Of course, the spark for Transformers Week here was the release of the much-anticipated video game Transformers: Fall of Cybertron. Like I said earlier, if the trailers for this game were any indication, FoC was going to be epic. The game does not reach quite those heights, but it comes close. Taking place just after … Continue reading
Welcome back! Everyone loves a good mad scientist. Especially an eternally optimistic and enthusiastic one. Wheeljack, for a startlingly brief period of time, was the Autobots’ inventor, their tinkerer, their chuckling resident time-bomb. It generally wasn’t a question of IF Wheeljack’s latest contraption would blow up in their faces, but WHEN. The Autobots seemed to … Continue reading
Transformers Week on Rhoades to Madness begins in an unexpectedly appropriate place: The Beginning. The roots of my geekdom were sown early in life when a little show hit the airwaves in 1984 about a high-stakes battle between good and evil waged on Earth by extraterrestrial robots that could shapeshift into vehicles. Transformers (Generation One) … Continue reading
Oh, by the way, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron comes out today, which means I’ll be holding a PS3 controller for the foreseeable future. Posts should continue as scheduled this week, but you should all expect a very energon-fueled Transformers theme week next week as I recap Generation One and Prime, discuss the movie franchise, and review … Continue reading
I am beginning to think I need a schedule. Or at least a structure of some kind, because I can’t seem to stay ahead of this “writing” thing I do, and can’t seem to get inspired when I need to. It’s aggravating. I have heard that sitting down at a set time every day to … Continue reading
Grunting and grumbling about what I like, hate, and wonder.
for the love of nike
The top 10 of just about anything everything, from cakes to cats and dogs to caravans. Always a laugh, always worth seeing.
Adventures in absurdity
My name is Alex. I have pop culture feelings. Updates every Friday (usually). Slight tendency to edit as I go.
