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I'm obsessed with Max Payne at the moment. I got it for four bucks used at EB, and it's blown away my expectations. I've got Jade Empire, Hitman: Contracts and Kingdom Under Fire waiting in the wings when I get tired of that. Lots of Xbox love in my household.

I think I've mentioned this before, but the practice of carding everyone for M rated games isn't all that new. I worked retail at Circuit City for years, and you were constantly reminded that you'd immediately lose your job if you were caught selling an M-Rated game or R-Rated movie to someone under 18. I know Toys R Us has the same policy, since my old roommate worked there when we were in school. I don't have a problem with it, personally, so long as it's applied universally like Yoda mentioned. What's the point of rating your products if nobody's there to enforce them?

It wouldn't be the first Christian FPS.

Twenty bucks on FFVII being in the top three. And Super Mario Brothers being in the top ten.

That's what I immediately thought of, too.

Great story about Rodriguez and Sin City on Wired this afternoon... http://www.wired.com/news/wiredmag/1,2167,67047,00.html

That's not J. Scott Campbell's work. It's definitely JSC-inspired, but it isn't dynamic enough... a bit more amateur-ish. Unless he did the art for this game before he did Gen13.

A little more detail... http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/...reut/index.html

100 Bullets has kind of lagged recently. Pick up the first couple TPBs, because they're still quality, but the story's been treading water for the last ten issues or so.

I'd pay off all of our outstanding debt, (Autumn's student loans, my car) buy a nice house, ($250-300K range) get Autumn a new car, take a couple weeks to visit Japan, invest the rest and carry on with business as usual. Oh yeah, and I'd probably play in the World Series of Poker once, just to say I did it, and I'd buy an iPod Photo.

John Malkovich is in this, too, as a character new for the film. Here's what I found about it...

Actually, a couple years back when I worked at Circuit City, if you were found to have sold an M-rated game to anyone under 17, it was cause for immediate termination. National company policy. It even brings up a prompt on the monitor when you scan the UPC telling you to ask for ID. I know Best Buy has a similar practice, as does Toys R Us.

Yeah, G4 just bought TechTV so they could use their market saturation.

The Superman ones are photoshopped (the text is, anyway), but the other gallery of strange comic book covers aren't. At least, a lot of them aren't. They are 100% real. In fact, you can see by clicking here and here. Yeah, they're the real deal. If you think they're photoshopped, you haven't seen a lot of the crap DC used to pound out back in the day.

Good read, just short enough to read without getting too involved, but just long enough to whet your appetite for the story. I just finished the hardcover last night, and loved it. I accidentally stumbled across a spoiler regarding Rohjaz's identity before getting to that part of the story, so that sucked... but didn't kill the story for me.

All the best, Yoda.

These are great. I love the cheesy shit DC used to pound out back then...

I haven't bought the first volume yet, but I'm loving the hell out of issues 1, 2 and 3 of volume 2 right now.

Exactly the same book for exactly the same reasons. It doesn't feel "Ultimate" anymore, it just feels like the same old continuity-laden X-books that are in the regular universe. A shame, too, because the first arc was brilliant. I also gave up on Hellblazer a couple months before issue #200. It felt like it was just being weird for weirdness' sake, and nothing intelligent was really going on. Every arc was basically "Constantine finds creepy monsters, Constantine acts cocky, creepy monsters threaten, Constantine says a bunch of gibberish, creepy monsters are defeated" and it took them seven or eight issues from start to finish. Bah. I miss Ennis, Delano and Azzarello on that book. The first book I really gave up on after giving it a multitude of chances was Spawn, which was never really all that good in retrospect but continued to get worse with time. I almost made 100 straight issues of it, but gave up with number 94 or something.

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I dislike most of his work because his characters look like they're yelling all of the time, and they're muscles are way too big/out of proportion with reality. Worst of all, his storytelling ability (in words and art) is lacking. That and he never seems to feel like drawing backgrounds. He always does these weird gradients or blast lines, so his books always look like they're happening in one of those blue-screen "make your own music video" stores in the mall. He's just a crappy artist, honestly, who made it big with one hot book and rode it for all it was worth.

I'm assuming this means Vertigo / Wildstorm, too? I read... 100 Bullets Astro City Ex Machina Y: The Last Man ... and that's it, really. I don't buy a lot of DC.

Smart, considering how some Superhero movies going head to head with others have bombed. LXG comes to mind... I don't think the movies that launched at the same time had much to do with LXG's failure...

-Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee is really good, and the next Oddworld will be out shortly. -Knights of the Old Republic and KOTOR II are must-haves. -Jet Set Radio Future is great fun. -Most Tom Clancy games kick ass on the Box... Splinter Cell, Ghost Recon, etc.

They had the east coast premiere here at the Sarasota Film Festival about two weeks ago, and I got to check it out since Autumn works for the company doing all the Festival's design work. It's tremendous. If you've seen any of McKean's video work, this is very similar... just with a Gaiman fantasy twist. My only complaint was that it was a little shorter than I'd expected. Gaiman and McKean had a "master studio" discussion a couple days after the premiere, which I also got to attend. Not a lot of people knew about it, so it was basically the two of them shooting the shit with about thirty or forty fans. Lots of fun.