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For those of you who listen to Retronauts, this is old hat but I thought it was so cool that I wanted to share it with those of you in the dark. (And if you're not listening to Retronauts...what's wrong with you???) Metroid Resynthesized is a fan arrangement of the original Metroid soundtrack done on a Korg MS20 Mini. Basically, any synth music you hear today that's done on a computer is digital but this project was done with analog synths, giving it a '70s-ish sci-fi sound. It's really cool!

I know this isn't breaking news—the story I first saw was posted January 30—but the Deus Ex franchise has apparently been put on hiatus after Mankind Divided failed to meet sales expectations. As a big fan of the series that waited five painstaking years for this sequel, this news is crushing, especially considering how Mankind Divided left the story just hanging there. What if we have to wait another five years? WHAT IF WE NEVER GET ANOTHER? I am very frustrated. And so they can work on Guardians of the Galaxy? *grumble grumble*

I think I've mentioned before on here that my favority comic is Archie's Mega Man series, which is written by a guy named Ian Flynn. Or, I should say, was written. The series has gone on indefinite hiatus  But before Flynn wrote Mega Man he became the head writer for the Sonic comic. After reading the Worlds Collide crossover event (Mega Man and Sonic is a weird combination but it worked), I decided to dip my toe in the Sonic pool since I already liked the writer. Plus, Sonic got a soft reboot after Worlds Collide that started the TPs back at 1, so it was a good time to jump on the bandwagon and the books have been good so far. ANYWAY. Archie also published a line of TPs called Sonic Saga Series that starts with Flynn's first story arc as head writer. I've been meaning to get it for a while and finally did. It's called The Darkest Storm 

Netflix announced yesterday that an animated Castlevania series will be coming to the streaming service this year. It will apparently be a very violent, adult-aimed series based Castlevania III: Dracula's Curse and written by Warren Ellis. I am certainly intrigued. We haven't had anything Castlevania for several years now. Maybe Konami will leave the doldrums of pachinko behind and come back to making awesome games! But I'd settle for them licensing out their many great properties for other to work on at least. And hey, we're getting a Bomberman game on the Switch. I never thought he'd be getting a new game.

Anybody who grew up in the early '90s surely remembers Darkwing Duck, one of the great Disney Afternoon shows. Last year I found out there had been a Darkwing Duck revival in 2010 as a comic book and it was apparently very good, though it ran only about two years before its publisher lost the Disney license. A different publisher, Joe Books, finally picked up the license for Darkwing and the first thing they did was put out a giant, 400-page collection of the previous comic series. I finally picked it up after Christmas and have really been enjoying it. I'm in the second story arc at the moment. The art is great—looks like a very detailed version of the show—and the writing is spot on. I really love Darkwing's penchant for alliteration lol. If you have fond memories of DW or love colorful, cartoony comics, Darkwing Duck is a good one to check out. Joe Books has been making new Darkwing comics since getting the license, of course, and with the same creative team as before. The first volume of that just came out last month, which I'll probably grab that at some point as well.