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Originally uploaded by El Mudo LB.

La felicidad radica en disfrutar todos los momentos de tu vida.
Sean dificiles o faciles.

cafeina, trabajo y rocanrol

que combinacion.

40 Oz de cafe, un deadline de dias, y buen rocanrol.



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Que caloron en mty. Agradece, si no estuvieramos llenos de chilangos.- sabio dicho LB.

en quince y nos vamos

no hay fecha que no se de, ni plazo que no se cumpla.
en dos semanas sale El Arsenal, en ese mismo tiempo estaremos alla en San Diego, viendo como la raza reacciona a el.

Todo esta listo, ya solo es cuestion de tiempo.


Hace 6-7 años que comence a escribir lo que vendria siendo El Arsenal, supe que de alguna forma veria la luz publica de manera chida, si, inicialmente era cortometraje, y me lo imaginaba asi, chidito, que la raza lo disfrutara. Despues cuando comenzamos a vizualizarlo para comic, dannyboy y yo, lo pensamos asi, primero que saliera a nivel local y que llamara la atencion, digo, despues de todo la forma en que lo escribi, lenguaje y visualmente es para que lo hagan (llamar la atencion). Paso el tiempo y seguimos intentandolo. Pasaron cosas, pasaron personas, paso todo, y ha pasado de todo, y seguimos ahi, como hierba mala que nunca muere.

Y ya esta por salir.
Tal parece que la raza que lo ha visto previamente le ha gustado la idea, aun asi tengo la curiosidad de ver la reaccion, y puta...que mejor que ver la reaccion en una caldera de 87,000 gentes.
No tengo idea que chingados les diremos a los gringos preguntones, no tengo idea de como manejare conversaciones geek. Pero si lo que esto representa para Danny y para mi en nuestras carreras, es nuestro disparo a las grandes ligas, no debemos de fallar.

Nos embarcamos a una aventura nueva y vieja a la vez.
Veremos que tal nos va.

Por mi no se preocupen, que seguire siendo el mismo pinche mudo borracho, rocanrolero, tigre y mejor amigo. Yo solo espero que Dannyboy trinfe como se lo merece, que bastante ha trabajado/sufrido para lograrlo.



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weird ways

Para algunos, esto es spoiler... para otros no le entenderan.
para mi es una forma loca de definir escenas propias de un guion mio.

(No pongo el orden ni pagina... aun asi no quiero spoilorear nada.)

- Nº 13, baby.
- Braka-Braka
- System/General/F'cktd up situation
- Zazil vs Toque
- Godzukee last wish
- Devilish speech
- Zazil's comeback
- Simon se despide/compra six

ja, ja.. Y otros mas...



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reescribiendo.

Tengo que reescribir el guion del tres.
Basicamente ya lo tengo, pero le agregare/editare algunas cosas para que quede en 24 paginas.
Eso si, sera de puros chingazos.

JA.


damn, como sera todo despues de que salga el numero tres del arsenal publicado?


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Faltan pocos dias para mis vacaciones en LA y la Comic Con de San Diego.
Neta que ya me la pelo por irme.

Ya vi Batman Begins dos veces... pero lo mejor que hay que decir de esa pelicula ya lo escribio Campillo aqui.

Gotta work.


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por fin?

Se acabo el fut.

Despues de 5 largos meses de futbol que me dio Tigres, ya se acabo. No acabo como uno siempre quiere, pero si me dieron satisfacciones, buenas tardes y uno que otro corajillo...jaja.. pero neh, todo en general es satisfaccion.

Los numeros son frios.. pero contundentes:

JJ JG JE JP GF GC DIF PTS EF
33 15 10 8 55 40 15 55 56%


Interliga (torneo clasificatorio a Libertadores) GANADO
Torneo Local pasamos a cuartos de final, empate en el global y eliminado por posicion en la tabla general.
Copa Libertadores, pasamos a cuartos de final, primer lugar de grupo, eliminamos en octavos al pasado campeon del torneo, y eliminados por un partido perdido (MUY bien perdido) en Brasil... no se pudo remontar.


Asi lo veo yo, positivo y alentador.


Hay mucho por disfrutar aun, el futbol en el estadio es un aderezo a esta divertida vida.




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Frank Black y Ray Bradbury

Campillo me paso este link.
Una entrevista de Frank Black (Pixies) a Ray Bradbury una de las leyendas de la ciencia ficcion.

Me quedo con esta frase:

It’s always been true that the average person has very little imagination. We can’t expect them to anticipate the things that we anticipate.


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hay que seguirle...

De cierta forma, como estoy hasta la madre de trabajo, es mejor que me pasen estos "bastones"... JAJAJA.. 'che Jai.

¿Cuál es tu blog favorito y por qué?

El de Georgie boy... alias Caballo Negro...jajaja.. 'che vato se pasa de chispa.
Los unicos que visito regularmente son de camaradas, para saber que chingados andan haciendo de sus vidas.

¿Cuál es el mejor post que has leído?
Varios... alguno sobre la inexistencia del diablo de julio, alguno nostalgico de campillo, alguna mamada (as usual) de guffo, las recetas de buen rocanrol del jai...


Nombra tres blogs que según tú deberían ser sujetos a la explosión de una bomba, abandonados por su autor, o sencillamente borrados de la web.

Los nombraria si los leyera. JA!
Aunque esa mamada de miss blogguita... neta que...


Nombra tres personajes muertos de quienes te gustaría leer un blog.

- James Douglas Morrison
- Isaac Asimov
- Stanley Kubrick

Tres temas que deberían ser más tocados por los bloggers.

Nah... deben de seguir como son, (por lo menos los que leo), pues son como ellos mismos, mas bien pienso que no deberian de hablar de temas que no representen su punto de vista, solo para impresionar.


Cinco personas a quienes pasas este batón.


A TIBURON.
Ja... nomas por la misma razon del Jai... jaja...



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otra mas...

Otra entrevista... esta de Comicbookresources.com

enjoy...

KNOW YOUR ENEMY: VÁZQUEZ TALKS "EL ARSENAL: UNKNOWN ENEMY"
by Dave Richards, Staff Writer
Posted: June 10, 2005

The future won't be kind to Mexico and South America. A nuclear accident triggers an earthquake that breaks off the Baja region of California. Japan launched a full-scale invasion of South America that the various countries are still recovering from. The concept of law and order is a joke and maintained by a corrupt group of UN Peace Keepers, while heavily armed mercenaries settle conflict between major powers. The Mercenaries are recruited and regulated by The System, an underground organization that ranks mercenaries by their so-called "hitting average." This is the dystopic future world of "El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy," a three issue mini-series by writer Salavador Vázquez and artist Daniel Perez coming this July from Arcana Studios. CBR News spoke with Vázquez via e-mail about the series.

The idea for "El Arsenal" came to Vázquez almost 7 years ago. "Back then I was publishing (along with Carlos Garcia Campillo) a comic named 'Lugo,' here in Mexico," Vázquez told CBR News. The idea was to write the story as a screenplay for a short film. It began as a dark comedy/sci-fi/western. I used 'Innagada Da Vida' by Iron Butterfly as a 'soundtrack' and came up with the images and situations. A year after that I began to translate the story into comic book form.

Vázquez recruited "Lugo" collaborator Daniel Perez to illustrate "El Arsenal." Over the next five years the two shopped the comic around to various publishers throughout the US and Mexico. Fate smiled on Vázquez and Perez when a longtime friend sent some "El Arsenal" pages to Arcana Studios' Sean O'Reilly. "The very next day he contacted me via IM and the next thing you know we had a home at Arcana," Vázquez explained "This has been an incredible company and we know it's going to do amazing things!"

The dark post apocalyptic world of "El Arsenal" is also a world full of black humor. "It's all about irony and to make fun of tragedy. We Mexicans are good at that. No matter how good things are going we need a little tragedy to make fun of. We like to mock even death," Vázquez explained. "The irony in the world of 'El Arsenal' is that chaos and anarchy were the result of world peace. There was no apocalypse. Humans and their violent nature were our doom. The post-apocalyptic set up I wrote came from making fun of the current world. For example, Mexico falls apart after Mexico City is destroyed. Why? Because Mexico is a centralized country, and if there is no capital, there is no country."

In "El Arsenal" disputes are solved by gun slinging mercenaries. The top merc and star of "El Arsenal" is Simon Templas Masiosare, who is at the peak of his game because he really enjoys his work. "Despite being a merc, he is a good friend, he likes what every man likes: Beer, Rock and Roll, and Women. In that order. He only takes a job if he thinks it's going to be fun," Vázquez said. "The job he takes on in 'Unknown Enemy' is very well paid, too, so he wants to take the money and retire to a beach in Australia and surf. He is the son of an old Mexican wrestler named 'El Templas,' and from whom he learns the tricks of 'Lucha Libre.' With his fearless attitude and his taste for a good fight, he makes the perfect mercenary for The System."

Simon's job in "El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy" takes him to the small remote Mexican town of Palomuerto, which Vázquez said was inspired by the real town of Real de Catorce. "Simon is the mercenary hired by The System to steal a powerful biological weapon, contained in three cockroaches," said Vázquez. "He heads up to Palomuerto to contact the System's negotiators, but before he does that he stops at his favorite cantina to have a beer. But he is not alone, as a bunch of mercenaries are tracking him down, every single one of them with their own motivations."

The mercenaries are just a few of the interesting characters Simon meets on his trip to Palomuerto. "We introduce the bartender, Czornomas, a wise man and friend of Simon's, always with his useful concepts about love and women," Vázquez said. "Then we have the other mercenaries: Godzukee, a very simple man, an Elvis fan, religious in his very own wicked way. Killing Simon is the only thing in his mind. Zazil, the rookie, beautiful and deadly. Always with her is Carroñas, a real loser, always stuck to her, like a leech. El Toque is the mysterious one, and the most wicked of them all. We have the negotiators, who at first seem like traditional mob guys, but when we get to know them more thoroughly we get to see just how weird they are. And there is Mariana, Simon's love interest, a woman with a real story behind her."

Morality in the world of "El Arsenal" is often fluid and a story can become drastically different based on the perspective. "One of the concepts behind this story is that anyone can be the hero or villain," Vázquez explained.

The tone of "El Arsenal" is a cocktail of genres and ideas. According to Vázquez, the book is noir tinged post-apocalyptic sci-fi with healthy doses of black humor and Mexican folklore/pop culture fun.

A number of influences inspired the creation of "El Arsenal." "I'd have to say some of my biggest influences come from films: 'Star Wars,' 'A Clockwork Orange,' 'Doberman,' Tarantino, John Woo, Robert Rodriguez, Alex de la Iglesia," Vázquez said. "Some comic creators that have influenced my writing are Matt Wagner, Frank Miller, Garth Ennis, Kevin Smith."

"El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy" is a complete, self-contained story with some loose ends and Vázquez already has more trips planned back to the world of "El Arsenal." "The 'El Arsenal' will be told in arcs," Vázquez explained. "'Unknown Enemy' is the first one, but I am already working on the next three: 'Luv Story,' 'Bizarre Love Triangle' and 'Known Enemy.' I also have another set of stories that are set apart from the events in 'Unknown Enemy,' in which I explore the past, future and even the 'alternate' life of some of the characters."

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pensamientos al azar.

- Anoche, dos entrevistas mas.. una para la revista "Noveno Arte" y otra para "La Rocka".

- Danny definio cada uno de los tres numeros del arsenal perfectamente: el primero es Cerveza, el segundo es Sexo y el tercero Rocanrol.

- Ya mencione que la rola del arsenal que armo INSPECTOR esta bien chida?

- Con esto ya estamos pensando en hacer el video de la misma rola..

- no es lo mismo desvelarse sin tomar que tomando.. ja.

- Tigres va a remontar. I BELIEVE.

- Ya casi llego a los 15,000 km en mi Vader.. damn en el momento mas inoportuno.

- se viene el estallido.

- No me molesta el trafico, me molesta la falta de educacion de la gente.

- Con The Dub side of the moon en el Vader, las distancias son cortas.

- 30 dias para irme a Los Angeles, despues a San Diego.

- 35 dias para que salga El Arsenal impreso.

- que pasara?



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parece que les gusta

chingao, no me imagino lo que sera ver por fin El Arsenal impreso, menos me imagino saber que por fin mi meta de que lo lean otras personas se cumpla.
Es raro.
Durante estas pasadas semanas han salido entrevistas, boletines de prensa y demas del comic en los sitios de noticias comiqueros.. hoy salio en Newsarama.com y la raza reacciono chido.. neta que no me la creo aun.

Ya planeamos hacer el video de la rola que Inspector hizo para El Arsenal...


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fuckin' interview...

No quiero dejar pasar de publicar esto aqui..jaja.. lo se, despues de todo es egoteca, que no? nahh.. dejemoslo como que la guardo aqui como archivo historico del mudaismo.
JA!

Me da gueva traducirla, pero ahi ta...


EL ARSENAL??? SIMON SAYS: BUY THIS BOOK!

Scott Closter
Arcana Studios

Coming From Arcana Studios this July is the first installment of the three-issue mini-series El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy. I had a little chitchat with series creator Salvador Vázquez to get the lowdown on the world of El Arsenal. The full interview will be available within the next Arcana Studios newsletter.

Scott: The concept of El Arsenal hooked me from the moment I read the synopsis for the book. The series seems like flat out fun. Can you tell us a little about how you got the idea for the book?

Salvador: I first explored the world of El Arsenal within a screenplay I wrote for a short film that was never filmed, this was about 7 or 8 years ago. One day I was talking over beers with a couple of friends, and they asked me how I came up with stories or scenes; I explained that it all began with music. I get a song and started to visualize the characters, dialogues, situations... and voila! Next thing I know, I've got myself a story. The thing is I always needed some good rock and roll to do it. They laughed about it and told me I should write something with Iron Butterfly's "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" in mind.

That was the start.

Add the Mexican town of Real de Catorce to the mix (that's the place that inspires the comic's "Palomuerto") and throw in some Sci-Fi and black humor... and we get El Arsenal.

At first I didn't give it a big Sci-Fi look, mainly because we were going to make it as a low-budget short film, so I just wrote into it some of the basic stuff that ended up in the comic.

I really love Sci Fi. I love the "hard" Sci Fi books of Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and movies, like 2001: Space Odyssey, Clockwork Orange, and obviously Star Wars. As a kid my stories and comic books where big "space operas", a Star Wars/Robotech thing. I loved the idea of other worlds, ships, lightsabers and stuff. But since I grew up reading hard Sci-Fi, I had high respect for the concept, so high that when I started doing comics again, I didn't dare to approach the genre.

I then came upon a film that mixed Sci-Fi with black humor: Alex de la Iglesia's "Accion Mutante", and suddenly I was hearing the weird keyboard sounds of “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida", and I pictured a western setting in Real de Catorce, with laser guns and Mercs fighting each other.

Then I saw Cockroaches.

Next thing I know, I've got the word processor open and the title "QKRCH 2015" (that's El Arsenal's original title) on the screen.

Scott: How did you get "The Arse Crew" together to take the book from a mere title on a screen to the full glory that is “El Arsenal”?

Salvador: It began when Carlos (Garcia Campillo) and I self-published a comic called "Lugo" here in Mexico. He was the writer and I was the artist. We published it through our company called Producciones El Chango, where I assumed the position of "Art Director", coordinating the artistic chores and looking for fresh talent. That's how I discovered Daniel Pérez. He was working with a studio called Neurona C. I really liked his stuff, so I called him to see if he would draw a couple of issues of "Lugo". The first issue he did ended up being the last one in the series. When "Lugo" ended, I immediately started working with Daniel on what would become El Arsenal.

Daniel knew Tatto and Homer Lumbreras, they helped him with the coloring. Edz Garza also joined the CREW early on. In fact, he wrote the very first draft of El Arsenal, adapting the screenplay into comic book form, at the time I didn't think I could do it. Edz is very talented, back then he was very young (16 years old!) Eventually I dismissed his draft and started my own. When we signed with Arcana I called him because I wanted him to be in the team. He helps me put together everything I write for the comic, serving as a copy assistant.

Scott: Can you tell us about a bit about the main characters of the series, (and how did you come up with the name Godzukee?)?

Salvador: "Simon Templas Masiosare", the protagonist's name, comes from Mexican folklore. "Simon templas" is a common saying here in Mexico used to dismiss something, like "yeah, right". "Masiosare" is a little bit of weird dark humor. In the Mexican National Anthem there is a part in the lyrics that says: "Mas si osare un extraño enemigo", which means, "If an unknown enemy dares". "Mas si osare" is written in "old" Spanish, which isn't used anymore, so when we were kids we didn't get it, and thought that "Masiosare" WAS the unknown enemy's name.

There's a funny story behind every name in this characters series. Godzukee comes from Godzuki, the son of Godzilla in those 80's cartoons. I named the character after him, first because of the character's size: he is big and tough, like a monster. I didn't know if there would be a trademark problem, so I wrote it with a double "e". I also named him Godzukee because of something in his back-story: Godzukee is the love child of two Mexican guerrilla fighters. His father was a real loser, and his mother was a real piece of work. She was a leader and a fierce fighter that had a "battle cry" that sounded
just like the sound Godzilla made in the movies, so they started calling her Godzilla. So naturally her son became Godzukee.

"Zazil" is named after a good friend of mine. I think it is a name or Mayan origin, but I don't really for sure. But I think it sounds cool.

The list goes on. I even named some characters after soccer players, or just used weird words with double meanings. For me a lot of the fun of writing a story is coming up with the characters and their stories up to the point of the actual events.

What I can say about the cast is that they've all got skeletons in their closets. When I create a character I like to give them their own stories. Some of the stories have even intertwined in the past. For example, Simon and Godzukee have met many times before their encounter in "El Arsenal: Unknown Enemy", and I'll probably get to that in
another miniseries. El Toque is another character with a huge back-story, one that pretty much justifies the chaotic world in which El Arsenal is set.

Scott: Can you tell us what type of fan would enjoy reading El Arsenal?

Salvador: Everyone who loves action movies and dark comedies. I'm a film buff who just loves Hong Kong action cinema, not to mention it's American "translators", like Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, etc.

Scott: You've published another series in Mexico called Lugo, is this your first series published in the US?

Salvador: Yes, this is our first series published in the US. "Lugo" came close to being published by an independent publisher in the US, but it went out of business just before we closed the deal so it never happened. "Lugo" was published here in Mexico on our own Producciones El Chango label, along with Cygnus Comics. The book did very well. All the artists that worked on it eventually made it to the US industry: Carlo Barberi, Francisco Ruiz-Velazco, Raul Treviño and now Daniel Perez.

That's something I'm really proud of.

Scott: What differences (if any) have you noticed between the comic industry in Mexico and North America?

Salvador: First off, there is no comic industry at all. Or none as you know it. There are "funnybooks" here and there. The best selling are "pocket" sized, with stories of Lucha Libre (wrestling), soft porn, soap opera type stories, etc. There are some reprints of US superhero comics and manga, but original creator-owned stuff is just published in very low print runs and not widely distributed. There is no direct market, not many comic shops and the distribution system makes it difficult for an independent comic to survive for long. There is a lot of talent but not a lot of work. Everyone has to work on advertising or other fields to survive.

There are a lot of people with a lot of talent that are doing high quality work. In my hometown of Monterrey there are a bunch of artists and creators doing work for the US industry, like Studio F, which is (in my opinion) one of the best coloring studios in the business. We have a huge talent pool here, just waiting for the chance to break in.

Scott: Could you tell us how you got together with Arcana Studio?

Salvador: That's a funny story. As I said before, we’ve been working on this
project for over five years. The comic itself has had various incarnations. Daniel penciled and colored the first issue two times before the final version that will see the light through Arcana. At first we thought of self-publishing the comic as a graphic novel, and then show it around to see if someone wanted the full project. But it just didn't seem right, so we started over from scratch again and again. Last year we had the story and the designs that you see right now, we showed it around the San Diego con a couple of times, got
some good comments, but nothing else. We still thought we could make it better, so we kept on working on it.

Alfonso Ruiz, a good friend from the old "Lugo" days, asked to see the work we were doing. I sent him some pages, he really liked what he saw and asked if he could show them to his editor. I said yes. That same day, Sean O'Reilly contacted me via IM and by nightfall I had the contract in my inbox. One month later we signed on and officially started working with Arcana on bringing this book to the racks.

El Arsenal has become like a "life-project" for both Daniel and me. It has endured through some rough times, and really grown up with our friendship. I think the fun we’re having in doing it shows in the final product. And that’s the whole enchilada.

Scott: Gracias, Salvador. We’re all looking forward to some butt-kicking action this July. El Arsenal #1, published by Arcana Studio, is listed in the May 2005 Previews (Order code MAY052494) for shipping in July.

For more information of El Arsenal, visit the El Arsenal mini site at http://www.arcanastudio.com/elarsenal/ and the official site at http://www.elarsenal.com/

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libros?

'che camps..
jaja.. me pones en aprietos, ya que los ultimos 5 años de mi vida a bajado dramaticamente mi habito por la lectura, aunque lo oculto diciendo que estoy "observando" los comportamientos y dialogos de la gente... para despues utilizarlos. Pero ahi va.


Número de libros que has tenido.

ni idea, entre los que me heredo mi padre, mi tio y el banquito que te quito... pero pos asi tambien los he perdido a manos destructoras de hermanas menores y a descuidos propios.


Estás atrapado en Fahrenheit 451, ¿qué libro te gustaría ser?

El libro del Mudo...



¿Alguna vez te enamoraste de algún personaje de ficción?

... No lo creo, tal vez de muy adolecente me intrigaba la vida activa sexual de Xaviera Hollander (asi se escribe?)y ni adolecente era, ni siquiera habia salido de primaria. Fui precoz en todos los aspectos.




¿El último libro que compraste fue?

No lo compre, me lo regalo mi mujer: HEREJES, ATEOS Y MALPENSADOS, Lista incompleta de los que se han atrevido a no creer. Por el Maestro Rius.


¿El último libro que leiste fue?

Ese mismo. Aunque por ahi tengo incompletos El Hobbit y Relatos de Poder de Castaneda.

¿Qué estás leyendo actualmente?

Noticias.
JA.
No mucho... aqui tengo sobre mi escritorio el de HEREJES... que lo leo de vez en cuando, los otros libros que tengo pendientes estan en mi cuarto olvidados debajo de dvds y otros escombros.


Cinco libros especiales para tí.


1.- Viaje al centro de la tierra.
2.- La guerra de los mundos.
3.- 2001, el año en que hicimos contacto.
4.- Heir to the empire.
5.- Viaje a Ixtlan.


¿Qué Libro esperas con Ansias?

Espero algun dia poder comprarme la coleccion del Señor de los anillos ilustrada. Espero tambien comprar y releer la trilogia de Timothy Zahn que hizo para Star Wars.
Mas que esperar algun libro, espero retomar algun dia mi habito por leer, o mas bien tener tiempo para ese habito. Aunque sea leer en PDF..jaja.. pero si, me da verguenza no leer como solia hacerlo.

¿Qué Libro Me Regalarías?

A Camps? pos alguno que sepa que quiere.. habria que hacer investigacion de campo.


¿A quién le pasas el bastón y por qué?

Al Sultan, Perea, Julio, Guffo y Betos.
Nomas pa que tiren chopo pegandole al pseudointelectual como yo.


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El Arsenal #2

Y no se les olvide visitar de vez en cuando EL ARSENAL ONLINE

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