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!

"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!

Delay for the best.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



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



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

Cody ~ Out!

"Breathe" comic review

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.