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Aliens VS Predator

2011-08-10T20:12:00.000-07:00

Aliens VS Predator.

Hi, my name is Cody and this is my review for Aliens VS Predator. I played it using the Onlive service, over the ear headphone for the best sound and a xbox 360 controler.

Marine Gameplay: At first the way I was moving felt strange and slightly foriengh to me, RB to hit, LT to fire secondary shot, Y to heal. Even the way you control the motion of your player just felt a little off. After about an hour of playing it all become second nature and felt correct. But as most people know the first hour of a game should tell you most of how it is. Once I warmed up to the strange feel of the game I found myself really knocking the aliens back and fighting them without mercy. Every minute that passed I found myself enjoying the game more and more. I played the Marine chapters for a couple of hours and wasn't even close to being bored with it but I still have to play as the Aliens and the Predator. I called it quits and stepped into the Alien mode.

Alien Gameplay: For some reason the alien controls seem easer to use than the Marines was. I do feel like it take a few to many hits to kill your standard human but it is a lot of fun to climb along the top of a ceiling, drop down behind a human and bite his skull open. Something oddly satisfying about that. Sometime while running along the top of a ceiling I do find myself getting confused or disorientated. It just bends my mind going from right way up to upside down then back to right side up again within four seconds. Yikes. Another annoying thing that I noticed was when you are hunting down the Marines, they repeat the same lines over and over again. "Don't let your guard down, marines" I had that sentence said while I was hunting a small group of them at least thirty times in about ten minutes. After nearly 2 hours of playing as Number 6, the alien, I am calling it quits and trying out the Predator. (for some reason I feel like there is more of a story with the Alien than the humans. At least I can say the pet alien has a name.)

Predator Gameplay: I cant choose whether I think the Predator game play is the best or if it's the Marines, but either way, the Predator game play is bad ass. I love the way it handles. Jumping long distances and killing off tons of aliens and humans is just great. The hits are about the same as the aliens, I wish they could hit harder but it is still just light enough to make the game fun and challenging. The light hits keep you from being a fool and playing the game as a run and gun, so you are forced to play it as a hunter in the Predator life style. Kill only when you need to and collect the trophy's as you go. I loved the way the controls were set, it didn't confuse me or make it awkward for me at all. I felt like when they were making the game they put most of the focus on the Predators mechanics, and for good reason.

Sound design and music: I love the idea that the radar makes the same sound as it did in the second movie, but I think they could have changed this a little bit to make it cool and not the most annoying thing in the game. A simple adjustment to make the radar emit noise (Blips and beeps) only when you are near a alien would have made it nice and just like the movie, but no. The annoying beeping never stops, never. Other than that, the sound in this game is fantastic! I found myself on the edge of my seat while playing as the Marine, the sounds the aliens make, the sounds of the guns, even the next to silent ambiance in the game really dug deep in my mood and really set things right in the game.

Gameplay: The layout is very linear and can force you right into the traps in the game but, I still tried to find other paths to elevators and exits only to be forced out the correct way. Regardless, the path they lay out for me to walk on has me tense and unready for what they throw at me. At one point I got confused and started walking around a building till I got a glimpse of a blood splatter from a predator, it had me on edge, knowing there was also Predators lurking in the world.

Environment: This game really brought the same great feel that the movies brought. I really found myself at awe while looking at the world and textures. The way the building at the hive goes from dark and metallic to cold, wet and slimy in just a few steps really made a impact on me. In most games that kind of thing gets lost to the player and just makes them feel like they entered a new area, but for this one; I found myself interested at the fact that behind the slime and organic growth on the walls is the same metal plating as the rest of the buildings. The swamps were fun to be in and the over whelming fear that there might be a Predator on my back drives me to keep pushing out of the area. The Alien's game play area in the start felt like a testing area. It all felt the way it should have.

The things I liked most about the game was the way it made you feel. The sounds and view you get in the game really just set in with me.

The things I didn't like about the game was the annoying constant radar sound in my ears and the strange vertigo I got while playing as the Alien. I also would have liked to have known who the Marine was a little bit more.

Bottom line is: Aliens VS Predator is a very fun game and well worth the dirt cheap price you can get it for nowa days. I got the game for $5 on a onlive $5 Friday, I know you can get the game for the same basic price from like gamestop for xbox 360/ps3 and I suggest that if you are a fan of the Aliens films, you go find a copy next time your out and about or buy it Onlive and challenge me to a online VS match.

The world ends tonight.

2011-04-07T03:10:00.000-07:00

Posting the best content ever?

Nope but maybe someday! Sorry guys but I'm not writing up a new comic review because I just haven't had the time lately. I have been hella busy at work, home, out with Tim on new filming projects. Which is where I'm swinging this curve ball too.

http://3blackpanels.blogspot.com/ Tim and I's new blog page purely for our film talk. Click on over and Take a look for more info.

Epic stuff huh? Oh and If my reviews of comics is really that fantastic and what not, I still do request's. Artistcode@aol.com for it guys, I'll hit the comic you choose and bring it right out.

Simple update.

2010-10-03T02:11:00.000-07:00

Hey guys and girls! Cody here with a update on why I haven't posted anything in nearly three months.

Firstly, I got married on September 19th and was on Bre and I's honeymoon for another week from there. So for all that I was knees deep in wedding stuff and yes it all went well and everything is still going well. Here is a picture of us!

i just finished reading a graphic novel called Locke and Key. A truly Amazing comic book and though I'd like to write a review on it I plan on skipping it for now but might go back to it later.

The reason why I am choosing to skip it? I need the writing time for writing the script for Tim and I's newest short film, "Burns the Goner" It's a short film about a middle aged man whose whole life has been given to God in his catholic lifestyle, but a spark happens and causes him to split into two personality's, one being a god fearing man, and the other a suicidal atheist. Widget in the sidebar for more information.

In case you missed it, Real: Documentary of a superhero has been finished for some time and we are trying to enter it into a few festivals. Here is the link for the video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Alk9mEYlk54&feature=related

Review: BatGirl

2010-07-05T00:21:00.000-07:00

Heyo, Cody here with a short review on "Batgirl: Dream House" written by Dylan Horrocks, Penciller Rick Leonardi, Inker Jesse Delperdang, and Jason Wright doing the coloring.

Firstly I want to say this review will be rather short due to the fact that I read this like three weeks ago and have been unable to write this till now.

Story: The story to this one is that a killer is on the loose in Gotham, with a heavy trademark of leaving his victims in open places with full body makeup and posed perfectly as human dolls. All of his victims are big name models as well to further perfect his image. Batgirl catches wind of his killings and see's it as a personal vendetta to bring him to justice. Batman ask's her to back off the case but she chooses to avoid his advice due to thinking she may know the killer from her pre-Batgirl life.

Drawing: The drawing in the comic feels like the perfect Batman style. It draws out like a traditional comic that fits into Batmans perfection. Though I was never a big fan of the Batman comic books, This one has the same basic style but seemed to really bring me into it's stylized world.

Color: The color I think is what really brought me into the art style. it was perfect to match the art work and even better for setting the overall dark tone of the book. Sadness and regret. The color pallet makes up of purely dark colors and heavy shadows. None of the colors go to far above a light basing, a single coat of paint, if you agree to that saying.

writing: The writing in the book really would just flow perfectly, you'd never stutter a word in your mind or misunderstand what was going on. You can tell that the Writer wasn't just thinking about the money in terms of greatness. I became interested in this comic over the hand full of other Batman comics I have simple for the writing. it just felt, right.

I give Batgirl: Dream House, a pleasing 4 out of 5, and a reconmendation for you to pick it up.

Cody~Out.

Review for "We will bury you"

2010-07-01T23:53:00.000-07:00

We Will Bury You. Oh, how I had high hopes for you. I will try to keep this one short. Written by Brea Grant and Kyle Strahm. Art by Zane Austin Grant.

Story: The story on this one is about a woman (Mirah) and her husband (Henry) living in a city full of zombie and only females are able to walk among them because they don't like females? Wait no that can't be right. Oh, so in the start a girl is walking through a city full of men that were poorly drawn and look like zombies but are not zombies. So the story is about, wait.

Okay this comic is about a woman that works at a club where the girls dance with men for a fee, kinda like a strip club only with their cloths on. Well as she is working there her manager pulls her into the office and yells at her for slacking in her sales. She brushes him off and goes back on the dance floor where she dances with another woman poorly disguised as a male (Fanya). Mirah is cheating on her husband with this woman, and plans on running away together. But choose not to leave yet due to the chaos going on outside, riots in the area and people murdering each other. But Henry catches wind of this and chooses to murder her cross dressing lover (Fanya). Being a smart cross dressing woman, she already knows his plan to kill her so she goes to Mirah's apartment and murders her husband before he has the chance to murder her.

Not knowing that Henry was bit by a zombie hours before the murder, they choose to hide his body in the streets where the mass murdering and anarchy is happening so no one would know that fanya killed him. But Henry rises from the dead. End of issue #1.

Art: The art in this comic made it really confusing and ruined the whole damn comic. I couldn't tell if someone was a normal human of a zombie. It was like someone tried to be a art freak and said "Well if I make it really confusing, people will like it!" No, no that's not how it works. The art in this comic is nothing more than a eye sore. At one point I was reminded of Full Throttle, you know, that old DOS game from 1984. Now don't get me wrong, Full Throttle was a fucking fantastic game, but there was a part where she is welding and just looks really low bit, well it reminded me of that.

Writing: The writing in the comic tried really hard and failed even harder. It started out okay but right from the start gave me the wrong ideas. In the start we see two girls walking through the city and it looks like they are all men in the distance and the art crippled the faces making them all look like zombies. and the first words spoken are "You think women are the guardians of mortality?" as the husband hides in his apartment seemingly scarred to go outdoors.

Well okay so maybe I just jumped to quickly at cool zombie ideas. The writing goes on to fall flat as we keep reading at points where some people talk like they are from the 1920's while other people talk as if they are from our current time. Poor writing makes the story hard to understand and dialog stale and out of place.

Characters: Henry, Fanya, and Mirah, are just the plainest and pointless leads I have read about in a long time, just useless. Not interesting and fail to make sense. like a good example is when Fanya murders Henry with a typewriter, Mirah comes home and finds Fanya standing over Henry and then bam, scene change to them talking about it over a cup of tea without a sad, happy, or even confused look on theirs face, just blank. Fanya says to her "I know you're angry, but please don't call the police." to which Mirah replies "You know I couldn't do that to you." Um, you can't? That bitch just murdered your husband with poison and then smashed his skull open with a type writer (yeah, she poisoned him first but he stumbled towards her and she bashed his skull in, all without making a single facial movement) .

Now get this, all the people in the book are just plain and stale except one guy. and that one guy is this poor fool who just really, really wants to dance with a girl, he ends up getting denied by every chick and then smashes a beer bottle on a counter top and stabs some guy in the neck while screaming about how he wasted his life spending all his cash on these girls who wont even give him a dance without cash in their faces.

Bottom line, this comic wasn't worth the time it took to read or the 4$ price tag. Mindless dribble about two girls with no personality's. I give "We will bury you" a hella sad 1 out of 5 for poor writing, soulless people, poor dialog, and poor art. The only reason I didn't give this a 0 out of 5 was because that freak that wanted to dance as well as the cover being really cool. Greatly disappointed.

Cody~Out

Review on "Rough Weather Ahead For The Flash"

2010-07-01T13:06:00.000-07:00

Sup' Gofio readers!? Cody here with a review on "Rough Weather Ahead for... The Flash" Written by Stuart Immonen and Kathryn Kuder. Art by Steve Lightle.

Now right off the bat I'll admit that most of my comic book reading is more about the lower grade and lesser known comics due to how I have learned to dislike the main stream comics because the fan base for main stream comics like the hulk, and batman, always have die hard fans, and that really kills it for me. So I normally stick to the off beat comic and every now and then will grab a known comic like Kick-Ass, Flash, Batman, and so on. So needless to say, I expected this comic to be sorta "meh". Ok moving on now.

Story: The story in this issue is that Flash wants to take a vacation from being a hero and do something as his alter ego Wally. So he and his friends choose to hike a giant mountain covered in snow, which is never named. Hmm, a hiked often but unnamed mountain? Lazy writing?

Anyways, they start their quest towards the top of the mountain with Wally and some other forgettable people, a Asian woman and her frail, push over husband "David". Along the way they hit the dry air and have trouble breathing. Wally jokes about flashing his way to the top of the mountain. Suddenly wally hits the floor saying he cannot see due to all the snow in his face, "but it's not snowing Wally?". We suddenly realize that Wally is 2 out of 1,000 that gets a high altitude sickness, it causes blindness and loss of motor functions. Oh, um, alright. I didn't think that this comic would be about The Flash needing to be saved.

Okay so the two tour guides tell the other hikers that someone must get wally down the mountain as quick as possible or he will die. This causes the pissed off Asian girl to get even more pissed off at her husband who is supporting someone helping Wally and starts to scream and shout about how she paid good money to climb to the top and shouldn't be forced to quit early due to some douche bag dying (she is killing the Flash slowly.)

Finally after some time one of the tour guides says to the group that he will help wally down alone. They get half way down the side of the mountain and make camp. Wally lays inside the tent as he overhears a emergency radio call about the second tour guide breaking his leg, or something, the radio cuts it out and you don't really know whats going on. So Flash pushes himself to get up and forces himeslf speed up to help save the tour guide, Asian girl, and her husband. But when he gets to the top of the mountain he gets screamed at by the woman about how she refuses to lose money and will climb down her damn self. The Flash knows there isn't time for him to be up there listening to her so he grabs the guide and speeds down the side of the cliff and leaves him at a hospital then goes back up to the top. The woman is still screaming about her money as the snow starts to shake from the cliffs causing a hardcore avalanche. At this moment he realizes that the speed of him running is ripping the air and causing the snow to break from the edges.

Nerd-gasm. That is so badass! Needless to say he saves the dumb girl and her wimpy husband and they all live thanks to the Flash.

Art: Now the art in this comic is sorta average. At first I really didn't like it. It has a old 1980's kinda inking to it and the drawing in it is sorta like a Saturday morning cartoon. But after reading it I came to the idea that if the Flash was drawn in any other way I might not of liked it so much. It just feels natural.

Writing: At first I enjoyed the writing. The comic started with the Flash stopping a bank robber using nothing but timing. It felt right and flowed fine, but after that he goes on vacation and I guess the writer did too, cause it just goes down hill from there. I have no idea who the other hikers are and I only caught one name other than Wally's. The Asian girl is the most annoying chick to be saved by a hero and it wasn't till the end of the comic that it was pointed out that one of the tour guides was Wally's brother.

These plot holes could be just because this was the first Flash comic I have read, but if so, why the intro to who the Flash is? why build him up as someone you are teaching me about? Flaws.

Characters: Ugh, Other than Wally, I just have no one to talk about. Wally is cool and has a personality which really caught me but no one else in the comic matters.

This is all I can really think of other than that dumb Asian.

Alright so this was a review on "Rough Weather Ahead For... The Flash" I rate it a plain 3 out of 5 due to lack in personality and careless writing. But it did give me a great joy when he ripped the snow from the mountain and the art really fit what the comic was. I will be looking into other Flash comics. Though I don't fully recommend it.

Cody~Out

Review: The Clock Maker

2010-06-08T02:38:00.000-07:00

Heyo readers, Cody here with a Quick review on a comic called "The Clock Maker" written by Jim Kruger and art by Matt smith, Zach Howard, Michael Halbleib, Brett Weldele, and Guy Davis. Holy crap, that's a lot of people for one comic book. Oh wait, there are more people that didn't matter enough to make the cover so I won't bother with the rest.

The first thing I'll point out is how freaking amazed I was when I pulled this comic from its plastic sleeve. It looks like a rather thick comic and if you flip the comic over it says on the back "The clock maker #2" meaning this is a double issue. Alright, so I opening and Whoa, wait, what the hell? The comic unfolds into a huge comic book and is read more like a newspaper. Also to my surprise is that the duel issue is only a single issue. So why put "The Clock Maker #2" on the backside? I don't know. I guess it was just a really bad add.

Ok, so "The Clock Maker" is about a old man and his son that work on a giant clock hidden within a hollow mountain in Switzerland. But when something goes wrong and the clock (or something) lets a demon break free from hell, it hunts down dear old dad and murders both father and son.

The story picks up with his daughter, a late teens girl that was forced to live in America for most of her life due to her father and mother shipping her to her foster parents for some reason. Well she has to go back to Switzerland and bury her brother and father while confronting her mother who happens to be senile.

Once arrived in her homeland she is taken to the hidden clockwork in the mountain's. She is stunned to learn that she has become the new owner of this badass cog system of mass portal-opening-demon-releasing-clock.

With the story out of the way I must say, what the fuck went wrong? It's like Krueger just said to his group of artists, "Hey um, guys? I kinda ran out of toilet paper in the bathroom and all I had with me was the script for the book. So, your going to have to work around the brown stuff. Oh and we are missing page 4."

This may sound sorta dumb and harsh but if you read this comic you'd know what I'm saying. It seems like while he was writing he just said "Screw it" to all writing skills and just played Pac-Man instead. There are a number of times where the people are talking and then just go stupid for a sentence. Like here is a exact speech bubble for when she gets off the plane and sees her mom and some guy taking care of her. "I do not approve of your... what I'm saying is that your... is not appropriate for..." and then he walks away. At one point I thought to myself oh well maybe the writer was from Germany or was trying to go for a Swedish accent on the characters. But a little reading on wiki showed me that this was a Image comic written and inked in America.

Now, the comic can be understood and can be read through just fine, after you read it twice, but who wants to do that? Also the death of the father and son are just out of place. Like one second his father and him are running from the demon and then the father says go on without me and then teases the demon to get him to chase him instead of his son. But in the next panel the son runs and then finds puddles of blood leading to his dad, Um what? His father ran off in the other direction, but I guess it don't matter up is down and down is up. The son dies after he finds his dad, just in case you wanted to know.

Art:

The art in the comic is sorta like the Hellboy style, sort of a chalking inking with faded colors making it light on the eyes and good for setting a dark mood but this comic fails to grab you in any style convincing ways and just falls short, the only the that I liked about the art was the comic itself, and I don't mean the ink I am talking about the shape of the comic (as described at the start of the review).

Writing:

The writing is poor due to it being slight hard to understand whats being said why people talk in stupid ways at times and fail really hard on telling us who everyone is. I don't have any idea who the guy helping her out and showing her the clock even is. Just confusing.

Story:

The story makes barely any logic at all and tosses names of people out into the air left and right yet are never spoken of again. Just like Lost we get a ton of questions and barely any answers.

See now I wanted to like this comic a ton, I loved how it flips open into a newspaper style and is like a giant comic book, though it did make it hard to hold and hard to flip pages without the staples overlapping and creasing the pages slightly. I wanted to recommend it so bad but I can't this comic was ruined from the start, it is interesting and I would like to finish the series but due to how strange it was and the newspaper style the comic failed to sell to the normally comic book fans and doomed the comic before the final third issue was finished and put out, so even if you bought it and enjoyed it, you'll never get the ending you want to see. Like Lost.

I give The Clock Maker a sad 2 out 5

Cody~Out.

Review: The Goon

2010-06-02T14:23:00.000-07:00

Sup guys and girls, Cody here with a review of "The goon" series. Um, sorry it's such a huge post.

The reason I am reviewing it as a "series" and not a issue or graphic novel is because I recently went to my local Bookmans were Tim and I noticed that all comics were 50 cents each no matter what the comic was. The first comic I noticed sticking out of a long-box was The Goon issue #26. I had known about this series for a number of months now and wanted to check it out but was always stopped due to it being rather hard to find issue #1. Well I was lucky to find a slew of issue going all the way back to issue #3 original print too. But they were not in order, I found #3, #12, #16, #19, #22, #23, #25, #26/26 (same issue but different prints) #27, #29, #? This one was strange. It was unlabeled in the time line. its a full color high print and a first edition at that, it was labeled as a 25 cent issue instead of a number. It was the first one I read outta the bunch thinking it was possibly issue one. I was wrong but in good way. Issue "25 Cents" is what I assume a Issue to help people lost in the series find out whats going on.

The Story:

The story is about anti-hero The Goon and his sidekick Frankie. The goon is the right hand man of the biggest "boss" ever to rule the city. I couldn't seem to find out what he was in terms of being a boss so I just made the guess of him being a mob boss, but without the mob. Um, yeah. Or a hard core loan shark.

Anyways, Goon and Frankie are highly feared in the city by the living and the undead. Anything that the boss Labrazio says for them to do, they do it. And like most mob story's one boss wants the other dead, so they send their men to attack Goon seeing how he is the only one who has full contact with the boss. Only to reveal that Goon killed the boss in issue #3 and has been hiding this fact for over 20 years.

There, now that you know the story I gotta say, it was rather hard to explain that without just saying, "The Goon rules the streets and everyone is scared of him". I feel a strong need to talk a little about the Goon and his half pint sidekick.

The Characters:

The Goon Is a huge, thick jawed, short tempered, little worded anti-hero. I love this guy, he is the perfect build and style for when I think of anti-hero's from the time era given to us, which I think is somewhere between fictional 1850-1920's. He is the strongest, baddest mug and if you mess with him he will bust more than just your jaw in a single punch. His style of clothing suits the era and build perfectly making him look like a badass as well and someone that would be fun to drink with at a bar. (Odd way to phrase that if I say so myself)

Frankie, oh man. This guy is just insane. I don't think anyone other sidekick would have worked. Any other choice would have just been stuck in the hero's shadow, But Frankie? Hell no! Frankie jumps at the chance to make you remember him whenever you think of the Goon. Making himself noticed at times of pure silence, with acts of bi-polar love/furry like the heart touching vampire that was beaten nearly to death (ha, funny because the pun of, vampire, being, dead.. shut up) by the Goon and Frankie yet stands to help the Goon in time of need! To which Frankie responds with a heart filled Thank you, and "Knife to the eye!". Frankie's short temper and over abusive life style really grabs you by the hair and screams "LOVE ME!"

Eric Powell does such a good job on these characters that I even liked the sub-story with the Goon's foe about reviving a human head to figure out information on The Goon's boss.

The Writing:

Eric Powell did such a fantastic job writing this comic, he really brought you into the era and made you enjoy everything being said and made you feel at home. The characters never feel out of place or stale, with new foes and new plots, the story seems fresh after every issue and leaves you wanting more. Like I said above I even enjoyed the villain talking to his zombie butler about reviving a human head for information. None of the writing feels dull or phrased in a strange way, just perfect.

The Art:

The art in this comic really stood out to me, but not at first. I had walked right by this comic a number of times while at Atomic Comics while thinking "I really wish I could find the first issue so I could review that" but I never saw it as to much of a reach out, so I let it be. Once I got a hold of these issues though, I noticed that my choices of not searching hard enough was a wrong one. The style changes every few comics but really holds onto your desire of the comics. I can't really put to much detail into how it all looks because how much it changes. One thing never changes, the way the color is. It is always bright and eye catching, thick to the tip. Eric Powell doesn't do his own color (all the time) but his drawling style always stays the same so when the inker changes the color style it always flows perfectly because it still holds his style. Lovely.

The ink is mainly heavy with bright yet muted coloring, making it perfect for pop-out-combat. From issue to issue I grow more and more into enjoying the style changes that take place in the color and outline levels.

The final say on the comic is a must read. I highly suggest this comic, might be better if bought in the graphic novel section though.

I give The Goon a 4 outta 5.

Cody~Out

Review: Dr. Herbert West.

2010-04-05T11:37:00.000-07:00

Hey guys, Cody here with a quick review on Joe Brusha's and Ralph Tedesco's "The chronicles of DR. Herbert West"

Ok so as some of you might know, I have a unhealthy obsession for the zombie film Genre. A conversation for my plan in case the undead rise from the ground is a weekly based speech with Tim, Bre, Seba, and/or Josh. With that said I can happily say, I found the Re-animator films a great joy.

The other day, when I hit up my secondary comic shop (Hero Comics) I was searching for Johny the Homicidal Maniac issue 3 and Kick-Ass issue 3. I instead found the large table with numerous boxes of 1$ comics. Out of my poor side I always feel the need to find something worth buying in these (Besides most of them are just in the 1$ bin due to some punk kid bending a corner of the comic, crushing the resale value). I found this little gem hiding among a large number of slightly damaged Spider-Girl comics, I was excited to get home a read this seeing how I loved the films, but was cautioned to it ruin my idea of the series. I was Pleasantly surprised by this comic, here's why.

The story: the story of the comic takes place in the start of DR. West Becoming the careless monster we all love to hate for being a greedy, lying, backstabbing douche of a man. The comic starts as Herbert and his caring family visit church. After the minister finished explaining that the human soul leaves the body after death to heaven or hell, the family starts walking home. Herbert noticed his shoe was untied and asked his father to help him tie it. His mother in the distance caring his little sister on her shoulders, slips off the curb when her high heels snap, tossing herself and his litter sister into the street dying instantly when colliding with the front of a New york city bus. For some reason they don't seem to mention his father after this. I assume he wasn't very kind to Herbert.

So Herbert becomes obsessed with reversing death itself. He creates the glowing green serum that re-animates dead cells and tissue. After a large amount of attempts on bringing dead animals back to life, the school chooses to ban Herberts experiments due to lack of safety and insecurity in his work. Herbert then chooses to take up residents in his grandfathers house where he employs local gangsters to bring him fresh human corpses for exchange of 400$ bucks a corpse. Thus the Re-Animator begins his tell of horror.

Writing and Art: The writer's Joe Brusha and Ralph Tedesco and artist's Jason Craig and Axel Medellin Machain did a great job capturing Herberts stranger side and brings in the insecurity we all felt from the movies right to our hands and eyes. The comic gives you a overall dark tone, gives you a strong feeling that something will go wrong before it's finished. The inking is a light coloring with a thick gray scale that makes it feel like a older, darker, film. The perfect mood for this comic.

The writing in the comic never skips a beat. Right on time with the right choice of words. The team that made this comic put some time into perfecting the writing and I feel like a true fan of the films was inspiring them from within to write it. When I first grabbed the comic I had cold feet due to the fact that I thought, capturing Herberts personality and sinister side wouldn't be possible via comic panels. I was dead wrong.

Conclusion: The overall say on the comic is: great story, solid art, great inking, and fantastic writing. I rate this comic a 4 outa 5, I wanted to push it to a 5 outa 5 but the art could have been slightly better on a few panels and I couldn't ignore the fact that his father is never mentioned again after the tragic death of his mother and sister. Regardless of those two flaws, I still greatly enjoyed the comic and recommend it to all who like zombie comics or mad scientists, and greatly recommend it to fans of the film.

I plan on picking up the next issues as soon as I can.

Cody~Out.

Welcome all the changes.

2010-02-22T14:43:00.000-08:00

Sup, Gofio readers, Cody here with a post about some of the new changes in my life that I wanna welcome.

Lately I have have been at a slight pause point on my rate of producing my 3D models and animations. But in the past few days I have had a number of ideas for animations and models. A few days ago I had stayed up till roughly 4:30 in the morning just doing computer stuff when it hit me that my 3D skill has reached the point where I can now make some of the stuff I wanted to make when I first started, such as human heads, mutants and other things. I took some time out and made one of the deformed faces I had in the back of my mind for years now.

Other faces and things will be made soon, I will be starting another model of a highly detailed human face from my most recent comic book review "The Scribbler". Another animation I am working on as of this moment is one about a "Guy" that starts dancing, and ends with a bang.

And to finish the 3D section I am also lacing the finial touches on my "Gir" unit for my good friend Sebastian.

Lately some things have changed around to bring me to a greater state of happiness. Bre and I have decided to take the idea of our wedding to a outdoor wedding and a beautiful wedding park. We really wanted it to be a out door wedding from the start and we just love being near lively plants, we found a few japanses tea gardens and places like that with waterfalls and bridges and lots of bright green trees and grass. Another thing happening is about Tim and I. Tim has been re-writing his version of "Real: A documentary of a super hero" over and over again. Tim has been looking into renting a Red One camera for shooting the movie on the highest of quality film stock. I thought for sure that Tim and I were never going to be making another short film unless I saved up for a camera and asked him, so at that point I just turned my focus to nothing more than writing, comic books, and 3D. I greatly await shooting new footage with Tim and the new cast for the film he wrote.

I think that covers just about everything that has been lifting my spirts lately. Oh sometime this week I will be posting a new comic review, I'm not sure which I'll choose but I will try to put it in this week.

Cody~Out!

"Unzip your head" with The Scribbler review.

2010-02-14T19:06:00.000-08:00

Sup Gofio reader!? Cody here with a review on a comic book called "The Scribbler".

"The Scribbler" is a comic book series/graphic novel made by a man named Dan Schaffer. Dan Schaffer had attempted to put out his own twisted style, inking and writing into one comic book thus, we open our minds to The scribbler. The novel is about a woman with a extra large handful of personalities and her psychologist giving her a machine that "Burns" out the unwanted personalities. One of her many unneeded personalities is called “The Scribbler”. The scribbler wants to break out of Yuki's mind and become the only personality left in her skull. Yuki attempts to burn all her splits and ends up with just two of them.

The comic deals with one of my favorite subjects, Multiple Personality Disorder. Anything to do with split personalities, comas, advanced time travel, alternate dimensions, and black and white stylistics, I'm so there to help think about it with you. Back when Tim and I were writing film scripts and shooting short films, I always had a new script on the back burner, normally about one of the subjects listed above. When I first started reading this I really disliked it, but the art style kept me into it. I am really glade I didn't put it down.

The art in the book is a black and white/charcoal kinda look and it really feels like Dan Schaffer had taken pictures of people in poses and then sketched them into the book. I am truly unsure of how to describe it, it is an art to enjoy in person rather than a digitally scanned image. After staring at the pages for a number of time you almost feel disorientated, in a good/creepy way.

The writing in the book is straight forward and keeps you well informed of whats happening. You never make the mistake of who is saying what and they all have a interesting thing to be said. My only thing I didn't like about the characters speech is, at times they don't have a personality of their own. A difference in speech terms would have been nice.

The story as I told you above is a interesting one to me. The direction took about one to two chapters before I was even interested(enough to not put it down till finish). The flow of the book is straight to the point, tells you who she is, where she stays, and why she wants the voices in her head to stop. It quickly jumps from being just a simple story of a girl with more voices in her head than metro center mall, to a “Quick! Hit that button and get me some sugar, because I'm about to murder something!” The direction the book leads in makes me wish I had just a mere thousand dollars so that I could direct a fake trailer of the movie to show just how amazing it could be on the silver screen. Honestly, all I need is to pen up a script, find two female actresses and two male actors, a empty apartment and I could direct the hell out of the movie.

Wait, we are still in the comic review huh? Well The graphic novel is a mere $7.99 in stores, or on Tfaw.com it is $6.39, I got lucky. I got the comic for a dollar over at atomic comic's “Ground Zero” zone. If I had to repurchase this comic for $7.99 without any other choice, I'd be ontop of it so fast! I really enjoyed reading this one and I look forward to finding some of Dan Schaffer's other books.

I rate “The Scribbler” 4.5 out of 5.

Cody~Out!

Hack/Slash issue #11 review.

2010-02-11T14:02:00.000-08:00

Sup fellow comic book readers, Cody here with a review on a comic called "HACK/SLASH" issue #11.

Okay so, when I first heard of this comic series I was at Atomic comic's looking for the free posters in the back that they often give away, and while I was chilling towards the back, a comic caught my eye. A super sexy girl in tight panties. Of course I picked it up and looked at it,(I am a guy after all :D) but after a moment of viewing it I realised it was in spanish. I was disapointed to see that, so I left the comic in the back and grabbed my star trek poster and left.

Fast forward >> six months later. It's a good day, rainy, and cold, I went for a visit to my comic book shop and arrive to see it's a sales day. 40% off back issue comics. I begun searching through every stack of back issues till I found a large number of interesting comics when I noticed, "Hack/Slash" stick out the top of a stack. I searched for the lowest number comic and found issue #11 for $5dollars minus the 40%.

Now I started reading the comic with high, but low expectations, I have been wanting to read it for months, kick ass looking art and sexy girls. This being issue #11 would mean I'd have no idea who she is, why she is fighting demons, who the people are, and so on. So I set my mind to a simple level and said to myself, "I'll read this one, and if I like it I will buy the 31 dollar graphic novel, but the chances are slim." Little did I know that the company "DDP" had a rocket of greatness packed away for me.

The comic starts off with a masked man with one eye killing people in very violent ways, we then meet our female lead, Cassie. Cassie(Our hero) searches for information about her father who left her when she was a baby. Now I could go into detail about everything but I won't. I'll just leave it at, She kills demons/murderers.

The art in Hack/Slash is a pale coloring with light sketching, the color puts you right in a dark interesting moods, really draws you in . The detail in the art really stood out to me in an odd way. I found myself studying the art work instead of flipping to the next page, constantly fighting with myself on wanting to get to the next sum of words and seeing the detail on the retarded demon dog.

For some reason I really want to create this demon dog in 3D.

The writing in the comic is amazing. I felt sorrow for the anti-hero, I felt the embarrassment from the demon dog and our hero's horny side. the love hate relationship of the vet assistant and our hero. every moment of the comic feels, solid, just perfect. This is the closest I will get to being able to say "I feel like the fans of the Buffy Comic series." I say that with pure hate for the Buffy comic's and the horrid fans that keep buying them. But it is of the same basic style, a female lead with a horny lust but is scared to be attached to someone for worries of hurting them, and spends every chance possible, she kills monsters/killers.

I couldn't be happier about buying this comic and I greatly await the time when I can buy the graphic novel. 4.5 out of 5 for issue #11.

Cody~Out!

"Haunt" #2 comic review.

2010-02-07T22:05:00.000-08:00

Sup Gofio readers! Cody here dropping part 2 of the "Haunt" comic series.

Ok, so I know I kinda bashed the first one in the face a few times, but lets face it, it sucked. Well a week ago I picked up issue #2 like I said I would and I must say, this one might be just on par or slightly better.

So the art style is the same exact print and like I said before I loved the style it's inked in, messy/scratch-art/thick colors. I love the style they picked cuz how it draws to my eyes, I am a sucker for it.

The writing in this one is much better, never pulling the rug from out your feet. it always is keeping you on track. You always know who is talking and is a little more interesting in plot points. To solve the speaking issue on who was saying what, they made the speaking bubbles closer to the right person and even designed ones for when he is in his venom suit.

This one starts where the other one left off where he kills two guys that shoot at him, he then notices the ear pieces in their decapitated heads and searches out the other fools where he in turn also murders them, all in the name of protecting the crack addicted girl. Oh, well another thing that happens is they tell you who she is. She happens to be Kurt's(Venom's Dead brother) wife (Amanda/Crack whore.)who I guess is in big trouble in someones eyes because, for some unknown to us reason, someone wants her kidnapped and brought into wherever the evil head quarters is, where she will more than likely be taken after getting stolen from our hero, and then dangled like a piece of meat over a saw blade/lava pit where our hero(S)make a hard choice to save her. Thats my guess, wanna bet on it?

Oh I forgot to mention the sissy fight between Venom and The Cable/Punisher. Todd McFarlane is the designer right? I mean, he made Spawn! Spawn being rather Original and creative, this on the other hand, tired-poor-idea thief. He basicaly just drew Cable wearing weapons/colors of punisher. This feels like a fan comic, Create your own stuff please.

Tell me that don't look exactly like venom/dark spiderman's inbred brother.

Alright lets be fair, now-a-days everything is a rip off of something else, right? So okay copy right flaws to the side, this comic still is under par for bad writing and understanding what the point is. If we don't know the name of our super hero by the second comics end, then why should I keep buying these at $3.00 a pop? I don't care for the pointless killing or the wasted ideas they call characters.

I'm not sure that I will be wasting my money on the third issue. I have a number of new comics and I plan on read those before wasting my time on these. I will give McFarlane another chance though. I have picked up two Spawn comics so I plan on reviewing them soon.

Okay bottom line, 2 out of 5.

Cody~Out!

Delay for the best.

2010-01-28T14:48:00.000-08:00

Heyo, Gofio reader’s Cody here updating the site with some information.

First off, there has been a gap in updates lately because some family advancement’s have been rising and demanding help from me. My sister and her husband have hit the end of their monthly lease at their apartment and are now moving from there and into my grandmothers’ old house.

My sister and her husband put off and put off with their packing and moving till the very last week, this week. Causing everyone to freak out and demand we help her move everything ASAP. She had me run over to my grandmother's house and cleared it out, now of course I helped out when I was called on but I also wanted to rush home. Things were rushed and people were getting mad, so I bounced out. Now on top of that my mother and father thought it'd be a good idea to hollow out our garage and make a second family room so that I may play my video games in the main living room and have friends over without having to kick someone out the living room.

Fantastic idea, the 2'nd living room will be such a nice area for my grandmother and my mother. Another thing happening within this week is my sister-in-law is supposed to give birth to her newborn on Thursday. Bre and I offered to help Lorrielle at her house with cleaning, cooking, and watching over Travis and Ella. But! A new challenger has entered the ring! My brother showed up Monday with his co-worker and a great big female Husky. My brother said to his wife, "Robert can't keep his dog and I thought it'd be a good idea to keep her."

Of course she agreed and now "Cheyenne" is lying by my feet as I write this. In exchange for coming over and helping with the kids she has asked us to stay over for a few nights to help relax (going back and forth from our house to hers would be insane) she also cooks hella good food. To top it all, she and I took a trip to "The Brass Armadillo" where I of course sniffed out a bundle deal of comic books. She offered to buy them for me as a payment of being a big help, I got 50 comics for 9.99 and 21 for 3.99 so all in all 71 comics for a mere 13.98 + tax. An amazing deal if I say so myself.

Today the new dog went out-side to go pee n' poo and then chose to roll around in the mud from the rain, so I had to take her to the shower and wash her down and then dry her off, it was kind of fun really. Currently Bre is getting her hair straightened out by Lorrielle while I type this. I plan on getting up in a moment to clean some stuff for her and then play COD Modern Warfare 2 verses Bre and Brian. I also really want to finish the animation I started of a human hand flipping off the ground and then crawling on its fingers.

After hours of playing Modern Warfare 2 (and me winning every round) and eating food I have returned to finish writing this post. Now among everything that is happening, the best of all is, Bre and I are planning our wedding. She has already chosen white and a sort of light Kelly green or a turquoise green for our wedding colors, and we know for sure that we are heading to Cali’ for our honeymoon. We have been so happy about planning this and I can’t get enough of the smile on her face when I tell her she will be my wife soon. We set the date for September 19th due to the fact we met on that date. I will start construction on our house in order to start the walk way, slight repairs here and there to help out. We are writing our own vows and I hope like hell I do not fowl them up when speaking the out loud. Ultimately no matter how bad I speak my vows or Bre, I know it could not be as bad as Sandi and Robert’s wedding. I greatly look forward to the day I see Bre in her white wedding dress.

Here is a render of a "Gir" I started working on while I was at Seba's house.

And here is a quick render of the Non-textured hand I'm working on and plan on doing that quick animation.

I think that about covers it, sometime next week I will be updating the site with a comic book review, without fail.

Cody ~ Out!

"Breathe" comic review

2010-01-13T14:44:00.000-08:00

Sup Readers!? Cody here with a review of a graphic novel called "Breathe" by John Sheridan and Kit Wallis.

I picked this one up the other day at atomic comic's in the "Danger zone" for a mere $2 dollars. I thought it would be nice to review it due to the fact that the price being so low would mean it would be a horrible comic. So I dropped two bucks(normal price was $20) on it and also picked up 100 plastic covers for my unprotected comics. Anyways lets start this review.

Wow, I'm honestly surprised about the quality of this comic. The art in "Breathe" is so interesting to my eyes. The colors in the comic are a muted green with grey. The style of the comic is a mixture of "Samurai Jack" and "Avatar: the last air bender". The style really brought my eyes to the page and made me love the colors, but something stood out to me that you don't see to often in comics, that being the art of motion blur and depth of field. Nothing makes you feel like they are really running as fast as they possibly can like motion blur. The art was nearly perfect but lost a point for being unsure of itself. At times where you read the words you get a sense of them being worried or rushed, yet on the page the person speaking would seem sort of 'Blah' or even happy.

The writing in the comic flows rather well and brings in feelings of rush, worries, sorrow and excitement. The comic takes place in old china and holds tight to traditional terms of speech, making you part of the time with only a 1 or 2 out~of~place lines on one or two pages. The writer knew the story he wanted to tell to us and never wanted to let go but instead lost his touch in the very end. On the cover we see a young girl covered in blood(Honestly she reminds me of a anime version of Left 4 dead's Witch) and the subtext saying "tread softly in the bulrushes, lest you wake the dragon" which felt a tad bit misleading, the girl "Mi Ling" never really gets any blood on her other than her own and is never really violent at all. Though I enjoyed the comic I must admit I feel like the writer was unsure if he wanted to make the female the lead or the male, making the first half of the comic all about her and then the second half about the boy. The comic Ended with a sudden halt smacking us in the face with a "Really? Did he just do that to her?"

The only other thing that I can't leave out of this is, Why? Why the two page curve ball of our underage female lead getting nude to take a bath in the lake and then pointing out that she is becoming a adult(Psh, adult. Yeah, ok. O_o) by being on her first period. Where is the point in this? Why did this make it into the comic? My only guess is, they must of really wanted to draw a nude girl. Do us a favor next time, keep those drawing to yourself, unless it serves a purpose.

My final say on the comic is, 3 outa 5 stars. If you see the comic for a few bucks, please by all means, pick it up. If you can't find it for under five dollars, pass it up. Great comic for a low on cash, kinda buy, but nothing else.

I'll be reviewing "Haunt" issue #2 and "The Perhapanauts" within the week.

Okay Cody~Out!

"Frankenstein's Womb" Review

2010-01-08T00:41:00.000-08:00

Yo! Cody here, dropping a review on "Frankenstein's Womb"

Now I received this comic from my brother and sister-in-law on Christmas, I got one look at this cover and leaped for joy on the inside. I love the idea of Frankenstein, But like I said I love "Frankenstein" The evil/insane/sane scientist that is extremely focused on bringing the dead back to life. This comic is not about Frankenstein, or about him making a baby monster. This comic mainly about a young woman who is married to a extremely time constrained jerk who demands they waste to much time letting his wife puke her guts out due to the fact of being pregnant. Along the strict journey they cross paths with Frankenstein's castle. She demands they stop the carriage to spare ten minutes while she explores his uninhabited castle, her sister in law asks her to stay, and her husband worries about the time and sends her off in a rush.

Once inside the castle Frankenstein's monster ambushes her and speaks with her about her life. Frankenstein's monster tells her life is short and that she is born from death, she opens up to the monster and tells him about her mother that died the week after birth. Suddenly we see her standing in the very room her mother passed away in.

So, I guess Frankenstein's monster is a missing ghost of Christmas past, because he takes our young woman with him to different places in time where he shows her the day she was born and the day a unknown man dies on a hospital bed and is brought back to life with a defibulation unit, as well as showing her that her husband will betray her and leave her for the, sister in law.

Wow, okay so lets hit the good points, the comic has amazing black and white art work that shows such great detail in the sorrow of their faces, also bringing creepy vibes in the right moments. The art work of the comic really drew me in giving me one of the better feeling of truly hard work and care for detail in the comic.

The writing in the comic flows rather well at first, but loses it midway and then picks back up in the end. In the start the conversation between the three people in the carriage is good but has its flaws, the husband has a gutter mouth and breaks the feeling of traditional speaking terms, the conversation between Frankenstein's monster holds up neatly until he travels through time, he then loses my grip for who he is and why I should care about him. The ending of the comic was rather well placed, it didn't feel rushed in anyway and flowed perfectly leaving me something nice to say for it.

The shading and writing of the comic makes for a nice old times feel, creating a interesting moment of reading, but is sorely ruined when attempting to add current trash talk and fowl language, it is also ruined when the monster brings us to current times and keeps explaining why she is extremely alike him in the ways of life and death but never gives us a reason to care.

Bottom line being, a 2 and a half out 5, Good artwork, horrible/pointless writing, misleading title/cover.

This was a review by Cody on "Frankenstein's Womb" and I say, don't waste your money, go get Watchmen or Kick-Ass.

Today was my 19th birthday, it's 2:45 am and my head is splitting in two. Thanks for reading and good night.

Cody~Out.

Kick-Ass comic review.

2009-12-31T00:40:00.000-08:00

Sup Readers, Cody here with a review on a comic book my good friend Josh recommended me. Well it was a strange matter of timing really, I was staying at my friend Sebastian’s house and we were going to watch The Descent. I had got to talking about the second film that was supposed to come out this year (2009) but its already Dec 31 2009, I don't think its happening like that anymore. but it got me talking and I couldn’t recall the directors name, so I grabbed his ps3 controller and went online to IMDB and checked out his profile, I found out that another guy was directing The Descent 2, and was also directing a film named "Kick-Ass". Now of course I had to see what it was. So I read what it was about and then watched the trailer. I got so hyped for the movie when I saw that trailer. Link. When I got home my buddy Josh called me and I asked him if he had ever heard of a movie coming out soon called Kick-Ass. He paused and said, "You mean the comic book right? The one I recommended to you like three weeks ago? Hard to find?" I felt like a dumb ass. So I told him to check out the hella great trailer and I'd see if I could find any of the comics in my local store. I got lucky and got the first and second issues. So now I will Tell you what I thought of the first and second issues.

So, already hyped up from the upcoming film I opened up the comic and noticed, the trailer was a near word for word about the crazy guy in the start, I found it pleasing. The story is simple about a teenager in school that lost his mother at a young age and lives with his father who works night shifts. the first thing I noticed was the writing in this book feels great, very realistic. The talking flows perfectly and its next to impossible to be confused on who is speaking. The art in the comic is really well done. The detail in the shadows really caught my eyes. Nice coloring and interesting style of outlines, nearly what I like to call scratch art. The story of the first comic follows young Dave as he attempts to become a super hero and prove people wrong about super hero being useful in the world, so he makes a costume and picks a fight with his first section of hooligans, which ends rather badly for young Dave.

Before I keep writing I am going to read the second comic so that I may see how Dave gets out of this mess.

Okay, so Dave got his ass kicked, and hit by a car. His body was totaled and he tries to make a fast recovery, while he swears off ever going near that damn costume ever again. Well that didn’t last long as he is back to trying to kick ass and help a man in need, and man does he fight!

This comic has pulled me in more than any other I have ever read, even Uzumaki (Manga) doesn't hold a candle to this, and I stayed up till 3:30 AM one night reading Uzumaki just to finish it, well lets hope that reading all of Kick-Ass doesn't end the same way for me, I hated the ending of Uzumaki.

Bottom line on Kick-Ass is a 5 out of 5. The Style, Writing, Tone, Color, Characters, everything about Kick-Ass is perfect. This is one comic book series I greatly desire having tucked neatly into my custom comic box.

Cody ~ Out.

CRASHED/HAUNT comic review.

2009-12-19T20:02:00.000-08:00

Heyo fellow readers! Cody here with three(ish) comic book reviews and some information on why my Christmas animation "Coup's Christmas" will never be appearing upon your frail flickering pc monitors.

I'll get the bad taste out of my mouth now. So the day before my deadline on the animation, I had stopped to take a rest from the animation, I had just finished 11 shots and rendered 5 shots. I was more than half way done while I was updating my information about this to a new Gofio post. Then a pop up flew on to my screen alerting me I had a virus, another came up and before I knew it my virus detector fell for a trap and let a virus right into my pc cutting my animation into a untellable story and my pc into pure trash.

"Coup's Christmas" was all lost in the crash 'cept a mere 5 shots I have rendered on my Mac and a bad voice over of me telling the story. Who knows maybe I'll go all out next year and do what I really wanted to do, make a bundle of render shots and print them into gloss paper and make a hard cover children's book for my family. Maybe I could get it published as well. Funny thought to me.

Now the Comic I'll be reviewing today is called "HAUNT" by Robert Kirkman and Todd McFARLANE

Now I'll be perfectly honest with ya, first thing I thought of when I saw this cover was two things 1: Venom? and 2: Cookies and milk candy bar. You might not get that same feeling from looking at the picture I'm posting with this for a simple reason, the copy I own is a third printing but the one you see is a special edition, though both are black and white, the one I own has shadows on it that give it a, blending kinda look.

Ok on with the review!

Is it just me, or have most new comics been trying to juggle to many characters and story lines at once? So in the first pages we join Kurt, speaking to a priest in a confessions booth about how he killed people due to it being his job as a special forces officer. we see him break into a compound and try to rescue a scientist and his subject so that he may help find a cure for a strange mutation. When Kurt and the scientist find his mutated living subjects, Kurt pops a bullet into the scientist's skull, then proceeds to help free/save the infected people. I'm am unsure of why he killed the scientist, I assume he was making the people worse? Okay so we fellow Kurt as he leaves the booth and has a conversation with his younger, wait no, older, uh, well his brother who looks younger but seems to be older, shit I'm confused.

He has a conversation with his brother(Daniel) who happens to be the priest who takes the confessions of murder from Kurt. He tells Kurt to go speak with his mother and that she misses him. Kurt leaves the church and goes for a walk, he stops at a near by crosswalk where he lets out a deep breath and reaches for his gun, for no apparent reason, but is cut short by a woman who injects him with a knock out drug and is then transported to a holding cell to get a beating of a life time so he will confess about the scientists research.

Suddenly from there we are now following his younger/older brother Daniel. we see him talking to Kurt in the back of a limo about a girl named Amanda, Daniel hates her and would like to avoid her, then he, demands, that Kurt vanish, 'cuz he is dead. Um, okay so I guess Kurt was killed and now Daniel see's him as a figment of his imagination.

Daniel is then visited by Amanda where she tells him that she is a pill junkie and has trouble sleeping, so she pops a pill to sleep but she can't wake up without someones help. So he sleeps on his couch and she takes the bed. Kurt shows up again to help warn Daniel that two men are breaking in. They open fire on Daniel but as the bullet zings towards his face, Kurt leaps toward Daniel and becomes one with each other causing a milky white substance to halt the bullet in front of his face(Not joking, milky white liquid that spews from his mouth.) and Daniel transforms into Venom a monster that looks like venom and rips the heads off of the two intruders(FBI agents?. End of Issue #1.

I feel like I wasted $3.00 on this comic. The art is good, lots of color and well placed panels, but all the guys look the same, and made it hard to tell who I was reading about. the story juggles too many things at once bringing many holes to the plot and no real reason to enjoy the story. I felt like Kirkman and McFARLANE got together and said, if we toss a half naked girl into the start, lots of gore, mutants, dual personality's and a pill popper into one comic, we might have a hit.

Now the first issue of a comic is made to give a taste of what the line of comics will prove to give us, and with that being said I am rather unsure about reading another one. I feel like this comic has promise, but only if the story line becomes more solid. I want to know why Kurt is a ghost/figment following Daniel. Why does Daniel suddenly have powers? Why should I care about Daniels pill junkie ex-girlfriend?

I do think I will pick up the next issue soon and give it a chance, but I suggest if you are interested in reading this one that you buy #1 and 2 or all 3 at once, #4 will be out soon.

Okay so on a scale of 1-5 of this comic I'd rate it a 2 and a half. Art style and paneling was nice to look at but lost points in being uncreative with the design of our brothers and hero. He looks like a Oreo remix of Venom (O_o) . the comic loses mad points on the fact that it juggles more than it can handle for a first issue. The writing in the comic flows alright but every now and then it gets confusing with how they would be saying something to the other person.

Walls

2009-12-05T14:45:00.000-08:00

So, I got a chance to play Playstation: Home over at Cody's house, and it's pretty insane. Really insane, maybe, but further exposure to the product is needed before making that judgement. It's pretty much Second-Life, but with the visual chaos replaced with conceptual chaos. Everything looks clean and nice, and I must admit, it's pretty cool to be able to casually walk around the environments of popular games (Resident Evil 5 especially). But the chaos comes when you attempt to take advantage of the goods and services offered.

We entered into a virtual haunted house promoting the game "Siren: Blood Curse", wherein we joined 20 or so similarly inclined players all attempting to do the same thing: actually explore the haunted house. It was not to be though, as the only way to gain entry was by gaining the favor or some A.I. controlled nurse positioned behind a glass podium, who was eternally stuck in a bad animation loop. The sick joke of a rogue Sony employee, I must say.

Quickly realizing that entry would require a combination of luck and a desire stronger than we had, the best choice of action soon became clear: create anarchy within the lobby.

We learned that one player must "register" with the nurse, therein becoming a "party leader" and given the ability to select five other people to take along on the tour. Of course, only one person can be registered at a time. So only five people can go inside at a time. And this is all happening in real time. In a world where there are potentially hundreds of people on the server with the desire to partake in the experience. Sony has in effect, created a space where people line up to be advertised at, and to them I must say: good show. I'm sure Microsoft is slapping themselves on the forehead; "you've won this round, Sony".

Anyway, realizing that no one is really capable of knowing who in the teeming masses is a registered user, we decided to tell everyone that we were registered, and that the first five people to the corner would be coming along with us. We quickly got more than five people at our side, waiting eagerly to come along, their thirst for digital scares/marketing/possible free shirts, about to be quenched.

After stretching out the time for awhile ("hold up, controllers not working… it's loading… waiting for one more guy", etc), we decided to finally reveal that, indeed, we were no more a registered user than the player in the creepy bunny costume over there in the corner.

We then proceeded to dance.

So, while your enjoyment of Home depends entirely upon how much you wish to spend on digital items and/or exploring rendered game environments as a creepy doppelganger of yourself, there is fun to be had, if you like finding the walls. Doing the things that the designers didn't intend for you to do. In that way, it's a sort of mental exercise; how can I fool the other guy, how far can I reach outside the box? It's a place where you make your own fun, which I'm actually more than ok with. Because at the end of the day, Sony is the who's dancing.

Christmas short film update.

2009-12-03T17:21:00.000-08:00

Yo, Cody here with some updates about what I'm doing and whats going on in my life.

I'm currently hard at work with putting the finishing touches on the textures for my upcoming short film, "Coup's Christmas"
I should be finished today (Dec 5th) with the full set design and lighting, after that on Monday I will recorded the voice over and then begin animation. The video Needs to be finished by the 18th so Tim can add his own background music to make the film flow better. My deadline is Dec 22nd for the whole video and sounds.

I am also working on my GED(much harder now) and am going to try to meet a dead line of being finished before June(More than reasonable).

As for my time burners, I have been playing lots of Resident Evil with my good friend Sebastian where we plan on shooting every blue plate in order to get a achievement-Trophy, while I also snipe the heads off zombies from a mile away! And Seba' runs up to a zombie and breaks its neck, yet still ends up with 30 more zombie kills than me, every time!

I have also been playing lots of games with Bre(LittleBigPlanet, Monster Madness, and she beat Uncharted but I haven't.). I'm enjoying my December a lot this year. Also last night Tim, Bre and I went out and got some food, some coffee from starbucks and spent some time at Castles and Coasters, where we played "Deal or no deal" over and over till we won enough tickets to buy Bert and Ernie.

We never gave up! We saved them from their cold plastic cages and placed them in new much larger places, know as our bedrooms where they sit in our windows and are, currently, Tim and I's default picture on our fave-5 plan from T-Mobile... I'm Ernie.

Okay, Cody~OUT!

A interesting Turkey day.

2009-11-26T21:48:00.000-08:00

Today is Thanksgiving. Bre and I attended to a feast at my sister-in-law's home, while I was there I spoke with one of her family members, A well spoken, kind, and interesting man. He and I spoke with each other about his job as a designer for sleek airplanes. He put my mind at ease about a few things I had been wondering about lately via 3D modeling, and now I feel a lot better about some things and the way I am doing them. We also talked about film and the CG in today's film compared to that of an older time.

He told me that I should push at myself harder to get my GED and get into a school(Though I had already planned this, hearing it again helped me want it more.). I shall finish my 3D Turbine, keep up my work on the Christmas animation and push at myself much harder on my GED. He said something to me tonight that I hope I never forget "You can teach yourself your whole life, but there will always be other things people will be able to teach you that you cannot find out yourself."

Thanks for helping me find my passion again Larry.

Cody~Out and Happy Turkey~day everyone.

Juggling act.

2009-11-26T12:29:00.000-08:00

Sup Cody here, trying to juggle a few things in my life.

Concept art is a lot more fun than big projects like animations. like my drunk bird, Fat smiley (unfinished, still disturbing) and the Gamco competitions from game-artist.net

I'm trying to keep my head while finishing the set for my Christmas animation as well as attending to family get-together's and my job. I'm hoping this animation is good, I would hate to pop out another "Meh" video. I have to texture a ton of objects for the animation and its killing me, I keep telling myself a tablet would make it so much easier. I would like to point out that I will not give up on this and will deliver a heart warming short film!

I have got much to do and this music is crushing my spirit, I need something more upbeat! A new task to juggle is here! Cody~out!

SAW: the video game review

2009-11-01T01:51:00.000-07:00

Yo Cody here. Dropping a review on the SAW the video game.

Okay first off I wanted to hate this game. I rented this game due to it being around Halloween, and because I heard the puzzles did make it worth it. Now with that aside I will move on.

The game starts off with you being locked up to a chair. You break the locks on your wrists by pulling up on them(because, you know, your super man) then you take control of the black man they like calling Detective Tap even though it looks nothing like Danny Glover. Now lets be fair, human likeness can be hard. So you move onto attempting to remove the reverse bear trap on your head before it goes off. This is the first of many easy puzzles. Your puzzle is twist the thumb stick 'round and 'round till a button shows up, hit the correct button and you break out, just in the nick of time. okay Um, really? "It's a trap!" achievement unlocked, okay that's a really stupid achievement, it's like getting a achievement for opening a glowing box for items and oh, "Treasure: unlock first container". Okay Imma be frank about this. I hate games that force you into a achievement, like as if you got one for your first time-leap back in braid. God I love braid. The one achievement I did want, never showed up. That part in the first movie where Adam is using a camera to light his way in his pitch black apartment and then is pounced upon. I used the camera to light my way for quite some time and even took pictures of foes. never got a achevment. So upsetting.

So aside from the massive achievement let downs, I'd like to point out how slow the fighting is in the game, I had assumed it would be like most games were you pick up a pipe and swing away at the foe till he dies. Well that works, really well. If you are fast enough to land the first hit, and are good at timing the speed of the foe as he runs at you. I started the game and found the first foe, he breaks through a door and runs at you, you pick up a pipe and wait for him to get close enough. I did this, and then swung at him, only he hit me first, canceling my hit, over and over again. I had to stop trying to him him and run away for a moment then swing well before he got close enough. The time span it takes to swing your weapons is just ridiculous.

For some reason Det. Tap is barefoot and is incapable of removing someones shoes to place over his own. This brings me to my next point, some tasks are just a waste of time, like the balance beams you have to cross, just run across and hold left and you'll make it across 9 out of 10 times. Broken glass is easy to see and is far to easy to side step past. digging through a toilet full of needles for a key is as simple as A button, A button.

In the menu of the game you can look at concept art as well as the E3 footage and other perks but the concept art is always something I look forward to in any game. after looking at the concept art it will then show the 3d model of the art chosen, this shows us how konami can not model a person very well.

The cut scenes in the game attempt to pull off the cinematography from the films, they need to watch the movies more than once before making a game of it. It has none of the saw elements to it other than the environment, the look and feel of the game is really the only thing they managed to do really well, the rest is very blah. I have yet to finish the game and I do look forward to finishing it despite all the horrible issues it has already. Something about the game keeps me entertained enough to have the urge to see the ending(Maybe because the movies always had interesting twists).

The only fun I had in the game was the first big puzzle where you feed the poison to the trash and the antidote to yourself. Also getting a achievement for each weapon drove me to keep playing, as well as the mystery in the game.

I would like to give this game a rating of 2 and a half stars out of 5. Nothing more than a rental. My say is final!

Cody Out~

Video games: Or how I used to play them whenever I wanted.

2009-10-23T13:22:00.000-07:00

Yo, Cody here with a short(I hope) look into my life revolving around my gaming habits.

Now I was going to bring this up on the second PodCast with Tim, but on second thought it would be a bad idea, I know that if he cut me off in the middle of this speech, I would Begin to stumble my words and not ending with the right note. This would bring me to a staring contest and sad face between my Fiance and myself.

Ok now, onward! I found myself today at 1:20 pm standing in my living room, staring at my xbox and my stack of video games. Games like "Gears of war 1-2" "Left 4 Dead" "Brutal legend" and "SAW"(SAW was gamefly'd, don't think I'd waste money like that do you?) I thought to myself, "which should I play before going to work? Gears? No, not very fun without Tim or Seb. L4D? Nah, that's more of a Bre and I kinda game. Brutal Legend!? Yes! wait no, Bre got bothered last time I played it without her. Okay this leaves "SAW", No, can't play that without Bre and my mom."

This brings me to my point. It sucks when people enjoy watching you play your video games. Being limited to a few old games and ones you have already beaten just because you have a friend or family member interested as well, it blows.

See but this where it gets worse. Every time I wait for Bre to play L4D, I have a great time, the team work is nearly flawless, we also have the same feelings about players without headsets, bam! Booted from the game. And to top it off, she won't get pissed when I leave her ass to die with the tank just so we can finish the level.

All of the games I named that I wait for her has its own advantage. Brutal Legend, she enjoys the story and way the game flows, she never tells me to turn the music off even though she hates metal. And she points out small things I might of missed and walked right by.

Now SAW, This one has its set of issues. See I have heard lots of good about this game, but its a game based on a set of movies, bad movies at that. But I had to rent it, it's Halloween time and it just felt like a good choice. I will be setting a review in a few days. Back on topic, in this case I'm waiting on Bre, and my mom. My mother barely ever wants to watch me play a game, but this is SAW and she is interested. Bre hasn't said much about wanting to watch it, I asked her in a grumpy mood so the answer was "Meh" at best. I want My Fiance by my side for this game just in case it has a "dark feeling and pop up bad guys: Or How I am to much of a scarredy-cat to play it alone." Again the waiting has its answer, I wait for her this way I can enjoy some games to a further possibility. Waiting on my mom though, that really sucks, she is a very busy woman.

I hate being impatient, but waiting for others to play a game when you have nothing else to do, is just plain boring. I guess GED and 3D are my only choices. Oh, and uploading the Gofio Podcast.

Cody Out!~

My, how they have grown.

2009-10-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

Yo Cody here with some interesting news.

The first Team Gofio Podcast will be taking place later today, so the mp3 will be up later this week. We are very excited for it to take place. We got some great news on the way! So be on the look out.

In other news I'd like to say my comic book collection is becoming a monster of a addiction. I went from 4 comics in the year 2003 to 7 in 2006 to 9 in 2008 to being at Roughly, 147 in 2009. In one year I had bought roughly 140 comics.

Now at $3 a comic and 150 comics owned I have spent around $450 dollars in this year on comics alone. I now know where all my money has been going, aside from all the video games and trips to the movies with Bre and Tim. By the way Bre, Tim and I all suggest you go see Zombie Land.

I think its safe to assume you will be seeing many comic book reviews from me in the near future, I say this becuase my collection is growing so fast I now need a new comic box to hold the ones I know I'll be buying soon. Also I really enjoyed writting my first review on "The umbrella Academy" Which you can read by clicking THIS LINK HERE

Okay! I got some stuff to read and some stuff to write.

But we all know I'm going to just go play Brutal Legend till Tim gets to my house.

Cody ~ Out.