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Monday, October 29, 2007

This Week In Comics: Gambit + Rogue = AWESOME

These past two weeks have been a bit uneventful, aside from one book, and that book is X-Men.

Gambit has always been my favorite member of the X-Men, and while I was excited 4 issues ago when he came back, now that he and Rogue are having face time again (kind of, she's semi-catatonic), I'm hella stoked. Not to mention that the issue was pretty cool otherwise. The stage is now set for Messiah Complex, the X-Men crossover event that begins soon. (next week?). Also, the book got a new, better artist. This issue is gold.

Speaking of crossovers, Spidey's 'One More Day' was delayed an entire month. WTF.

Friday, October 19, 2007

Achievement Unlocked: SCORPIONS!

This past week I have been playing my 360 a ton. Here's how it breaks down.

I got sick of Halo3 for a while so I switched back to Gears of War for a while. Aside from playing through most of the game as Dom (the sidekick in co-op mode), I also have been playing a LOT of Annex on the new maps to try and get the 250 points that were added on for DLC. For a while, I had my guitar hero controller plugged in and was playing against it, though apparently that's cheating and doesn't count towards the achievements.

After a while, I got bored of playing Annex against nobody and switched back to Halo3. Finished my Heroic Co-Op run and found the rest of the Gold Skulls and Terminals. Played a little bit on live, but that part of the game just doesn't interest me as much.

In amongst all this switching back and forth between Gears and Halo, I played some Guitar Hero II, and got the achievement for unlocking all the characters, the last plausible achievement for me. Just when I was ready to put my plastic guitar away though, the demo for GH3 hit the interwebs. From what I can tell from the demo, they didn't really change anything from 2 other than the songs and beefier graphics, which is good, because why mess with a working formula? Anyway, I blasted 'Rock You Like a Hurricane' out on Expert, which means I'm as good at Guitar Hero as these guys are at guitar:
Other than that, I played some Fable and a few random arcade games.

I would like to also point out that while Yaris is free, if you play it for more than 5 minutes, you have overpaid. While I'm down with the concept of free advergames, this one just SUCKS.


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Monday, October 15, 2007

Reader Submission Time

I don't know if it counts as a reader submission if I still have to do the editing, but here you go, from The Royal Tenenbaums courtesy of my sister:

This Week In Comics: Now I'm Broke.

You know how last week I was complaining about how Marvel didn't release a single comic book I read? Well, this past week they made up for it in a big, bad, and expensive way. I think I ended up buying 8 different books. It was kind of an overload.

New Avengers was kind of interesting, though it did not, in fact, feature a single panel with any one of the New Avengers in it.

Punisher War Journal joined the list of comic books really didn't need to be World War Hulk crossovers. The end of last issue left me hopeful that Punisher would once again face Jigsaw and instead he's rescuing cats. On a side note, Jigsaw did appear in the Avengerless New Avengers.

The new issue of Spider-Man's "One More Day" arc came out. It suggests that Time Travel will retcon the past. Really? Is that the best idea you guys could come up with? Time Travel?

The big winner this week was New Avengers/Transformers, potentially the most unlikely crossover ever. Issue 4 brought the conclusion of the series, and while it was rediculous and kind of bad, it was a fun read. It was, during its short run, the Snakes on a Plane of comics (except i think there was a SoaP comic book).

But all in all, a lot to read, and that means I had to go the week without food. YAY!

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Achievement Unlocked: Halormal?


I also have been plowing through Halo 3. I however, did not beat it on heroic, only normal, though I've started my SP legendary run. I'm also mostly done with a co-op run on heroic, not sure if that'll give me the achievement or not. I've also found most of the skulls, Including the 'I Would Have Been Your Daddy' skull everyone on the internet is bitching about being so hard.

Nowadays, many people are treating Halo like it's the second (or third in this case) coming of the Messiah. I'm not one of these fanboys. In fact Halo doesn't do anything that another FPS hasn't already done, and done better. But what Bungie did succeed at was making game that is a lot of fun. In the days when most shooters are slow paced tactical thinking shooters, it's nice to go back to the bull-in-the-china-shop days of Doom.


I'm at 470 Gamerscore on Halo, with a lot of the remaining achievements seeming quite accomplishable. Up next: The Orange Box?

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Achievement Unlocked: Haloic


Haloic! A clever mix of Halo and Heroic... aha..ha. Yeah okay.

Anyways, I got teh Haloz 3. My neighbor had the first two and let me borrow them (read: he thrust them upon me and said "Play. Now.") So pretty much for the past two weeks I've been on a Halo Heroic binge in-between classes. And what a glorious run its been. I've cleared all the levels on heroic on all three games, and now I am moving on to Legendary on Halo 3.

I must admit, Bungie did a damn good job with this one. I didn't follow the first two real closely and try not to adhere to fanboyism, but as a shooter it is impressive. Equipments are fun, as are detachable turrets. And the extra features are a hella fun to mess around with. And now that I have a month free trial for Xbox Live Gold I might as well play the hell out of it. Already flowing up the ranks. And getting those achievements.

Halo Gamerscore: 560
Total Gamerscore: 1100 (Its ridiculous, its not even funny)

BTW, my gamertag is Jagarandi. Come find me.

Thursday, October 4, 2007

This Week in Comics - Iron and the Maiden

This week, Marvel and DC both refused to release any of the comic books I regularly read. Luckily, one of my favorite indie comics came out to fill the void in my heart: Iron and the Maiden.

If you're not reading this comic yet, now is the time to get on board. Both the writing and the art are top notch, and it is entertaining to no end. Not only is it probably my favorite comic book out right now, but it is possibly the most entertaining thing to come out this year on any medium (though I haven't yet played Halo 3).

The only way this series could get better is if somebody says the phrase "You need to eat."

But seriously, I don't care if you regularly read comics or not, you'll probably enjoy this.

Killer eating little costco girl.