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The Blue Ink Reviews Sonic Universe #51 – Worlds Collide Part 2: If the Scarf Don’t Fit…
"It's like magic. He's got you watching his right hand..." "And his left hand keeps pulling rabbits!" --Lieutenants Oster and Monday, Sergeant Bilko ---------------------------------------- The City of Mega City, a quiet metropolis where the people go about their...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #24 – “Worlds Collide” Part 1: Two Guys, a Reset Button, and the Cosmic Joke
"We have to get these two together." --Dr. Peter Venkman "I think that would be extraordinarily dangerous." --Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters ---------------------------------------- A year or so ago, when Wily was causing all sorts of havoc with his second Robot...
The Blue Ink Reviews: Archie’s Mega Man #23 – Sons of Light
"Beware The Ides of March!" -William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar -------------------------------------- I know, it's a Hellishly overused quote meant to give us forewarning of a tyrant's downfall, but something about it seems just so damn appropriate here. It's March,...
The Blue Ink Reviews: Archie’s Mega Man #22 – Digital Love
"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you." -Elizabeth Barrett Browning -------------------------------------- Ah, Valentine's Day. Our only excuse to buy and eat candy between Christmas and Easter. On my old college campus, it was...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #21 – Time, Humanity, and the Universe
"Victory won by violence is tantamount to defeat, for it is momentary" -Mohandas K. Gandhi ------------------------------------- I look forward to seeing The Mega Man Network link to a preview of the Mega Man comic book done up by some website or another, because it...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #20 – Dropping Acid on the Circuits of Time
"I wish I had never invented that infernal time machine... it's brought nothing but trouble." -Dr. Emmett Brown, Back to the Future Part III ----------------------------- Aw, dammit. I just finished up writing the review for issue #19, and what should hit my doorstep...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #19 – Grrrl Power
"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down of the big lake they call Gitchee Gumee, the lake it is said never gives up her dead when the skies of November turn gloomy..." -Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald...
Rockman Xover First Impressions – Yeah, It Sucks
Well, here we are. The most infamous Mega Man game ever made is now out in Japan. The level of hatred this title has accrued is practically viscous. And yet, even now with the released game in my hands, I can't bring myself to hate it, or hate Capcom for making it. I...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #18 – Vagabond Blues
"Who has not felt how sadly sweet, The dream of home, the dream of home, Steals o'er the heart, too soon to fleet, When far o'er sea or land we roam?" -Thomas Moore, The Dream of Home ---------------------------------------- Blues left home because he was afraid that...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #17 – Origins
"Playing God is indeed playing with fire. But that is what we mortals have done since Prometheus, the patron saint of dangerous discoveries. We play with fire and take the consequences, because the alternative is cowardice in the face of the unknown." -Ronald Dworkin,...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #16 – Breakaway
"There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country." -Joseph Addison "In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at...
The Blue Ink – Archie’s Mega Man #15: Resolution in Revolution
"Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind." -Ralph Waldo Emerson...
The Blue Ink – Archie’s Mega Man #14: Bombs, Cons, and Megalomaniacs
"I will classify my lieutenants in three categories: Untrusted, trusted, and completely trusted. The third will be awarded posthumously." -Rule #147 Of Being an Evil Overlord (Appendix A) ---------------------------------------- You ever have one of those days where...
The Blue Ink – Archie’s Mega Man #13: The Great Robot Debate
"....Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul." -Carl Kapek, Rossum's Universal Robots "The happiest people I have known have been those who gave no concern about their...
The Blue Ink – Archie’s Mega Man #12: Escape Clause
"Bring me chopper backup!" -Commander Feral, The S.W.A.T. Kats ---------------------------------------- How many robots does it take to do a full frontal assault on a heavily fortified Skull Castle? Answer: How many do you have? In Dr. Light's case, he has a full...
The Blue Ink – Archie’s Mega Man #11: Last Man Standing
"Pleasure and action make the hours seem short." -William Shakespeare, Othello --------------------------------------- Wood Man, Bubble Man, Heat Man and Crash Man have all fallen to the rampaging one-life run of Mega Man... no bathroom breaks between levels. The Blue...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #10 – Anger Management
"Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth." -Chuck Norris (Popularly attributed) ---------------------------------------- When it comes to anger and fury, there are plenty of things to keep in mind: Let the Wookie win. Don't tug on...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #9 – The Quick and the Red
"The secret of success is never believing you are successful." -Jeffrey Archer -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Wily has fled to lick his wounds, and there has been a period of prolonged peace. Perhaps even six months of it. Half a year of...
TMMN Reviews: Bandai D-Arts Vile Figure (Warning: Image-Heavy)
It's been a while since we've reviewed a Mega Man figure here on The Mega Man Network, but I've recently managed to rectify that with the acquisition of our very own Vile figure from Bandai's D-Arts line, courtesy of Bluefin and Tamashii Nations. And in advance, I...
The Blue Ink: Archie’s Mega Man #8 – Dr. Light is a Boy Scout
by Erico "Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him." -Sun Tzu, The Art of War -------------------------------- And why is Dr. Light a boy scout? Because he was prepared. More on that as the plot develops. Now, then. When we left off in Issue...
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