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Twilight

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:04:00 +0000

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

My rating: 1 of 5 stars

I picked up this book before the movie came out because I was a huge fan of vampire stories. I occasionally like to entertain the idea of the good girl and bad boy vampire. YEAHH COOL. After reading I thought it was okay. Nothing special. Yes it was a let down, but I read it again the next time I pretended the name Edward was The Count (Sesame Street) and man that was a story.

"One shirtless werewolf, HA HA.
two shirtless werewolfs, HA HA.
three, THREE SHIRTLESS WERE WOLFS!!! HAHAHAHAHA"

I'm not even going to bother adding a tag to it. It's not really a book.

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Kingdom Come

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:03:00 +0000

Kingdom Come by Mark Waid

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

the art was kick ass and the story was well told. Alex Ross made the world of the old and new Justice League come to life from paper and paint.

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Review: Entertain the End

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:02:00 +0000

Entertain the End by Katherine Applegate

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I kind of jumped into these books right after Animorphs ended. I think I mostly liked it because of the dark fantasy elements. The characters were where okay. Somehow I wasn't able at the time to really make a connection with any character. They all seemed to have one liner issues that worked against them to the point where I didn't believe that these kids could be real. Also it didn't help any that the ending of the last book was open ended. I like everything to be resolved.

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Review: Artemis Fowl

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I first found out about the book back in the Harry Potter phenomenon days. The critics were claiming it to be a Harry Potter competitor."Lies" I said to myself. Harry Potter was in a class of his own and there was no room in his school for anyone else. Well I later fell out of love with Harry Potter and I gave this book a second chance and listened to the Audio book. The books had all the qualities that I loved. Action, Magic-Tech, suspense and a main character that I could really like and hate at the same time.

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Review: Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:01:00 +0000

Blade of the Immortal, Volume 1: Blood of a Thousand by Hiroaki Samura

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Picked this up back in high school when I was looking to read something with a little edge. "An immortal warrior contracted to help a young girl avenge her parents death". The artwork is beautiful and amazing. The action is beautifully drawn. Hiroaki Samura knows how to draw and tell a story to the fullest.

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Review: The Forbidden

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:00:00 +0000

The Forbidden by L.A. Banks

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

It was okay. There was a lot of questing and looking for lost powers and new ones to unlock that I found intreging but after a while I just wanted the story to move along. Felt like a pokemon adventure with various level ups.

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Paranatural and Other Stories by Zack Morrison

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:57:00 +0000

Paranatural

A few weeks ago I found a web comic called paranormal. It's about a boy who moves to a new town. He discovers that said town is full of ghost and spirits that he can see. He soon meets other kids at his new school that can see them to! As it turns out him and the other kids also have "super powers" and are able to fight certain spirits that get out of line.

What I like most about this web comic are the characters. They are very energetic and fun. Reminds me of the fun I had as a child watching Saturday morning cartoons. This web comic has great potential and I hope it will continue to be a fun read.

Second Ever Post For Me

noreply@blogger.com (roo) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:32:00 +0000

ok i have been extremely lazy and never put up a real post but I have some news that may be good enugf for you guys to forgive me.

The pandora handheld is almost complete! most of you are probably wondering "what the heck is this guy talking about?" The Pandora is an opensource handheld that has been in the works for a while now. It was created buy gamers for gamers this handheld was literally built from the suggestions of the people from the gp32x forums. here is some specs i pulled off of the openPandora website:

ARM® Cortex™-A8 600Mhz+ CPU running Linux
430-MHz TMS320C64x+™ DSP Core
PowerVR SGX OpenGL 2.0 ES compliant 3D hardware
800x480 4.3" 16.7 million colours touchscreen LCD
Wifi 802.11b/g, Bluetooth & High Speed USB 2.0 Host
Dual SDHC card slots & SVideo TV output
Dual Analogue and Digital gaming controls
43 button QWERTY and numeric keypad
Around 10+ Hours battery life

here is a vid of a preproduction pandora playing quake 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsclXxxjxVg&feature=player_embedded

and here is a link to the pandora video vault: http://www.kultpower.de/pandoravideos/?tag=11

I cant wait to get my hands on one of theses Im really beginning to regret not pre-ordering one. here is another interesting bit of info as far as specs go this thing actually has more power and memory than a iPhon

open Pandora link: http://www.open-pandora.org/

ahhhhh studies!

noreply@blogger.com (roo) — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:22:00 +0000

roma is going to take a break from blogging for a while. lots o school work so in the meantime i will be putting some things up in her place i hope you enjoy.

hamsterwolf.

Art Updates

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 23:27:00 +0000

Crystal Action by ~roma on deviant ART

Light by ~roma on deviant ART

Be'anna by ~roma on deviant ART

Sengoku Strays

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Japanese shōnen manga series by Japanese author Shingo Nanami

Kasane is your average kendo-obsessed girl, when a brush with a mysterious sword sends her back in time to the Sengoku Era. Stuck in an unfamiliar time and place, Kasane also has the poor luck of winding up right in the middle of the turmoil that surrounded Oda Nobunaga's rise to power!

Comments

I found this at random while looking for something new to read. Even though its only one chapter the art and action pacing was enough to motivate me to continue reading.

Sengoku Strays is currently published in Japan by SQUARE ENIX. Until it gets here read it at Manga Volume.

Sengoku Strays

Habbit

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Have to practice drawing hands again

Evil Clone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:15:00 +0000

One day I was walking on the street to my nearest mail box. Along the way I saw someone that looked almost like me across the street.

It was weird.

I paid no mind because you know staring was bad. As we passed each other going in our opposite directions I began to wonder.

Where did this evil clone come from?

I dropped the main in the box and proceeded to go home. Hmm,

If she's my evil colone then she would be the exact opposite of me. What kind of person am I? and based on that who would be the evil clone? Me or Her.

The best piece of advice that was given to me

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 May 2009 20:34:00 +0000

Anyone can learn anything.

I had always thought that most people were born knowing all the skills they needed. However, most people were just exceptionally given in particular areas. For example in art or just a naturally smart person. In my case I was neither fully artistic or naturally smart and I wanted to be just that.

Well one day I was reading about and artist from the book All American girl. And I thought wow "I wish I could draw like her". As I kept reading there was an authors note from her that stated anyone can learn anything if they want to and are fully determined to so. That woke me up. It didn't matter if some someone was an amazing artist or genius out in society way better than me. What mattered most was to start doing what I loved and go for it with all my heart and determination. So, I picked up a pencil and started drawing something (honestly I don't remember I probably drew the little Mermaid).

So anyone can learn to do anything.

I'd go to 2015 for the food

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:10:00 +0000

The first thing I would do is go to a MacDonalds and see if it tastes the same. Maybe fast food nation and super size me actually had a positive outcome. Also, I would want to see the fashion hopefully by then we'll stop ripping off the worst and most embarrassing fashion of the past decade or just to see which ones we picked.

Using the word "Maybe" to tease is a crime.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:57:00 +0000

Personally I'm okay with most people and their behaviors. However, what really annoys me sometimes is the word "Maybe" and the phrase "Maybe your right". I mostly cant take it when a guy says the latter part. I'm not sure why but it feels as if their challenging my intelligence or just teasing me.

Age of Conversation 2 : 2008

"Did you know that people breath air?", I said.

"Hmmm, maybe your right…."

or

"Do you think we can go out to eat?

"Maybe..."

"Awww that sucks..."

Oh and another one is, "suppose" and "I suppose your right"

"Did you know that Earth has gravity?"

"Hmmm, I suppose your right"

Well, maybe the latter part is forgivable. I mean really, gravity might not exist on Earth. Everything we learned in school might all have been lies. You never know.

'Star Wars' my eyes love this movie

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 25 May 2009 20:59:00 +0000

Its an underdog story and a redemption story at the same time.

A young Pilot not learns about an an ancient order created to keep pecies throughout the galaxy and becomes the last Jedi to take down a horrible emperor.

It's funny because this movie came out so long ago before I was born and was such a huge hit. I didn't get a chance to see it until I was a teenager in early 2000s. Whats amazing the most about this movie experience above all others, is before I saw the movie no one told me anything about the plot. Nothing at all.

Whenever I asked about the movie fans would just tell me that it was "amazing and I needed to see it".

I would reply, "Can I at least get some sound clips or or a hint?"

"Nope nothing, you need to see it"

And when I finally saw it was amazing. It was one of the best Science Fiction movies I had ever seen in my life.

'Calvin and Hobbes' will make you LOL

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 17:44:00 +0000

Who doesn't know Calvin and Hobbes should read the collection to find out whats funny. It brings you back to a time when one didn't have anything to do but daydream and wonder about how the world works.

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 01:32:00 +0000

The Enchanted Forest Chronicles © Patricia C. Wrede

Summary

"Dealing with Dragons" introduces Princess Cimorene, youngest daughter of the king of Linderwall. Like most medieval tomboys, Cimorene is considered rough, unseemly and stubborn -- she wants to fight with swords and learn magic. On the advice from a magic frog, she goes out in search of a dragon to
be housekeeper for. But when she's not sending away valiant knights, she's dealing with some very troublesome wizards...

"Searching For Dragons" picks up when the dragon Kazul goes mysteriously missing. Cimorene is, unsurprisingly, very concerned about this and wants to find her. Enter Mendanbar, a young king as unconventional as Cimorene -- not to mention in need of a wife. But even though he goes along to find Kazul, with wizards and laughter all around, he'll find that he's much more interested in Cimorene.

"Calling on Dragons" skips ahead to when Cimorene and Mendanbar are mrried, and Queen Cimorene is pregnant. All is right, right? Wrong. Magic is vanishing in the Enchanted Forest; the king's sword has been stolen. To combat the troublesome wizards, Morwen the witch teams up with Cimorene, Kazul, Telemain the Magician, and a rabbit called Killer.

"Talking to Dragons" skips ahead even further, to when Daystar is sent off by his mom Cimorene with only a magic sword. Poor kid -- he has to help King Mendanbar escape from an evil wizard's spell, without knowing that Mendanbar is his father. He teams up with a hot-tempered firewitch, Shiara, a dragon, a lizard, and a rather annoying princess. Can Daystar clue in before all is lost?

By E. A Solinas "ea_solinas" http://www.amazon.com/Enchanted-Forest-Chronicles-Dealing-Searching/dp/0152050523

Review/Comments

When I found these books I had a set idea of how fantasy was supposed to be written. There would be a princess that would need to be saved from dragon and a prince that would save her. Or if it follows Arthurian tales, it would be filled with great hope and later betrayal and tragedy. The enchanted forest chronicles would shatter all those myths. I got a better understanding that fantasy standards could be broken to create something fun and remarkable. Harry Potter and Artemis Fowl series would follow Werde’s example of creating worlds based on fantasy/folk myths and adding their own essence to the genre.

ComiXology has profiles Now

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:35:00 +0000

About comiXology™

Comixology™ brings Web 2.0 to the comic book market. It provides your weekly list of new releases in a format that allows you to view each issue individually, displaying cover art, credits, description, price, page count, and other information. Registered users can add items to a pull list, rate items using 'bag it' and 'burn it' buttons, and comment on items. The site will soon include weekly columns, blogs, and more.~ ComiXology | About Us

I’m a big fan of web 2.0 and how its capable of making life easier. I love comics but I don’t have the time to keep up with new releases. For years now I’ve stopped going to comic book stores and started using Amazon.com to find new reading material. Unfortunately, Amazon can be biased to what material I find. On comiXology all the big titles are fed when they are released and I can find new comics to read “pull them onto a list” or purchase right then and there.

Dog Eaters Manga

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 02:54:00 +0000

Dog Eaters is written by Malcolm Wong & Guillermo A. Angel and is six part graphic novel. The story follows the Black dog clan in south United States America after the fall of government and order. Holding together their world are the casino cities and the hope of making a better life for themselves. The comics are packed with action, corruption, greed and perseverance . The character’s struggle with what is a reality we all know; the power to pick ourselves up after a fall and move forward. Wong breaks down society to give a family, the Black dogs, a chance to create a new world.

I had the pleasant opportunity to ask Malcolm Wong him a few questions about the story:

After reading the first issue, I couldn't help picturing elements from the movie Road warrior and Little House on the Prairie. What inspired you to approach your story in a way that allowed you to portray a warriors and family at the same time?

You know, that's exactly how I would pitch DOG EATERS in that classic "Movie A meets Movie B" stereotypical Hollywood way! I didn't outline or make a "beat sheet," for this story, I just started writing and began with the characters. I think that if you have real relationships, you can create a story that seems true regardless of the setting. In this story, Lamont is not only the leader and a great warrior; he is also a wayward husband and a strict, protective father. These aspects Lamont's personality inform his decisions and because I did not have an outline, they guide the plot. Where Lamont led, the story followed. Then the other characters started to demand attention. Tracy, Lamont's young daughter intrigued me. She nurses a stranger, Bevan, to health and develops a crush on him. Now all sorts of dynamics come into play and when you shuffle in the threat of constant attack by the Roaches from the outside, the story sort of writes itself.

So you started from characters, which lead you to the story. It must have been really fun using them to guide the story along and very hard not to get carried away. I couldn't help wanting to know more about the lesser characters.

Well, let's say that the main characters came before the plot. The impetus for the story, which was first written as a screenplay, was the direction that I saw the US moving in. Living outside of the States gives you a separation and perspective that you don't get otherwise. I think that the reality shows (obsession with celebrity), the fact that at about half of Americans voted for Bush for two terms really show what America was like when I started writing DOG EATERS. Now, we seem to have been brought to our senses with the domino-effect of the financial problems that started sub-prime mortgages. Actually, the world financial situation is a giant Ponzi scheme and more and more people are seeing it for what it is.
So, to condense this all into an opening: Mankind failed to transcend the Petroleum Age. 175 years after the DIe Off, welcome to the world of the Black Dog Clan.
Then you start to populate this world. Rebecca, Lamont's wife when the story opens, is past prime childbearing age. A strong leader will take other women. It's sort of an Old Testament scenario. How does Rebecca deal with it? Tracy sides with her mother. How does that affect her relationship with her father? Tommy, the oldest son, is a talented marksman, but does he shirk responsibility? Then add external pressure, mix well, and see what comes out.

I appreciate the fact that you mention women in your story. You said that Lamont's wife will be replaced with another female of child bearing age. Which leads me to ask, in the world of Dog Eaters how do women fair? What is the power balance between men and women in the story?

There are an equal number of women that impact this story. Rebecca, even displaced as Lamon't wife, is still a leader -- she's the one that has set the long-term goal of establishing their own casino-city on the Gulf. Tracy, Lamont and Rebecca's daughter, is a girl on the cusp of adolescence who also affects the story in a major way. Chunga, a loyal squad leader is like the ballast for the rudder, keeping the clan on track.
The world is changing -- emerging from the dark ages after the Die Off, and Rebecca has seen the future. She realizes that the nomadic life that the clan has been leading will no longer be viable and that establishing a home base is essential. Lamont has been and continues to be the facilitator of this dream even after he takes another wife.

It was mentioned that Dog Eaters was a script. Were there any changes you made to the script for the adaptation to a comic book?

Yes, there were changes made in the adaptation to condense the story. The original screenplay was 118 pages and this comic mini-series/graphic novel is 169 pages. Although there are more pages in the comic, there's also a lot of images! Scenes were cut, characters were merged. The Dabel Brothers Award was to make an adaptation of the screenplay and Sean J. Jordan, who was one of the main people at Dabel at the time did the heavy lifting on that to restructure and make it fit into 168 pages. I went back in and did a lot of rewriting, but he gets an adaptation credit. Overall, the adaptation is very faithful to the original story, though.

When it comes to the topic of sequential story telling, most would agree that there should be synergy between the words of the writer and the imagery of an artist in a comic book. Of all the art styles to choose from, why was the manga style chosen for this story?

There are a lot of different styles. I think that Guillermo's style is actually a hybrid of manga and American comics, especially the Marvel style if you generalize. Guillermo is from Chile and so he is equally influenced by both Japan and America. I think that this is great because there is not the sense of place you might get from a style that you might associate with a country. And in addition, Guillermo and I quickly established a smooth working relationship, so to be able to be on the same page an aesthetic level, you also have connect and communicate without ego getting in the way.

What impact or ideas do you want your readers to take away after reading Dog Eaters?

While I don't really consider DOG EATERS to be a "message" book, I intended the story to have an emotional reality where motivations and cause and effect would ring true. There are family issues, relationship issues, and ideas about the purpose of life.

The question is off topic and random. If you could live in anytime period besides your own, when would it be?

Well, if you believe in reincarnation, perhaps we have lived in many other time periods! But the question sort of implies the possibility of time travel or time travel tourism, which would be very interesting! I think that you would have to decide on what your social position was as well as the time period. Assuming that I was what I am now, writer, glassblower, musician -- perhaps any of the civilizations that have had an appreciation for art and treated their artists nicely! It's sort of an evasive answer, but almost any place can be heaven or hell, depending on your circumstances.

Actually, I would like -- maybe I was -- a ronin in Sengoku Jidai Japan. This was a time before the Shogun and it was sort of like the Wid Wild West. I'm sure it was a tough life in reality, let's romanticize it a bit -- make it into a manga!

for more information on Dog Eaters visit : http://www.dogeaters-manga.com/

I found Zetman!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 21:07:00 +0000

Summary

The story starts off with a face-off between two rival heroes, ZET and Alphas, and then traces their origins - Jin Kanzaki, a young man born/created with the ability to transform into a superhuman being known as ZET, and Kouga Amagi, a young man with a strong sense of justice who uses technology to fight as Alphas.

The fates of these two men and those around them intertwine as they fight to protect mankind and destroy monstrous abominations known as Players, who ironically are the creations of the Amagi Corporation, the company founded by Kouga's grandfather, Mitsugai Amagi. -Zetman ~ Wikipedia

Remarks…

The story is dark and the action takes a long time to get going but once it does…it is awesome! The only thing that irks me about this manga is the fact that every female character either gets sexually assaulted, raped or abused. I wish there were more strong female characters in action manga’s who has a purpose in a story other than eye candy. Oh, well, but other than that this one is awesome.

Read Zetman

Pendragon by D.J. MacHale

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:05:00 +0000

Pendragon by D.J. MacHale

Plot Summary

In the first book of the series, The Merchant of Death, Bobby Pendragon is leading a normal life in Stony Brook, a suburb of New York City, where he is the star of Stony Brook Middle School's basketball team. When he is fourteen, his uncle Press Tilton takes him to an abandoned train station where he and Bobby travel through a portal through space and time called a flume. Bobby soon finds himself in a different territory — possibly a different version of history or a different world entirely — called Denduron, where two important tribes are on the brink of a civil war because one tribe is forcing the other to work in mines. There Bobby discovers he was chosen to be a 'Traveler' between territories in order to defeat Saint Dane, an evil figure who wishes to tip all of Halla (the entirety of everything that exists, has existed, or will exist, including persons, time, and space) into chaos so that he can remake it according to his desire.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pendragon_Adventure

Review

I remember when I first picked up this book. I was in Downtown Los Angeles at the Central Library. At the time I was looking a new a different. Different from the usual teen novels for young adults, At the time there were countless of Buffy novels. I’ve made a religion out of avoiding tv shows to novels. So, I picked of the third book in the series mainly for the cover. “Hmm, hey the title says Pendragon. May be it’s a King Arthur fantasy about a boy flying a bi-plane” I thought to myself. After reading the first to chapters, I was wrong it wasn’t about a King Arthur fantasy. It was so much better! It had all of my favorite elements, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Morals...everything that a person could wonder about. The storytelling, a good versus evil plot and pop culture references encouraged me to keep reading.

The story follows a boy named Bobby Pendragon form New England USA who is taken on a journey through time, dimension and space by in Uncle to battle a great evil which threatens the existence of everything. Bobby is transformed over the years from that of a boy into a man and a leader. As he tells his story in the form of journals we are allowed to see into his character and watch him grow. He relates all if his experiences to real life. Unfortunately, He fails countless of times during entanglements with Saint Dane. When he does win its worth its weight in gold!

I love reading Bobby’s journals but Machall writes the story in an interesting way which allows him on occasion write in third person. When he is not focusing on Bobby the story focuses on the ripple of his actions and how they affect his friends. Along for the ride is his best friend Mark and Courtney. They too develop as the books progress. They grow from observers to participants in a war that decides the fate of everything that was, is and shall be forever.

The storytelling, action and the growth of a child into a leader is what makes this series a worthwhile read. The final book will be out this year. A long, adventures journey is about to come to an end.

Official Website. http://www.thependragonadventure.com/

【Part 1/2】The Tower of DRUAGA -the Sword of URUK- Epi.1

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:53:00 +0000

Whahooo!

Ender's Game

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Summary

Ender's Game (1985) is the best-known novel by Orson Scott Card.^[1] It is set in Earth's future where mankind has barely survived two conflicts with the Formics (an insectoid alien race also known as the "Buggers") and the International Fleet is preparing for war. In order to find and train the eventual commander for the anticipated third invasion, the world's most talented children, including the extraordinary Ender Wiggin, are taken into a training center known as the Battle School at a very young age and trained in the arts of war through increasingly difficult games. Its sequels, Ender in Exile, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind, follow Ender to different worlds as he travels far into the future. ~ Wikipedia

Comment...no review because its so good.

This is a classic. Seriously doesn't it remind you of Halo's Master Chief. Makes you wonder where they got thier inspiration from.