Bait and switch

This one goes out to all my nerds out there. There are few things as aggravating as seeing an artist you adore advertised on the cover only to find that 2 pages in they replace him with some generic art or not even inside at all. From Travis Charest's abrupt Wildcats end to Ed Mcguinness' Batman/Superman exodus mid page it has felt like being gypped when all you are left with is a mundane artist and a boring story. It's like going to see The Dark Knight and midway through Heath Ledger is replaced with Andy Dick. Click here to see the comic.

The Massacre After Thanksgiving

This year I have decided to spend my night after Thanksgiving in my warm comfy bed instead of in line behind Circuit City waiting for deals on DVDs and low quantity door buster destined to sell out shortly after the doors open. This year had little to offer anyway, the sales seem like afterthoughts instead of the super secret treats that entice the diehards into freezing their respective genitalia in wait. Click here to see the comic.

Seeing Red Again

I have often wondered how hard it would be to be cyclops. Having to see through red tinted glasses would make life's easiest tasks more difficult. You can only see old 3D movies in 2D, you can't read the display on the alarm clock or even see Daredevil if he stood still. Pretty much the only cool thing is the ability to read those hidden picture things on the back of serial boxes...and the ability to shoot light from your eyes, that's pretty cool. Click here to see the comic.

Child's Play

Random art pulled from the art file. I just liked this sketch because of its simplistic principle and fond memories of sloshing through puddles after a storm.

Tired of this crap.

I believe there is a secret war. A war against my four wheeled coach. A war that threatens to engulf the entire bird populous, united by hate for a Civic of Honda. This extends beyond the simplistic "ooh a bird crapped on my car" and goes ounces beyond that. Crafted bombs fall like clockwork while I slumber forming a rorschach of hardened poo on my cars white exterior. I don't know who started this, but I am told peace is removed from the table. I grow weary of this battle, but I have tricks, I have weapons of my own; a car cover approaches and with it, the end of war itself.

Terminat-or-die

I feel conflicted about the new Terminator film. Like a chocolate-coated turd, it all looks pretty till you take a bite. I like Christian Bale in his post apocalyptic ventures (yes I was one of eleven people who liked Reign of Fire) and I know he is more than capable of being believable while screaming at a cgi robot in a raspy voice. The main thing that bugs me is that it clings a little too much to the past in terms of design. It’s time for a refresh of the brand, a reboot if you must, so that the story will feel new and exciting again. New slick terminators, nano bots, transformers, I’m up for anything, just not another metallic skeleton with red eyes. And hey, I would even like to see a little more ending this time around. I know, weird, but if I have to sit through a long worded To Be Continued montage again I will be extremely unpleased. It’s getting a little tiring to see no finality in series (especially the TV series) where it seems to repeat itself on a constant basis (new terminator, fight terminator, find person or tech that started this whole mess, repeat). The only good thing I have heard is that Arnold hates the new cut, which inspires hope. It’s like a colorblind man reviewing a Santa Claus film and commenting how they got the color all wrong.

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The Dark Knight PG version storyboard -EXLUSIVE!!!- (PIC)

I have often wondered while watching a movie how great it would be if they made a version that is suitable for all ages. Even going as far as making alternate scenes to specifically gory or profane scenes. They could then release a PG version alongside their useless "UNRATED" editions and tap into a whole new market. Then I got to thinking maybe that isn't such a good idea...

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Left 2 Die should be the prequel.

I often wonder what I would do if I was in a real zombie situation. All my instincts would be to horde all food and weapons and stay in a confined area until the problem goes away. None of these instincts include going outside to shoot up every last one of them. These feelings of self preservation come alive in the Left 4 Dead demo in which you are a choice jerky walking around with a group of equally tasty morsels for zombie kind shooting every last undead mutant to escape the city. Playing co-op online is fun, until people grow impatient with my constant trips to the safe room to restock after every shot fired. I mean, there's ammo and rations in there, why don't we just stay for a lil' while till this whole mess blows over? Click here to see the comic.

Orkward

Stray thought no. 234,293 of the week. If I was a giant eye fixed to a mountain waiting for a midget to throw my jewelery into a volcano, I'd probably be bored too.

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Press any button...

After watching (and subsequently cringing) at the Clone Wars show on CN, I realized that the entire station has to be built by Fisher price or that in the future (or past?), buttons are designated by archaic color schemes and not once have I seen a label. Either the illiteracy rate must be 98% or they did it to comply with the Imperial Union language laws; I'd just feel bad for the poor colorblind guy.

Transformers 2 Concept Art: Enter Nascon

Since the movie industry is hard hit for money because of all those youtube 30 second clips of movies, which are bankrupting the poor lil movie industry, I thought man what could make this movie a success before it even hits theaters? Then I got it, NasCon! Equipped with over 300 logos NasCon can make around 700 million dollars alone! He's a Nascar (100 mill. right there) robot with an attitude. There is a catch though, he has to be in every screen, even the previews and credits. Aaaand, get this, his language device got scrambled and he can only say tag lines from his various stickers. Imagine him beating up Megatron while screaming "I'M LOVIN' IT!" or "THIS IS CNN!"

Zombie NFL players?

Found this at a ToysR Us and it's gotta be the most frightening nfl figurine ever sold. Although mislabeled as NFL Legends figurine, Zombie Jack Lambert comes with a detached arm, a pose of rigamortis and a face that practically screams "BRAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSS".

The Announcer

It's funny when you hear a character voice, you get this mental image of what you think they would look like. After seeing this article about what the announcer in Team Fortress 2 might look like I decided to share my vision and disclose how much thought I put into trial matters.

So anyhoo, I figure she has goggles with video feeds of each team in each lens, watches the action in some sort of sky box thing like the Truman Show, chain smokes, screams constantly and I like to think she controls all the events in the game like opening gates and disabling weapons for the losing team. Yup, all this and more goes through my head on a daily basis, scary huh?

Switching gears.

I am really getting sick of games that have no clue what they are. I guess playing Resistance 2 has reminded my of what a game should be like in that it sticks to what it does best. But still there are games, which feel the need to throw in gimmicky stages that remove you from the sense of adventure and throw in a button specific DDR action sequence that makes you really annoyed (I'm lookin at you Force Unleashed). It's this crap that I hate and it's this crap that usually ends a game for me being that a) I hate mini games and b) I have the reflexes of a stump, so don't switch it up a bit and have me hold a flashlight on a group of killer bat-things or escort a moronic ai character, I just wanna blow crap up. Simple right? Now this is the last time I want to tell you this.

BOX ART REVIEW: RESISTANCE 2

I ofter wonder what would happen if game companies would put the truth on their box covers to let people know what they are getting themselves into. Now I have the chance. I've been playing a lot of Resistance 2 and I have never played a game that was so equally awesome as it was annoying.

Gameplay: Playing Resistance 2 is like so: fight, cheap death, learn to avoid cheap death, repeat every minute. This game is cheap to no end, they have sat around and discussed the various ways to kill you in this game and with each death you sit stunned that this passed the game testers. The atmosphere of the game goes from scary to annoying relatively fast. It should be noted that I have managed to freeze the game twice.

Design: It was the series' WWII era style that I loved about the first one; a strange juxtaposition of history and sci fi and the enemies were fun enough. Now it seems the developers played too much Halo and Half Life 2 during their break, because this time around it feels like their ugly lovechild full of iconic references to each. The enemies are lifted from Halo and the design is par for Half Life 2 leaving the first game's individualism in the corner to make way for cloaked elites, brutes, sentinels, Gravemind and zombie headcrabs. Hopefully next time the designers will veer back on the WWII track.

Graphics: The graphics are amazing for the most part except for a few strange oddities like twitching objects or a texture map areal view that looks like a blurry google earth pic with the photoshop sandstone texturizer effect.

The Weapons: The weapons are really fun when said weapons aren't the Bullseye or the Carbine which you will be forced to use 98% of the time, you'll likely spend a magazine trying to kill one enemy. And if you hate the flood from Halo, you sir are in for a trip through flood hell. And there is nothing like bugs, so far I've been frozen twice and had to restart the machine. The Magnum is the most satisfying weapon ever in a game for me, the HL2 saw blade launcher comes in 2nd.

Conclusion: As much as this game smacks me around like an abused puppy sending me into fits of rage, I keep coming back for more. It is a fun game that is worthy of any player's attention and co-op online play is fantastic and is the only way it should be played since the single player run through is an exercise in patience and sadomasochism.

Thumbs *crap I died*
Thumbs up.

Hungry Eyes

It's official, I am addicted to Team Fortress 2. My day without someone exploding like a meat filled pinata is like a day without sunshine. That is why I spent an hour making a Steam avatar for my character, Das Chupa (The Suck, in German and Spanish and roots in my love for the Chupacabra). I hate when you get the inks done and realize you want to paint it instead.

War, what it is good for.

I think I have an addiction to Team Fortress 2. Everything I draw as of late seems to be military based. This is one of said drawings, Eagle Eye and Tred surveying the wreckage. Perhaps I'll get around to coloring it, perhaps it will just stay this way, I dunno. I decided to give the largest character the smallest gun, but it does shoot 30 ft. arches of magma (pfft, fire was too weak). Linked to flickr, since Google's compression on pics is atrocious with reds making it look like it was painted with strawberry jam and with more artifacts than an Indiana Jones flick.

Change.

We have a new president! I just found 25 cents on my floorboard! The sky is blue!

These three things have the equal amount of emotional pull in my world. Choosing my candidate was like having only two shows on tv for the next four years, Knight Rider 2000 and The Magic Johnson Show. Perhaps I have started to realize that the presidency is last on a long list of things which affect my life. Still, I have to wonder about how things will change and by wonder I mean haphazardly throwing together this crappy lil comic.

A sticker for the rest of us.

So did you vote today? Did you? When are you? Are you going to vote? Why didn't you vote yet? Don't you care about America? Repeat.

I hate movie trends.

I really hate trends in movies lately, whether it be crappy movies in 3D or mindless sequels to movies no one cares about yet Serenity continues to go sequeless! Y'know what, let's just make a top ten list about what I hate about new movies and for all of them, put "It's not a sequel to Serenity". But seriously, Nick Cage must die. Click on the image or here for the full comic.

Coincidence?

I'm just saying, was watching this today and it just hit me.

The many faces of Mario

Today I thought I'd upload a few bits of drawing exercises. Subject: Mario The Plumber.











Pondering the Addiction







The Dilemma
I hate when I'm big Mario, yet I find another mushroom.









Conquest
Yes, you can shoot him with fireballs, but resist the temptation and you will be rewarded with an amazing feeling of triumph.









On A Journey
Even Mario uses guide books.