Not sure if its gonna be a good game yet, but today a video popped up Gametrailers that has his fatality.

So check it out and hope its good.

Bionic Commando Rearmed was just released last week for X-Box Live during their Summer of Arcade. So guess what that means? Cyborgs are cool again! While playing it I got to thinking about other cool cyborgs  and ended up making a list of the Top Five Cyborg Heroes of All Time in my head. I believe if the characters on this list formed a team they would be an unstoppable fighting force the likes of which the world has never seen.

Here we go!

The Leader - Captain America

Cyborg Force 5 (copyright pending) would be led by none other than Captain America. Now I know some of you are saying right now, “Captain America isn’t a cyborg! A cyborg is a flesh and blood person with machine parts. You’re an idiot!” But my friends, it is you who are wrong. The old Cap Steve Rogers wasn’t, but the new Cap Bucky Barnes most certainly is.

Bucky was reintroduced a few years back as the mysterious Winter Soldier, with no memory of his past. He was a killing machine set loose on the world. Eventually his memory was righted, Steve Rogers was killed, and the mantle of Captain America fell on his shoulders.

So what about him being a cyborg, you say? Well, he just barely crosses the line into it. See, Bucky lost his arm in the bomb blast thought to have killed him. When he was found, they attached a cybernetic arm to him to replace the one he lost, and it now gives him a degree of super strength in his left arm. So the new Captain America technically is part man, part machine and fits as a cyborg hero.

And he’s Cap! The title demands respect and he’s got enough training and skill to back it up, so that’s why he makes leader.

But let’s round out the rest of the team a little quicker now, shall we?

The Brains - Cyborg

Cyborg has the chops to lead just as easily as Cap, as he has led various Titan teams in the past, but here I think he is more suited to be the brains.

Nearly all of Cyborg’s body is cybernetic, so he can link up, surf the net with his mind, rebuild himself from parts and has limited super strength and a vast array of sensors and weaponry built into himself.

The man can keep the team informed, keep them safe, and keep the bad guys running with a quick “Booya!” from his arm cannon.

The Soldiers - The Bionic Woman (2007) and RoboCop

The Bionic Woman and Robocop are on the team for similar purposes but different reasons.

Assuming Robocop isn’t a new Robocop, he’s a seasoned cop and a huge asset to the team. He’s got a huge arsenal of weaponry he can use well and is a hell of a target to take down, being darn near bullet proof. He’s the big gun you send in to draw enemy fire while the rest of the team sneaks in through the back.

Jaime Sommers, the new Bionic Woman from the 2007 series, fits in as the neophyte. New to her abilities, new to the hero game and new to the world of the fantastic, she would be the perfect everywoman to be the readers’ eyes into this strange world she finds herself in.

With her bionic abilities, she already exceeds Cap in terms of physical ability but lacks the experience to use it as effectively. She has potential, with room to grow; she’s a force to be reckoned with in the making. But the biggest reason Jaime makes the team?

She’s the hottest bionic woman around and every team needs a kick ass female member.

The Secret Weapon - Inspector Gadget

You laugh. You say surely I have lost my mind. But I tell you friends, Inspector Gadget is quite possibly the most deadly of them all. The man was the ultimate cyborg who seemed to possess a near limitless set of abilities. Go here if you want to see the powers known so far.

And if Penny or Brain come with him - and they will, because he is a good and caring uncle - then Cyborg Force 5 will be an even more formidable team with a dog who understands English and a girl who possesses a computer book able to hack into even the most sophisticated networks.

I say to you this team would be unstoppable. But who would they fight?

Probably anyone that got in there way.

If you haven’t seen Wall-E, stop reading this, stop doing whatever you’re doing and see it. If it’s late at night, start planning your excuse to skip work tomorrow and go to the earliest showing of it. Wall-E is that good a movie.

Seriously, I can’t remember when last a cartoon movie made me feel like an honest to God kid and filled me with so much wonder.

Wall-E is a fantastic movie, in a line of fantastic movies that have sprung from Pixar over the last decade or so. Pixar is the computer animation giant that breathed new life to a waning Disney animation empire.

Wall-E is at heart a kid’s movie but it’s so, so much more. It’s almost beyond describing. For much of the first half of the movie we follow the interactions of two cute robots and a bug, in what could nearly be called a silent film. Later on, when the adventure of Wall-E gets intergalactic, we run into a few characters who, while they add quite a bit to the movie, still play second fiddle to Wall-E and EVA.

The animation is fantastic, quite possibly some of the best Pixar has done. The images of a devastated Earth not only hit close to home but send a chill with the lack of human characters. The musical accompaniment (thankfully missing the vocals of Randy Newman, who sadly seems to sing the exact same song for every movie he has done music in) just seems to fit the spirit of adventure and the fantastic voyage being undertaken.

In the end, Wall-E is awesome. It’s one of those rare movies that runs the risk of being viewed as too cute until you see it and realize it has a lot of heart, is deeper than its simple facade, and will most definitely bring out the kid in you. And the cartoon short before it, “Presto,” instantly made me long for old school cartoons just like. No intricate plots, no multiple episode epics, just wacky antics that can only be delivered neatly and tidily through a five minute cartoon.

Go see Wall-E.

5 out of 5.

Late addition from NYCC 2008 again, interview with Shadow Girls webcomic creator, David A Rodriguez.

Check it out and check out the comic too right here.

The Rosetta Key
William Dietrich
Release Date: 04/2008

This book came out in April. I’ve had it since April. I’ve been trying to make myself read it since April and I just can not. (This attempt to force myself to read something I was sick of after the first chapter and dreading after the third caused me to be rather late in reviewing a much more interesting novel by David B. Coe.)

The geographical area Rosetta is set in and the type of adventure reminds me of the Mummy movies with Brendan Fraser (Which I loved. It looks like the third one is going to be good as well.) but that’s the only resemblance. The writing is not plodding, exactly, but trying to read it is like repeatedly walking head first into a tree. The main character has nothing redeeming about him. He’s supposed to be a charming scoundrel, but Dietrich’s writing – first person narrative, by the way – does the character type no justice.

The character, Ethan Gage, besides being a good-for-nothing layabout with too much “witty internal dialogue” (assuming that is what the author is going for) is also hung up on his lost love from the first book (Napoleon’s Pyramids) and I have to say, even though he trusts her love absolutely, it sounds like she tossed him over. Yet, instead of Gage coming across as charmingly lovesick, he reads like a complete and utter fool.

One page in to chapter four, I gave up and could not bring myself to keep reading. Not even the Middle Eastern exoticism Dietrich has attempted to inject into his story could keep my attention past the wooden writing. As much as I’d love to give this book a proper review, I didn’t finish it, so I can only recommend it if you’re both a fantasy-adventure and a Napoleon era history or Middle Eastern culture and geography buff. Otherwise, save yourself a headache and spend your time and book money elsewhere.

The Sorcerers’ Plague
Book One of Blood of the Southlands
David B. Coe
Release Date: 12/2007

This review has been a long time coming. I started reading it months ago, but put it down in favor of a slightly newer novel in an effort to “keep up with the times” (and as you can see, I regret it greatly). After my prolonged and disappointing break from Plague, I was happy to pick it up once again and settle down for a good story.

The prologue grabbed me, starting with a young girl walking through a thunderstorm, willing herself to live. Curiosity about what horror she was running from – her family and village dead, allegedly her fault – propelled me to the first chapter. This began an introduction to an intriguing fantasy world whose details were continually and skillfully dropped throughout the book.

So despite little action or outright adventure (those looking for swordfights and spectacular magic should look elsewhere), I found myself pulled onward with each new character development, by Coe’s ideas and new twists on old fantasy concepts, as well as the mystery behind a girl-turned-killer. I was entertained and intrigued to the very end, only it wasn’t the end – this is “Book One of Blood of the Southlands.” By the time the players in the novel caught up to the former little girl (she’s an old woman when the actual novel begins) I knew it couldn’t be over, wasn’t over – the ramifications of her killing spree are much larger than her mad reasoning, more than she ever intended, so I found myself turning the last page, going, “Where’s Book Two?”

Synopsis:

Coe’s style is that subtle “slice of life” flavor of writing with an otherworldly twist. He dangles interesting tidbits about the world and the people, stringing readers along until they are reminded that this story began with a mysterious horror. That horror rears its ugly head again as a village is destroyed by a terrible plague that has thrown the inhabitants’ magic terrifyingly out of control. And once again, Coe’s subtle style leads readers on, this time adding the lure of not what is happening, but why, as it quickly becomes obvious that Licaldi, the little girl from the prologue, is now an old woman – and a genocidal sociopath.

As tales of plague swirl about, one man from Licaldi’s village realizes what she is doing. Though old, perhaps too old to travel, he takes it upon himself to track her down, and if need be, kill her.

While the old woman – a “Mettai witch” who does magic with her body’s blood on her blade and dirt from the ground – is a driving force behind this story, Coe also turns the reader’s attention to a traveling Qirsi family. The head of this family is Grinsa, a powerful Weaver, the protagonist from Coe’s “Winds of the Forelands” series. As he had a starring role in Coe’s previous series, so he cannot escape from being caught up in the major events of this one. On the run from the aftermath of a political war in the Forelands, Grinsa once again gets caught up by politics and power struggles, this time of a Qirsi clan in the Southlands. From there, he becomes enmeshed in the havoc the old Mettai woman creates. Qirsi and Mettai are two races diametrically opposed, with centuries of hate and an ancient blood feud between them; Grinsa somehow becomes the middleman, a lone voice of reason amongst enraged Qirsi as war threatens to flare between the races once again because of the actions of a lone crazed woman.

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NYCC 2008 - Interview with Vampire Cowboy Theater

We’re hitting the doldrums of summer so we’re dropping another review on you from earlier in May that we did with Vampire Cowboy Theater. They do wicked, sci fi, fantasy, etc theater. Anything you could ever NOT imagine doing a stage show about, these guys probably have done a stage show about it.

So check out the interview and then go check out their site.

Trying to get up the remainder of the videos from Comic Con 2008.

So first is an interview with the creator of the Shadow Girls web comic and next is an interview with Robert Ross Parker of Vampire Cowboys Theater, a performance group that specializes in Superntural/Sci-Fi/Comic book related type stage shows.

Shadow Girls Creator David A. Rodriguez

Robert Ross Parker and Vampire Cowboys Theater

We talked to them at the con last week and the interview is finally up. Towards the end their was a slight jitter on the tape. This is by far one of the funniest I think I’ve done, so check it out after the jump. And much apologies to Lar, for calling him Lars. He is not Swedish, but don’t hold that against him.

If for some reason the video doesn’t show here, go here.

We talked to Michael McHale, Senior Producer at Sega, on the first day of the comic con about the upcoming Iron Man game.

Check out the video here on our youtube channel or download it later as a podcast from iTunes.