By Andrew Goletz
I’m sending this one off to Dan minutes before the midnight deadline. (Five minutes before the deadline still counts as being on time.)
Crazy week with work, writing, comics and The Life of Reilly. Continue reading “The Haven: You Want Nostalgia? We Got That”
Another great Wizard World find was Death Comes to Dillinger, a horror/western. James Patrick, the writer, was a person I was quite familiar with from being a member of several of the same comic message boards. (That sounds incredibly geeky!) He did some online comic strips years ago that I enjoyed reading, and I’d heard about this series for awhile but never had a chance to pick it up.
One of the more interesting things about this new age of comics and how it relates to the Internet and vice versa is that you feel you actually know these people. I’ve probably read posts from James for five or six years now, and you get the sense you know these people. In actuality, I’ve never met him and I don’t even believe we ever communicated in a message board thread. That has its perks, since I actively sought out the book, which made it an easier find for me. Participating in these comic groups can have its advantages.
None of this is really the point, I guess. Death Comes to Dillinger is a great book. It’s a great-looking book. It’s got a great story. It’s got moments of fantastic dialogue, and it even has some iconic images that just capture your attention and stay with you. Death on a horse… riding into town. There’s your movie poster right there. Continue reading “Death Comes to Dillinger: Western style Horror”
Guest Post
Well, chances are he wouldn’t get along with Asada Ryutaro either. Then again, that isn’t saying much. Like Dr. House, Ryutaro (the lead character of the ongoing manga Team Medical Dragon) has managed to piss off just about all of his superiors and is only being kept on due to his amazing skill – the same skill that led an aspiring assistant professor to seek him out of his almost hermit-like seclusion in the first place.
At the beginning of the story, Ryutaro has been driven out of the world of institutional medicine by disgust over the political and business practices of the university health care system. He’s tired of the “feudal society ruled by an incompetent lord,” in which those who suck up to the heads of the departments (with the official titles of “Professor”) get the best positions, rather than those who are most skilled. In fact, it was his unwillingness to follow the orders of the professor of his department (opting, of course, to continue to provide medical care for a third-world country) that got him ejected from the world of Japanese medicine in the first place. Continue reading “Team Medical Dragon”
There are plenty of ways to get your fix of video game music these days. You can find midis online if you want to get an authentic feel, or you could download one of the many songs available from OCRemix. If you want to go the live route, you could check out a band like the Minibosses or the Neskimos (if you’re lucky enough to live near a show) and get a dose of rock-flavored video game music.
But there is another option. There’s a way you can get the authenticity of a midi file with the sheer power and awesomeness of a live performance. And, luckily, this show tours in more than thirty cities in the US and around the world. Continue reading “Video Games Live: Symphonic Video Games Come to the Capitol”
Warren Ellis is no stranger to taking a concept as simple as superheroes and turning it on its ear. He reinterpreted the superhero team concept with his acclaimed run on The Authority years ago for DC/Wildstorm. He seems to be set to do it again with Black Summer.
The Seven Guns were a group of adventurers who used science and technology to enable themselves to fight evil and corruption. When one of their members was killed and another injured, the team drifted apart.
John Horus was one of the most idealistic and powerful of these heroes. When he decided the President of the United States must be made to pay for betraying his country and leading the nation into a war under false pretenses, Horus executed the President, Vice President and most of his Cabinet. Continue reading “Black Summer #0”
Dynasty Warriors: GUNDAM is the fusion of the Dynasty Warriors series, which first began life on the PlayStation and found its fame on the PlayStation 2 console, and the Gundam anime series; the longest running anime series based on mechs and robots.
The Dynasty Warriors series is a beat-’em up action genre which involves the player taking the role of an important figure from the “Warring States” period of ancient China and doing battle with the different factions of the time. The series is based on historical figures and events, but the gameplay is most certainly not. Players will find themselves utilizing power ups that increase their strength, defense, and speed and collecting items from fallen enemies that can be equipped and used in future or previous battles. Continue reading “Dynasty Warriors: GUNDAM”
By Andrew Goletz
This column should be on time again barring any technical difficulties on the site. Dan is on the road for a special event that he’ll be writing about soon, but it may cause the delays of this column along with several others. The boss needs to get his ass out there and do some legwork, too, you know?
Well, if I ever learn how to do proper HTML and coding, I could help the poor bastard out and post new stuff myself, but then who would I get to blame???
I only have a handful of comments this week since most of my time was spent on all of the wonderful Life of Reilly details. (Big, big week for that little project.) Continue reading “The Haven: Pilgrim’s Progress”
So…, what is EVE TV? Originally, EVE TV was a free service to EVE Online players that allowed us to watch the very popular alliance tournaments. In order to make the tournaments more than just sitting there watching ships blow each other up – which is in itself fun – EVE TV added a studio with commentators (read: people from the EVE community) giving us not only the blow-by-blow of the game but also other related content, such as interviews with the DEV’s and news about upcoming game-related events.
The first of these events that I watched on EVE TV, a tournament that spanned a few days, was a lot of fun for me. I enjoyed watching the alliances fight it out and, in fact, this is one of the reasons I decided to join in the first place. After all, any MMO company that offers a service like that to its players for free has to be good.
The next event, however, was a tad different. CCP had decided to go through a distribution company named Jalipo and, as a result, if players wanted to see the higher quality versions of the tournament they had to pay. This experiment turned into a bit of a mess due to issues with the servers in which members were frequently unable to watch what they had paid for. Continue reading “EVE TV: PPV for the PVP Crowd”
First of all, let me start out by saying that all I know about the Green Lantern is what can be seen on the Justice League cartoons. I’m not a huge fan of space-related comics simply because they’re so fantastical and far removed from reality that I have a hard time getting emotionally involved in the plot. I can count on one hand the number of space comics that I enjoyed and didn’t feel like I was being punished by reading them.
Sinestro Corps was an interesting venture for me because I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. The $4.99 price tag certainly was a gamble, but I’ve been craving something by Ethan Van Sciver so I decided to take the plunge.
The art was the most enjoyable aspect of the comic. Every page was filled with huge visuals that remind me of the summer blockbusters that I love. I felt like a kid looking at the coveted Toys“R”Us big book of toys that comes out at Christmastime every year. It really was that good. Ethan Van Sciver took his time with this comic and it shows. Continue reading “Caught My Eye: Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special”
I picked up a lot of comic books at the recent Wizard World Con in Philadelphia. A lot of comic books. None of them have stayed with me as much as Brielle and the Horror. I picked up a copy on that first Friday and immediately returned to the creative team the next day to give them a heaping dose of positive feedback. I pulled a couple of wayward guests over to their table, as well.
This is the first issue of a live-action graphic novel. The creators have used real actors to portray the characters in the book and then photographed the “panels” in sequence to the story and then hand drew over the photos to create a pretty unique-looking piece of art. The only time I remember someone doing anything like this was Brian Michael Bendis (New Avengers, Ultimate Spider-Man) on his early work, like AKA Goldfish and Jinx, but it didn’t seem to be done to the same extent as this. I can’t begin to tell you how strange it was to see the “actors” at the Loaded Barel stand, read the book and then see the actors again. Continue reading “Brielle and the Horror #1: Actors Come to Graphic Fiction”
