*in Philosophy class*

Friend: *holds out stapler* "Hey, Will, put your hand in here."

Me: "OK." (thinks) He'd never be dumb enough to actually close it on me. *puts hand in stapler*

*friend puts pressure on stapler*

Me: (thinks) Uh, he wouldn't be that dumb, would he?

*click*

Me: OW! WHAT THE F***!! YOU JUST STAPLED MY HAND YOU F***ING MORON!!

Teacher: Are you alright?

Me: No, I'm not alright. There's a staple in my hand.

Whole Class: ROFLCAKES

Long story short, it was stuck in my knucklebone. The first aid lady had to pull it out with tweezers.

Trufax, the best manga ever written is called Eden: It's an Endless World! (exclamation mark is part of the title btw) and as far as I can tell nobody in the entire world has read it except for me. Okay, maybe a few people, like the dude who wrote the tiny weaksauce wikipedia page on it. But he probably didn't care about it since his page is so weaksauce. Then again I love Eden and I haven't contributed anything at all to the wikipedia page about it so maybe this guy is okay.

Alright, well some people probably read it apart from me, otherwise it wouldn't still be in production, but still, it's relatively unknown. In proportion to how mind-blowingly awesome it is. If the world was good and fair then Eden would be right up there at the top of the sci-fi anime pantheon, alongside EVA and Ghost in the Shell. But the world is neither good nor fair so Eden languishes in the back of storerooms of anime shops everywhere.

So what is this Eden all about? Basically it's a post-apocalyptic sci-fi, a bit like Akira, but with cyber-robot-people like in Ghost in the Shell. It's really, really dark, probably one of the goriest manga there is, and also has lots of sex, drugs, prostitution, mutant robots and other horrible things. Mostly each chapter falls into one of three categories: a) characters talking about philosophy b) characters talking about how messed up their past is and c) characters shooting and bombing each other. Sometimes the writer mixes things up with scenes of people talking about how messed up their past is while shooting and bombing each other.

I know that doesn't sound like anything special but it's just that everything is done so well. The characters are brilliant, the action scenes intense, and the artwork - well the art is probably the best part of it, it's some of the most detailed artwork I've seen in any graphic novel. It's extremely realistic and gritty, but the fight scenes still contain that stylized sense of motion that you see in Naruto or Bleach. According to my uber leet artist friends, the 'body proportions' aren't always correct, but I can never see it so they're probably just lying like they always do.

Anyway, I've written too much again and probably put everyone off reading this because it's so long, but if you got this far then go out and buy Eden. Until you do though it's all mine.

So there I was going to the cinema to see Die Hard 4 (Americans read Live Free or Die Hard, which is a much better title). I wasn't expecting much of it. I loved the original Die Hard, mainly because the hero wasn't some sort of Chuck Norris super-ninja who could eat bullets and crap gunpowder. When he cut his feet on broken glass, and was really scared and stuff, it was awesome.

So I was not expecting much because the trailer for Die Hard 4 showed Bruce Willis doing all kinds of crazy stuff that was, I thought, far too over-the-top for Die Hard. As far as I could see, they'd turned John McClane into just another uber 1eet action hero. And, well, they have. But he's not just another uber 1eet action hero. He is THE MOST AWESOME ACTION HERO EVER. While they were leaving the realism behind, they went way overboard and ended up even less realistic than most action movies. The whole story is silly, no, stupid. In the magical world of Die Hard, hackers can cause the apocalypse, because everything, from gas stations to traffic lights to TV channels to the White House security system is controlled by a single computer network, and after a few days of haxxoring, Johnny Nerd can bring the entire country to its knees with the touch of a button.

Apart from the sheer, unbridled, completely unbelievable and totally awesome action scenes, there are also some funny lines between Bruce Willis the rock-eater and that guy from the Mac ads who plays a witty and well-groomed nerd. However none of the intentionally funny bits made me laugh as much as the ridiculous action scenes.

Seriously, if you haven't already, go see this movie now. Just leave your brain at the door.