Roboculture

In light of some pretty annoying changes in blog.com, such as a very buggy font changing tool and a host of other little irritating quirks, I've decided that now is the time to retire the old Studio MMG design in favor of a new design which would be used for the next two months. The font system is a mess, no matter what size I change it, it always stays the same. Agh! It's such an irrititaing predicament. It makes me wonder why I didn't go to www.blogger.com instead to start my blog. Oh well. Humans are creatures of habit, and I'm already too fond of some of the features here to let it go.

This this would be my old look. I plan to showcase the new look, which will be nothing major, but any change would be good, wouldn't you say? Just a few minor color changes, and icon stuff that wouldn't be that noticable. Anyway, its my final week before I stop blogging altogether probably so it wouldn't really matter.

What Featured Articles did I have again? If I remember correctly, I had:

FEATURED ARTISTS
RANTING CORNER
NEWS FROM THE FANDOM

Perhaps I should add one more, or maybe change News From the Fandom into something more specific? I'm just wondering...

Finally, what purpose do I have aside from the reason I previously stated earlier? To reflect my "changing" art style. I feel that I am a lot better at drawing and painting than I was last year. I don't know, I still can't draw anime characters and shit (not poop) correctly like the Creative Director, but at least I'm branching out in drawing more mecha and stuff. I want the new design to show... maybe... a maturity to what I'm currently doing. Also, the new design would look nice with the small announcements I'll be making by that time. You may not believe a word I am saying, but its no loss since nobody ever comments so I don't know whatever you think.

So! The new design will be made beginning next week. Just in time for April. Speaking of April, I have sad news because I won't make any dumb or stupid April Fool's joke. Maybe because I can't think of any at the moment.

Before I start, let us honor Bill Capizzi, (1937-2007), voice of my favorite villain in Robotech, the Robotech Masters. He will be missed dearly. Damn. :(

TODAY'S BLAB

Well, I'm sorta disappointed that nobody shared my untold joy when I finally watched Shadow Chronicles, but it doesn't matter. I'm sure all those who read this blog are finally saying "Thank the Tommy this ranting moron finally saw that damn movie!".

Yesterday's show with the Zombie buffoons was surprisingly weird, and I liked it. I don't know it you like it, but it's just something I wanted to get out of my chest and my very disturbing imagination. I'll be commenting more on that film with these two corpses in the future! Right now, FEATURED ARTIST!

INTRODUCING, STARIACHIBA!

Now this girl really just caught me by surprise. Her profile is just filled with all manners of fashion drawings and cute little girl stuff that somehow seems strangely compelling. Maybe because they're colorful or something. There's at least 30 pages of these designs!

Then... suddenly... you find a painting like this. And then you go... WHAT THE HELL?! You then think that maybe there's more to this artist than meets the eye! What's more is that she drew Robotech Masters stuff! Oh yeah! She's definitely won me over.

Guess what. I just watched Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles! (That's a long story for another time) Now. I know its been months since the release of that turkey, and I also know a lot of things have been said about that film. What I do know is that 1% hate it, the rest, absolutely loved it. And that's not good. Because we all know I'm not a big fan of Harmony Gold ever since I realized they're just a bunch of Macross and New Generation fans.
(and they're definitely not a fan of you -ed)

So, to make sure my opinion doesn't get lost in the sea of other wannabe Robotech experts, I have enlisted the help of two well-known and well-loved Robotech characters spawned from the mind of the Creative Director himself!

I present to you:

Guest Starring: Joe, the casual anime fan

Zombie Alex: Hey there Robotech world! The name's Alex - Alex Romero! And my co-host...
Zombie Daryl: dddduuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhmmmm
Zombie Alex: *Ehehe* You'll have to excuse him... He's not very talkative. (They call him Daryl, but I think he prefers Mark).
Zombie Daryl: *Grunts*
Zombie Alex: He's not paid enough to talk I think. Anyway, we've got Joe here - who's an expert at just about nothing Robotech! He's just seen the show 20 years ago, and has watched other anime shows like Ghost in the Shell, but not Gundam!
Joe: Hi.

THE SHOW PROPER BEGINS

Zombie Alex: So the MapMaestro just watched the new Robotech movie, eh..? Hey! That's great! Isn't it great Mark?
Zombie Daryl: *Grunts*
Joe: I thought the film was confusing. Like most anime.
Zombie Alex: Well, Joe, hate to disappoint ya', but Robotech's not anime. And the dialogue's pretty dumbed down anyway that even a five year old would laugh at all my hilariously off-color jokes!
Zombie Daryl: Deeeeaaad man not funny.
Zombie Alex: Oh shut up. You're dead too, smartass! And my jokes were funny! That's why my death was so cool and heroic and for the most part - NECESSARY!
Joe: Your death was contrived, useless, and did not serve the story at all. Not a single tear was shed when you blew yourself up. Now, when Guld of Macross Plus died, that, was a heroic death.
Zombie Daryl: Wannnaaabeee Roy Fokker...
Zombie Alex: Shut up Shut up Lalalalalala I can't hear you! I thought you didn't watch a lot of anime, Joe?!
Joe: I watch only a few choice anime and live action sci-fi shows, as is natural for a casual Robotech fan wanting more from Harmony Gold, but can't get any.
Zombie Alex: OOOKAAAY! I get it. Moving on. I think the film is cool! I love it! We waited 20 years for it and now it's hear.
Joe: If I waited 20 years for a mediocre product, I would've settled for that Robotech 3000 thing I heard from a friend years ago.
Zombie Alex: You know what, Joe? You're lame. Lame, lame, lame! The story was a full story, it rewrote stuff from the show, but its all good! I call anyone who nitpicks CONTINUITY PORNOGRAPHERS! They don't deserve to be Robotech fans.
Joe: I am in agreement with nitpicking too much about a show's canon, but setting is as official is selfish, and narrowminded. But that is a different topic. The show's story telling felt amateurish at times. The drama between the newer characters was hardly compelling fiction. Hardly enough to hold one's interest for too long, unless you happen to be a fan of this... Tommy Yune.
Zombie Daryl: *Grunts*
Zombie Alex: You mean The Yune? Oh yeah! Definitely. I even made a website devoted to him. IheartTommy.com. How about the look? Man, I looked so sweeeeeeet! And all the characters look super detailed and the CG was fantastic!
Joe: This is the reality of anime, but after four years in development hell, you still wonder if this is truly it. The CG is passable to bad. The scene with the Haydonite trying to kidnap the android girl JANICE looked horribly unsatisfying. Laughable even, the models are uninteresting, undetailed, and so blah. I've had more fun listening to Internet talk shows.
Zombie Alex: You're mean. You know that?
Joe: I'm just an outsider just trying to understand the franchise I grew up with. I'm very disappointed with what I see so far. Speaking of seeing, the film's color palette is simply different shades of blue and greys. (With some reds thrown in for the bad guys, how original) Why did the artists limit themselves to that? Look at Ghost in the Shell. According to John Krisfalcusi, creator of Ren & Stimpy, American artists always limit themselves to one color palette (link: http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/2006/10/color-theory-steal-from-anime-if-you.html#links). Perhaps Tommy Yune is in the American mentality of coloring. Not good. Blues and Black get boring.
Zombie Alex: You're not just some casual fan... are you? Finally, what did you think of my... heroic death?
Zombie Daryl: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Zombie Alex: I have the last laugh, Mark, since I don't get killed the 15 minutes in the movie without getting some major screentime with my buddy Marcus!
Joe: As I said, you're death was unnecessary. And the scene following the Marcus being rescued by Maia and the vision, was awkward, and emotionally uninvolving. The vision seeing Marlene Rush was almost good, but then, it felt forced. These Harmony Gold boys really don't know how to handle drama at all.
Zombie Alex: Remind me why I invited you to my first show.
Joe: I would hate this show to become something like "ROBOTECH ROXXXXZZZORRSSSS LOLOLOL".
Zombie Alex: Good point.

And thus ends, the first episode of The Zombie Romero & Zombie Taylor Show!

Tune in next week for MedMapGuy's announcements! Also, be on the look out for the Robotech Live Action Novel, which I will be posting up an update on it in the near future! Toodleooooo! And don't forget to comment!

Yeah... The reason I was away was because I was sick. I wa-- What the f*** is this?! No! I am not sick like that?! I am not a voyeur! Why is there a pic of Maia sleeping here? I honsestly don't know. Damn. How did this get here?

This is really screwed up. I really don't know what is up with this blog sometimes. Anyway, I wsteas like, sick - with a real-life disease and all. Yeah. I have the flu. So damn that for screwing up my plans to announce my plans for Robotech(that sounds redundant -ed).

*ADDENDUM*

Tolarin, Cyc, etc - Know any other Robotech artists I can talk about? My account is somewhere around DeviantArt, its fairly new and hasn't reached my immense popularity in the Robotech community (loser -ed).

But hey, I'm gone for just one day, and I see one post about producing a fanfilm in the Robotech Production forums. I know, its live-action and all, but the fact that this fellow posted something on that forum, and didn't get banned or threatened by Commanders makes me envious. And mad. Maaaaaad. I mean, can't you see the am coming out of m ear? Oh yeah. This is the internet.

Check out the rogue thread here:
http://www.robotech.com/community/forum/read.php?id=1715751&forumid=31

And look! This fellow got quite a few helpful responses! I never get that in the Fandom forums... Grrrr... That's it! I will post certain fan art threads in other Robotech forums besides the Fandom forum! YEEEEAAAAAH!

Sleep tight, Maia.

I was just browsing some DeviantArt profiles of certain anime artists, and here's the funny thing. Out of ten artists that you snoop around, there's bound to be some guy or gal that has drawn at least one Robotech fan art. And the odds of that artist being a Super Dimension Fortress: Macross fan are as high as Harmony Gold's earnings for The Shadow Chronicles first feature film (Med meant to say pilot, but they keep touting it as a film, and the film earned HG a mint right? -ed).

Here's one artist, whom I just recently stumbled upon, that is quite interesting. Interesting in that he's drawn... this:

And I thought I had cornered the market in Robotech characters in teeny tiny bikinis! Amazing! As usual, these Robotech characters are made to look as coy and cute as possible (with Med's being a little more slutty -ed) and damn me if I don't think that's a good thing.

Apparently, while I have a thing for Marie Crystal (who? -ed), He has a thing for Lisa Hayes. But then, who doesn't? I give kudos to this man for capturing Lisa Hayes in a way in which I haven't been able to do.

Perhaps it has something to do with the position of the eyes, or the length of the nose. I don't know. I'm not that good an artist, and I have earned my share of detractors, but who cares? I'm not the guy who drew Speed Racer comics, or the artist who drew the delightful Wildstorm Macross comics - I have my style, albeit, a crappy one.

Anyway, wooooow! Look at lil' ol' Lisa Hayes. Damn she's looking fine. So fine in fact, that perhaps I should leave it to BlueGazer to draw all the fanservice of Robotech! A little more and she'll be as hot as the Robotech property in the upcoming anime conventions!

And not only does BlueGazer draw the well-used Lisa Hayes, he also draws some wicked (why the f*** did Med use that term -ed) mecha art, 10 times better than what I can do. The lineart is exceptionally clean and beautiful.

Basically, this guy beats my stuff by a mile! The only problem now is coloring, but who cares about color?! What has technicolor done to the media industry?!

Funnily enough, BlueGazer is Argentinian, and has a little difficulty in English, but its okay because he's an artist with potential.

Please, please - check out: http://bluegazer.deviantart.com/

OTHER ROBOTECH HANGOUTS I PERSONALLY RECOMMEND

Listen to RDF Underground! I don't know why. Just do it. I need not recommend Robotech Masters blog since ya'll go there and love him. Nobody loves me.

Shut up, Marie Crystal. You're my favorite character, and you'll do as I say. For I am the artist here.
When I say strip. You'll reply with, "Yes, Master". You get me?!

Okay, so by now, I must've turned off half of my audience members already. But what else is new? With the way I write and rant, I must've turned off 80% of my original audience weeks ago! So, hello new audience! And hello, Marie Crystal!

Moving on, you can see with these disturbing new poster I wish I could use to advertise my blog. This poster is based on my unhealthy obsession with the Southern Cross Saga's side character. A side character. READ MY BOLDFACED TEXT - A SIDE CHARACTER NAMED MARIE CRYSTAL. I understand people liking Robotech New Generation's Princess Sera or Ariel or even the Pepsi-Cola Machine, but her?! Why?!

Maybe... Maybe... Subconciously, Marie Crystal the character is telling me... Telling me... Stop... Stop... Mr. MapGuy... Stop drawing me... (What did I tell you about Med's insanity? -ed)

Less than .1% of the world's population know who the heck Marie Crystal is, so I think it won't fly.

IN OTHER NEWS

Next week, I will be announcing what I will do in my last few days here. Tune in that time. Please. Robotech is dying, don't look at it any other way.

ADMIRAL HUNTER'S DESIGN SUCKS

I don't know who to get angry at. Tatsunoko? Harmony Gold's Creative Director? That Marketing Guy? Who the f*** made Admiral Hunter look the way he does?

Listen, Harmony Gold, and whoever controls the place (which I dub in Engrish, "Place of Wonderous Happiness" - Do you realize what you've done? You've made it impossible for people to draw Admiral Hunter. He just doesn't look right. He looks bad, bad, bad. The hair is tough to get right. The chin is so wide set. It's only because of being a hardcore fan did I get used to the design, but not too much.

Is it too hard to just give Hunter a wig? Or bigger sideburns? Why? Why did you torture future generations who will make Robotech Fan Art (That's a laugh -ed) suffer by drawing this hideously disfigured demi-human?

Listen, Creative Director, if you are reading this... Improve the site! MWAHAHAA! You thought I was going to rant about Admiral Hunter's design again, huh? No, I rant about the "Place of Wonderous Happiness", upgrade the f***ing place.

Just quoting good ol' Justy Ueki from the internet radio show RDF Underground (www.rdfunderground.com). I'm planning some big announcements (at least, in my mind they're big) next week involving what I will do in the last few days I will spend at home before I go out of the country next month.

I'M LEAVING ON A JET... SCREW IT.

Oh yeah! I must've mentioned this before in passing, but I'm not going to be here for the whole part of April and May! Yep. I will be somewhere, learning new life lessons and other real life crap. So what does that mean, my very small audience?

Yep. No more me. Ranting. Posting. Anything.

It also means that I will have an even harder time trying to find a bigger audience because while I'm gone, YOU, will be gone. Great, huh? I go to all the trouble to make myself known, and now I got to leave and then destroy everything I worked for. I will start at square one when I get back. My viewcount will restart to zero. Whoohoo! Bah!! The viewcount for my blog is a mere number. What does it matter?

Wait. It does! I want to be heard! I want to be known! I want to be like Harmony Gold's Creative Director! I want to be INFAMOUS!

Not all is lost! Perhaps, I could... find an internet cafe or something while I'm out... So I could post here and there... But then, how interesting would that be? Of course it would. What? Why? Are y'all sayin' you all just come around Studio MMG Blog just to see if done make some half-naked Lisa Hayes or Marie Crystal picture?! Grr...

THAT'S IT! SO YOU GO HERE FOR HALF NAKED ROBOTECH CHARACTERS??! WELL, HERE IT IS, BUB!

NOW HOW DO YA LIKE DEM' STERLING?! Perhaps this will teach you whippersnappers that Studio MMG isn't some soft-core site! Huh?!

Damn. Okay. I better finish this blog entry because as I type this, Max Sterling's crotch area is right in my face.

SO WHAT NOW? TUNE IN TOMORROW!

Next day. Viewcount = 0

The End.

"Hey hotshot! I'm Marie Crystal! You might remember me from such shows as, Robotech: The Southern Cross Saga. What you may not have known is that I love hoverbikes and I like to drive them hard and fast!

I'm here to introduce to you a brand new segment in Sgt. MedMapGuy's blog! It's called "Featured Artists" and he'll be posting some of the best images he found on some poor artist's DeviantArt account.

Unauthorized, you may ask? Of course not! What a silly notion. Since Robotech has such few active artists, a lot of the material the Seargent would post today or in the near future will be seen by such a small audience that nobody could possibly care!

And this is a blog, people! Any man could post anything in their blog by just saying "With Apologies To..." or something along those lines.

So I'm off! Off to find some hot guy I could intimidate! Toodle-ooo!"

Or Lynn, as she is better known. Lynn is a longtime Robotech fan with an extensive DeviantArt gallery. She goes by the name Happy Penguins because I think she thinks Penguins are cute. And they are!

A FEW WORDS OF DISCOURAGEMENT

Isn't this depressing? No matter how many times I ask people to comment - nobody ever does. It's truly sad and it really hurts here (somewhere in the heart area and the brain). Despite having at least 60 viewers in the past 3 days, nobody really replies except the few good regulars. Urg. Maybe if I announce my resignation of the fandom, people would respond.

Alright, who the fuck is the wiseguy who's making all that cricket noise?! Damn, its frickin' quiet in this blog. 

Oh well. This lack of any feedback is really slowing my blogging and animating. I wish I were this unidentified man so I can command the fandom to respond to my every post.

I will make a post later in the day about Featured Fan Artists. Lollerskates! 

... You see signs of your hard labor. You think to yourself - yes, nobody cares about your work that much - but then you watch the video, and despite looking really rough, there's that feeling. That warm, fuzzy feeling of personal satisfaction that I find so wonderful.

Mind you, these screens are from the intro. So no VF-4's for you! Mwahaha! Annoy Harmony Gold's Creative Director if you want to see it in Shadow Chronicles.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAAHHHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAAHAHA!

The main film will begin production on May.

WARNING, INCONSIDERATE RANT UP AHEAD, HARMONY GOLD LOVERS BEWARE!

I'm not Harmony Gold, and I don't try to be. I am me. I don't care about Shadow Chronicles anymore. It can rot for all I care since the DVD hasn't arrived to my area yet. The original series shall always rule!

RANT OVER!

BTW, if y'all love seeing lil' ol' slutty Minmay in my previous post, please prepare yourself for my next photospread. It involves Big Green Men.

Again, y'all been warned!