Mr. Dad versus the Boys

  Hi guys, I'm back! How are you doing? Could I subtly disguise the fact that I have't written anything in over three years, after an insane amount of posts (well, six) in a four month period back in late 2020 / start 2021? I guess not. So I'll have to bring you up to speed a bit. First of all, we all got older. Which should not come as a total surprise. But we had some significant milestones. Onyx became 21, Kuromochiii is now 16 and Mr. Dad has his 50th birthday in 2 months. And still all into games, comics/manga, animated TV shows & movies/anime and other nerd-stuff. Onyx is currently doing his second year of Game Artist at the Mediacollege Amsterdam. This is where he met his current girlfriend, who is also an aspiring game artist and tattoo artist. Within the Game Artist course, Onyx chose the 3D modeling track. Besides school he still plays guitar a lot, does photography, going to rock concerts (like Polyphia) and Ikea and of course there is the gaming. Kuromochii...

  Okay, since we're on the subject of comic book adapatations, did you see the Red Band (R-rated) trailer of James Gunn's The Suicide Squad ? I'm very much looking forward to that! I liked the first movie by David Ayer, but it did differ a lot from the feel of the trailer. That's why a lot of people are now asking to #releasetheayercut. Last week the SnyderCut of Justice League came out after a massive fan-campaign for that. I don't think Warner Bros will spend a lot of money on another recut, though, so probably not going to happen. I'm indifferent about it. If they decide to recut it, I'll watch it, if not, I'll patiently wait for Gunn's sorta-sequel. So in the trailer we get a look at some (but probably not all) of the villians turned heroes. We have Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), Rick Flag (Joel Kinnaman), Captain Boomerang (Jai Courtney) and Amanda Waller (Viola Davis) reprising their roles from the first Suicide Squad (the one without the 'T...

No, I'm not going to do it. I'm not going to pitch one against the other. I'm not going to say that one is better than the other. There are people ... like me ... who like comics and superheroes as a whole, whether they are from Marvel or DC or Image Comics or any other publisher. Ofcourse I have my preferences in comics, in movies, in TV-series, in games, but I generally get excited if something new comes out. If I were to do a Mr. Dad versus the Boys, it would probably be Marvel versus DC, but actually Onyx and Kuromochiii are more into anime then into superheroes and they also watch both or don't watch at all and rather play (non-superhero) games. So why this post today, after months of slacking off from this blog? Well, this week was a very good week for comic-nerds like me. Both on DC and on Marvel side. Here's what is going on ... Fortnite On Tuesday the new Fortnite season started. Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 6. I got excited about that. I'm an adult gamer ...

  This time it isn't Mr. Dad versus the Boys, but Mr. Dad versus Mommy. In december we bought a new (second hand) TV for our bedroom. Since then we often take early showers and watch movies and TV series in bed. We've become even more lazy than before. The Covid-19 year of 2020 didn't bring that much new movies and series, so we looked for other/older entertainment. As I said in the introduction post of this blog, Mommy likes to watch Anime TV series and the series of DC Comics (Arrow, The Flash, Lucifer). Mr. Dad is more into Marvel TV shows and cartoons, as well as a broad range of other series. So we decided to try out some Anime, to see if Mr. Dad could get into that. We started with the 2019 Anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba . Like a lot of Anime (Japanese cartoon) series, it's based on a Manga (Japanese comic book). The story is about a boy called Tanjiro Kamado, who's whole family is slaughtered by a demon, except for his sister Nezuko, who is turned into ...

 The last day of 2020 has arrived. I could do a long rant about what this year brought us all, about Corona and lockdowns and all that, but actually for us it wasn't that bad. This was the year that Mommy and the Boys came to the Netherlands. And that makes me very grateful, even if it took a bit longer because of COVID-19 and the lockdowns in both the Philippines and the Netherlands. I have been working at home since April this year, which meant two hours of travel time less and more time to spent with my family (gezin). In my larger family (familie) there were two cases of Corona. My brother and sister-in-law and my niece and her boyfriend got sick. All of them are doing better now, although my niece and her boyfriend still have trouble with their sense of smell. But yeah, all-in-all 2020 wasn't that bad for us. Year End Party 2017/2018, Philippines What I do want to talk about today is the traditions we have in the Netherlands and the Philippines for celebrating the end of t...

 My first blog is going to be about MOBA's. According to Wikipedia MOBA stands for Multiplayer Online Battle Arena and is a subgenre of strategy video games in which two teams of players compete against each other on a predefined battlefield. Each player controls a single character with a set of unique abilities that improve over the course of a game and which contribute to the team's overall strategy. The ultimate objective is for each team to destroy their opponents' main structure, located at the opposite corner of the battlefield. However, MOBA games can have other victory conditions, such as defeating every player on the enemy team. Players are assisted by computer-controlled units that periodically spawn in groups and march forward along set paths toward their enemy's base, which is heavily guarded by defensive structures. The most well-known MOBA's are DotA (Defense of the Ancients, 2003), League of Legends (2009), DotA 2 (2013) and Heroes of the Storm (201...