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I need to learn not to look at the back of whatever I plan on reviewing, because I’ll often find people I highly respect disagreeing with me. Either I’m inexperienced or too cynical for my own good… but I’m a pretty big deal, so let’s go with the later. Same Difference. (see what I did there? Genius.) Contrary to what that opening paragraph may imply I do not hate this book or anything

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“The Business of America is Business” A misquote, true, but you will never find a statement that captures the entirety of American history and politics more encompassing. SOPA and PIPA are no exception. Don’t believe the rhetoric that these bills are being proposed as a means to fight piracy out of an ethical responsibility to quell theft. They are done to make a buck, and the proof is in

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I’ve made it no secret that I’m not entirely satisfied with how Thirteenth Child is coming along. It’s confusing, slow, and convoluted. It also isn’t terribly interesting, and all these flaws are present because I’ve been holding all the good stuff back for later. That is not a formula that keeps readers coming back, and while I may be a somewhat competent artist and writer, I’ve learned

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I've been mentioning Action Hat a lot, but now I'm finally drawing it. I intend to give him his own section of my website, but for now the hat will be featured three times a week at Thirteenth Child for the month of January. I had originaly planed on making these simple motion comics, but never fund the time to do it. Ah well, I think the cheap production values lend to the humor anyway.

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I'm probably the worst person to invite to a wedding. Here's a taste of what you're guaranteed to endure: I'll find some corner to dwell in, my face frozen in an expressionless concentration, to which upon investigating you only receive empty platitudes of "The wedding is wonderful." "I'm fine." "No, no, I'm just tired, that's all." serving no other purpose than to get you to move on, and

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Let me tell you a little story. The other night I was playing the Sacrifice DLC for Left 4 Dead 2 on XBOX Live. I began the campaign with a team of two players and two bots and before we even left the safe room to begin the game the other player immediately opened fire on me. Soon after a third player joined the game, and the first player would not divert his attention from me. Soon a window

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Last night I was doing a speed run of Arkham Asylum on easy, just to see how good playing Arkham City on hard mode made me at combat. Turns out quite a bit, as I was able to reach Poison Ivy’s boss fight in around 2 hours. I don’t bring this up to brag (ladies?) but just to establish why I’m thinking about this right now. The character Poison Ivy had always baffled me in her character design

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Before we begin let me establish that this is a subject where I welcome commentary and argument. I am quite literally thinking out loud with this article, and am no way adamant with my opinions on the matter. Ideally I’d like to spark a conversation on this matter, as I feel it is one worth having. I have a friend who is into wrestling. I am not. So whenever we would hang out he would

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Oh, hey. A real question. Camus. comics and stuff.

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If you've been following my art over the years, you'll know I like to draw Valkyries probably more than anything else and part of that is simply because I think they are cool, but part of that is because how much I really, really like the Valkyrie Profile games. I plan on going into detail about the games proper as I have found it to be a subject I am very animated about, but for the

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It only makes sense that I compile a reciprocal list. I don’t make it a habit to buy crappy video games, but it happens. Sometimes I welcome it. Some of the favorite additions to my collection are of the “so bad it’s good” variety. I must have completed Ever Grace, like, 14 times and it can be cringe worthy at times, and I always find it hilarious. There is nothing funny about the following

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I know, the year isn’t even close to finished yet, and neither is the launch schedule. Zelda is coming out soon! Well, I’m not getting that game… this year at any rate. Me and Zelda, we had a falling out. The longer we spent time with each other the more every day felt like the last, and the only thing I could see when I gazed into her eyes was my own life crumbling away, and deep down I knew

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Wow, she could not give less of a shit about shooting Swamp Thing. This occurred to me while looking over the cover of Swamp Thing #3 this morning. Look at how limp that wrist is; you hold a TV remote with that lackadaisical a nature, not a lethal weapon. I mean, just from that grip alone, I want you to envision the other hand cradling the back of the head as if in mid yawn, or maybe holding

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 Music "Flying Bonus Beats, Version 1" by Minus Baby http://freemusicarchive.org/music/minusbaby/ SergeXIII Experience: Let's Art 3 by Sergio J. A. Ragno III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at freemusicarchive.org.

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  SergeXIII Experience: Let's Art II by Sergio J. A. Ragno III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at freemusicarchive.org.

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 So the idea is simple, I practise drawing with only a tablet and speed the process up (from an hour down to around five minutes in this case) and then sync it to some creative commons liscence tunes. SergeXIII's Let's Art I by Sergio J. A. Ragno III is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at thirteenthchild.net.

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It was Junior year of College and it was Halloween, the best damn day of the year. I hadn't dressed up for the holiday since before High School, but that wasn't going to stop me this year! I had a cool costume too, I was going to go as Joker from Persona 2. Sure, no one there had played that game, but it was a really creepy mask and really easy to make. All I had to do was grab a paper bag

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I’ve spoken with a few friends since completing Batman Arkham City and when I am naturally asked to evaluate the experience I remark that the work’s biggest strength, its compelling narrative, is its biggest weakness as the sense of urgency is so potent that one never feels comfortable abandoning the central mission to explore. The logic behind this argument reminds me of my biggest criticism

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I know you’ve never heard this before and I realize I am blowing your mind with this statement, but making a sequel to a critically acclaimed anything is mad hard, yo. Inevitably the new installment will be compared to the old, its genesis encompassed in the shadow of a giant whose birth went unnoticed. No one expected Arkham Asylum to be good, let alone phenomenal, so how does Arkham City fare

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I don’t think anyone told Paul Levitz he was making a first issue for this book. I can forgive someone for just blowing by the backstory of Superman, Batman, or Wonder Woman. They are pop culture icons, so If I don’t have a rudimentary understanding of them, well, that’s on me. However, how many regular comic readers out there know what the Legion of Superheroes is, let alone who any of the

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I don’t like Superman. Never did. I’m a gamer, so I don’t think I need to explain my animosity any further than that. He’s too too simple, too invincible, and he had a mullet one time. What can challenge him? What can make him interesting? I didn’t plan on picking any of his books up at all, but for some reason I grabbed Action Comics #1, and man am I glad I did because this was awesome.

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...And now for something completely different. Aquaman is crazy good, and I'm not talking for Aquaman crazy good. That's a relevant statement actually, but I'll get to that. This comic is so good that I'd make it the best man at my wedding. Everyone would have to stoop in order to get it in frame for photos and shit, we'd have to just imagine it's speech, the bachelor party would be to just

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When I first a started reading them, I grabbed a whole bunch of the New 52 at once. How many? Let’s just say I’d rather not tell you how much I spent that day, and need to justify the venture as research on how to write the first issue of Radical Empathy. Or rather, how not to write the first chapter of Radical Empathy, because Cat Woman. Cat Woman. CAT WOMAN. I hate this comic from the very

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Multiplayer speed metroidvania!? Capcom, were you reading my diary again? You know, the one with unicorns on it, labeled “Hopes and Dreams”? Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is a downloadable game available on XBOX Live Arcade and has been just recently released on PSN. You assume the role of one of the many hunters of Dracula on a quest to… um, hunt Dracula. Yeah. There are plenty of heroes

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Believe this or not, this was a speed drawing. I was asked to bring in some art work for an event at work, so I drew it all about an hour before I had to go in. I was hit with some inspiration, and it never fails to amaze me how fast that can get me to draw. My biggest regret was that I went right to the "black as a color" stage, so if I ever wanted to go back and color it I'd have my work cut

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Like most of my generation I was a big fan of Star Wars when I was young. My friends and I would talk for hours about the extended universe, invested countless hours in games like Shadows of the Empire and Sega's unforgettable arcade adaptation, dueled with toy light sabers perched high upon a suspended beam for "Jedi Training" and many more embarrassing things of the sort. So you can

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Heavy Rain was a game that generated a lot of buzz while it was in development. Why wouldn’t it? The game had the potential to revive the long since dead Adventure Genre, a family of story and puzzle centric video games, with intuitive features based on new technology and cutting edge video game design theory and a compelling narrative that took full advantage of the fact that it was a video

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I consider myself a philosopher. Read through my boring, confusing, and obtuse blog entries and you’ll probably gather that. Logicomix introduces itself as a quest for logic through comics, so you could imagine how it caught my caught my eye, and how I really wanted to like it. Unfortunately the project suffers from a vision that does not take advantage of the medium. Allow me to begin by

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I suppose my greatest weakness in comics, and there are many, is that my work is almost always experimental. In fact, it has been that way ever since the 2008 run of G’nerds2000. As a result I’m always fighting in unfamiliar territory and lack confidence in my strikes. I am learning a lot, but I am not creating strong products. Thirteenth Child is no different and has really been suffering from

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My best friend is getting married this weekend, so this is dedicated to him. Worst wedding gift ever, START! It has been said that those who over think love are the ones who fail at it. I think that’s been said. Like, maybe in that movie Idiocracy? At any rate while I think this certainly holds water in the world of people, I do not think things to be so damning in the world of the individual,

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There was a time where I wasn’t really into the horror genre, and by horror I really mean Resident Evil. That’s kinda what dominated the whole shebang, and you could sum up most experiences in horror with Tank Controls and Gore. While disturbing, I never really found this to be scary, though I did see it as a step in the right direction. In video games you have extra experiential mechanics to

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I advise you not to read this book before playing Deus Ex: Human Revolution. It doesn't spoil anything, but it does make the game wanting, and it all boils down to the most criticized aspect of the game: the boss fights. Deus Ex is a game about choice, one of the most prominent being whether or not to fight and when you choose the later whether or not to kill. The boss fights cannot be avoided

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We are in the midst of a Hurricane right now, so I've been spending my time cleaning and reorganizing my room, I suppose so that if the Hurricane damages my home then it will disrupt my quarters with a maximized potential. It's noble, really. Anyway, I was alphabetizing my games when I picked up Star Ocean 4. My God do I hate that game, so much so that I stopped playing it at the four hour

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Disgaea is known for going balls to the wall with the extent to which you can build the strength of your world and army, I mean, we’re talking about a series where from the very first installment your level 9999 warrior was a laughing stock if his sword wasn’t that level too. Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice probably went the furthest in actualizing the mad vision Atlus had for Disgaea: Hour of

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Last month I bought Bioshock 2. I only bought it because it was on sale from Steam for dirt cheap, I had no intention on playing it before despite looking on with intrigue. I loved Bioshock, the atmosphere was rich, the combat was intense and visceral, and the themes were good though they could have been better (they are, slightly, in Bioshock 2) but no harm no foul. Bioshock 2 seemed like a

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You’ll have to bear with me, it’s been a while since I read this one, not that I wasn’t struck by it, just that I’ve been busy. If you've been keeping tabs on these posts and my comics you know that's been the case with everything. Get over it. I realize this review went off to a harsh start. Ahem. I’m a big fan of :01 (First Second) publishing, the guys who put out books like American

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Okay, let me start this review by telling you a little story. I’m a huge fan of developer Atlus, in that not only do I get their newsletters in my e-mail, but I read and forward them. I’ve been watching Catherine for a while, never thought it’d see America but when they declared that it would, you know I was front and center, like salivating and stuff. So I’m hanging out with some friends,

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I read this when it first came out and forgot to review it until today, but hey the game comes out in a few weeks, so it's topical right? Go me. Anyway, as for the book. I was enthralled, flipped through it real quick, not that it was excellent, we’ll get to that, but because I’ve been so hungry for a novel playing with the profound and diverse concepts and questions introduced in Ionstorm’s

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Shit Happens RIt may defy all expectations you have of me and my studly aura, but I'm not really into sports.I'll give you a moment to recover from that shocking revelation.But yeah, I don't play sports, really, I don't watch them, don't talk about them and don't read about them. However, despite my admitted athletic virginity I feel safe in the assumption that in a sports comic it is important

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The biggest challenge in writing Thirteenth Child is my aversion to exposition. In comics it proves difficult to refrain from because of the swiftness of the pacing, with a book you have much more time to establish setting and character because you can break from the action to reveal the thoughts of a character or narrator and focus only on them, but in comics words are juxtaposed to a sequence

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Reflection: On Effective Asshole Characters v.s. Ineffective Noble Characters Hmm... Maybe this is why the Jerks get all the Girls. My favorite new face in the venue of gaming has to be No More Heroes' Travis Touchdown. I am a twenty five year old man, I've seen several generations of gaming with through scrutiny and you don't walk away from that tenacity without becoming jaded to a degree.

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Recall back when the gamer collective first got their hands on Mario Sunshine, a game that copied much from its most proper predecessor Mario 64, adding some new features but sticking to the original formula all the same. Recall how the game was welcomed into the homes of gamers about as well as the owner of a windowless van. Personally I hold Mario 64 to be a horrible game on the grounds that

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Well I tend to write comics more than anything else, so I like to put on a narrative adapted from comics on in the backround that I aspire to either write like or never come close to. Ask me anything

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Since I am a "Video Games are Art" advocate I'll always look to that medium for these kinds of questions as I tend not to feel so strongly about passive experience. Silent Hill 2 always cuts to the bone, you know, being perfect and all.Ask me anything

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Comic Genesis is having some issues, so I'm posting the new Red City comic here. I don't do action sequences much, so hopefuly it works. I tell you, I'm a bit worried about people's minds drifting to the gutter with the fourth panel.

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WHY MUST I CONSTANTLY EMASCULATE MYSELF!?

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Man, it took all of thirty seconds for me to become concerned over the next installment to the Silent Hill franchise revealed at E3, it looks terrible. I’m not talking about the graphics, though it does look like it lost a fight with a PS2, I’m talking about the concept itself. This is all conjecture, but from what I can tell from the trailer “Silent Hill 8” (a bizarre name considering the last

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I'm posting the latest Red City page here because Comic Genesis is undergoing some overhaul and won't update my comic for a while. Ah well, this happens.

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1. Rude.2. At this point in time everyone is out of their element and on the defensive. Irving let her presence be known to a potential threat, ran into a suspicious looking shaggy dude who bursts out of a diner after seeing a little girl with a missing father, and Sam wanted some one on one time with Travis. Len and Darius also have reasons for being so standoffish, but I can't get into that

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I really want to make more G'nerds2000 comics but I can't do so without impeding on Red City's progress and that's more important right now. The good thing, though, is that it looks like I'll have a lot more time over the summer as I have no student organizations to worry about, so I can use that time for G'nerds2000. I've also decided to return to form with G'nerds, leaving the more

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Gee Nerds Two Thousand. The "G" stands for "Gaming" as in Video Games. It's been almost ten years since I thought that up, so I don't remember how I came up with it. Ask me anything

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Okay, so I’m going to talk about Deus Ex: Invisible War again just to further illustrate my previously established point about how little the game attempts to immerse you in the experience. Okay, so when you begin the game a religious order attacks your school forcing you to flee into Seattle. You are separated from your instructors and classmates and forced to rely on either the WTO or the

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I take a leisurely ride on my dragon, ramp that shift off Mt. Shredmore, and save Christmas. Ask me anything

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Deus Ex: The Conspiracy is one of the best games ever made. I do not say that lightly. The game was insightful, innovative, unique, and deeper than most games can even fathom. It was also a success and naturally a sequel was made. This one? Not so much. For one all the mechanics were dubbed down, the RPG elements were scrapped almost entirely to make the experience feel more like a generic

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I've been playing with my tablet recently trying to draw things on it all free hand like. This image is probably the best of the bunch but there is still loads of room for improvement. I'm thinking about using this technique for something... either a Walking revival, or maybe something more... elaborate.

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So, I’m sure you’ve noticed that Red City updates have slowed down this month, this is because my Spring semester is coming to a close, a delay to be expected, but there is another reason, an ironic one. Last month I was able to repair an old laptop of mine, the one I used exclusively to make comics, even after purchasing a much, much, stronger desktop. My plan was to use the laptop to make the

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Shit HappensShit Happens is the tale of a band of chronically displaced friends, loosing their homes via gambling, misfortune, or explosions and hunting for a new one. That’s pretty much it, its day in the life of gag strip. I honestly can’t say I enjoyed the writing of this particular comic. It isn’t bad, it just isn’t particularly entertaining. The jokes aren’t funny, I know that stings but its

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Okay, heres another one. Remember, I'm working off a computer I don't have much time to use as my laptop is busted, so this is not going to be up to the level of past reviews, I'll just have to issue rainchecks for when I can give it my all:Canix Ex MachinaCanis Ex Machina begins with a battle between two cyborgs of different sexes on a destroyed highway high above the skyline of a futuristic

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Treading GroundTreading Ground is a slice of life comic revolving around the relationship of a fully grown man and a sixteen year old girl... so yeah, this isn't for everyone. There is a lot of offensive material in Treading Ground and unsurprisingly this is where I have issue with the whole thing, but it isn't for the reason you may think, I am not a prude. The reason I take issue is because it

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Tee Dubbleyu Eff SeeStoryTee Dubbleyu Eff See (Remember it, I won’t be typing that title again as I lack the will to spell it) is a tale of an mysterious hero, named Hero, fighting for a myriad of copyright protected characters against a myriad of copyright protected characters. Hero is a play on Neo, or the Matrix, a martial arts endowed furry who’s poorly executed vigilantism lands him in the

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What NonsenseStoryPerhaps out of an existential epiphany of web comic culture, Catlin Crowley has placed a band of anthropomorphic characters in a nut house in What Nonsense. A grumpy workaholic, Pike Swinson, is forced into a vacation against his will by a concerned boss. Swinson is assigned to Nawncentz, a small home out in the middle of no where occupied by five nut jobs and a maid. As Swinson

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ANTIBUNNYStoryAnti Bunny takes place in Gritty City, and it’s a place that looks exactly like it sounds. Gritty City is home to two races, you got your rabbits whom the story follows, and you got your humans whom live to harass their cuter piers without end. This already brings us to a small snafu in the plot, if only a nit pick. This relationship is seen a good deal so it may be easy to take it

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Band Geeks Anonymous is a collection of anecdotes and observations about school marching bands. The comics are all drawn on line paper in color pencil. Ordinarily this would be condemned by web cartoon critics, but I find it to be very appropriate for this comic as the comic deals with secondary school and is clearly written from the perspective of a student. The simple design of the website

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You know, I’m getting used to drawing Irving now. She’s starting to look way less stiff and unnatural as of late and that’s a good thing considering the rest of the cast were not suffering from the same problem (except, maybe, Jacques). That’s because I have much more experience drawing Serge, Travis, and even Sam but hardly spent any time at all playing around with Irving, which is too bad

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Let me start by saying that Final Fantasy XIII is much, much better than I had expected. That sounds great at first, but when you recall that it’s been on the record that my expectations for the game were very, very low some elaboration becomes necessary, as for all you know the game could still suck just not, you know, triumphantly.Final Fantasy XIII has benefited from many years of work and,

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One of the reasons I loved Resident Evil 4 so much was its writing. No, not because it was good, but because it was remarkably self aware. Resident Evil is a franchise that epitomizes the B movie feel and concept from the awful translations (“WHAT A MANSION”), to the iconic settings, to the quirky characters the inhabit them, it is a ride you love to laugh at but not with. Resident Evil 4 was

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I created this comic when I learned that my buddy Pat was leaving to study abroad in Japan for a semester. Since Pat was part of the "regular cast" of G'nerds2000 (I use quotations as a plot is kinda required to constitute a cast) I had to write him out temporarily. At the time, I knew nothing about Japan, hell I still don't, really, I picture a magical land where you can effortlessly travel

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If you want to be precise, you could say I've been writing Red City for around five years now (not including G'nerds2000, which became part of the collective), and long time followers (I have learned that I have them, nothing can make you feel prouder by the way) may find that number familiar. I've wanted to branch out from G'nerds2000 for a very long time, and wrote many stories towards that

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Pannel 2 is ugly, but other than that this page came out alright. I even did some risky stuff, I inked the two figures in Pannel 4 in the dark. Thats as close to being a Daredevil as I'll ever be I suppose.I'm getting a lot of feedback from some people at the university who are actually reading the comic (thanks guys) and its putting me more at ease about how I've been writting Red City.

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I apologize if the following post sounds odd, as I am dead tired. This comic took forever, and I'm not sure why. Didn't do anything special, really, and I even messed plenty up, like Irving's badge.The plot of Red City is going to officially start now with this comic. All the characters are in place, all the triggers cocked and ready to go: we got a conflict. Red City has taken a lot of twists

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I drew up another Valkyrie doodle. Anyone who knows my art knows I draw these things a lot, but I suppose there are worst things to preffer drawing out there. Like, maybe ponies or something. Anyway, I quickly drew this up in under an hour, the idea was to record the digital work for online publishing, but the screen capture program failed for the first half of the work. Still, decent

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Hmm, you ever draw up something that you think is awesome, but then someone makes an observation that completely blinds you to its former glory in lieu of a more perverted perspective? Well this is one of them. This is the first appearance of Lenneth, a main character of Red City, though her role is not a big one for the first arch. As I was finishing inking this baby a dude walked over,

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