Monday, April 25, 2011

Album Art

Two album covers were released a while ago. The cover to the Blackgaard chronicles and album 54. The cover to the Blackgaard chronicles is very detailed and is of the same quality as the cover art for album 53. When you look closely you can even see that the chess pieces are either characters or things that played an important part in the Blackgaard saga. While the art for album 54 isn't quite as good but it does look better now that it's finished.




 
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Album 54


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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

"The Green Ring Conspiracy Part 3" Review

 

  We finally got to hear more about Connie's classes and we meet Penny Wise and Dr. Trask. Penny's name apparently from something else that I don't know about, and she is a slightly odd. I am surprised that Connie actually likes her. It seems as though she might get frustrated with her like she did with Lindsay in "The Best of Enemies."
  Penny was very vague about her Christian kind of praying. Which sounds suspicious. And Dr. Trask has a very strange soft and kind of creepy voice and my first impression of him was that he seemed like a person who might turn on them later. (I am not saying I was right or wrong)
  There were many objects in the backpack aside from the counterfeit money there was a book, "Oliver Twist" by Charles Dickens, a flight plan and a revised one, A map of Odyssey with trickle lake circled and a sheet of paper with hand written numbers. Is it a coincidence that Buck's last name is Oliver and the book in the backpack was Oliver Twist? I still don't know; I am not sure if I missed it or if they never mentioned it again.
  Buck responded to the job opening at Whit's End in search for Dirk Beggs phone and meets Emily, I won't say much about that except that I thought detective Emily would be smarter than that.
  Agent Tanner is also introduced. I don't like the performance of her actress so far or her personality.
  A Rabbit with fangs? That's bad. A 20-30 something year old should know that rabbits don't have fangs. And then she does an amazing job on a replication the Monet Lisa.
 Okay, I don't really have much to say since these episodes don't have a full plot with a conclusion.

 

When I got onto the computer this morning I saw this:

"How so many clowns fit into a circus car - An insider reveals the secrets behind being able to stuff in 21 zany performers."


That sounds exactly like "Like Father Like Wooton." Doesn't it?

Friday, March 25, 2011

Album 54 cover


File:54art.jpg            It would be hard for any of you to have not seen the pictures of the cover art for album 54, but I will share it anyway. I was a bit disappointed after album 53, which had such details in the background and in the characters. In the picture on the left you can see that at the bottom it looks very unfinished. I don't look on the kids faces or the funny looking whit in the background. But because this is just our first look at the cover I have the feeling that there will be more details added later.
File:54front.pngAnd to the right is another picture of album 54 with the non-official border around it. It looks a lot better with the border, I think it will work even though I was expecting something more to the quality of album 53.

"The Green Ring Conspiracy Part 2" Review

Summary:

Whit discovers that his visitor has a secret job that seems to be related to the backpack of money that Emily found. Matthew and Nelson get a surprise call from people with an interest in the Appleberry phone.

Review:


 The second episode of, "The Green Ring Conspiracy" starts out with the introductions of two characters, Buck Oliver and Mr. Skint. You can tell from the very beginning that they are both part of the green ring conspiracy, and although they are part of a scheme they are both great characters and I love their voices.

It is really sad that Whit knows so little about his Grandson it seems as though he would be a wonderful Grandpa which is the role that he plays to most of the kids in Odyssey. But I know it is hard as they live on separate sides of the country.

Detective Polehause seems as though he is very skeptical of everyone especially Jay's Uncle, who has evidently done something bad in the past.

It really didn't take long for this mystery to take us to Whit's End. Buck is already heading over there to find Matthew Parker and the Appleberry phone.

At this point we know that Mr. Skint, Buck and Dirk Beggs are on the bad side, while we cant quite tell about the other characters such as Detective Polehause, Monty Whittaker or Wally Hagler. It seems to be a pattern in Odyssey for characters who are assumed to be good to then turn to the wrong side. And all around with the suspense, question answering, acting, music, and new characters it was another amazing episode.

Friday, March 18, 2011

"The Green Ring Conspiracy Part 1" Review

Summary:
A plane crashes in Gower's Field and both Emily and Matthew make surprising discoveries nearby. Meanwhile, both Whit and Wally Haggler meet friends from the past.

Review:
 
  I was so surprised while hearing this episode, I did not expect the new season to sound so good!
  There were a few parts that seemed pointless. I didn't understand why they had to have the game fact or urban legend at the beginning or why Eugene needed to tell us about crashing a plane while it has nothing to do with the story.
  The overall sound of the episode was the best I have ever heard it was all around so good with the sound effects, acting, and music.
  I was so glad to hear Jay and his uncle all throughout the episode. Jay is starting to sound more and more less of a bully, but I don't mind that.
Connie is finally starting to go to collage! She did graduate 22 albums ago, I think it was about time. And I love the subject although she has never seemed to take an interest in art before.
  It is interesting how there are guns now in AIO, I don't think there is anything wrong with that back in the Blackgaard era they never used real guns.
  I have decided because the story is so long I will give it a rating at the end of the album. Thank you for reading.