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The Walking Dead Volume 1: Days Gone Bye

Finally borrowed a copy of this from my friend Sam. Zombies in Atlanta? Hope André 3000 and Big Boi made it out okay. Id hate to get chomped on by Sir Lucious Left Foot. He’d probably be missing his left foot. I bet I could outrun them because their flamboyant clothes would slow them down.  Same goes for zombie Elton John. B-b-b-brains and the jets!

You know when would be an inopportune time for an Atlanta zombie outbreak? Freaknik. They tried to bring it back this year and everybody panicked. Like the So So Def Bass All-Stars were going to come throw a brick through everyone’s window and play “My Boo” by the Ghost Town DJ’s until three in the morning. Which sounds like a fun night, property damage aside.

Right. Zombies. I wish this graphic novel had been longer. Now I want to read all of them before the televised version comes out on AMC. If that show doesn’t turn out to be great I’ll be really surprised. The network that made Mad Men and Breaking Bad making a show about zombies with the guy that directed The Shawshank Redemption? Sign me up! And by sign me up I guess I mean continue to exist, cable television!

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Everybody in the game keeps pointing out that the hero Gordon Freeman graduated from MIT. I can’t believe you saved our lives AND you graduated from a well respected technical college! What did you think he was going to do? Theoretical physics his enemies to death? Throw a can of Red Bull at the Combine? Shock their sensibilities with his NSFW web browsing history?

He certainly does spend a lot of time running around in sewers and air ducts sneaking around. I bet he really stinks. Like at the end of the day if you help somebody move on a hot summer day. Sweat and weird cobwebs and sticky grime all over your skin. Weird cobwebs? Did you just help the Addams Family move? I bet Christina Ricci tricked you into carrying those heavy boxes with a sexy text message.

At the end of the game your gravity gun gets hit with energy and turns into a super-powered gravity gun and now you can pick up your enemies and throw them into the sky or off ledges or into each other. I wonder if that works for other appliances. Like if a toaster got hit by lightning it would turn into a fancy bread maker with an extra setting for marmalade. Or if you left your first generation iPhone out in an electrical storm it would turn into the iPhone 4. And if the iPhone 4 got hit by lightning it would turn into a beautiful robot woman who loves you and never gets old and when she kisses you, you never get old.

Last night I had a dream I was in a city where people traveled in multicolored beams of light filled with specks of dust, but the city was run by an evil sheriff. I have been playing too much Red Dead Redemption.

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