Re-Doing Digital Scribbles Again!

We just have to get it done during this weekend... sigh. Stay tuned for updates... like what we're reviewing. Stay tuned.

Change of Review Schedule for April and Beyond... The Coming IDW Infestation.

To accomidate April's two part IDW crossover event review of Infestation (crossing Star Trek, Ghostbusters, Transformers and GI Joe together against the world of Zombies versus Robots) we'll be delaying the review of Raising Amy Bundle, and pushing off Cromartie High until next year.

The two parter covers the following
1-Infestation Opener with my review of Zonbies versus Robots (the world that started the Infestation)
2-Infestation 1-2 (the crossover issues start up).

Depending on the number of spin-off issues tying into the crossover dictates whether or not we'll have another special review in May or wait until June (and the accumilation of a few issues) before reviewing again.

Speaking of changes I'm changing up Digital Scribbles Month 1 podcast and getting it out this weekend. Stay tuned.

First Poll Done

So from the first poll of 2011 who won?... nobody. Nobody voted.
As for the other poll I voted for Legend of Zelda and I plan to review it in the near future in bits and pieces... sigh. Please help us find followrers for this blog and to vote in our polls please.

April 2011 Vote is Up... because I needed the space on my memstick.

Because I needed room on my memstick to review stuff? Here's what we're voting on for April 2011... and yes, once again it's DC Digital Comics. This time it's an all heroic (or lack of heroic) effort.

Bottle of Awesome - When can a bottle of pure liquid awesome make one too awesome? Hint... it's when you become as jerky as the bullies your pounding into the ground, then you cease to be awesome.
Dual - Man plus being he thought was his imaginary friend end up killing three schoolkids who were kinda jerky towards him if I remember right. Years later he still has his imaginary friend (surprise, not an imaginary friend) and his life can only get weirder and more dangerous from there.
I Rule The Night - Like Batman... if Batman was a sexual deviant monster, Robin was a girl... and completely messed up because of Batman... then yeah... this is like Batman... a sick Mirror Mirror dark side Batman... right.
The Hammer - Large pink rabbit heavy hitter kills girl to "end her suffering"... then goes out to avenge her death. Dude? Be sure to off yourself last at the end of the story.

That's April's votes. BTW adding The Night Owls (DC Digital Comics) to titles I am reviewing... so far that makes two titles I like from DC Digital Comics... wow... that still sucks for DC... what 2 out of... how many? Damn. Stay tuned, especially since this month's vote is almost over and so far it looks like... nobody wins.
Wow.

Coming Up This Weekend - First Rant of the Week

I'm certain I'll have something to complain about on a weekly basis... This week it's the utter lack of Manga in Digital Format being sold by Playstation Network... why, manga companies! Why!! Come on!

March 2011 Vote is Now Up!

It's abit early but this is what we're voting for on March 2011, DC Digital Comics' and vampires. This month featuring...

Blood Hunter - It's the end of the world and vampires rule the planet. Vincent, a former great Blood Hunter, remembers his own daughter being killed by no doubt his own bosses and decides to go Lone Wolf and Cub on his leaders by abducting a baby human girl he just found for them and running off to keep her alive.

Celadore - A great female vampire hunter is dispossessed from her body and ends up occupying the body of a young girl in a coma. Followed by said girl's now disembodied spirit, and the girl's young male friend (stalker?) she has to save the world from a new plot to make vampires capable of surviving daylight, and thus taking over the world.

Devil's Wake - Yes, it's another end of the world plot with another female heroine in black... hmm... the guy who did this stole that idea from me (only I didn't write vampires concerning her). Anyway it's a female hunter versus zombie vampires and post apocalyptic warlords and whatever... oh my.

Lamorte Sisters - Here we go, once again. Yes it's still about the girl captured and locked up in a nutter religious right covent school madhouse because she and the rest of the girls are vampires... sigh.

Voting ends March 20th, so vote today please.
As for the last vote? It ends Sunday... please, would somebody vote already!

Review of the Week : Imaginary Boys Volume 1

At last! A comic from DC Digital Comics I can actually say that I WANT to follow!... yes, I am surprised!

Imaginary Boys
Volume 1
By Carlos Lopez Bermudez
Released February 16th 2011

When you die? You expect to be going either to heaven or hell... unless your part of the radical right, then it's right to hell for you nutters... but for Elise Dawn, who has just passed away at a most young age of 9, she suddenly finds herself in the afterlife and, strangely enough, finds herself with an exocentric choice that can lead her to the greatest adventure of exsistence... with the greatest peril anyone can face along the way.

Meeting a dark winged, broken halo, chain smoking entity named Ashbel (consigned to paint the signs marking the road to heaven or hell with his own blood) she is given the 4-1-1 on the land around her, and the basics of what she needs to survive if she plans to ignore the roads to heaven and hell, and walk the path less traveled to near and distant lands of cultural mythos (already in this issue you see a tower seemingly born from Chinese folklore complete with a guardian red dragon, a tree which may be connected to Wiccan belief, a distant construct of possibly Tibetian origin, a large white city and what appears to be Stonehedge) and a warning.

She is an "Imaginary Boy".. or in this case girl, and her body is what she makes of it (yes, kinda like What Dreams May Come with Robin Williams), and she carries with her a memory bag containing everything that she was before death. Before she takes the first steps on her journey she is warned not to lose the contents of her memory bag, and warned to stay away from smoking beings as they have tasted the realm of hell (thus became addicted to smoke, hence the metaphor of cigarettes indicating smoke/sulfur addiction) and cannot be trusted... and yes, that includes the being helping Elise in her first steps into the world as he contacts a being most interested in acquiring Elise for reasons yet to be seen.

Oh, one more thing, just because she's dead it doesn't mean she has nothing to lose. Besides her memories she also has her eternal soul to keep... as she loses that she loses herself. No sooner is she on her way as already a minion of hell and his servant try to take Elise's soul (hell already knowing of her coming as it has appeared in today's local Hell Newspaper) only to fail as Elise is saved by her former pet dog (now a shapeshifter talking dog slash wolf).

Next time? The journey into the large alien expanse of the afterlife continues as Elise takes a jounrey worth taking into the mysteries of what lies beyond exsistence and life itself... and you can take that trip with her, every month from DC Digital Comics. A well written, engaging, tight and totally addictive page turner (digital page turner yet but page turner nevertheless) that'll keep you hooked. This is, at long last, the first thing I have seen out of DC Digital Comics' endless parade of titles that has made me say "I want to read this one."

I hope you pick it up (first issue is free!) and read it too. A rare for DC Digital Comics 5 out of 5.

Next week? Another random review! Stay tuned!

March and April is set!

Did the shopping, got the stuff, so we're all set to review for March and April 2011!

Next up is May... do that soon.

In the meantime getting a new Weekly Reviue up this week soon, stay tuned!

Upcoming Reviews for March to June 2011

March 2011
Ghost Hunt Volume 1 (Manga Maximus) is still on, but we have a change for Digital Scribbles and OELove.

Digital Scribbles vs. OELove
Star Trek : Mainstream vs. OELManga Part 1/3
Now that we know we can expect to see Star Trek 12 coming to theaters in June 2012 let's get you hyped... early... by holding a three month challenge between mainstream Star Trek (now held by IDW Publishing) and OELManga Star Trek (held by TOKYOPOP... though I suspect there is some form of Japanese Star Trek somewhere... that nobody is publishing... damn you!!)

Month 1
Star Trek the Manga Volume 1 (TOKYOPOP) versus Star Trek : Assignment Earth (IDW)

April 2011
Double shot of Digital Scribbles this month!
We look at Spartacus the Motion Comic based on the Starz TV Series Spartacus : Blood and Sand... sorta, and we look at Markosia's "Raising Amy"... because, really, fear of offspring and the next generation of humans hasn't been instilled into you enough yet (as seen by shows like Teen Mom and Teen Mom 2). She's young, she's ginger, she's scottish... she's scary. Fear for her loved ones and feel happy that she's not your child.

 We wrap up the month with the anti-Azumanga Daioh, Cromartie High... because, apparently, somebody thought if it could work for Azumanga Daioh why not make a "wacky slice of life" school manga/anime... with an all male cast... yeah... probably because it'll never be the next Azumanga Daioh... and I'll tell you why.

May 2011
Digital Scribbles vs. OELove continues
Star Trek the Manga Volume 2 (TOKYOPOP) versus Star Trek Year 4 : The Enterprise Experiment (IDW)

We're coming up on the newest Zelda game for the Wii, so how about we begin getting our manga groove on with our look at the Zelda mangas. This month it's the mangas set at sea in the Waterworld ripoff Zelda world of Windwaker, it's DS follow up Phantom Hourglass and... if the manga is available... the most recent sequel Spirit Tracks.

June 2011
Only one year to go before Star Trek 12... yay?
Digital Scribbles vs. OELove concludes... even if one or the other won last month with a 2-0 majority.

Star Trek the Manga Volume 3 (TOKYOPOP) vs. Star Trek : McCoy (IDW)

All reviews subject to possible c hange, stay tuned for updates as we go along.

Update on March's title vote

Wow, all of a sudden DC Digital Comics is cranking out vampire title after vampire title, so we're voting on vampire titles for March. The vote will be on...

Blood Hunters - At the end of humanity can a vampire hunter protect a human baby from hunters?
Caladore - Female vampire hunter wakes up after falling to an enemy vampire in a young girl's body, haunted by the young girl's disembodied spirit who becomes her unexpected partner (along with the young girl's boy pal who can't stop following her and her possessed body).
Devil's Wake - Another post apocalyptic world overrun by vampires with another hunter woman hunting them down... yawn.
Lamorte Girls - If it fails to wink this month's vote it's back... again. Joy?

We'll see what happens though with the voting this month. Another 10 days to go. Stay tuned.

11 minute preview of Digital Scribbles Month 1 up now

Preview of our first month podcast, Digital Scribbles, up now. Working to wrap up the cast for a full release this week. In the meantime check out http://multimediamax.blogspot.com for the newest releases, DVD Parade Max Week 16 and ImagiNation Max Week 3 and http://henshinupmax.blogspot.com for the new release of Power Rangers Cafe Week 2.

Other casts in works right now besides Digital Scribbles is Power Rangers Henshin Max Week 5 (reviews of Supah Ninja and Power Rangers Samurai premieres), Power Rangers Cafe Week 3 and 4 (wrapping up the musical walk down Power Rangers memory lane), DVD Parade Max Week 17 (MARVEL in 2011) and ImagiNation Max Week 4 (part 2 of MARVEL dramas).

April's Digital Scribbles Review : Go Go Spartacus Motion Comic!

This guy wants you to watch his free motion comics from Playstation Network... or else!

Spartacus the Motion Comic, starring Ray Park (aka Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode I, Toad from X-Men the movies and so on), is a violent bloody a little sexually violent free series from the Playstation Network from Starz... and we'll be talking about it and motion comics in April's Digital Scribbles, as well as April's Digital Scribbles podcast! Stay tuned!

Podcast Update (February 4th 2011)

Well it's too quick for an update but the opening is put together and starting on the first 10 minutes now.

As for whether or not Manga Maximus or OELove has a podcast depends on how well received this podcast is. So far we've had some success with some podcasts (Henshin Up Max for instance) so I'd like to see how this is received before making more.

RKYV Revue The Podcast?

I'm tinkering with that right now, don't know if I'll do it or not but it's on my to work on list. Hope to have something to say about it soon as I work on it. Right now my only issue with it is what kind of music to use with it, and the really low amount of manga or OELmanga content I could use for the cast seeing how the main publishers of manga and OELmanga are mostly avoiding the digital comic trend (or at least not publishing through Playstation Network).

Oh well, we'll see what we can do as I work on this.
Otherwise working on next month's articles, and it's ghost theme, stay tuned.

Revue of the Week : Safe Inside #1

Digital Comic Review
Safe Inside #1
By Zerocalcare
Published January 1st 2009

Today (Wednesday February 2nd) we saw a fresh burst of violence (including gunfire and burning) during the over week long and going crisis in Egypt, as people continue to protest their government and work towards repairing what they proclaim is an oppressive regime. Oppressive regimes, in our world and in the world of fiction be it comics or anime/manga or whatnot, is nothing new. It's been around forever, but today as I watch the news coverage I can't say I have any parallel to this to recommend in terms of digital comics... until this.

Safe Inside, 2009, is a digital comic from DC Comics set in a post apocalyptic future where the world has been bent over due to an apocalyptic outbreak of the undead. Humanity, now sealed away in huge fortress cities ala the Mega Cities of Judge Dredd only not as impressive looking, linked by sealed tunnels and manned 24/7 by walls of gunners whose sole job is to shoot whatever approaches the city (as most likely it'll be some mutant animal or undead human or animal) in order to keep the peace.

The peace, however, is nothing more than a talking point of the present ruling governments of the city fortresses who terrorize their own people repressing them under the banner of protecting them. This repression, however, is tolerated and even accepted as a way of life as people are more fearful of the undead outside of their cities than they are of the threat locked away with them in the form of an oppressive police state mixed between aggressive humans and obedient robots, as well as a military government structure where the status quo is more important than individual rights or freedoms.

The story, however, doesn't just focus on the small pockets of resistance who struggle to mete out a life while fighting for their basic human rights (by exposing the plot of the city's leaders who are exploiting the fears of the populace in order to keep them under their control), we focus on one dweller of the city (one of those whose job is to man the wall of guns aimed outside towards the wasteland that used to be fertile living earth, as dead as the undead they fear) who is beginning to remember his dead mother, especially her death which may have been because of the undead... or worst... as he finds himself suddenly thrust into the growing situation between the city's regime leadership and the so called "terrorists" who oppose him as, at the end of a seemingly dull day at work on the wall, is caught up in a terrorist attack... will he join the anti-government group or will he stick to his life even as he may be given good reason to turn against the fear mongers once he fully remembers his mom's death.

I'm going to do a post apocalyptic vote in December 2011 (one year before December 21st 2012, the so called end of the world according to the Mayans) of which this will be one of the titles recommended for review. So while you wait check it out, and post here what you thought of it once you read it. Of course it's nothing like the present crisis in the Middle East as people begin to rise up for change in their individual governments and express their desires for progress they can believe in... but somehow I am sure down the line we'll see comic creators from that part of the world put fingers to keyboard, pencil and pen to comic board, and interpret the events of the day in comic form from the perspective of those who have been there.

Final note? Since this is a free will open article I'll fill in weekly with a short review or commentary I don't have any idea what I'll do next week... I'll just let my muse speak to me then and we'll see what we do next.