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Review: Transformers – Comvoy no Nazo (Translation: The Mystery of Optimouse Prame)

Sunday, January 13th, 2008

Lament Japanese games not released in America all you want; often times it’s for your own good. Hasbro actively tried to release this garbage-bomb in America. The Nintendo of America’s licensing division had several key Hasbro executives brought up on Crimes Against Humanities charges. Platform: Famicon A lot of times games never made it beyond [...]

The Futurama Video Game

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

So I suffered for Billy West’s sins. I bought the “Futurama” video game. I even fucking beat it. I’m a better man than you and a more pure kind of nerd. But I swear to god if I ever meet the fucker that designed that Dr. Zoidberg level I’ll murder him in his sleep. I [...]

The Truth about “Ernest Goes to Camp”

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

Most believe the lighthearted children’s comedy, “Ernest Goes to Camp” to be an innocent tale of conservatism, but most do not read between the lines to see the awful truth behind this devious communist indoctrination tool. Jim Varney, playing Stalin protege’ Ernest P. Worrell, spends the film taking a disadvantaged group of children and indoctrinating [...]

The Last Dragon

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

“Catches bullets with his teeth? Bullets with his teeth? Nigga please.” The characters are painted in broad strokes. By that I mean they’re walking cliches. There’s the streetwise black five-year-old. There’s the older, nerdy kid, who only knows about one thing. And the female love interest who’s hot (for an eighties chick), famous (for an [...]

A Brief History of Comics

Saturday, May 19th, 2007

You can represent the history of comics in myriad ways. It’s recent history, and still remembered well enough to interpret it in dozens of ways. This is the way I view it, as putrid and virtriolic as it may be. American comic books really started up in 1939. Before that you only saw reprints of [...]