Raise your lighters up: RIP Dave Crockrum
http://pwbeat.publishersweekly.com/blog/2006/11/27/rip-dave-cockrum/
Dave Cockrum, legendary artist and co-creator of such characters as Storm, Nightcrawler, the Starjammers and many more, died on Saturday of complications from diabetes. He was 63.
For the uninformed, Dave Crockrum was the co-creator of a new era in the X-men comics. Without his influence, the X-men just wouldn’t be what they are today. In fact, the comics industry as a whole has benefited from his influence. So for all of ya’ll into X-men, be it the animated cartoons, video games, comics, or movie, raise your lighters up and give him a 21 gun salute.
Cocksuckers on patrol: Iranian student gets tasered
I don’t know what’s more sickening, the fact that this is going on, or the fact that people defend this bullshit. Even if the man was committing a crime, there was no need to taser him, let alone do so as many times as they did. They could have handcuffed him and led him out. Had this been a pretty white woman being tasered, this would be front page news, but he’s an Iranian, so it’s okay. Fuck these racist crooked ass pigs. Just yesterday, a man was shot to death as he was leaving his bachelor party. (But to be fair, details are sketchy, so who knows why this happened though.)
It pisses me off to hear about things like this. How much more of this will we have to take before something is done about the problem? We’re constantly told by rich whites that police are to serve and protect us, and if we’re beaten, then we deserve it, but what did this man do that requred him to be tasered? What did Amidou Diallo do that required him to be shot at over 40 times? Maybe if one of thier kids were beaten and tasered, then they’d start paying attention.
$20 GOTW and Lost Classics at Powet
Becuase it makes more sense than posting the same thing to 2 different sites and becuase my homie Zac Shipley needs a lot of exposure, my $20 GOTY and Lost Classics features will be posted over at Powet.tv exclusively. Check it out, becuase it’s a dope ass site. Check there each Thursday afternoon. I’ll also add a link to the blogroll list so you won’t forget.
Lost Classics: Xexyz (NES)
Lets head back to 1989. Hudson soft released this often overlooked but high quality action game on the NES. You play as Apollo and your goal is to rescue the princess. Okay, so the plot isn’t all that original, but the levels offer up a mix of side scrolling shooter levels and platforming. It’s linear, but there are hidden areas to discover, as well as new upgrades and abilities. It’s kinda like Gradius meets Mega Man and Metroid. There is a small chance that this could come to the virtual console, so check out the rom until then.
BTW, sorry about last week’s Lost Classic. I was too busy with training to post it here. You can read it vover at Powet however.
$20 GOTW: Street Fighter EX 3 (PS2)
This week’s $20 GOTY and lost classics are gonna take you waaaaaay back. First, lets take a trip back to the PS2 launch. Although there weren’t many titles worth grabbing at the time, (except Timesplitters and Tekken Tag Tournament) Capcom gave us fighting game fans something to tide us over. You either love the EX series or you hate it. Those who like it, (me for instance) like the cool music, intresting new characters (although some are somewhat dull), and the fact that our favorite 2-d series translated so well to 3-d. Those who hate it harp on it’s static backgrounds, dull characters, and consider it blasphemy to take a 2-d stalwart and take it into 3-d. Capcom’s 3-d fighters have been more of a test run than anything, and the fact that they still continue to produce 2-d games speaks volumes of thier apprehension to make the jump to 3-d. Be that as it may, beside Rival Schools and Tech Romancer, this is probably thier best 3-d effort.
Although the only new character introduced here is Ace (a robot who you can set special attacks for in an all new mission mode), many of your favorites from the EX series have arrived. A new Tag Team mode, similar to the Marvel vs Capcom games is also included. You can’t change in and out as rapidly here as you did in MVC though, so it adds a layer of strategy and timing. A new single player mode tries to do things differently by having you fight more than one opponent at once, and giving you the option to recruit defeated opponents to your team. Finally, beating the aforementioned single player mode treats you to the wildest credit sequence ever; a free-for all brawl where the goal is to take out as many enemies as you can.
As I mentioned before, not everyone will like SFEX3, particularly series purists. I kinda miss the remixed barrel breaking game from the original EX. For those who don’t mind a little change now and then however, you can’t go wrong with this PS2 blast from the past.
By the way, sorry about last week’s $20 GOTW. I was busy with training and forgot to post it here. You can still read it over at Powet though.
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