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Tuesday, 5 May 2009
Wolverine Week Entry #2
Mood:  on fire
Now Playing: some Earthbound stuff

Recently, the cast of the Boring Rocks were invited to attend a showing of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Don’t think they were invited by the studio; they were invited by their friend WOBBiE. Anyway, this week will be Wolverine Week here on Boredom’s Reach, as Pumpki, Groundi, Ananas and the others post their reviews of this CINEMATIC MISTERPIECE! Be warned, though—some plot elements may be spoiled by reading these reviews. Especially in Ghosti’s review today. Another, fourth-wall breaking apology in advance for the fact that I seem to be channeling Chester A. Bum over here.

 

Reviewer 2: Ghosti—the Guy Who Can’t Get Over What Happened to Deadpool

Grade: 2.5/4

 

            This movie was okay, I guess. I mean, if you want to read what’s right about it, you could always just read Pumpki’s review—he’s usually pretty astute and points out cool stuff in capital letters for your convenience.

            But I did not like this movie because they butchered Deadpool, and I mean both literally and figuratively. I guess the literal part is okay, because how else are you going to beat Deadpool? But seriously Marvel, you sewed shut the mouth of a character who’s known for being the Merc with a Mouth! You took away his costume and replaced it with Heath-Ledger wannabe makeup! You gave him laser eyes and sword hands! You made his name a pun on gene pool! You got rid of his eyelids! You drew on him with Sharpie! You made him a zombie! HE SPEAKS SWAHILI! Okay, I can accept that. But he’s a science experiment gone awry now! Marvel, did you want him to be the Abomination, because I had Incredible Hulk déjà-vu when watching this. Here’s a protip from yours truly, Gavin Hood. You should try to avoid making us remember the Hulk. You get it?

            Guys, this was a fast-talkin’, kick-awesome ninja! Did you think that wouldn’t sell tickets? He’s like Naruto, only epic! Kids love ninjas these days! Kids love fast-talkin’, high-rollin’, sarcastic-action ninjas! You had that, and you made him a bleedin’ bleeding lobotomy patient! Kids these days do not like bleedin’ bleeding lobotomy patients! So yeah, they killed Deadpool in too many ways for me to be happy with this movie. And don’t even get me started on Gambit.

 


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Monday, 4 May 2009
Wolverine Week Entry #1
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: The old X-Men theme song from the old X-Men program, of course

Recently, the cast of the Boring Rocks were invited to attend a showing of X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Don’t think they were invited by the studio; they were invited by their friend WOBBiE. Anyway, this week will be Wolverine Week here on Boredom’s Reach, as Pumpki, Groundi, Ananas and the others post their reviews of this CINEMATIC MISTERPIECE! Be warned, though—some plot elements may be spoiled by reading these reviews. Especially in Ghosti’s review on Tuesday. Another, fourth-wall breaking apology in advance for the fact that I seem to be channeling Chester A. Bum over here.

 

Reviewer 1: Pumpki—the Action Lover Who Actually Watches Movies

Grade: 3/4

 

Let’s get this out of the way before I begin, because I know you’re all thinking it. This is an action movie, so how did it rank on the patented Pumpki REN Scale? For those not in the know, the REN scale evaluates a film for its amount of Robots, Explosions, and Ninjas. This film had some explosions, and it had a ninja, but there were surprisingly no robots—who was the freakin’ genius who dropped the Sentinel? Did he get stuck on the train with Stan Lee and both not make it over in time for filming? I have to assume that, because no director would have said “Less thirty-foot high robots, more fat guys with boxing gloves.” If I wanted that, I’d have stayed home and played Super Punch Out.

            Though it’s on shaky footing for not having robots (geez, even Superman IV had robots! I think!), Wolverine was a decidedly awesome experience. I mean, this is a guy who runs around and DOES NOT STOP DESTROYING! You shoot him, and he does not stop! He just explodes you! By the end of the movie, Wolverine and Sabretooth had killed so many people that I’d wonder who’d be left to be in the next movie if it weren’t for the fact that, hey, it’s the X-Men, the only series with more main characters than the Boring Rocks.

            As for the movie’s movie-worthiness, um, there might have been a plot, but I think Gambit exploded it. I lost it somewhere around the point that Wolverine punched out a guy with boxing gloves with claws on them. I think it involved vengeance, and being vengeful, and possibly revenge. I mean, I’d think it would be possible to have a movie with explosions and a plot. But I guess if I had a choice of watching Wolverine brood or watching Sabretooth rip Wraith’s spinal cord out, I’d choose the latter. I mean, this is a guy who RIPPED KESTREL’S SPINE OUT!

            With that said, I would recommend this movie to people who like action movies, even if they don’t have robots in them. I’d also like to toss out this idea to any cartoonists reading this—Stan Lee and a Sentinel, trapped on a train. Draw it.


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Friday, 3 April 2009
HE'S BAA-A-A-ACK!
Mood:  caffeinated
Now Playing: "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" by The Beatles

Sorry for the late update, but I had to finish an English paper on Richard III, which prevented me from scanning any comics about Shakespeare.

 

But now there are! Pippin Act IV is up and running! Check it out, gang!


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Thursday, 26 March 2009
New Comic!
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: a chiptune Zelda64 medley by Derris-Kharlan, it is awesome

A new comic! Sorry for the spelling error! That's the problem with hand-writing your comics too late at night, I guess. Oh well, even a grammar freak like Fwubo can make mistakes, right? Right?

 

~SG


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Monday, 16 March 2009
Copycat: Site Edits
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: some Blue Man stuff SG gave me, dunno...

"Hey guys, it's Copycat from The Boring Rocks. I spent all of yesterday editting the site's formatting so it's more user-friendly. I did this because, let's face it, what else was I going to do? I wanted to make sure that everyone knows, if there's any problems, please send either me or Ghosti an email (or you can be logical and send it to SG himself...) at boringrocks@yahoo.com.

 

Stay frosty!"

 

~Copycat, comic strip character and tech support

 


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Thursday, 5 March 2009
IT'S THE BIG ONE!
Mood:  accident prone
Now Playing: "Some Postman" by the Presidents of the United States of America

Pippin Act III is up now.

 

It's honestly why most of you are here. Let's do this.


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Monday, 23 February 2009
A Character Page? Amazing!
Mood:  energetic
Now Playing: "The End of the Tour" by They Might Be Giants (The engagements were booked through the end of the world...)

And I said it'd never get done. An awesome (if I do say so myself) character page is now up!

 

Learn about all the guys, including the new characters like WOBBiE and Fred!

 

Anyway, I'm feeling good about the website, now that all that's missing is a Boring Classic, which I'll probably add tomorrowish. Let's hope this goes well!


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Thursday, 19 February 2009
Art! New Updates! Stuff!
Mood:  spacey
Now Playing: "Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns and Roses (SG listening to music you listen to? Uh-what?!)

Woo! So I haven't decided when the weekly updates are going to be yet, but today I think is a good day to update, so I added a comic. Or two. In al honesty, I haven't added them yet. I will in a minute.

 

I also am posting three pictures I drew and posted on my other blog, Tales from the SG Zone: A BLOG over at Bulbagarden. They're for a series of Pokemon fanart I was/am doing called Version Exclusive where I draw the characters from that series as if I don't really know what they look like and am making it up as I go. 

 

Even if you don't like Pokemon, I'm still pretty proud of these most recent three--the group of elemental human-like Pokemon from the first series. Here's Jynx, Electabuzz, and Magmar (in that order).

 

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f56/ZOMBN/image1.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f56/ZOMBN/image2.jpg

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f56/ZOMBN/image0.jpg

 

I'm reading Richard III for an English project. Perhaps that means Pippin is reading it too. Who knows?


Posted by boringrocks at 3:36 PM EST
Updated: Thursday, 19 February 2009 3:39 PM EST
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Monday, 16 February 2009
A list
Mood:  rushed
Now Playing: Fastball's "The Way" (a veritable blast from my past there)

Here is a list of VAMPIRES THAT DO NOT ANNOY ME.

 

Dracula

Nosferato

Count von Count

Zubat, Golbat, Crobat

Lampreys (like, the animal)

Count Chocula

Vampire Bats (like, also the animal)

 

Note: this was basically just a test of the blog. However, it was also a VERY INTERESTING CONVERSATION WE JUST HAD.

 


Posted by boringrocks at 9:14 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 17 February 2009 8:41 PM EST
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Friday, 13 February 2009
New Site!
Mood:  surprised
Now Playing: "I'm Just a Bill" (because Schoolhouse indeed Rocks)

Hey, so I'm finally making a new site, and this one has a blog. I'm posting to this blog to see how it works. Hopefully, I'll have better things to blog about later.

 

 Of course, most of this blog will be reserved for comic-related news, so many of you will argue that I will never have anything better to talk about.

 

~SG


Posted by boringrocks at 4:05 PM EST
Updated: Friday, 13 February 2009 5:31 PM EST
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