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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.

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

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"

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"

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 Goon

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

Welcome all the changes.

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!

"Frankenstein's Womb" Review

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.

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.

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.

Christmas short film update.

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!

Juggling act.

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!

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

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.

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.

Piston background.

Yo, Cody here. I just got done making a new background in photoshop/3ds max
























I had gotten the idea from a stumble picture of paint splatter, and then a second stumble onto a car site. I went ahead and made a piston as well as a engine block but it turned out to be, sorta ugly. But here is the overall outcome.

You can download the background for yourself. The rez on the picture is 1024x768

CLICK HERE


Yeah, okay Cody out!

The Umbrella Academy review

THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY
This is my first comic review so please, bare with me.

This comic starts in, possibly one of the greatest way I think I have ever seen. It starts out with a large man wrestling a giant alien squid, the mans name is “Tusslin’ Tom” he preforms a “atomic flying elbow” drop onto the giant alien squid defeating him and earning a gold belt. This act of fantastic action/strangeness spawns forty-three gifted children to suddenly be birthed out of a handful of unlucky females around the world, the children are put up for adoption when a old man known as “Sir Reginald Hargreeves” who is also known as “The Monocle” drops everything and runs out to adopt as many of them as possible and only lands 7 of these gifted children. After a report to the press that his adopted sons and daughters will be the future savors of the world, he and the children vanish. One decade later Paris is in big trouble and needs the help of a talented group of children.

Now, when I bought the comic I expected it to have a straight forward story line but from what I gathered it jumps from when our heros are babies, to 10 year old's, then to adults living on their own and waiting to save the world again.

This left a dry taste in my mouth, I am now awaiting my next chunk of change I can Gleefully throw into Tfaw’s pocket so that I may read the next issues. The story, though feels like a rotting bridge, shaking in the wind ready to snap, somehow also sends the feeling of comfort in knowing that once you reach the end, and then you look back you’ll notice that there is enough support to make the cross back over it again. Or in other words, It is a interesting read though and slightly hard to understand, but if you look back at it once finished, you have a rush to the head making you want the next issues more.

The cover of this comic threw me off a tad, the cover holds three panels, all of which are rather colorful, yet the pages in the comic are often muted, more so on a gray scale with bursts of green and dark blue, You’ll find no Whinnie the pooh here kids, sorry.

The idea of the comic just reels me in, seven gifted children are brought into a world only to be called on to help save the world every decade or two. And one of them appears to be, not so gifted after all, or gifted in ways of writing anyways, Cursing her father for not caring about her due to the fact she has no powers, she yearns for the chance of revenge. Hook, line, and sinker.

This comic having solid writing, interesting story lines, and a perfect blah color scheme, makes one heck of a worthy comic. But the strange fact that Gerard Way is just mind boggling. I mean the singer of My Chemical Romance also writes comics? and award winning ones at that!?

Crazy, just crazy. Okay Cody Out!~

Interesting.

Sup yo, Cody here with some interesting bits of info.

The other day I was hanging out with my good friend Josh when I had noticed something about the way he was talking about making a cup of coffee, paying no mind to it at first he later talked about making a sandwich, when suddenly the idea hit me, Josh is the best person I can find to play the lead in my short film "Food: A Tasteful Documentary.".

Yes, I feel your pain. Being left in the dark about something so, delicious. "Food: A Tasteful Documentary." is a short film I am currently writing. Though the final draft for the short film will be written by both Tim and I, I am the main writer due to getting the idea for the film one day while being held in a trance of sandwich making. We plan on shooting the film as a side project sometime this year, hopefully in the next few months.



Surprise! I bring to your attention yet again one of my 3D side projects, "Boxes: To something higher" When I had got the idea about six months ago I had no plan on where to take the idea, But yesterday I had sat down and messed around with a box, and from there I had made a box/man, giving me a story for the short film I call "Boxes: To something higher".



The Gofio Podcast will be made sometime soon, Tim bought me a new headset for Christmas so now Chris and I are perfectly good to record. Tim will be getting his very soon. The Podcast will include info about the Gofio team's short films/Feature films, game reviews, recent movies watched, and anything else we deem good enough to be brought up, for example the cake we will be eating on my birthday (Jan 7th).

And for your parting pleasure, Obey The Altar Native is going to be playing live in Tuscan on the 22nd and 23rd, they have asked me to make up a short video for them while they are on stage, and of course I'm going to the concert so why not do them a favor?

Cody Out!

REAL Shots

This past week, Cody and I rented a camera, constructed an outfit, and set out about the greater Phoenix area taking "proof of concept" shots for my independent film, "REAL: Documentary of a Superhero". I'll use these shots as part of a presentation with the purpose of raising money for the film. I'm taking a unique angle with the presentation, as it will be all web based. There will be a post here detailing the details as soon as the website is up.

I'll post some more shots later, as I haven't had much time to edit them, but here's two:

I'll update as time goes on, and keep an eye out for the "REAL" website, which will be going up next week.

Peace out.

midnight Meat Train = life inspiring?!

Sup yo, Cody here to bring some freaking sweet news! Oh and a bit of bad.

So my girlfriend and I were watching a movie called Midnight Meat Train(I still think it sounds like a porno) about a photographer that is sent on a creative goal of getting pictures with emotion. But he ends up stumbling onto a midnight murderer.
I highly recommend this movie and am pushing it on you if you like H.P. Lovecraft.

But anyways while watching the movie my girlfriend pointed out to me that I was criticizing the photos he was taking nearly 80% of the time, and she asked me why I kept talking more about the pictures more than the movie itself.
I ended up telling her that a long time ago I used to take my dads camera and take pictures of anything I could find. This lead me into a long conversation about how when I was around the age of 7 I used to want to grow up and be a photographer. After I told her that she asked one thing, "Why didn't you do it?" I had to answer her with nothing more than a shake of my head.

So I thought about it and ended up saying to myself, I could always do photography as a side thing for fun while I still chase my dream job(3D animator/modeler).

This Friday(24th) I got paid from my job and then went all over the web and ended up finding a sweet camera for a decent price of $139 dollars(In the store they charge $230), well with tax and shipping it landed at $152.34 but still pretty cool.

Today I ended up going back to walmart.com and I looked at it and noticed that they jacked the price UP to $149.99. I found that pretty badass that I bought mine two days before a price jump :D

Check it out, well online pics for now. I'm sure I will post a picture of me with the camera as soon as I get it, or it with pics I will be shooting.


The bad news in this post is, my second Xbox hit the grave yard this week. and right during the prime time of game releases (Homecoming, Dead Space, Gears of war, Mirrors edge, Left 4 dead? will it still be gone by then?) so I guess I won't be playing any online games for awhile. just PSP and Wii. if your wondering how my xbox died, Yep you guessed it.