholesome families of their enlisted men. When everything went tits up they torched the town and kept one little... [Read More]
I am writing this in a library, someone has brought their kid in. She keeps shouting "HIYA!" and no one is doing anything about it
With the end of the English Rainy Season (which started somewhere in August of 1619) Summer has arrived and I have been stricken with hayfever. Of course, being a man, I am not telling my friends it is hayfever. I am telling them it is the black death.
There is a park just in front of my house which is remarkable for being one of the few places in the north of England that isn't entire obscured by snail trails, dirt, and discarded bottles of cider, and the venomous invisble clouds of death and noseblock are hitting my house with the strength of a thousand hurricanes.
I'd try to make my house air tight but with I'm scared of tampering with the labirynthine obstacle course of booby traps around my front door and windows and I don't want to disturb the trails of salt scattered around in an attempt to find out where these snails are coming from.
They've been there for two weeks now and I haven't found any snail remains, which means I either killed them all on the night I found the bastards, or they are waiting for the right moment to strike.
I am sure that if I survive the onslaught of Mother Nature and her malevolent forces I will return to find that they have taken over.
I digress.
The most obvious solution for this hayfever crisis would be to go out and buy some medicine. The cheap shit doesn't work and the expensive stuff is expensive.
The society frowns upon stealing.
The little girl is still fucking shouting. AND SINGING.
Her father has made very little attempt to get her to shut up.
Why do so few people care that their kids are annoying the fuck out of people?
The people who live in the flat above me are constantly shouting at eachother, the kid, who is 13 years old, is always swearing, shouting, screaming, and pestering neighbours for cigarettes, the other son who is 17 is always getting hauled out by the police, the mother is always drinking and shouting and screaming at the crying grandson. There are always other kids around running up and down, banging, shouting, crying, and fighting.
This will start around 7 in the morning and last until 10 at night. The only times it is quiet in that flat is when there is no one... [Read More]
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Metropolis, the worlds collide,
Ain't nobody could be on your side,
I don't care, I don't care
Metropolis is something new,
Ain't nobody got their eye on you,
I don't care, I don't care
Metropolis, the worlds collide,
Ain't nobody on the other side,
I don't care, I'm not there.
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