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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 Clock Maker

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.

"Unzip your head" with The Scribbler review.

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.

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.

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!

"Breathe" comic review

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

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.

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.

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!~