I didn't die. New super
effective! Hate coming back with such
a week strip but whatever. Should have a new
VG Cats (thanks MayuZane)
this Monday. Con season is OVA for the summer.
So shouldn't be too many more delays. Here
a vid of the best thing to come out of this
years otakon.
Man...
13 hours of flying thanks to delays. Fun times!
Love to have a comic this week but time is
like nonexistent. We're honestly here for
two days and then we're off again. Last con
this year though! SPEAKING OF WHICH!
We'll
be down in Baltimore, Maryland this weekend
(August 8th - 10th) for Otakon.
Won't be as a guest since this is very last
minute. BUT! I will be down there signing
anything you give me and pedling shirts, posters,
badges, and plushies down in artist alley.
Not
leaving you without
content this week. Drew
this quick comic while down at Conneticon.
Karian
of course made like threewaybetter
comics. Do
read those. Thanks to everyone who came
down to see us this past weekend. I'll try
and have a Super Effective up later tonight.
Edit Monday, August 11, 2008 10:45 PM
: Just got back from Otakon. Sorry, no new
Super due to me getting really fucking sick.
It's why I wasn't shaking hands for Fri-Sat.
Didn't mean to be rude or anything but I just
didn't want to make anyone else that sick.
Thanks to everyone who came all the same!
:)
Dr
Horribles Sing-a-long Blog is finally
back online from limbo. They'll probably rotate
what episodes are online so watch it while
you can! You can still buy all of them on
iTunes and it's SO worth the watch. Funniest
thing I've seen all year. Plus it's got NPH
and Nathan
Fillion! Fuck yeah!
Lastly a new
Super Effective! Gonna try and draw a
new comic over the weekend. One I WAS doing
this week was no where near done. Holy heck.
Gonna need some time with it.
"Hey
folks! Just a quick note to let everyone know
that ZeStuff
is having an
incredible clearance sale right now. With
over 100 items being cleared out, there's
some pretty awesome deals in there. Here's
a list of things you will find:
* A bunch of t-shirt models starting at $7.95
* Books
* Card games (Hero Cards, World of Warcraft
TGC)
* Board games
* Warhammer, Warhammer 40k and Lord of the
Rings - Strategy Battle miniatures
* Plushies
* Toys
* Geek Apparel (duct tape wallets, diskette
handbag and more)
Of course, inventory is very limited and all
of this is on a first come, first served basis.
If this wasn't a good deal by itself, we're
also trying something new for the rest of
July. All orders shipping to Canada or USA
that are of or over $50 will get ground shipping
for only $5. So wait no more and check
it out today!"
Guess
who doesn't
see us as a market anymore. Yep. Animal
Crossing? That's it?... Really?
The thing is... They did something with
Wii that no other console has been able
to do. Bring in the mainstream in droves.
Now that's making more money than they ever
did with just us. So we've just stopped
being a priority.
Not my only gripe with this years E3. I
mean what a mind-blowing disappointment
this year's show was. Third party support
was the only highlight of the show. Everyone
else just didn't seem to give a shit. I
don't blame them though. This really
isn't the same E3 we saw a short 2 years
ago. After this one I couldn't see them
ever putting on another one. It
really is dead. Glad I got to be there
for the last one in '06.
Oh if anyone has emailed me over the past
week. It's been down. Working again now
but that's why I havn't responded. And this
is one Awesome
(face) shirt. Ah Shark
Robot.
Honestly
what were they thinking? Their stuff
from almost
a decade ago was better. Now I know
I'm one for missing a deadline, but, yikes
guys. Finish the fucking material or don't
show it at all. Of course this could just
be one massive TROLL sooo... Disregard.
Best game of E3!
Went for a Machall/TPS
look for this
weeks comic. Not sure if I'll do it
again though. HOLY FUCK did it take a while
to do. I like how it turned out though even
if the joke is a little lame. Now lets talk
the Vidja.
Lost
Winds. Very cute little title available
now on Nintendo's new WiiWare.
I'd rather see this as a DS title with a
stylus but it still works fairly well with
the Wiimote. It's a short game but if you're
looking for something to kill time with
it's nice. Same price as a Virtual Console
title (1000points) so it's not very expensive
and worth a download.
Bad
Company. Love this game. Single player
plays like Delta
Farce the game which can get on your
nerves at times but, gameplay totally makes
up for it. Multiplayer's where I've been
spending my time. Comes with a mode called
Gold Rush. A control point style game with
one team attacking and one defending. Only
a handful of maps but god damn is it fun.
Best thing I like about this game is nearly
EVERYTHING is destructible. The ground,
walls, trees, building, vehicles, organs.
Worth a pickup if you've got some people
online to play with.
GTA4.
If you're a fan of the series you really
don't need to read this. You've already
gone out, picked it up, played it, beat
it, and played it some more. For everyone
else though, here ya go.
The game is a lot more scaled back in character
customizability than previous versions.
For some this will be a huge draw back.
Not me though. I don't missed hitting the
L&R buttons endlessly in the Gym. What
this game does do is give you a fleshed
out, lifelike city for you to cause havoc
in. Single player will keep you busy for
a while and this is by far my most favorite
GTA story to date. Full city multiplayer
will be there when you're done with that.
Just like the classic games on the PC.
Biggest complaint are the amount of chase
mission in single player. You'll learn to
hate them but, the game does so much more,
so very good you can overlook any negative
aspects. GET IT.
I really do apologize for
the down time of the comic. I don't mean
for Cons to take away from the site but
there's a shit ton of effort that goes into
every one. Before, during, and after...
So when I say I'm tired, I am very honestly
exhausted. Big thanks to everyone
who keeps on reading or who sends in a kind
word. It will pick up in the fall I promise.
EMO
SCOTT ASIDE! I did a quick guest
comic for Dave over at Snafu. It comes
from when we were all sharing a booth. Happens
every time. No, he is not Bleedman. (But
you should ask him anyway)
Also
here's a wallpaper verison of that Pikachu
Filler. 800,
1024,
1280,
1360
(wide).
As per request.
Finally my favorite Gurren
Lagann Parallel Works 1, 2,
3,
and 4.
Reimagining of the gurren lagann universe
in small shorts. Super awesome. Definitely
worth a watch if you're a fan.
Got a guest comic today
from Chris at Digital
Unrest! Four Day con has me POOOOOOPED.
So news post a little later. Thanks to everyone
who came! I'm going to sleep now! Exclamation
point!
We'll be down at Ainme Expo this weekend.
Haven't been down there since E3 so it'll
be nice to go again. Since E3 wasn't really
a place that's easy to meet up. That being
said we'll be down in the Exhibitor hall.
So come on down and say hi! We'll be there
for most if not all days.
Sorry
about the filler art but I'm sure you're
tired of excuses... So I won't! :D just
enjoy Cloverfield Pikachu. Also this:
Decided to put this one
up early since I didn't do a comic last
week. Enjoy!
The cellphone is one of those to
nitpick but it's also an ingenious addition
to the gameplay. One thing I've always found
myself doing in GTA games is eventually
getting bored and turning it off. Not be
cause the game is bad, no way. No I get
lost having fun in that giant world they
give you.
Consequently I never get around to going
about the main games story. What the cellphone
does now is keep you engaged in the games
experience. While being a bit annoying it
also keeps you playing the game. It offers
side quests, minigames, story events, and
EVERYTHING else. So you take the bad with
the good, my cousin.
Edit 6/16/08 7:28 AM: Reader pointed
me over to this
GTA4 video on Newgrounds. Hilarious.
Though I didn't know you could cheat in
the game. I wouldn't want to fuck with my
achievements however.
Big thanks to these guys (and
girl) for the guest comics. As well the
Fan page has also been updated. With some
super awesome Rat
Flail art. I should have a comic up for
Monday. FUN FACT! I've actually drawn two comics
this week but I was really not happy with them.
So I'll hold on to 'em. I am with the next one
I'm drawing though. So Monday for sure. For
now a new Super Effective!
Oh and the new
Penny Arcade game is out if you haven't
heard by now. I'll letcha know how it is after
some more time with it. So far so very, very
funny.
Edit 06/12/2008 9:59 AM: ZeStuff just
came out with some VG
CatsHats!
Keep your head warm, fend off the sun, and tell
your hair, "NOT TODAY HAIR, today is hat
day."
Will to draw right now
is zero moving and on to negative numbers.
Two weekends of cons has totally drained
me. I never charge for sketches, NEVER.
I mean you come all that way to see me so
it's the LEAST I can do. So it ends up being
hundreds of drawings in one weekend... For
two weekends. Fries me a bit. Plus I NEED
to get my taxes done for this year ... now.
Self income means it's going to take some
time to do. </Excuses, whining> ....
IN SUMMATION. Just gonna take a break this
week.
Welp. New Adventure
Log. People always ask when this thing
is updated. It's tied into the News letter
so it updates when that does. This comic
was actually done two weeks ago.
If you guys want to send in any guest comics
or art to have up here (while I'm being
a slacker) feel free to
send it in. I'll be updating the fan
section with stuff I've recived over the
past few months. Since it is in need of
update as well.
Awkward
Zombie not akward zombie. If not for
spell check I'd be legally retarded. Even
with it's by a hair. BUT ANYWAY! Thank you
everyone for coming out to Fanime.
Total blast and glad to hear from everyone.
I almost didn't do cons this year too. Which
would have been a shame.
Quick little wrap up for Fanime;
Met up with Three
Panel Soul whom I didn't know was going
to be there cause I'm a douchebag like that.
Nice little surprise and I'm totally inking
that drawing ya gave me. Speaking of sketches
Cassey got us a Sketch from the Gurren
Lagann guys, Bryce picked us THE Gurren
Lagann, and Shawn
happened to notice the GL guys were RIGHT
BEHIND. So we got our book signed too. A
GOOD DAY. Thanks to all.
Now
we've got another con this weekend (May
30th - June 1st) in Dallas, A-Kon
19! Should be down by the main entrance
again. Now we won't be there on Sunday so
you'll have to catch us on either Friday
or Saturday. See ya there!
Oh yeah, new Super
Effective. Back to back cons (while
fun) kill my update schedule more than usual.
But I've got the next already made so it's
all good. SLACKER OUT.
Just got back... SO TIRED.
Talk about stuff later. For now a super
HUGE thanks to Awkward
Zombie for this
guest comic for while I was gone. Totally
hilarious.
Edit: Removed link image as we are wanging
thier bandwidth. Our bad.
Last pokemon
comic I swear! This one really just
didn't fit into super effective. Hell this
one almost didn't fit period. I mixed up
silver/gold pokemon with red/blue and had
to drastically edit this comic before it
was uploaded. In anycase it came from a
conversation with my better half. Feel so
old that I can have this conversation at
ALL.
Looks like I'll be having it a while longer
too. Truth be told I loved pokemon red
but Silver was always my favorite. Two whole
maps of fun. Here's somthing fun; See how
many of the classics you can name.
Also..
THIS SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY! Actually
all weekend (May 23 - 25, not going Monday)
we'll be at Fanime
Con in San Jose, California. Per
usually we'll be down there with Shawn
and Dave
because thosetwo
are inseparably... If you know what I mean.
(in the bum) Come on down and say hi!
Oh and Tokyo pop did a quick
interview while at NY Comicon the other
week. Man I hate seeing myself talk. I've
actually done TV interviews before but never
posted it here just because of that. Necrotic
I know. However we both love the
Toykopop.
Dramacon
is a personal fav.
This
has me totally jazzed. I remeber seeing
Namco X Capcom months ago and going "Why
the fuck do we not have this?". Hats
off to them for making it happen.
Speaking of things that make me giddy
as a school girl. Eternal
Darkness was one of my favorite games
of all time. This isn't a concrete THIS
WILL HAPPEN but it's nice to hope. Last
bit of unknown rumor news there's this.
New Reboot series? HOPE MY FRIENDS. Hope.
To say a lot of my time is spent in GTA4
is an uderstatement. I'll letcha know in
full a bit later but for now this game is
pure win. Here's
a neat little utility. It's a map of
the city which is very useful since it's
quite big. (That's what she said)
Lastly a quick thanks to the advertisers
on the site. This
caught my attention. I'll be sure to
pick it up when it comes out and letcha
know how it is. As I loves me the One Piece.
Also Mass
Effect PC. Holy crap so getting it.
I dunno, I just prefer the mouse to the
joystick for these things.
Lets talk the vidjagames.
Lots out in the past little while and I've
been neglecting to go over them. So here's
some quick thoughts on a few games.
No
More Heroes. This is one of those games
where you can over look a lot of it's short
comings just on game presentation. It's
a subtle humor that I just love and to boot
it's fun to play. Don't think you'll be
sitting down for this game either. VERY
active. GTA part is shit but it doesn't
make up much of the gameplay. Try it out
as it might not be for everyone.
Rainbow
6 Vegas 2. You're basically paying for
a run button in this game which I'd gladly
do. The first one kept me and people I played
with online busy for quite some time. None
of the fun was lost in this sequel. You've
got a beefed up story mode with AI that
actually works well and all the multiplayer
modes from the first with new maps. If you
loved the first you've got to pick this
up.
Mario
Kart Wii. I can't be more apathetic
over this title. Single player is really
quite a pain to play and you NEED to do
it in order to unlock new tracks and characters.
They've given the CPU opponents full access
to the items which is fun for people...
not AIs. It means you're going to get randomly
hit with any number of lame power ups seconds
before the finish line. The new catch is
that this game controls steering with the
Wiimote. Don't. It's shit and you're better
off with a gamecube controller. This title
is a rental at best.
Army
of Two. Didn't get to sit down with
this one as much as I'd like to but it was
a lot of fun. IF... and that's a BIG if.
IF you have someone to play this game with.
You really can't count on the AI for this
game at all. However if you're playing this
with someone then you can actually implement
tactics rather well. Pick it up if you've
an army of two.
Edit Monday, May 5, 2008 8:20 AM: Iron
Man was fucking amazing.
Even if you don't like comics I urge you
to go see it. If only for Robert Downey
Jr's HILARIOUS performance. The new
hulk movie still looks like shit though.
At least there's Batman to look forward
to.
Been a while since I talked
about any games. So here goes! We've got
Mario
Kart and GTA
IV launching this week. What in the
hell was Nintendo thinking?
This is one of the last big games for the
Wii in the foreseeable future. I mean unless
they pull a miracle out of thier ass at
E3 or Spaceworld. Which they may well do.
I mean this IS Nintendo. Good chance we'll
see a new DS very soon. But it's looking
like a slow
year for the Wii and a great time for
the PS3 to play some catch up. With
HD DVD dead in the water this may be
PS3s year to shine.
Now Mario Kart is by no means bad. Shawn
brought over his copy at NY Comicon and
I enjoyed what I played. Feels much more
like Mario Kart DS which is a very good
thing. Here's the thing though... We've
seen like3Karts
in the past 5 years. It's starting to feel
same old same old. This one like DS is online
but, like Brawl it's really a half assed
attempt.
Anyway I digress. I am looking forward to
playing both titles. However with 15
online modes WITH VOICE and freeroaming
deathmatches. I think one may be played
more than the other. Just a hunch.
Nintendo would have done well to hold on
to Mario Kart Wii until Summer and make
it shine. Because when competing directly
with GTA IV... this is mediocre attempt.
OMG So Tired. Got back
last night. New York was AWESOME. SO going
back next year. Thanks to everyone who came
by! You guys all rock so much! Thanks to
Shawn and Dave and Kari and EVERYONE else
who helped out. Super fun weekend!
Oh
yeah. Got so many Pokemon comic ideas
poolin' around my head. So I decided to
do a new Pokemon based comic series. SUPER
EFFECTIVE! As inspired by this
one. It'll Follow Red from start to
end in the first Pokemon game Fire
Red. Should be easy to update. Expect to
see it Weekly along side VG Cats.
Main comic probably won't be done until
Monday though. Long one!
Deleted the Sonic comic.
It never really was intended for upload.
It was more "Oh hey I'm not sure when
I'll have power again. So I better upload
SOMETHING." So yeah, took it down.
This
comic is more of filler than anything.
Boarding went long on another comic so I
did this one instead. Oh well. NY
COMIC CON
THIS WEEK. Hope
to see you there. (Again booth #1822
across from DC)
Well tornados are pretty
awesome eh? Yeah... No. Got
hit by one on Wednesday and it tore
through our neighborhood. Place around us
got hit pretty bad but don't worry, by the
grace of God we're just fine. Only thing
is we've got no power at the moment. So
bare with me for updates. As I'm typing
this up at a Starbucks.
Thankfully I
had a comic saved to my DA account.
Wasn't going to release it but not much
of a choice now. Here's hoping everything
gets fixed soon.
Edit 4/12/08 2:05 PM: Everything is back
up and running. Power came back yesterday
and Internet today. Power outage knocked
out vista again but I'm so use to getting
it back up and running it's not a big deal
at all. Oh and to mass answer some email,
yes I am Canadian. Staying state side temporarily
for the next few months. Which is why I'm
able to do cons again. Thanks everyone!
Sorry
I'm a little late on this week's comic.
Been really preoccupied with other things.
One of which I'll be doing Cons again this
year. Yeeeeey. One con coming up really
soon is NewYork
Comicon (April 18-20)! It'll be my first
time in the big apple so be gentle. I'll
be hitting up the place with thesejerks.
I'll have posters, shirts, and a brand new
shirt design. So come on by and enjoy the
show! (We're booth #1822)
In the mean time I whipped this little thing
up for ya. I freaking love that song.
Needless to say I'm really loving this tablet.
Hope I can do more animations in the future
as this one was really a test more than
anything. New comic up soon!
Thought I'd have a little
fun for April
fools. Lots of sites joining in for
April Fools this year too. I'll update this
list as I (or you guys) find them.
Also
this infuriates me to no end. Considering
how much I love going back to play the classics.
CLASSICS. Meaning you can appreciate them
for what they were and the memories you
had while playing. I mean it's not like
virtual console or xbox live arcade are
doing well. OH WAIT. Urgh. Stupid people.
Edit 3/24/08 10:37 PM : Comic
is up. And yeah, after
10 years team rocket is still trying to
get pikachu. You'd think the writers would
have shot themselves by now. Ah well. I am
aware of the copy & paste. Forgot to draw
a figure but I've been up for like 30 hours.
SO yeah... It's not noticeable anyhoo.
One thing I've very glad for now that this
comic is entirely
digital, is the detail. Previously I was
never allowed to go
wild with my expression due to the vectoring
process. Smaller detail would be totally lost.
So lines were drawn larger
and simpler
to compensate. Now everything is what I draw
is what
I get since it's penciled, Inked, and
coloured in Photoshop.
So I'm finally able to do what I want visually
with the comic. Hope ya enjoy!
Also...
VG Cats Gamer pics are online for Xbox
Live. You can grab them under "Blind
Ferret Gamer Pics" for 200 MS Points.
Really excited to have these online. I can
finally stop using my camera to take pictures.
Happy gaming!