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Wallpapers Wednesday : Top Cow’s First Born Wallpapers

April 22nd, 2009

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A couple of beautifully painted wallpapers for Top Cow Comic’s First Born, a self-contained three issue series which debuted at Top Cow 2007 summer event. Sure, it’s old stuff but these two lavishly detailed wallpapers which happen to be the covers for First Born Issue #0 and Issue #1 respectively, still look fantastic.

Since Top Cow Comics stated this series involves the entirety of the Top Cow Universe, it meant that familiar characters like Jackie Estacado (The Darkness) (below), …

Sara Pezzini (below) from Witchblade …

and Angelus featured prominently in First Born.

Excerpts above are from the first issue of First Born which can be read for free at the official site.

Both the covers above and the comics were painted by Croatian artist Stjepan Sejic and you can see more of his work at nebezial.deviantart.com (definitely a must-visit for fans of Top Cow’s particular brand of art)

Download these wallpapers at www.firstborncomic.com.

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Games Thursday : Watchmen : The End is Nigh Demo Impressions

April 09th, 2009

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When you first load up Watchmen : The End is Nigh, the first thing you’ll notice are the visuals – the game paints the world in the way Rorschach would see it – perpetually dark, grimy and thriving with depraved criminals. While it seems like a accurate depiction of Rorschach’s pessimistic ideas of human civilization, it doesn’t necessarily really translate to a believable or engaging world to play in.

Despite my initial skepticism with this game as with every other game spinoff from movies, Watchmen : The End is Nigh does have a few good points. The game delivers visceral action with meaty sounding impacts when your punches connect, especially when playing as Rorschach. His style of fighting is brutal and inelegant, yet ultimately provides more satisfying gameplay as compared to Nite Owl who throws his punches with much more finesse (and as a consequence, feels and sounds weaker).

Speaking of blood, the gory and over the top bloodletting from the movie gets carried over to this game too. I can’t say it’s a good thing but it seems that publishers think that gratitious bloodspilling is a selling point for action games nowadays – must be a sign of the times, eh?

Of course, the game isn’t without its faults. Even though the world is excellently rendered, there doesn’t seem to be any other living soul in there who’s not actively baying for your blood. It doesn’t help that every area that you have to clear for each chapter are populated by the same assortment of thugs.

Despite these flaws, Watchmen : The End is Nigh would be an enjoyable (if mindless) brawler if the enemies employed teamwork or group tactics instead of bunching up together or trying to hem you in from all sides and block your view. Occassionally, swirling melees like this one below do occur

The linear level design ensures you’ll probably only play the game once more as the other character and that’s it (to be fair, most games of this genre are this linear).

Nevertheless, do give the Watchmen : The End is Nigh demo a try if you’re into brawling action – it’s definitely enjoyable for the first couple of runs but the action gets repetitive rather quickly.

Download the The Watchmen : The End is Nigh demo.

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Wallpapers Wednesday : Watchmen (Movie, Comics & Game)

April 08th, 2009

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Wallpapers for the recent film adaptation of the Watchmen comics. A bit late but better late but never, right?

I quite like the movie but found it to be a bit draggy at 163 minutes and felt that they should have cut out the sappy parts out between Silk Spectre II, Dr Manhattan and Nite Owl since they didn’t add much to the overall storyline (at least for the movie, I haven’t read the comics yet). Oh, you probably know by now that it’s another comic-to-film adaption of Alan Moore’s graphic novels (V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen)

Just got to love Rorschach though – it’s fascinating to watch a character so relentless, uncompromising and unflinchingly violent in pursuit of his idealized form of justice. There’s more downloadable movie posters like the one above over at the official Warner Bros site for the movie.

Some wallpapers from the original comics published by DC Comics.

And let’s not forget the unofficial but still very cool Watchmen wallpaper featuring the Simpsonized characters from the comics by Dean Fraser of Springfield Punx.

Characters © DC Comics
Art © Dean Fraser

And while we’re at it, we might as well take a look for the wallpaper(s) for the spin-off game Watchmen : The End is Nigh. Expect to see my impressions of the demo very soon

Download The Watchmen wallpapers from Watchmen movie site, Watchmen : The End is Nigh videogame site (under Media > More Watchmen), DC Comics and Springfield Punx

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Art Friday : Marvelous Papercraft – Boxpunx by Harlancore + Friends

January 09th, 2009

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Don’t know how I missed out on the first series of these cheeky Boxpunx by Harlancore and friends when both series were announced on Cubeelog. The first series by Harlancore + Scorpidio features the X-Men (not too sure about the inclusion of Spider-Man though) and the second by Harlancore + Esteban showcases a selection of 12 other superheroes and villains from the Marvel universe.

The villains Magneto and blue-skinned Mystique are my favourites. Would have loved to see big bad Juggernaut though

The Punisher looks awesome and so do Daredevil and Nick Fury. Hopefully we’ll get to see Venom and Deadpool in Series Three (crosses fingers )

Download BoxPunx Series 1 (X-Men) and BoxPunx Series 2 (Marvel).

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Wallpapers Wednesday : Springfield Punx Jumble Wallpaper

November 19th, 2008

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I always enjoy collecting wallpapers featuring ensembles of the various characters in games and comics. Can’t recall the exact word now but I remember reading about a collective noun for superheroes … (Wordlab suggested fraility and a forumer at PPRuNe mentioned halo)

Basically, I meant walllpapers like this one from Marvel Comics, …