get my 11,111 or 12,121 page view, get a single character sketch.

Edit: apparently someone got 11,111 and didn't tell me. Pity. So, I'll add another one. Get a triple 7 (ie, three 7's next to each other, the next likely being 11,777) get the sketch the 11,111 would have gotten.

As a few of you know, and I do a RP/Someday-we-will-actually-get-it-written-we-swear series that combines the Tokusatsu genre with the Archie-verse Sonic series. Out of boredom, I'm going to try and sort of tell the story through one of the characters eyes... by having said character post on a Twitter account.

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I'm fairly certain I need to be set on fire for this. Not sure how often I'll honestly be able to update this, but going to give it a try. Thanks to fellow Ohioan David Willis for giving me the idea with his Shattered Glass Ravage account.

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.... There are going to be spoilers here, because I can not explain my problems with this movie without mentioning spoilers. So fair warning. If you don;t want to be spoiled, stop reading now.

We good? Ok then....

First thing first, you need to know that I prefer the Marvel/Image/Devil's Due comic over the TV series. So keep that in mind for some of these, as it's important.

The movie starts out just fine. Bit of history, then pretty much straight to the action. And what glorious action it is. Fast, brutal, well choreographed and as violent as you can get in a PG-13 movie in this day and era.

The problem comes in when we get into Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow's back story, the ending of Destro, and the relationship between the Baroness and Cobra Commander.

1. Instead of being former war buddies, Snake-Eyes is now a street kid who broke into the temple Storm shadow lived in to steal food, they fight, and the temple master decides to let Snake-eyes in. Years later, Snake-Eyes beats Storm Shadow, wins the approval of the temple master, and Storm Shadow kills said temple master out of spite. If you want to know why this pisses me off so much, go read Snake-Eyes: Declassified. Damn, damn good rear.

2. Destro's face is now made of metal, or nanobots, after it gets horribly burned by the back draft of a flame thrower he was using. for all intents and purpose, he has become Doctor Doom. also, they seem to have gone very far out of their way to strip him of his honor.

3. Oh god, where do I start... Baroness pulls a Heel Face Turn. Cobra Commander is her brother who she thought was dead. Cobra Commander (who, as The Doctor, was visible for a good chuck of the movie, does not even assume the name or the outfit until the last few minutes of the film. And is then immediately captured. And is no longer a former used car salesman)comes off as less than intimidating, and honestly, he looks more like Destro than Destro does!

It's not a bad movie, it just makes some very stupid choices. If you have a theater nearby, and like action movies, it's worth having a look out, but if you have to go very far out of town, it's not worth it.

Ok, I'm just gonna cut the head off of this dragon before it starts stomping on my turnips.

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From now on, if you are contacting me just to get a subscription, please remove your hands from the keyboard, stand up, find a particularly large, wide metal pipe, heat it until it is white hot, and proceed to fornicate with it.

I have no problem donating to friends or people I like. I'm not going to give you a subscription just because you ask, and quite frankly I'm getting tired of my in box getting filled up every time I do donate to someone.

I just got back from the midnight showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. It was good. It was very, very good. It fixed a lot of the problems from the first movie. While still far from perfect, it was still a very good movie, which should please most fans, as well as make it up to some who felt shafted by the previous film. Below, I have listed some of the pro's and con's. Fair warning, there might be possible spoilers.

Pro's

1. The Pacing. The film moves at a much more even pace than the last one. While there are still a few moments that are a bit jarring, on a whole, the movie just felt smoother.

2. The Humans. Much less annoying this time around. Also less of them.

3. The Transformers. They are in this one more often, and the time focused on them, and on the humans, felt a better balanced, as opposed to the first film, which made them practically look like guest stars in their own movie.

4. The story. It makes more sense this time, and actually fills in a couple holes from the first one.

Con's

1. The language. They add in a lot of swearing. More than they really needed to. It gets a little grating after awhile.

2. Stormtrooper syndrome. If your name isn't Bumblebee, Optimus Prime, Megatron or Starscream, there is a good chance you die in this film.

3. The fight scenes. A little better than the first film, but it still has the same problem as before, that namely being the camera moves around so damn much you can't really focus on anything.

4. The violence. Really only a con in that you might not want to take your 6 year old to this one. They pushed the PG-13 rating harder than most of those slasher movies aimed at teenagers.