‘Over the Edge « February 22,2006 Comic Webcomic Fans Happy About Attack of the Bacon Robots! COMIC Penny Arcade Volume 1: Attack of the Bacon Robots! ARTISTS Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik PUBLISHER Dark Horse YEAR 2006 DANA SCHWEHR CONTRIBUTOR After years of thwarted publishing attempts, the boys of Penny Arcade have finally managed to get their first book out to the. masses. A recently signed. publishing deal between Penny Arcade and Dark Horse Comics will allow Holkins and Krahulik to main- tain their copyright on the immensely popular webcomic, This means that old comics will always be available in the Movie Firewall Forgettable DIRECTOR Richard Loncraine MOVIE Firewall ! STUDIO Warner Bros. YEAR 2006 LAURA BELL CONTRIBUTOR Ijust saw a movie and cannot remem- ber what it was called an hour later. ‘That's not a good sign. Well, Harrison Ford was in it and he played the hero. Nice guy who can be a mean guy saves the day, la de da. I get the impression with these run of the mill, blockbuster movies, that once a big star jumps on board any concerns with the script fall to the wayside. I'm sure it would be to the benefit to every one if the budget was spread out more evenly amongst the actors, script writers, editing teams and the like. Ford was probably look- ing to be a part of a thought provoking serious drama...or maybe not. This is online archive, which is an issue that Holkins feels very strongly about. Attack of the Bacon Robots! contains comics from 1998 through to 2000, as well as introductions written by PAs Jerry Holkins, and Bill Amend of Fox- trot fame. There are also two pages of bonus sketches, as well as. commentary for each strip in the book. The com- mentary is, without a doubt, the best part of the compilation. Holkins mas- terfully uses his words to explain the - point of a strip that had no news post, or tells some obscure story of Penny Arcade’s sordid past, which provides hours of entertainment that are not available in the strips’ online counter- parts. Another nifty feature of the book is its completeness. Since Penny not the first Harrison Ford movie that I have laughed my ass off at inappro- priate times. Remember What Lies Beneath? Yeah, that movie was hilari- ous,,.and it wasn't supposed to be. I assume I am making these horrible ac- cusations because I (gasp) have never seen Indiana Jones. My apologies, but I guess because Ford is a Star Wars icon and has a huge menagerie of Indiana Jones followers, it must be true that any other movie he will ever be in will become a box office hit. That's not too many people...just, oh, millions. Moving on, Ford's character is Jack, a VIP ina big city bank who works hard at his title of devoted family man. There is tension at work with a merger, or some- thing...lictle bank being swallowed by bigger bank. The shit hits the fan when Jack's family is kidnapped by hot to trot Cox, Paul Bettany (Wimbledon) and a few other lackeys toting guns and com- Arcade's recent switch to the site's new ~ format, some of the comics are not ac- cessible in the archive due to program- ming errors. The book is blissfully bug- free, however, and every comic made in the first two years of the strip is reaeat and accounted for. Attack of the Bacon Robots! will make fans of Penny Arcade very happy. From the explanation of the origin of the. Fruit Fucker, to the evolution of Penny Arcades perception of Mac users, Attack of the Bacon Robots! is full of fun, violence, and video game goodness. For those of you who do not know what Penny Arcade is, you can go to www.penny-arcade.com to see what the fuss is all about. puters, Jack will get his family back if and when he helps Cox steal $100 mil- lion. The rest of the movie involves Jack trying to outwit Cox and regain his life back. There are a few attempts to persuade Cox's helpers and close ups of Ford going from his basic don't mess with me expression up to his mean bas- tard one. Things end fairly predictably with a few deaths, an ill placed explo- sion, and some lovely scenery that looks like somewhere in the Okanogan area. Shinning amongst the ordinary is Vir- ginia Madsen (Sideways) as Beth who actually works at her portrayal of Jack's architect wife and mother of their two children. If you're craving a dramatic action movie this week Firewall will ptobably be your best bet, but only be- cause Bruce Willis currently has noth- ing in theaters. 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