Assassins, Shia Lebouf, and The Terminator

Assassins, Shia Lebouf, and The Terminator

Shia Lebouf as Yorick from Y: The Last Man...Now, I know Shia is getting thrown in tons of movies lately because he's a hot property, but he makes a LOT of sense for this part. The character is quippy and a bit of a dork and he has a pet monkey. The way Shia talked to that dog of his in Transformers really makes me think he'd work well with a monkey. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, click here and here.

The season premiere of the Sarah Conner Chronicles was wicked awesome. Better than most feature films I've seen. I hope this show gets to live long enough for Terminator Salvation to boost its ratings. I'm really digging it but its ratings aren't really stellar and Fox is known for canceling lots of shows every year. You could say that Fox is the network equivalent of "The Terminator" out to kill young television series before they have a chance to bloom. And I have a baaaaad feeling about Dollhouse.

The articles this week feel meatier than usual. That might be because I had to write a couple of them, like the Castle Crashers review for tommorrow and Spider-Manic Depression part 2 for Thursday. Action Flick Chick also returns for a review of Blade Trinity. In similarly related news, apparently Ryan Reynolds is just so awesome in this new Wolverine movie that they are already considering giving his character his own movie as a follow-up.

To shifts gears, I would like to talk about the Wrath of the Lich King beta. Specifically, let me reintroduce you to the Rogue...

So you World of Warcraft players might be thinking "OMG WUT AM I GOING TO DU WIT NEW TALENTS?" Here at the RLHQ, we know what you should do with them to make the optimal characters and I'll tell you exactly how.

ASSASSINATION IS THE NEW COMBAT

It's true. Assassination is an extremely viable build for raiding as a Rogue. I'll walk you through the new talents that you'll want to pay attention to.

Vigor- This increases your maximum energy by 10, but you already know that. What is truly revolutionary about this talent is that they moved it to be a 3rd tier instead of a 7th tier talent, making it quite attractive to even off-spec into.

Relentless Strikes- GONE. This talent now has a very different replacement located much deeper into the Assassination tree called...

Focused Attacks- An 8th tier talent. Gives 1 out of 3 of your critical hits to restore 3 energy. This really stacks up, but I didn't pick it up. You may want to, though. It is all just a matter of preference.

Overkill- Gives you a bonus damage buff during stealth and for 6 seconds afterwards. This is a very, very handy talent and only costs 1 point. This has taken up the spot where Vigor used to reside down at the tier 7 branch.

Infectious Poisons- It has a very interesting mechanic of causing your poisons to spread to those that try to heal it, but the big kicker here is the 20% bonus to the damage that your Instant and Deadly poisons deal.

All of the talents in the 9th, 10th, and 11th tier are too awesome to miss.

Master Poisoner- Your critical hit chance increases by 3% against targets that you have poisoned. This in conjunction with Improved Poisons makes this basically a permanent 3% critical hit chance boost. If that wasn't enough it also reduces the length of all poisons that you fall susceptible to by 1/2.

Turn the Tables- You get a buff that increases your critical hit chance by 6% whenever anyone in your party or raid dodge, block, or parries and attack. Unless you end up with a tank that is just horrible, this makes the buff basically indefinite.

Cut to the Chase- This talent is the reason Assassination is the new combat. It is just so ridiculous. If you have the Slice and Dice buff on you whenever you use Eviscerate or Envenom, the buff is refreshed to its maximum 5-combo point potential. If you spec a little bit into Combat to pick up Improved Slice and Dice to increase how long this buff lasts by 50%, Slice and Dice is basically lasts forever while you are out grinding. Truly crazy stuff.

Hunger for Blood- Oh yeah. This is the other reason. When it is used, it will remove a physical debuff and refund a little bit of energy. Not only that, it will increase all damage you deal by 3% for the next 30 seconds. This stacks three times for a maximum of a 9% damage boost. This is an ability that can basically just be refreshed in between fights unless you are raiding.

THE BUILDS FOR ASSASSINATION

This is the one for when you are trying to reach level 80.

This is what it should look like by level 80.

This is the one for raiding.

I AM MY OWN LEGACY

Heirlooms. They are introducing items that scale in power based upon your level and can be traded in between your characters on the same account. The reveal of this new kind of item shocked me in how utterly ingenious it is. This makes it to where you can have a much greater edge building up your alts without having to worry about finding new items to replace what you are currently wearing. This can make it so that you get really sick of seeing your character in the same armor for 60 levels, but with the new Recruit -a-Friend feature that might only be 20 hours of gameplay.
They said something about Herod's Shoulder transforming from mail to plate as you level up. This pretty much confirms that old dungeons will contain Heirloom items and that some of them might be familiar classics. Very exciting stuff.

THE SHAMAN STRIKES BACK

I take back what I said about the Death Knight being my new main. The new Shaman changes have me extremely excited, mostly because of the new ability called "Lava Lash" which is a new instant melee attack that deals fire damage. I will still make a Death Knight and level and raid with them, but I'm pretty sure I'll still be playing my Shaman more.

On friday we're going to cover the big new changes to the Warrior. Alex will cover that stuff. Sometime in the near future we'll have articles on the new Retribution Paladin, Protection Paladin, Survival Hunter, and an article called "The Pilgrimage through Northrend" which is basically a big tour of the new areas.

-Nick L.

The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama[1] is a webcomic starring "a high-flying llama, a sword-swinging cat, and a rocket as loyal as a cowboy hero's horse."[2] Created by Alex Langley while he was a student at Henderson State University, the comic first appeared in a comic book titled The Workday Comic. For the Workday comics anthology, a spin-off of Scott McCloud's 24-Hour Comics, comics creators each wrote and drew their own eight-page stories in eight hours in April, 2007, on Friday the 13th[3], which turned into an ongoing publication.[4] Co-presenting with comics author and scholar Danny Fingeroth (Dazzler, Spider-Man, Superman on the Couch), the creators described the webcomic's evolution as members of a Comics Arts Conference panel at 2008's Comic-Con International in San Diego, California.[5][6][7] Contents [hide] 1 Debut 2 Webcomic 3 References 4 External links [edit] Debut The full title of Rocket Llama's debut story in The Workday Comic #1 (spring, 2007) was "The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama #112: 'Trouble in Paradise'".[8] The story introduced the taciturn hero Rocket Llama and his talkative sidekick, an anthropomorphic cat named Bartholomew Meowsenhausen, who find themselves stranded on an island after a battle with an enemy called Jetpack Dog. Spherical islanders capture them and then challenge them to combat. A villain named Böwser vön Überdog arrives with Jetpack Dog and, in a sudden Star Wars parody, summons a giant robot known as the Super Robot Dog Walker which blasts a volcano to bits. Before it can fire a second blast, Rocket Llama destroys it by getting it to swallow a pot of water and backfire. The story ends with Böwser tied up and the heroes using the giant robot dog head as a boat to get themselves home, with the promise of the next story to be titled, "Yuck! Yukon!"[9][10] Whether despite the original story's childlike art or because of it, the Rocket Llama story proved to be the most popular in the 2007 anthology collection of the eight-hour comics.[11] After comic artist Stephen R. Bissette, an instructor at the Center for Cartoon Studies and comic book artist best known for his work on Swamp Thing with Alan Moore, read all of the stories in the first volume of The Workday Comic, he remarked, "That llama's gonna stick with me."[12] [edit] Webcomic Nick Langley redrew the story with a less childlike drawing style in webcomic form for online publication[13] as the flagship title for the website rocketllama.com which grew into an affiliation of websites featuring webcomics, art, entertainment reviews, and scholarly studies of comics.[14] The online story featured a new cover[15] and omitted a one-page gag, a preview for an unrelated Stealth Potato comic, which had appeared as an intermission in the middle of the original story.[16] The original story also appeared online as the comic's "ashcan copy."[17] The authors present the Rocket Llama stories metafictionally as the world's oldest comic book, established in 1916, which they allegedly rediscovered and are adapting into webcomics. "Deep underground, in an archaic vault we searched until we found the fabled tales. As both the current production team behind The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama and appreciators of such groundbreaking literature, we have taken it upon ourselves to restore these classic issues to a glory more befitting a modern, digital age."[18] Although every "issue" is presented with panels and screens in the correct order for each story, the issues are presented out of order as if readers were discovering old issues of a classic comic book in a seemingly haphazard order, however they come to find them. After the redrawn number 112's online publication came the serialized time travel story #136-137, "Time Flies When You're on the Run," appearing one page at a time throughout each week.[19][20] Special Rocket Llama Says bonus features appear only in "ashcan" form drawn by the original creator.[21] [edit] References ^ Rocket Llama World Headquarters ^ You are here. ^ Waddles, Joshua. (2007, April 2). Comic book club puts in a full day's work. The Oracle vol. 99 (25), p. 3. ^ Beard, Sarah. (2008, August 25). Comic Arts Club offers excitment. The Oracle, vol. 101 (1), p. 5. ^ T. Langley & R. Duncan, panel moderators, with respondent Danny Fingeroth. (2008, July). "Capes and Tights, Caps and Gowns." Panel presented at the Comics Arts Conference, Comic-Con International. San Diego, California. ^ Recent and Upcoming Research Presentations ^ Pannell, E. (2008, July 27). Comic communication part of professors' classes. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, T-1, T-4. ^ Page 1. ^ The Workday Comic #1. Spring, 2007.[1] ^ The Workday Comic - online edition. ^ Sorrell, M. (2008, April 14).Club produces second annual workday comic. The Oracle, vol. 100. ^ Quoted in "The Workday Comic: Not Just One Third of a 24-Hour Comic." Comics Arts Conference, Comic-Con International. San Diego, California. July 27, 2008. ^ The Ongoing Adventures of Rocket Llama #112: "Trouble in Paradise." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley. ^ You are here. ^ #137-Cover. ^ Sneak Peak at Stealth Potato #75. ^ Rocket Llama Ashcan Copy. ^ Who Is Rocket Llama? ^ "Time Flies When You're on the Run, Part 1." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley. ^ "Time Flies When You're on the Run, Part 2." Script: Alex Langley. Art: Nick Langley. ^ e.g., "Tanks a Lot." Rocket Llama Says #8. Script and art: Alex Langley.