Dead Space : Comic

I know there are a few comics but this one is simply 'Dead Space' this first came out in issue format in 2008 and man if you wanted those bad boys you were looking at ALOT of money, as a big fan of the franchise but not so good at the games I had a look for them and about £50 an issue or something retarted.

But sadly for sellers/collecters and great for us cheap assholes it came out in trade back form just recently and retails for about £13.99 which is more then I pay for an average trade back but still better then £50 an issue... still.. fuck man.

So the trade back is nice and shiny and in it you get some nifty bios on the main people in the book.

Bram being a total bro and not believing in that major crazy ass Unitology and is full of 'I take no ones bullshit' so yeah he's my fav from the get go. Also I noticed when they are talking about one of the heads of Unitology they accidentally [or 'accidently'] called it Scientology hurhur I hope it was an added mistake I really do.

Anyway the story is pretty much... Unitology has been around awhile, it's before Issac's time. They find their first 'real' marker not one that they have been making. Causes allot of crazy shit like break downs, not sleeping, visions, all the good stuff you find in the novels.

So yeah Unitology and its people are fucking nuts... they beat the normal minded people.. mass suicides marker turns people into Necromorphs a load of shit goes down and the marker is moved to the Ishmara where poor ol Issac who is very very ignored and forgotten in anything else goes and has to sort some shit out.

Very basic plot, you don't find out much more of the back story but it's still enjoyable.

The art is a little odd for comics, I like mine to be more.. X-men then something different [change is scary and so are new things] but I started to like all the water colours and how they are different with the moods and actions of the comics. Sometimes the people will look ugly as ass though but it's a neat art style. 

Another thing about the comic is whenever people bang on about 'Altman have mercy' or 'Altman be praised' if you have read the novel it kinda tugs at you, that poor fucker tried to bring them down, tried to stop it and warn everyone about the crazy fuckers and evil rocks and instead the bastards made him their 'leader' and killed him. 

I think the comics would make more sense if you have read the novels but not important to enjoy.

Art: 4/5

Scares: 0/5

Gore: 3/5

Plot: 3/5

Overall enjoyment: 4/5

Should buy it for your Dead Space collection though, for sure.

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Dead Space: The New Doom 3?

It's no secret I love the Dead Space franchise form the games to the movies and the books but I have never played a DOOM until recently. I knew DOOM was the godfather of shooting games and even invented the 'FPS' First Person Shooter genre one handed but had never played.

 

My partner is huge into DOOM and after we both played DOOM 3 BFG ed at Eurogamer they bought it when it came out and I played DOOM 2 with them but last two weeks I've been watching them play it and I've noticed..

 

DOOM 3 is looooads like DEAD SPACE.. I mean -alot- and  since DOOM 3 came first DEAD SPACE seemed very heavy based on DOOM 3 and I really could not help but notice.

 

Dead Space 2008    vs    DOOM 3 2004

 

 

Similarities between the two games..

 

- Both are set in space

 

Both the main characters you play as DS: Isacc Clarke and D3: Doomguy you hardly if EVER hear them talk. I think you never hear Doomguy talk and I know Isaac doesn't talk more then a line in DS one but is abit more chatty in number 2. You also hardly see ether's face due to DOOM 3 being an FPS and Isaac with his headgear.

 

 

Now with the weapons, this might all be personal choice but I find the plasma gun in DOOM3 the best gun in that game and the plasma run blade cutter from DS to be the best in that game. Both weapons are 'plasma' based and both blue..

 

In both games some science type buttheads find this artifact and shit goes wrong.

 

Both have nasty warped nasties that are more then likely both mutated humans.

 

Also similarties include..

 

Asshole science guys who think what they are doing is right.

Same spaceship looking insides.

Goo growing everywhere

A wide range of nasties.

 

But there are a fair few different things too such as Issac's girlfriend or wife is on the ship that's infected and he's going there to do a job. Doomguy it's just his job.

 

Deadspace have a crazy faith based on the alien crap they dug up known as Unitology.

 

Isaac is a engineer and Doomguy is a marine.

 

DS has alot more plot..

 

So there are enough things that keep the games different but there is no denying there is an awful look of similarities between the two. I googled what the rest of the Internet thought of my passing 'Huh.. those are similar...' and I'm not the only one.

 

DEAD SPACE 3 is coming out next year as is DOOM 4 from what I have heard. So is Dead Space like a new and modern DOOM? borrowed ideas pretty heavily from the DOOM game? or is it all just nerdy nit picking from the Internet?

 

XJigsawX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Costume Of The Month

Again my little costume/cosplay spot light! And this month is an amazing ISAAC CLARKE of DEAD SPACE costume!

 

Name: Marco
Age: 26
Where are you from: Italy Rome
How long have you been cosplaying: 6-7 years

 

What did you decide to cosplay this character?: because is a bad ass!
Tell us about your costume:  The suit itself is not very complicated, the most difficult part is for the led (my helmet totally blind my eyes when turned on =/ ) for the gun i ask a friend of mine to make me a perfect replica (is the only part that i diddn't make cause i wanted it to be perfect!)

 

 

Tell us something about the character your cosplaying: He studies engineering to became a butcher!!! sounds good!

Big thanks to this super awesome cosplayer for doing this for me. If you want to see some more of his costume work check OUTLANDERS on DA

 

 

 

GAMERPRINT - REVIEW - Horror Games

Ages ago I bought a T-shirt from this company for my partner and loved it so much I later got myself one. I bought the 'BEWARE NECROMORPHS' from the DEAD SPACE franchise.

My T-shirt

So I bought it for £18 which is abit for a T-shirt but the colour was awesome and I fucking love DEAD SPACE and don't see enough of it. The company do loads of nerdy T-shirts, hoodys and prints and if you've seen them at conventions in the UK and been curious as to what they are like..

Well here's my review.

On the site I'm not confident that the images of the design are true to colour as my above T-shirt is clearly a darker blue then the sample image.

The sizing is good I bought a L for my M-L partner and it's comfy and nice fitting and I got mine in an XL as I like to wear my T-shirts as night clothes at conventions and just slumming around wear and it's so comfy I could live in it forever.

I've had mine washed alot on a normal wash and it still looks brand new. No colour fade, the crackled white background hasn't become any more or less tatty effected or damaged via alot of wear so it's very worth it's cash.

They do the DEAD SPACE one and DEAD RISING 2 horror related items.

Along with T-shirts and hoodys they also do large wall poster for £15 which I do find is abit much for a poster.

But all in all the colours may vary from real life to sample image the sizes are good, they are comfy and they last really well so if you have any doub't about them when you see them at a con, don't and go for it!

Want one of these but don't go to cons?

GAMERPRINT

9.5/10

XJigsawX

DEAD SPACE : Aftermath

So I've always been a fan of DEAD SPACE games and been on abit of a Dead Space kick as of late, bought both movies and the novel and god damn if I had the money I'd be buying the bladecutter replica in my local nerd shop for £300 phaaw dat weapon.

Right now I will warn you right away not to get put off of this movie just from the CGI because it.is.the.worst.CGI.I.ever.saw EVER SAW.

The CGI is terrible so bad I had no words for it but thankfully the CGI part of the story only serves as a break between the anime style story parts. Think of the 'Animetrix' where each story is a different anime style, it's pretty neat.

The worst CGI....

The story closes the gap between DEAD SPACE 1 and 2 and focuses on resident crazy mother fucker Nolan Stross and his team. His team are him, a Hispanic fella with a mech arm, a big buff black man and a Chinese nurse and a bunch of other people that.. don't really matter although drunken Scottish captain amuses me. But don't get attached to anyone the death count is huge.

I always love comic books, movies, novels that fill gaps between things it just gives the franchise more of a story and if you really loved the games this movie keeps damn cannon and strings things together and you often go 'oooh that makes sense'

Each story is from a characters point of view and has a different anime style, all are pretty awesome minus the last one which is on par with the shitty CGI but I'm no art critic what do I know? Not scary in the least bit but an interesting watch, the blood and gore is well animated and I love the Necromorphs.

We find out about the Marker, where it went after Isaac fucked shit up in number 1 and how it took over the place you go as Isaac in number 2, find out how he gets there and how everything started and it's a good ol' watch. I don't want to ruin it TOO much.

The black guy is a crazy mother fucker and often sees his dead girl and shit goes wrong for our team, anyone who comes in contact with the MARKER decides to go batshit insane and off the deep end which explains why Nolan Stross is a giant nutball.

We find out he also has a part in the Ishimura and he's happily married with a son but his wife has a case of YOUR SLEEPING WITH YOUR CO-WORKER BAAAAW!! which in all fairness he IS which leads to some badly drawn boobies and we see as well as being crazy and hen pecked Nolan has a case of shadow crotch.

So his wife does his head in and is rewarded with blade cutter to the face.

We see some signs of the crazy ass religion that is all over in DEAD SPACE cannon but not too much which did shock me since it is all around in both games. Stross himself views Necromorphs as the future and this causes him to really descend into true nutbaggary.

A cool thing about the movie other then the neat animations from the peoples POV's is they use all the sound effects used in the game which add's to cannon and is a nice touch.

I can't stress enough how awful the CGI is and that you should not let it put  you off because the rest is a very good watch.

Story: 5/5

Animation: 4/5

Gore: 3/5

Overall: 4.5/5

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Space Horror

A type of horror that has it's own genre I feel. There's not many space horror's out there, there are however enough good movies about aliens on earth to keep us going but not horrors IN space. Also known as sifi-horror. I think for me the movie that owns this genre over and over again is Alien whose long and glorious franchise has spanned from 1979 to 1997 and has also been part of a VS movie but if Freddy VS Jason has taught us anything it's avoid anything vs anything for your own sake.

So as I was saying, ALIEN is the mother of this little sub genre of horror. I remember watching it as a kid and being captivated by it, how sleek and awesomely designed the Aliens were, somehow the design just looked like 'yeah aliens could so be like that'.  The movies are slow going but build up a sense of dread, the things with horrors in space is.. we know so little about space that for us to be stuck out there with something unknown, so very far from anyone who could help is terrifying.

The casting is good, the acting is fantastic for such an old set movie the B movie cheesyness is no where to be found in this franchise, it is just good solid horror. Even the gore back then was spot on, I think movies today could learn allot from the brilliant execution this movie had.

Event Horizon is another good space horror, the unseen force that lurks around every corner keeping you on the edge of your seat is very much there. It's another well created horror movie having all the right elements of what should be scary, keeping the cheese away and for the most part a good acting and cast crew which is always a plus point in horror as horror tends to go down the drain if the cast are as believable as a yeti wearing Madonna's fashion line.

This movie also has the whole 'going mad' and self destruction element going on showing people are as dangerous as anything else out there trying to get you.

Pandorum is much newer 1t 2009 filling the gap between the old school and the newschool of the genre, again another good movie, not as awesome as the movies before it but it was again something of a good watch, the aliens weren't as 'alien' as before or as 'unseen' as before but it's worth a watch.

The newest space horror that has come to the worlds attention is Apollo 18 and I can't say much on this as it is on my ever growing pile of 'TO WATCH' DVD's so it'll more then likely get it's own spiffy review when I get around to it.

I still think instead of making SAW 10000 or another bull shit 'haunting of' 'paranoaml..' why don't we fill the gap in the market? it's shown that space horrors have something good and awesome in them.

Now I think the biggest game that comes to mind for a space horror is DEAD SPACE. I enjoyed the game, the aliens.... um not aliens were awesome. The story goes our main man is going to see his wife, girlfriend whatever on another ship and a crazy region has sprung up and so have these horrid things called 'Necromorphs' the designs are fantastic and there is nothing as unsettling as a baby with tentacles and going through a kids nursery to see exploding babies.

Game play is easy to get on with, very good plot in the first, not as much in the second but these games are a fantastic add on to the space horror niche. Also with it's own rather enjoyable anime prequel I think DEAD SPACE deserved a mention up here.

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