ROBOCOP: ROGUE CITY (Teyon, 2023)
(****+ / *****): Would've been enough getting to hear Peter Weller as Robo again but that this imperfect, glitchy, buggy, repetitive, and at times maddening game (much like Robo himself: love the slowness and clunk of his movements) was so much damn fun is a bonus miracle in itself. Personality - even with stilted, copy-paste (I loved counting how many different iterations of Ulysses Washington and the Archives guy were roaming the Detroit streets - at least nine each by my latest count) NPC voice acting - and Verhovian satire and gore abounded. Is this a "great" game? Not in the slightest - but it's one of the most fun I've played in ages, rough edges, imperfections and all. In Pickles we trust.
Since eliminating all long-term projects and career ambitions and switching to little short things that I release whenever I feel like it (or they feel like it), I want to spend all day tinkering on my various explorations – but don't feel like life is getting in my way when that, inevitably, doesn’t happen. First time in more than 20 years I've experienced that; a most welcome change.
Eduardo Barreto
One of my favorite artists, especially his work from SUPERMAN: SPEEDING BULLETS and BATMAN: MASTER OF THE FUTURE, it still pains me that there's no new Eduardo Barreto art in the world. Adding these pieces, pages 58 and 59 from BATMAN: MASTER OF THE FUTURE, to my little collection of original comics art has been something special.
earbliss/20240528
Whole album was great, but their cover of one of my favorite Bond themes, “Tomorrow Never Dies,” was a wonderful surprise.
Approaching this summer as something of a transitional period: how to work without a long-term project or career ambition. Where I'll end up is TBD, but I do want to explore this last uncharted (other than quitting entirely) frontier. Perhaps I’ll end up a bit more honest with myself.