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Tycho

Integrating another human being’s unique biology into the office has been a unique proposition.  Scott claims that before moving north, nobody’s ever even mentioned his talkative ass, but his friend and cohort Kris Straub just left the country for an entire month - presumably to get oxygen.

The only thing I know about Stargate is that it features Gates which allow one to travel the Stars, and that’s pretty much the balance of it.  Oh, and the online CCG is good, but I’ve liked almost everything by SOE Denver (née Worlds Apart).  I started pulling down episodes of Stargate Universe only because my friend John works on it.

You never know how shit like that is going to go.  How many among us have gone to see a friend at Open Mic Night, only to drink and drink until the pain was gone?  It was easy enough to begin watching it, because the entire first season is available on Netflix - that’s twenty episodes in all, which I absorbed in the space of a week.  I was like a madman at an Indian buffet, cupping handfuls of butter chicken near if not exactly in my craw.  Recall that this was without any specialist knowledge of some all encompassing Stargatey “thing.”  There may be some rich sideband of data that the true enthusiast may be able to glean, but if it’s possible to enjoy the show more than I do at this moment I’d be incredibly surprised.

I’ve spent the last hour or so trying to find someplace to watch tonight’s premiere online, and God knows how many rogue processes have taken root in this machine as a result of this appetite.  Indeed, I searched fruitlessly for a long enough period of time that the show cropped up on Hulu in the normal course of events.  If you’re just getting into it now, you’re lucky; you won’t have to suffer through a truly brutal cliffhanger.  A crisp, ripe show will simply fall into your open palm.

(CW)TB

her favorite colors be platinum and gold

Gabe

Comic Jumper is a new game coming out from the guys at Twisted Pixel. We had a chance to play it before PAX and I really liked the concept of a character who jumps into different comic book genres. Each time he lands in a new comic, the style of the artwork changes and it’s done really well.

They approached us about doing a comic project for the game and we said yes so long as we could choose the genre. I was really into comic books back in the early 90’s and I thought it would be a lot of fun to go back and draw in that style. The result was a project heavily inspired by one Mr. Rob Liefeld. Obviously you can look back on that stuff now and it’s pretty silly but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit to being heavily inspired by it at the time. Rob may not have had the best grasp of anatomy, storytelling, perspective, or composition but his shit was fucking dynamic and as a young man I ate it up.

Going back and drawing in that style was super fun and I think the result is cool. It was just a two page project so I did a cover and one page from an imaginary early 90’s Comic Jumper comic book:

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We’re actually giving away a brand new Xbox emblazoned with my artwork.

I only have one of these bad boys to give away so this is a “many will enter few will win” situation. In order to win this I’d like for you to send me a picture of yourself in your best Rob Liefeld pose. I’ll take a look at all of them and choose a winner on Friday. That means you have until Thursday 9/30 night at 12:00am pacific time to get me your photo.

Please put “Comic Jumper Contest” in the subject and try and keep your photos to a reasonable size. I’ll choose one winner and probably put up a gallery with some of the best shots. Oh and no Photoshopping.

-Gabe out