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April 27, 2016

Rick & Morty Parodies The Last Of Us On New Cover

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It had to happen (or did it)? Rick and Morty wound up in the apocalypse and have to fend for themselves, just like the protagonists of a really great PS3 video game. This is the latest cover of Oni Press’s Rick and Morty comic book. Note that they strike the same poses as Joel and Ellie do in the game, and it’s a nice touch that they’re surrounded by Meeseeks instead of zombies. The bad news here is that this cover likely has no relation to the inside content, because it’s an alternate variant cover that will only be available at various conventions. If you want one, then hang around cons that Oni Press will have a booth at during the spring and summer of ’16. We can confirm PAX Prime, New York Comic Con and Gen Con will be stocking some. Even though the tease of a Last of Us parody was false, Rick & Morty is more savvy toward gamer culture than most other programs. The staff writers

January 15, 2016

Pocket Mortys (iOS) Review

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Rick and Morty is one of the best new shows of Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim block in recent memory. The show has really taken off, so of course, Adult Swm wants to capitalize on that. So Big Pixel Studios and Adult Swim Games have just dropped a new game based on the hit series for mobile devices in Pocket Mortys. Essentially, Big Pixel Studios has taken the basic mechanics of the Pokemon games and re-skinned the style of the handheld Pokemon games with Rick and Morty characters. Rick and Morty is a free-to-play “freemium” game, and it’s available at the App Store and Google Play. At first glance, the idea of a Rick and Morty meets Pokemon sounds a little interesting. It’s a bizarre combination. In a way, it fits the insane, post-modern style of the animated series, which routinely satires and mashes various genres together. Unfortunately the results for Pocket Mortys are less than stellar. In Pocket Mortys, the neurotic teenager Morty and his foul-mouthed, alcohol-fueled grandfather, Rick Sanchez,

January 22, 2014

Samurai Jack: Beyond Nostalgia

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Talk to anyone of school age in the nineties, and they’ll lay so much nostalgia on you, it might be nauseating. The millennials are invading your tumblrs and buzzfeeds with “OMG, xx is twenty years old now!” and “Random things you forgot about from the year 19XX”. Chances are, a lot of those things don’t hold up. In 2001, Genndy Tartakovsky created Samurai Jack, a show based on a samurai warrior thrown into a dystopian future by the demon he is sworn to defeat. Unusual for a cartoon at the time, Samurai Jack relied on a more cinematic approach to storytelling, using scene changes, a dramatic score, and visual cues to tell the story in addition to dialogue. In fact, some episodes rely less on dialogue and more on visual, lending the show to easy translation for other markets. Despite being intended for children, Samurai Jack appeals heavily to older teens and adults. The references to Japanese and Hong Kong cinema are evident (counting the nods to Toshiro Mifune’s Sanjuro