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aced@clackamas.edu W ednesday, May 30/2W Î2 The Clackamas Print 'Hard Candy doesn’t satisfy well-known to Dark Horse fans, and some that are definitely more obscure. Many have very For any comic book fan, more unique visual styles,' particularly is better. T his. is not the case “Mister X: Hard Candy, part with Dark Horse’s nev/release of one,” written By Dean Motter in a noir-esque style (originally “Dark Horse Presents #12.” Dark Horse has offered many run by Vortex Comics, based in comics bver the years, with some Toronto, Canada). The majority’ of the com- o f its most popular being based on film and | television* and ics were all very strange, with Some newer ones based on video the main focus Being based games. They have carried many around zombies and the occult, popular titles that are no longer although there was one superhe in print, such as “Fear Agent,* ro comic and two (non-occult) and some well-liked miniseries detective comics, along with'oile like “The Escapist” and “The about foul-mouthed dairy prod Helm.”; ucts, conveniendy titled “Milk + “Dark Horse Presents” was Cheese = Dairy Products Gone Dark Horse Comics original Badl” comic book series, which first The compilation seems, at released in- 1986 and has been first to be acceptable for reading cancelled and rebooted three by alb audiences, by “bleeping times since 2000. out” swear words! but then the The comic book is a com violence and uncerisored lan pilation o f 12 different comic > guage prevails, dearly defining' books, totaling 80 pages. Each that it is for mature audiences one of the comics (except for only. the last two) are all from differ you’re not into zombies ent series, some that are more and you’ve never read any of By Isaac Soper Arts & Culture Editor Dark ,Horse Comics’ books or graphic novels before, “Dark Horse Presents #12” 'isn’t the one to start with. Granted, it was a compilation of quite a few different; comics, but it didn’t seem to offer the wide array of material that Dark Horse has to offer. Other than “Milk + Cheese” and “Mister X,” most of the comics inside were all about zombies and the occult, which definitely appeals to some fans, but not to all. . After reading the, .co’mic,, it is understandable-as to why the comic has been cancelled in the ast, and then, as with the zom- ies inside, the comic itself was reanimated for your viewing dis pleasure. Unless you are a huge zombie fanatic, pass on this one. Dark Horse Comics are avail able from Things From Another World in Milwaukie,, or online at www.TFAW.com. 1 OUT OF 5 STARS Snow covered road leads Wildman to unforeseen adventure By Isaac Soper Arts & Culture Editor My fingers were painfully cold after about 30 seconds of attempting to dig "dût the snow from underneath my car. We had driven about ten miles up the.. Clackamas River outsjde of; Estacada, in an attempt to locate the Eagle Creek Cutoff Trail #504. . From Oregon Hwy 224/211*; I followed my map (provided by the US Forest Service’s web site) to Fall Creek Road, from which I turned onto Divers Road. The map claimed that I was supposed to turn onto Squaw Mountain Road shortly after, to which, after driving a mile further than the map rec-. ommended, Divers Road'came to a dead end. As I turned back around* T decided to turn onto Tumala Mountain Road,, think ing .that maybe someone had made a ridiculous complaint that the road?s original name was distasteful; Three or four miles up the no-longer-offensive road, there were no houses or buildings, in .fact, other than the sad, discarded remnants o f coun try-folk parties (campfires, beer cans ana spent ammo) there were litde traces that anyone had been up Tumala Mountain Road in a great while. The1 map said that the road/trail should be free of snow from July to October, at which I scoffed, and Wildman and his hiking partner came across the snow covered Tumala Mountain Road while in search o f the Eagle Creek Cutoff Trail #504. Deep tire ruts through the wet snow and jagged-racks prove to be difficult obstacles fo r iU-equiped vehicles. look at me now. After 10 milés, I,was stuck in the snow in the Subaru, having to attempt to shovel out to get some traction. Other than the fact that my hiking partner, CÇG student Katie Drahota, and d had to dodge large, rocks in the road and get out o f thé car three .miles earlier than we’d expected to dig out the tires, it was very pretty and peaceful up there. As we dug at the tires and undercarriage, my fingers felt blisteringly cold, though asking Drahota how; her fingers were showed how frail I may have been compared to her. I viewed myself as a mountain man, a Wildman, or so I’ve ' claimed, but without companionship, J would have given up digging in no time flat. I would have focused my energies on setting up camp opposèd to digging any longer (although maybe it’s because T wanted a ’reason to hâve to. miss work in the morn ing). We successfully made it out of -the snow, though we had .to J use Frisbee golf discs-1© dig the tires and undercarriage out* due' to my lack of bringing a shovel. W hàt can I say? It said July to October,( but I» thought that due to the'recent stint of warm weather that any snow would be melted by now. Even though the car is all-wheel drive, sev eral attempts to drive out ended only in spinning tires, due to the fact that snow was packed in the undercarriage. I got the idea to collect gravel from the nearby mountainside and we packed it behind the tires in an attem pt to. get traction. Thankfully, due to the support o f my hiking partner (no thanks to my lack of'confidehce) and a quick prayer*, we were able to get the tires to grab; after only, an hour of digging with Frisbees and frigid fingers, we were out. Drahota and I decided that it wouldn’t be worth testing the limits, and venturing further in the car, which ended up being a wise decision indeed, for. the snow only got deeper and more wet from that point on. After approximately an hour of difficult trekking up the snow covered road, which felt like two hours, the snow was still definitely deep arid the eleva tion only continued to increase, with no sign .o f our trailhead. Snowshoes would have been very helpful at that point of the journey... We hiked possibly three miles prior to '■hearing what sounded like strong wind or a creekthat may or may not have been the elusive Eagle Creek. After turn ing off onto, a, nearby offshoot o f the road to pass over the creek, we located a clearing that had’evidenee o f clear cutting in the recent past. Hoping for the trailhead to.appear was a pipe dream, although the views of the surrounding foothills were very beautiful. I All things considered, it was a good adventure^ besides get ting stuck 'in the snow and never locating the .trailhead. Unless you own tire chains or a vehicle with tank treads, I wouldn’t recommend attempt ing to make the journey to an y trails that claim to have snow, no matter what your intuition, or lack thereof, says, although having someone to share the journey with is totally worth while.
