arts // no. 8

Comic Corner: The
ultimate bromance

» ‘Spider-Man/Deadpool #1’ review

Brittney MacDonald
Life & Style Editor
M lifeandstyle@theotherpress.ca

    
 

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who obviously have the
most epic bromance and become
suddenly jealous? For me, that
was what Spider-Man/Deadpool
was all about. The new series
combines everyone’s favourite
fourth-wall-breaking, pancake-
making, chimichanga-loving
anti-hero with Marvel’s most
likeable superhero. It’s hard to
see where this could go wrong.

Written by Joe Kelly, now
notorious for his Deadpool
narratives, the story isn’t so
much a plotas a series of
random and/or coincidental
events. That may sound like
I’m coming down hard on this
comic book, but believe me,
I intend the exact opposite. I
think I may have mentioned
this before in a previous review,
but any Deadpool series tends
to be very niche because, as
a character, he can’t really be
written with too much of a clear
linear progression. The reason
for this lies in the character
himself: Deadpool’s claim to

nate

: fame (and the reason why he
: is so beloved by the Internet)
: is that he doesn’t give the

: appearance of pre-meditating

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: and fans of the character will

: argue—and I agree with them—
: if you read between the lines,

: you are sometimes given the

: impression that Deadpool may

: have planned the entire series

E of crazy events from the start.

anything—things always just
kind of work out. Readers

Spider-Man/Deadpool

: is much the same. It isn’t so

: much about the defeat of the

: villain, but more so the hijinks
: and friendship between the

: two titular characters. In

: short, this comic focuses on

: character development in the

: most hilarious way possible.

The series is illustrated

: by Ed McGuinness, someone

: I would consider one of

: Marvel’s greatest assets. The

: man has a lot of practice

: pencilling both Deadpool and
: Spider-Man and that certainly
: shows in his work here.

Overall I enjoyed this comic,

though I found it depressingly
: short. I will certainly be eagerly
: awaiting the next installment

: and would recommend it to

: anyone looking for something

: light and fun to read.

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» ‘Evertown’ game review

Lauren Paulsen
Senior Columnist

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[ WVertown is a quaint little
real-time strategy game

with survival elements added.
When you boot up the game,
you get to create yourself a
hero that will lead your town to
greatness. After setting up your
hero’s stats and naming him, you
spawn ina randomly generated
map with your main building.
Your job is to create yourself
a successful town and safely
defend it from the creatures of
darkness that spawn at night.
The game is still in early
access, so there isn’t a whole lot
to play with yet. There only seems
to be two classes of citizens to

: choose from at the moment:

: peasants and hunters. This made
: advancing in the game difficult

: because you need wood to build

: anything and to get wood you

: need woodcutters. I managed

: to bypass this, however. When |

: was trying to work out all of the

: controls, | accidentally discovered
: a master key that lets you add as

: many resources as you want to

: your stores. That allowed me to
play around with various other

: things and learn how they worked.

There are also several

: buildings that you can build

: that really have no purpose,

: like the barracks. The barracks

: are supposed to train military

: personnel, but they don’t seem to
: be implemented in the game yet,

: so my barracks basically just used
: up my (endless) resources and sat
: there taking up space. I imagine

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Screenshot from the game

: that the military personnel will

: make advancing a lot easier as

: the days pass and the enemies get
: tougher, because my hunters were
: starting to get one-shotted by day
: 10. I had basically set up a meat

: shield of hunters surrounding my
: little town to protect the peasants
: that were farming, but found that
: Tcouldn’t keep up with spawning

: new hunters as fast as they were

: dying. It was about here that I

: decided I really needed to invest

: ina better defence system.

Overall, this is a fun little

: game that I’m really looking

: forward to playing after it has

: developed more, and I can

: imagine myself spending hours
: on this until I’ve expanded my

: town across the entire map.

: [can’t wait to see what it will

: have in store for me later on.

 

Chairman of the Board:
Friendship isnt magic

» ‘Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre’

game review

Ed Appleby
Ilustrator

 

Gras are meant to be
shared among friends.
Some friends like to play games
of strategy against one another,
some like to work together in
cooperative gameplay to defeat
a bigger foe, and some friends
like to melt each others’ faces
off with totally crazy spells.

Epic Spell Wars of the Battle
Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre is
a “Take That” hand management
game for 2-6 players designed
by Rob Heinsoo and Cory Jones
and published by Cryptozoic
Entertainment in 2012. Players use
cards in their hand to construct
spells to damage other players.
The last remaining player receives
a “last wizard standing” token
and a new round begins. The
first player to receive two tokens,
wins, and the game is over.

Spell construction can
be both extremely simple and
complex, with things like damage,
initiative, targeting, and additional

 

: effects to consider. This can lead

: toa little over-analysis at times,

: but it also gives the players an

: enormous range of control in how
: they dole out damage in the game.

I have mentioned before that

i] generally don’t like elimination

: games, but Epic Spell Wars

: balances this out by giving players
: increasing advantages for the next
: round depending on how long

: they’re out of the current round.

: This balance can lead toa long
: game if there are a lot of players.

The game is extremely fun

: to play, but not for the young and
: impressionable. The hilarious

: and extremely graphic art by

: Nick Edwards and the brilliantly
: vulgar writing add well to the

: over-the-top nature of the game.
: [would recommend this game

: to any mature adult who wants a
: little dose of insane immaturity.