Tag: The Blue Ink

“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 Rebellion and smacking Mega Man with cleverly fragmented pieces of a malware program, I remarked in […]

“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, after all, getting into the middle of the month, and we kick off the last issue before […]

“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 widely respected among my lunch table posse as “Singles Awareness Day,” […]

“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 always means that said issue is in the mail… and due in my mailbox in […]

“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 but December’s issue?! I thought I’d have a chance to rest on my laurels […]

“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 —————————————- While the boys are away, the girls will play. In this case, because Dr. […]

“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 Dr. Light would erase his memories and personality entirely […]

“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, Sovereign Virtue “Children are the keys of Paradise… they alone are […]

“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 very […]

“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 “Courage! What makes a king […]

“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 either due to lack of sleep, illness, or a blow to the head the day before, you have […]

“….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 souls, but did their uttermost to mitigate the miseries of others.” -Elizabeth […]