It's no secret that I have no love for Katy Perry. Her willingness to sue someone because they used their real name (her stage name), the sickening sugar pop that keeps spewing out over the airwaves, her overused expressions and stupid outfits..
Another thing. Her lyrics. She is insanely popular, but her songs could be written by fourth graders. The raps by her guest artists are surprisingly worse. I mean, raps! You expect hardcore content and you get Snoopy the Lion or whatever he is now rambling incoherently about marshmallows or something. Maybe Katy had them or something similar shooting out from her boob-cannons again.
My main complaint today is from her new album Prism. Roar is catchy enough, but I can't get it out of my head that someone was listening to the Rocky soundtrack and got mysteriously inspired.. maybe by Robin Thicke's selective hearing muse? Unconditionally is so boring and lame.. it's like she realised that while she's hit every demographic from stereotypical California girls to vibrating aliens, cheating heterosexual lesbian lovers to temperature challenged folks.. she's never yet hit the wedding demographic.
Dark Horse.... I LOVE THE MUSIC. I CAN'T STAND ANYTHING ELSE.
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Tuesday, 14 August 2012
Lucky Tiger vs Suicide Squad 12
To be honest, I’m not really sure why I’m bothering to
review this one. The stories are going seriously downhill and I’m not sure why
these writers think I should care who the mole on the team is exactly. So I’ve
missed a few issues in this series, and I’m not going to go back for them. Deal
with it.
THE TRAITOR UNMASKED –
YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHO IT IS!
YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHO IT IS!
Yes, well, we’ll see. Imitation Waller looks surprised, but
that’s probably because a) her cleavage isn’t showing and b) she’s just seen
how much screen time she’s getting this issue.
If you bothered to read the last issue you would know that the Suicide Squad
landed in a poorly written episode of Scooby Doo and now cannibals are going to
eat them for some reason.
Honestly, they wouldn’t be my first choice. I’m sure
pickings are slim in ancient-Mexico comic world but I would like to credit
these guys some brains. Would you eat a shark man, a pasty wannabe clown, a
dude who likens himself to a spider (eww) or the other guy who’s like, on fire
half of the time? Then again, shark is a delicacy and they can save on the
costs because the other guy’s a BBQ, mate!
Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Suicide Squad - The Search for the Quinn
I have to say that volume five of the Suicide Squad was sorely lacking in Harley Quinn. That's fine, I know they got their plot lines going and what not.. wait. Do they? Many of the compliments about the series that I've read have been about the time frames - how it jumps back and forth, keeps things fresh yadda yadda. Whatever. It sucks when you open issue six and you think you've missed a couple of issues because it COMPLETELY jumps things. Keeping in mind that this is not a steady group, it's whatever unlucky chump has to work off their debt to imitation-Waller, but still? No word about what happened to El Diablo? Black Spider?
I mean, I'm personally glad that they skipped the boring road trip to Gotham but first page, they're right on Harley's tail with three 'newbies', a pair of which I had to google because I had no bleedin' idea who they were at all.
Friday, 2 December 2011
Suicide Squad in Your Pants!
Wow! I'm now up to date on the Suicide Squad and many other DC re-leech titles. I am sweet, sweet loving Huntress, Batgirl and Batwoman. Supergirl is interesting and Birds of Prey is too. Some of the other ones are a bit random. Enjoying Wonder Woman wandering down a street, waving her sword aloft and asking pedestrians if they've seen any harpies just hangin' around. Wonder Woman itself is a good comic.. the art is a bit distracting though. Now, Suicide Squad!
Where to start? Okay, how about HARLEY - you have impressed me with your super quick changes! You went from new clown-whore costume into rodeo-clown-whore costume in less than a panel, even though that corset can't be that easy to get out of, let alone your crazy stocking things.
Thursday, 27 October 2011
A Mortal Kombat Roast: Toasty!
Well, I seem to have misplaced myself. Where have I been? Yeah, small vacation to sort myself out, a buttload of assignments to successfully complete and then an actual vacation. By the way, I'm totally back.
More on those topics later - for now... Mortal Kombat 9!
Totally banned in Australia, but not from sale because I've heard tales of the many who have parted with their pennies to own it. So, I've seen some game play, not much but I thought I'd share my opinions on it. I haven't played a Mortal Kombat game properly because of my unreasonable trust of 3D game play and strange preference for Super Nintendo games.
I grew up with these games, and feasted on the bloodshed, storyline and interesting characters. So when my brother told me that he'd heard that this game had some strong ties to the older games, with some Back to the Future shizzle going on I was very interested.
However.. as awesome as the skull cam is.. man is it annoying to watch the same footage of internal damages, the screaming, and then the victim getting back on their feet after two seconds of hemorrhaging declaring that they're fine. What?! All that damage for nothing?! Stay down and shut up, damn it!
The women's clothing - no surprises here. They suck. I'm not just saying that because I'm sick of looking at gravity defying fake boobies.. but because it honestly grates on my nerves. Let's have a look at Sonya Blade. Once a great soldier, now she's wearing a painted on suit, including an army vest and dog tags.. with no bra. With no bra. No bra? What? Obviously there are no women working on the design team and/or it's entirely filled will blokes who like to wear burlap sacks around their privates and think everyone else should join them in a world of pain, scratching and disgusting habits.
But it’s not just that.. it’s that these women are given less and less clothing with each new game, while the men get more layers and more weapons. I mean sure, no one really wants to see Shao Kahn in a loin cloth but it did add a touch of realism. I look at these outfits and I want to SCREAM! Unless you’re made of Superman/Supergirl, you should really cover your soft underbelly unless like Mileena, you find being covered in your own blood and entrails damn hot.
Part of me would like to suggest that going out into the arena like this is saying to your opponent – ‘Hey, nice blades, but I don’t fear you enough to wear armour.’ The smarter part of me knows that no one thought about the women this way, and they’re only almost naked because it sells. This makes me sad and violent. Is it too much to ask for a few realistic characters?
Zombie Liu Kang, sure. Multi-limbed beings of terror, yes please. Trees that talk back, why not? Time travel – of course. All of this is believable.. I’m not asking for three dimensional characters and things that make sense. I’m asking for at least one fucking woman character that looks battle appropriate. If you wouldn’t wear that into a combat area, or zombie invasion or on a date with a being that eats souls.. DON’T MAKE ANYONE ELSE WEAR IT.
Now Kitana.. what’s with her hair? Why is it doing a Sindel? Sure, she’s her daughter but still.. so annoying. Didn’t Jade used to have some sort of ethnicity?
It kinda bothers me that the Klassic Kostumes for Kitana and Jade are being called horrible granny swimsuits.. I have images of the future offspring of these commentators running around in g-strings and pasties at the beach, because anything that vaguely covers the buttocks is apparently so incredibly old fashioned that only surfing grandmas would wear them.
If I had to describe granny swimsuits, I’d probably refer to the modest 1920’s bathing suits as I haven’t really seen many geriatrics at the beach lately. Although having said that, with many women having children younger, grannies aren’t as old as they stereotypically are anymore.
Mortal Kombat’s newest release has not performed an amazing fatality over my Super Nintendo games but it has killed a part of my love for it. I’m just not as interested as I used to be, even though I like the new features, and the beautiful graphics and all that. Although the battle realistic damage to the clothes seems to have a glitch in that it only seems to affect the women’s outfits around the privates. I’m sure they’ll get right on to fixing that very soon.
I’m a girl who loves sex, adores fighting and encourages blood thirsty battles, but it hurts the few feelings I have to know that the makers of MK don’t consider me their target audience at all and continue to pander to fanboys. It’s not doing them any favours either, fanboys and girls hardly get respect as it is.
It would be nice to have a game that didn’t make me feel like I’ve just wandered into the dirty video section of the rental store. It would be nice to have a fighting game where it’s about fighting, not just supermodels and thugs. Don’t we have enough sex and violence going on? Aren’t there enough sexed up parodies of females in military/combat roles?
Final word: You’re all soft for having the walk throughs teaching you how to do fatalities lol
More on those topics later - for now... Mortal Kombat 9!
Totally banned in Australia, but not from sale because I've heard tales of the many who have parted with their pennies to own it. So, I've seen some game play, not much but I thought I'd share my opinions on it. I haven't played a Mortal Kombat game properly because of my unreasonable trust of 3D game play and strange preference for Super Nintendo games.
I grew up with these games, and feasted on the bloodshed, storyline and interesting characters. So when my brother told me that he'd heard that this game had some strong ties to the older games, with some Back to the Future shizzle going on I was very interested.
However.. as awesome as the skull cam is.. man is it annoying to watch the same footage of internal damages, the screaming, and then the victim getting back on their feet after two seconds of hemorrhaging declaring that they're fine. What?! All that damage for nothing?! Stay down and shut up, damn it!
The women's clothing - no surprises here. They suck. I'm not just saying that because I'm sick of looking at gravity defying fake boobies.. but because it honestly grates on my nerves. Let's have a look at Sonya Blade. Once a great soldier, now she's wearing a painted on suit, including an army vest and dog tags.. with no bra. With no bra. No bra? What? Obviously there are no women working on the design team and/or it's entirely filled will blokes who like to wear burlap sacks around their privates and think everyone else should join them in a world of pain, scratching and disgusting habits.
But it’s not just that.. it’s that these women are given less and less clothing with each new game, while the men get more layers and more weapons. I mean sure, no one really wants to see Shao Kahn in a loin cloth but it did add a touch of realism. I look at these outfits and I want to SCREAM! Unless you’re made of Superman/Supergirl, you should really cover your soft underbelly unless like Mileena, you find being covered in your own blood and entrails damn hot.
Part of me would like to suggest that going out into the arena like this is saying to your opponent – ‘Hey, nice blades, but I don’t fear you enough to wear armour.’ The smarter part of me knows that no one thought about the women this way, and they’re only almost naked because it sells. This makes me sad and violent. Is it too much to ask for a few realistic characters?
Zombie Liu Kang, sure. Multi-limbed beings of terror, yes please. Trees that talk back, why not? Time travel – of course. All of this is believable.. I’m not asking for three dimensional characters and things that make sense. I’m asking for at least one fucking woman character that looks battle appropriate. If you wouldn’t wear that into a combat area, or zombie invasion or on a date with a being that eats souls.. DON’T MAKE ANYONE ELSE WEAR IT.
Now Kitana.. what’s with her hair? Why is it doing a Sindel? Sure, she’s her daughter but still.. so annoying. Didn’t Jade used to have some sort of ethnicity?
It kinda bothers me that the Klassic Kostumes for Kitana and Jade are being called horrible granny swimsuits.. I have images of the future offspring of these commentators running around in g-strings and pasties at the beach, because anything that vaguely covers the buttocks is apparently so incredibly old fashioned that only surfing grandmas would wear them.
If I had to describe granny swimsuits, I’d probably refer to the modest 1920’s bathing suits as I haven’t really seen many geriatrics at the beach lately. Although having said that, with many women having children younger, grannies aren’t as old as they stereotypically are anymore.
Mortal Kombat’s newest release has not performed an amazing fatality over my Super Nintendo games but it has killed a part of my love for it. I’m just not as interested as I used to be, even though I like the new features, and the beautiful graphics and all that. Although the battle realistic damage to the clothes seems to have a glitch in that it only seems to affect the women’s outfits around the privates. I’m sure they’ll get right on to fixing that very soon.
I’m a girl who loves sex, adores fighting and encourages blood thirsty battles, but it hurts the few feelings I have to know that the makers of MK don’t consider me their target audience at all and continue to pander to fanboys. It’s not doing them any favours either, fanboys and girls hardly get respect as it is.
It would be nice to have a game that didn’t make me feel like I’ve just wandered into the dirty video section of the rental store. It would be nice to have a fighting game where it’s about fighting, not just supermodels and thugs. Don’t we have enough sex and violence going on? Aren’t there enough sexed up parodies of females in military/combat roles?
Final word: You’re all soft for having the walk throughs teaching you how to do fatalities lol
Tuesday, 2 August 2011
Gotham City Sirens #25
A Sister's Betrayal!/
After what seemed like a year, my partner and I went comic shopping. I was hoping to pick up the next Arkham City but apparently that's been postponed another week or so. How does that keep happening? Is the Arkham City comic licenced by DC Direct? Oh well, at least I got the latest Sirens.
Now I'd seen the cover before I bought the issue, but a few things bothered me about it. I mean, it makes enough sense - Harley and Ivy wanting revenge on Catwoman. Although, the words 'sister's betrayal' and the fact that one of Catwoman's eyes look like her sister Maggie's when she got all church demon-crazy made me think that they were going to tie Maggie all up in this somehow.
That said, it's a great cover. Harley Quinn being the more obvious threat, wielding her spike and nail riddled hammer and Ivy lurking in the bushes. (fancy that) Catwoman is a bit stuck and I'm stuck wondering how low they're going to have her zipper until they finally answer the question of if she's wearing a bra or not. Of course, her breasts are far less dangerous than they were in the purple painted on spandex era but that doesn't make this question any less relevant.
Monday, 1 August 2011
Batman: Arkham City #3
Choosing Sides
Awesome, visually appealing cover. The tear stained mascara seems to be a hot thing for Harley Quinn now but hey, at least she makes it work. The black dye of one of her pigtails looks chlorine pool green, but I can over look that.
So the comic opens on a security van zooming through the streets of Arkham City before the grand opening. Or is that closing? Anyway, random thug provides some commentary from the street corners and I think to myself, damn it, Batman, get a job!
Well, apparently he's looking for one and both the Joker and Penguin are offering! The Joker-coaster from the game trailer is explained here as a sort of informal interview. Where Joker gets the time and tools required to make all these themed death traps is beyond me. Moving on. Bat-thug makes an excellent leap of faith and find out that the second interview is a little more personal.
So the comic opens on a security van zooming through the streets of Arkham City before the grand opening. Or is that closing? Anyway, random thug provides some commentary from the street corners and I think to myself, damn it, Batman, get a job!
Well, apparently he's looking for one and both the Joker and Penguin are offering! The Joker-coaster from the game trailer is explained here as a sort of informal interview. Where Joker gets the time and tools required to make all these themed death traps is beyond me. Moving on. Bat-thug makes an excellent leap of faith and find out that the second interview is a little more personal.
Sunday, 17 July 2011
Literary Fever
Because I often enjoy the agony and drawn out suspense of anticipating book/comic/statue releases, I am happy to announce that two books I need are coming out soon.
The first is Skulduggery Pleasant: The Death Bringer.
Whoop. Freakin' Whoop. I love this series! Yes, I do feel sort of bad when I walk into a book store to purchase it and find it in the youth if not children's section... but then I realise that it's a great book and children have great taste. Sometimes. Sometimes I cry when I watch children's programming. It's pretty crap and badly drawn compared to the awesome stuff we had. Poor bastards. *sniff*
The first is Skulduggery Pleasant: The Death Bringer.
Whoop. Freakin' Whoop. I love this series! Yes, I do feel sort of bad when I walk into a book store to purchase it and find it in the youth if not children's section... but then I realise that it's a great book and children have great taste. Sometimes. Sometimes I cry when I watch children's programming. It's pretty crap and badly drawn compared to the awesome stuff we had. Poor bastards. *sniff*
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Gotham City Sirens #24
'The Joke's on You!' / FRIENDS
This came around sooner than I thought. Perhaps I should just forget that Harley Quinn exists in the time that it takes for her new issues to come out. So far that seems to have worked this time, although I did have some nice shiny Harley Quinn statues and other models/figurines to distract myself with so I'll have to try that next time.
Search Amazon.com for harley quinn statues
Still, awesome cover. Harley is back to her gorgeous self, enveloped in bliss as she wraps her arms around her gun totin' Puddin'. Looming in the background is Clayface. Hi Clayface. Yes, the last issue did say he would cameo, but I figured if he made the cover he was going to have a pretty big part in the story but he didn't so I'm not sure what's going on there.
This came around sooner than I thought. Perhaps I should just forget that Harley Quinn exists in the time that it takes for her new issues to come out. So far that seems to have worked this time, although I did have some nice shiny Harley Quinn statues and other models/figurines to distract myself with so I'll have to try that next time.
Search Amazon.com for harley quinn statues
Still, awesome cover. Harley is back to her gorgeous self, enveloped in bliss as she wraps her arms around her gun totin' Puddin'. Looming in the background is Clayface. Hi Clayface. Yes, the last issue did say he would cameo, but I figured if he made the cover he was going to have a pretty big part in the story but he didn't so I'm not sure what's going on there.
Tuesday, 5 July 2011
Transformers: Dark Side of the Review
It's not really a dark side. I just thought it would make my review sound cooler. Also, it rings in with the title of the new Transformers movie. My partner and I went and saw it last week - and as always we missed our Transformers partner, who is unavailable to watch any of the sequels but is perhaps glancing down at the reviews from heaven.
Immediately after watching this one, I realised I probably should have re-watched the first two before seeing this one. It was a nice, back to basics kind of movie but it was filled with little throwbacks and references to things I can't remember. Were those little 'Formers in the second movie? What's with the rabbit's foot again? Who am I and what am I doing here?!
Immediately after watching this one, I realised I probably should have re-watched the first two before seeing this one. It was a nice, back to basics kind of movie but it was filled with little throwbacks and references to things I can't remember. Were those little 'Formers in the second movie? What's with the rabbit's foot again? Who am I and what am I doing here?!
Tuesday, 21 June 2011
Arkham General Landmass
I meant to post a lot sooner than this but I've been quite busy and I don't mind a bit of Internet free time. When I was last on the Internet, I checked out some of the new Arkham City game trailers. Not sure if I've mentioned this before, but I'm not a game player. That is, I love games, but I prefer them retro - like Super Nintendo, The old Game Boy, board games...charades... haha. That's not to say I don't play more current ones - we own a Nintendo Wii now and I have some computer games that I still like to rock. I just can't get into all the PlayStation and Xbox games.
None of the games interest me and the controllers suck. It's not as fun as when I was a kid with my Super Nintendo, having to do everything the hard way and having fun while doing so. These days, if you don't get it, just look up the cheats on the Internet. Too much reading? Watch a walk through on YouTube. Too much effort? Open an in-game dialogue on the game with your friends.
None of the games interest me and the controllers suck. It's not as fun as when I was a kid with my Super Nintendo, having to do everything the hard way and having fun while doing so. These days, if you don't get it, just look up the cheats on the Internet. Too much reading? Watch a walk through on YouTube. Too much effort? Open an in-game dialogue on the game with your friends.
Friday, 17 June 2011
I think it Was Called, 'The Train That Couldn't Slow Down'
After we had dinner last night we got back and curled up for a movie. I love cuddling, it makes movies like, ten times better. We watched 'Unstoppable' because I hadn't seen it yet. I'm either too hip, or not hip enough to see things at the movies - I can't tell anymore.
Anyway, it wasn't that bad. It certainly delivered a movie about a train, and I did enjoy it. I'm still going to pick the fleas out of it though. The box art was suffering from a bout of 'this didn't happen in the film but it looks pretty cool' like a lot of DVDs out there.
Anyway, it wasn't that bad. It certainly delivered a movie about a train, and I did enjoy it. I'm still going to pick the fleas out of it though. The box art was suffering from a bout of 'this didn't happen in the film but it looks pretty cool' like a lot of DVDs out there.
Tuesday, 14 June 2011
One for the money, two for the spoilers, three for the COMICS!
Hurray! My Arkham City #2 arrived! Or well, I thought it did. They said they couldn't hold the comic for me because I don't have a billion dollar account with the store. Why? I don't know. I can certainly spend enough in those damn places but I guess I'm just more selective with what I read in that I mainly chase Harley Quinn, not things like Brightest Day or whatever just because they're the hottest thing around.
I wouldn't mind reading a collected Blackest Night - mostly because of the Black Lanterns I saw in the Secret Six. Really though, are the black rings heaters or something? Those guys really putrefied fast. I guess the black could absorb more heat than say, a blurple ring but it *was* night time and... oh whatever.
I wouldn't mind reading a collected Blackest Night - mostly because of the Black Lanterns I saw in the Secret Six. Really though, are the black rings heaters or something? Those guys really putrefied fast. I guess the black could absorb more heat than say, a blurple ring but it *was* night time and... oh whatever.
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