Daily Archives: September 3, 2012
Mat Langford’s Gaming World: Fieldrunners 2
I’m admittedly a little late to the party on this one, but if you haven’t tried Fieldrunners 2 for the iOS, you don’t know what you’re missing!
For fans of tower defense games, FR2 will make you feel right at home. Instead of defending a specific point, however, you’re simply trying to stop the “fieldrunners” from getting across your screen. This is pretty simple in the opening levels, as they enter the screen from one point, and are relatively weak – allowing you to dispatch them with ease. Once you progress however, you’ll find a multitude of different units including airships, zeppelins, tanks and more coming across your screen, with varying levels of armor and speed. It gets hard…really hard.
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Tales from the Longbox, Back To School Edition – The New Mutants #1 (1983)
Every other week, Jason Shayer will highlight an issue or a run of issues pulled from the horde of comic book long boxes that occupy more room in his house than his wife can tolerate. Each of these reviews will delve into what made that issue or run significant as well as discuss the creative personalities behind the work. “Long Box” refers to the lengthy, white cardboard boxes most comics find themselves stored within – bagged, alphabetized and numerically ordered.
New Mutants #1
March 1983
Writer: Chris Claremont
Penciler: Bob McLeod
Inker: Mike Gustovich
I fondly recall picking up a copy of the New Mutants #1 from a local convenience story waaaay back in 1983. Unlike reading the Uncanny X-Men, where I always felt like I was behind and that there was over a hundred issues to catch up on, New Mutants #1 was a great launch into the world of mutants. I had completely missed the New Mutants Graphic Novel, but the story from the point of view of the young mutants swept me up.
While the New Mutants had powers, they weren’t your traditional city-patrolling heroes. They were kids and they not only had to deal with controlling their powers, they had to deal with real teenage problems, like crushes, school, and insecurity. They were growing up like I was at the time and that created an immediate connection.
