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These matches act as a backdrop for me to talk nerdy about Batman comic books. Also, I get wrecked repeatedly by a quality Lobo player. Do I eventually get the last laugh?
A few days back, I got cozy on the couch and watched Steff play South Park: The Stick of Truth. It’s one that she’s had some interest in for quite some time and one that she pulled recently purchased. Due to the franchise’s poor history with video games, I had concerns that this one would be another bust. Thankfully, from the few hours I saw of the game, it looks like the South Park game that we’ve all been waiting for.
The first in the Forbidden series of board games makes its way to the iPad courtesy of Button Mash Games and Gamewright. In it, you and your team of adventurers are trying to gather four mystical treasures while the island you’re standing on is sinking. Can you make it off of the island with the goods before everything is submerged by the ocean?
When Mario’s not busy saving the princess from the clutches of Bowser, he and his friends know how to have a good time. Whether they’re racing go-karts, making the rounds on a giant board game or just beating each other up, they sure have no shortage of things to do. Mario Golf on the Nintendo 64 was their first foray on the links. In my opinion, Nintendo hit a hole-in-one with this one.
A grudge match between myself and a rival is the backdrop for an X-Men comic book discussion. I talk about a number of current X-Men comic book series’ and recommend the ones worth checking out.
Now that I’ve gotten a footing with the modern comic book landscape, I’ve broadened my scope a bit to dig through the archives. My first dive was a huge success, as Batman: The Killing Joke from 1988 is awesome. Next on the list is the X-Men omnibus I picked up from Toronto Comiccon. Dating back to 1989-1991, this is the X-Men era that was current when I was a kid. Within the first few pages of the book, it was plain to see the effects of time on these comics.
Just a heads up that in the next few weeks, there’s going to be a flurry of comic book content on In Third Person. There’s already been some comic book stuff on the site, but things will kick into overdrive going forward. I still haven’t been playing much in the way of video games and most of the gaming content I had has already been published. Meanwhile, I’ve been devouring comic books like a madman and have a lot to say about the things I’ve read.
I’ll do my best to pepper in video game content where I can, though this is just the way my life is ebbing and flowing right now. Video games just aren’t all that interesting to me right now and it’ll probably be that way until I’ve got something to get excited for shows up. I’m not really interested in opening up separate blogs to write about my digressions in comic books, board games, apartment hunting or whatever the heck I feel like writing about at the time, so I hope that this shift isn’t a turn-off for you. At the end of the day, I’m going to keep writing here about things that I find interesting, so I hope you stick around for that! If anything, maybe this next little stretch will open your eyes to some comics you’ll enjoy in the future!
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Best known for making hit games exclusively for Sony such as the Ratchet & Clank and Resistance series’ of games, Fuse was their first attempt at a multi-platform title. Heavily influenced by the likes of Gears of War and Mass Effect, this game sounds better on paper than the actual execution. Not to say that it’s bad, but it’s not going to make any of its competitors lose any sleep from its presence.
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