I Dress in Black

12Mar09

I dress in black most of the time. I enjoy watching crappy and not so crappy horror movies. The music I listen to is often hard, heavy, or dark. My boots are high and heavy. My literature is dark and heavy. I read comics. I collect comics. I play video games. Violent video games…

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Tags: black, Comics, computer games, games, Graphic Novels, gun, music, RPG, school shooting, video games, violent, weapon

Watching the Watchmen

09Mar09

I just came from watching the “Watchmen”, a comic adaptation of Alan Moore’s twelve-issue oeuvre of the same title that was released 1986/7.

Watchmen was the first graphic novel I laid my hands on, together with Sin City (by Frank Miller), and I remember how the characters were so impressive, three-dimensional, it was hard to tell who was really …

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Tags: alan moore, cinema, dr. manhattan, film, frankmiller, graphic novel, manhunt 2, Movie, rorschach, sin city, superhero, violence, watchmen

A Piece of Cake

03Jan09

My amazing and wonderful partner in crime and I have continued playing Lego Star Wars on the PS2. Even though I still think that it is a bit more fun on the Wii, merely due to the fact that the controller can…

Filed under: Comics, Design, Game Design, Game Related, PS2, QA, Usability, game, wii   |  1 Comment
Tags: batman, cake, controller, controls, cupcakes, duel, gamepad, lego, light saber, mote, playstation, problems, PS2, QA, screen, star wars, wii, wrecks

Secret Identity

02Jan09

Some of you already know that I am a fan and collector of graphic novels and comics.

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Tags: academic, berzerk raccoon, Comics, graphic novel, marvel, pin up, secret identity, superhero, thesis