Monday, August 15, 2011

Didn't even know they made this... Flawless Victory!

Robert R Ricks - 7:14 AM

Last year I saw what looked like a pretty cool rework of Mortal Kombat. Last night I was talking with my nephews about it and we went looking for it. Imagine my surprise when I saw they did a whole season of "Mortal Kombat: Legacy". As webisodes.

I've only watched the very first episode and it looked good. Why does this excite me? Because things like this really show that the web is a viable distribution model for content. We know there's a bunch of YouTube channels which can launch careers, etc., but this is the first content I've seen that wasn't "Funny". I follow stuff like Ray William Johnson's "=3" and similar, but this is first serious effort at Sci-fi that I'm digging so far. With each episode reaching over 3.5 million hits I guess I'm not alone.

Anyways if you like Mortal Kombat and want to check out a reboot of it check out the youtube channel at:
http://www.youtube.com/show/mortalkombatlegacy

If you know of other stuff that is as good if not better send me a link!

Rob

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About Robert R Ricks

Robert Ricks was born August 29th, 1971 on a US Army base in Seoul Korea.

He was raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and moved to Hawaii.

While in Hawaii he became a voracious reader of Fantasy and Sci-Fi with early favorites being the Nine Princes in Amber series by Roger Zelazny as well as the Elric saga by Michael Moorcock.

As a senior in High school, he wrote his first novel entitled “The GodKill” (which has yet to be published.) He would start and stop other stories over the next few decades. To date he has over fifty-five novels in various stages of development (The Magic Really Suck series, The Convergence Series, The Sordid Adventures of Farook Fantook and Jizzy J Series, Angelic Revelations, Infernal Justice, The POET, The Harbinger, Asian Vampire Kitan, Choices, Tatted Soul, Shattered Saint, Brother’s Keeper and Beneath the Park to name just a few).

Ricks has earned his living as a designer building websites, and marketing material. He created and developed and self-published a CCG (Collectible Card Game) entitled the STREET WARriorS in 2004.

He began writing again full force mid-2009 after having a series of surreal dreams that wouldn’t leave him alone (truth be told he has dreams more now than then). He decided to write CONVERGENCE 2012.

After self-publishing the Convergence 2012, he took a break from writing until 2017 when again a set of dreams pulled him back into writing. He challenged himself to write a full trilogy and completed the trilogy in 5 months in raw format and then final edits two months later.

He is married and has three children and a dog. He currently lives in Utah.