The Walking Dead: The Game Episode 1 Review

I’m going to be honest; I fell out of love with The Walking Dead TV show on AMC midway through the second season. I loved season one for its interesting take on a zombie apocalypse and that it focused on the characters. Then I started watching season 2 this fall and it just didn’t grow at all. It was tedious, slow and, worst of all, it bored me for a while until I stopped tuning in on Sunday nights. From what I hear it has got much better and the end of season 2 makes up for the slow beginning and middle of the season, but that never swayed me to go back to the series.

When it comes to the comic, I have read the first two trade volumes (issues 1-12) which I liked. But the rising price of comics has kept me from delving into the series (that has changed though as I found The Walking Dead compendium #1 which collects issues 1-48 for a very reasonable price and it is now on the way). So going into the game I had a decent idea of what I was getting into, zombie apocalypse and what it does to humanity, and that was a good enough set up for me.

The Avengers.....WOOOOOOO

Hello everyone!
I know I haven't posted in forever, I have been sooooo freakin' busy.

Awesome!!!!

Now on to nerdiness!

I am so very pumped for Marvel's The Avengers.
Marvel has done a great job at creating a film universe with some of their classic heroes. That The Avengers even exists is incredible and something comic book fans have been waiting for ever since the first issue of  The Avengers came out in 1963.

 I have no fears that this movie will be a let down. Other than the rave reviews (check out the rottentomatoe score for this movie), it also has one of the best writer/directors of this generation, Joss Wheadon. Wheadon has done some of the my favorite productions including, Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog and Firefly. His writing is phenomenal and he always write interesting and deep characters. I can't wait to see how he writes Captain America and Iron Man interacting.

I have high hopes for The Avengers.

Let the summer movie season begin!

He's Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack....

Hello old chums!

After a phoenix-esque revival from the world of the invalid, I return bearing the fruits of my knowledge, the rich value of my current history, and the delight of my company ;D.

To start, I will chronicle my recovery.

It begins on a sunny day when I fall on my head and shoulder onto concrete. Ow. Pull myself up, don't realize that my shoulder hurts as bad as it should because I realized that blood is kinda getting in my eye.

Slightly less intense then this, but then again, that's just the kinda man I am.

So after going to the Student Health Center at a certain college that I go to, I am given closing bandages, a sling and........advil. Nothing against advil, it's just that its for a 3 on the pain scale rather then like a 7 or 8. So follows an awful weekend of doing almost nothing but keeping my shoulder level and slovenly lazing about.

Hyperbole and a Half Pain scale





Hyperbole and a Half Pain scale

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I Return....With a Request

Sorry everyone that I have been gone for last few weeks. I have been very busy with school work and I still don't have a ton of free time but I still wanted to post for any loyal followers.

I just want to quick comment about something that I have been waiting on for several years now,
THE NEXT GAME IN THE HALF-LIFE SERIES!!!

Gordon Freeman

Half-Life 2 is my favorite game of all-time (I will be reviewing it...at some point) and the last game in the series to be released, Half-Life 2: Episode Two, ended on a huge cliffhanger...one that has not been resolved since the games release in 2007.

I know the guys at Valve, the developers of the Half-Life series, have been busy making the Left 4 Dead series and Portal 2, but they have not even made a statement about the next Half-Life game. I just want to know that it is in development and that I will be able to play it before I am 30.

Valve, if you are reading this (I know it is highly unlikely), please just make a statement saying something along the lines of
"Yeah, it is in production."
That is all I want to hear. That is it.

Oh and if you have never played a Half-Life game, I highly recommend you do. It is an incredible series with believable characters and an amazing Sci-Fi story line. Play it.....NOW. Seriously, You can get Half-Life 2 on steam (valves digital video game store) for only $10.

Sick and Tired

Sorry I haven't posted much guys I have a pile of work and I'm recovering from being sick. I'll try to do on more post this week and next week I will be writing a review of the first two episodes of Game of Thrones.
Thank you to all that read and I shall return with nerdy goodness soon.

Live Long and Prosper

Why Spider-Man/Peter Parker is my comic hero of choice

So, before I do a review of the All New Ultimate Spider-Man, I want to explain my love for all things Spider-Man and how it started.

Where my love started.

When I was about 8, Marvel launched it's "Ultimate Comics" line, reboot of many of the Marvel's classic characters to update them for a younger generation. I was a young boy in a local comic book store with my dad when I saw the cover of "Ultimate Spider-Man". I read the first issue right there in the store and Spider-Man became MY superhero.

Spider-Man is the first fictional, character that I could really relate to. The fact that before, and even after, he gained his power, he was still bullied, attacked and forced to face some very real social and family problems that other superheros of his age never had to deal with. As a nerdy kid and then teen, I remember what it was like to be an outcast.

Beyond just being a character I could identify with, he also was a character who made terrible mistakes, which makes him interesting and real. When Peter gained his powers he did not become perfect. He was flawed, he messed up. Sometimes so badly that it would lead directly to the harm of a person he cared for.



When Peter failed to stop a robber to get back at someone who ripped him off, he allowed his own Uncle to be killed. Uncle Ben raised Peter from a very young age and was essentially his father. That Peter's failure to act caused Ben's death is something new to comics, and origin filled with not just discovery but mistakes.

Gwen Stacy's Final Moments

In one of the most tragic twists in comic history, Peter Parker, as Spider-Man inadvertently killed the woman he loved. When Gwen Stacy, Peters first love from high school and the woman he would of married, was taken hostage on top of a bridge by the Green Goblin, Peter tried to save her before the Goblin could throw her off. Peter couldn't stop Goblin from throwing her off the bridge and in a last ditch effort to save her, shot a web at her feet. The webbing grabbed her leg and Peter tugged hard, causing an abrupt stop to Gwen's fall. The jerking stop snapped Gwen's neck and she was dead. Peter had killed the woman he loved and it devastated him. It still scares him to this day in the comics and he still thinks about Gwen and loves her (expressed beautifully in the graphic novel  Spider-Man: Blue).


That a superhero has made such terrible mistakes is intriguing and makes him real. Even after all of that death and tragedy that Peter has been through, he can still joke and quip while in the suit fighting crime or just swinging around. The sense of humor that Peter has makes him so human. He doesn't mope around all the time like some other certain hero (See: Bruce Wayne). He doesn't focus on his dread but instead his love of life.

Peter Parker is one of the most human fictional characters I have ever read and that there is a new person in the suit intrigues me. I would love to see if the new Spider-Man, Miles Morales, can justify wearing the suit.

Excelsior!

A hello and some news

Just saying hello to everyone out there.
Also, in the next few days/weeks I will be doing my first comic book review, Ultimate (all new) Spider-Man issue # 7.

Yay Comic Books!!!!!
That is all.