Assorted Geekery: WTF Moment and Takio

First of all wtf:

Majora's Moon From Zelda

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Ego from the Marvel Universe....

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Shouldnt there be some kind of copyright for this? As there both sort of sentient planets, both hurtling towards what is basically earth which will destroy it.... except one has a beard.

Takio Issue 1

I have an Exam Tomorrow so here is a quick review.

Randomly found this comic, so I thought why not? At first I wasn’t too sure if it was actual the first issue cause of the internet confusing the hell out of me, as well as the comic itself! There was a “previously” blurb, so I was very very confused, but after reading the fine print it is the first issue ever. I tell you that was a fun filled morning, trying to figure out if this was a later issue or different series.

So Takio follows the first two superheroes, which happen to be two young girls (who are adopted sisters) in high school because of some clichéd experiment which caused them to gain powers, well it was them two and one other girl, but of course she turned evil apparently, and there was some sort of battle between them.. That you don’t see.  This is what they look like:  

Can you understand my confusion yet? All this stuff has happened that you never see, it’s just mentioned in dialogue, so basically in a ridiculous fashion that all this character development has happened but we don’t see any of it. Maybe there saving it for another time as it is the first issue and don’t want to bore readers with origin stories. But this doesn’t necessarily make the comic better!

Ok so we have two girls who want to keep their identities secret, but are still trying to be super-heroes, though they are not amazing at their jobs just yet because they just started, all we know is that they can do this:

Apparenty it’s some sort of telekinesis power, which also allows one of them to fly…. And is often referred to as Kung-Fu Telekinesis.  I realise these are quite vague details, but the details given in the comic are incredibly vague anyway.

Don’t really know what to expect in later comics, I assumed some sort of capitilization of super-powers as this is what the villains do, and I was right. Making some sort of super-soldier or whatever, but they need to use the apparently super-villain girl blood as a catalyst or whatever to find the source of the power. I obviously guessed there would be some adverse reaction from it and this:

Shows it, would be nice to be surprised for once.

Overall, I don’t really know what to say, I may get it when it comes out as a complete collection cause the single issue just isn’t doing it for me, it all felt rushed and not really thought out. But that may be exam stress talking.

One last thing, comic book artists who ever draw, this is what happens when you draw heads a lot bigger than you do bodies:

It just does not look right.

On that note, all images used from comic come from my copy, but it all belongs to the creators and their hardwork.

Until next time.

Assorted Geekery: HARDCORE

HARDCORE

Some good news: made it to 1000 views yesterday which was nice, bad news: exams around the corner and feeling ill, L so short review and that’s it for today.

This is one of the new released issues for 2012’s pilot week type thing so I thought I give it ago because the one or two worded “in your face” titles seem to have some worth to them, so HARDCORE joins the ranks of “Forgetless, Hell Yeah and Kick Ass” in short snappy titles.

This one does have an interesting plot though, an assassin known as Drake using other bodies to kill targets that they originally wouldn’t be able to get close to without years of planning; instead they use a device called “Hardcore” which allows a person who looks like this (Drake):

Do this:

So this assassin kills someone in a totally different body, aiming for the quick and clean sort of thing. It reminds me a little of assassin’s creed, but you invade people and completely take over them. So its more like playing a video game with real people.

 They try to add some pseudo-science which is sort of believable, shoot the hardcore chip into back of targets neck so you can invade brain stem and take over. Would have thought the victim would be a bit confused by the whole something just went into back of their neck.

 I also would have thought that would cause a considerable amount of pain if there is like some sort of bondage from within.

But that’s just thinking too much into the detail, must remind ourselves it’s not real. Like the fact it may have been easier to just control the actual target and make them kill themselves or whatever, but I suppose some people are harder to get to than others, although there is no problem with getting people who are close to said target.

In this issue you are introduced to the hardcore program, its user, demonstrations of action sequences, which actually run quite smoothly art wise because usually action sequences can look robotic but this pulls it off quite well I Think:

It also introduces Marcus the antagonist, who is the original creator of hardcore, who was thrown off the program after he made it. As well as Drake having a better physical record than him, because you need to be strong apparently to use the program, and if the physical likeness of the person you’re controlling is the same as you, the easier the process. Obviously…

But yeah, Marcus invades the site location because he’s all jealous and pull of pride etc, what all villains usually have in common, and has left Drake within a body that is meant to kill someone, because in true villain fashion, why take the easy way out and shoot Drake where he stands in that tub you saw earlier.  He even says “don’t plug out, Or I’ll shoot you” basically, not a direct quote…

I dont even think Drake did much wrong, he's basically a grunt? Confused at this prospect

This is Marcus with a really strangely drawn face, he doesnt look like this in other panels, funny how they put effort into drawing the female face 

Oh he also has 72 hours, cause the hardcore chip dissolves after this and if your still in the body by then, bad stuff hits the metaphorical fan I guess.

I may pick up this comic again but it won’t be my first choice, I did enjoy it but it didn’t convey enough in 25 pages to make me want more.

All images belong to creators and what not, but the images stem from my copy of the issue Hardcore.

No other assorted Geekery today because I feel crappy, but there will be more tomorrow.

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Until next time: Fluff My Llama