Chicago Comics » adventure http://www.chicagocomics.com/blog Worlds of wisdom. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:55:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Get the F Out of Rosemont 2: The Squeakquel http://www.chicagocomics.com/blog/2010/07/get-the-f-out-of-rosemont-2-the-squeakquel/ http://www.chicagocomics.com/blog/2010/07/get-the-f-out-of-rosemont-2-the-squeakquel/#comments Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:28:11 +0000 Chicago Comics http://www.chicagocomics.com/blog/2010/07/get-the-f-out-of-rosemont-2-the-squeakquel/ GTFOR2:The Squeakquel

Title: Get the F Out of Rosemont 2: The Squeakquel
Location: Chicago Comics
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Description: Hey Kids! You like rowdy parties? Sure ya do! Well, tie your party hats on and get ready for GET THE F OUT OF ROSEMONT II: THE SQUEAKQUEL!!!

Food! Fun! Beverages! Ambulances on standby!! Get out of Rosemont for the evening, bring your friends, enjoy the City of Chicago and all the wondrous venues it has to offer!

Start Time: 8pm – 11pm
Date: 2010-07-21

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Location: McCormick Place – 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive
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Description: C2E2 – short for the Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo – is a convention spanning the latest and greatest from the worlds of comics, movies, television, toys, anime, manga and video games. From a show floor packed with hundreds of exhibitors, to panels and autograph sessions giving fans a chance to interact with their favorite creators, to screening rooms featuring sneak peeks at films and television shows months before they hit either the big or small screen, C2E2 brings the best of popular culture to downtown Chicago!
Start Date: 2010-04-16
Start Time: 1pm
End Date: 2010-04-18
End Time: 5pm

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Berserk – A review by Drake.

It seemed like any other Japanese manga story about a hot muscled guy with a gigantic sword.  It seemed at first glance like the epitome of manga cliché.  Upon reading it however, Berserk by Kentarō Miura is the defining story that the other dark fantasy mangas wish they were. Its rich tapestry of characters set against a pseudo-realistic dense and well-developed fantastic environment proved to me once and for all that manga is not created equal, and to never judge manga by its cover.

Set in Medieval Europe, Berserk is an apocalyptic dark fantasy about a highly skilled giant sword wielding mercenary warrior named Guts.  Pitted against the gods themselves with no clear delineation between what is good and evil, Guts is fated to walk the earth fighting demonic apostles in a quest to avenge his betrayed mercenary comrades.  The first 13 volumes were later adapted into an admirable anime, and it is this story arc that is undoubtedly the most epic so far.  After the first 13 volumes Berserk begins to expound on Guts’ traveling party detailing political events swirling in the upheaval of demonic cataclysm.  The reader is never insulted by shoddy writing, and the artwork is some of the best I have ever seen.  Miura conveys humor and grim reality with a meticulous but loose and organic style that shifts to meet the mood of the scene.  It frequently calls on the traditions of Japanese horror manga. If you consider yourself a serious comic artist then take a long lesson from Berserk.

Try it, and if you like it you’ll never be in want of reading material again as Miura has vowed to make it the longest running manga of all time!!!

It reminds me off all the following things mixed together and improved upon:  Hellraiser, Final Fantasy 7, Walking Dead, Lord of the Rings, Vagabond, Vampire Hunter D, Dungeons and Dragons, Blade of the Immortal, The Canterbury Tales, and A Midsummer Nights Dream!!!

Genres: adventure, drama, fantasy, horror, psychological, romance, supernatural

Age rating: ABSOLUTELY NOT FOR CHILDREN  – GRAPHIC VIOLENCE and EXTREME SEXUAL CONTENT!

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