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.

New trailer fresh from E3 duuuurrrrr....

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.

Now for something completely different.

Hey hey, New Super Effective. Forgive the lateness. Wanted to get this one scripted right.

Edit 7/13/08 4:35 AM: Totally missed this panel at Anime Expo. Wish I'd gone but oh well. On the plus side and Egoraptor and Gamer Tonight came by to rub it in. D: NOT THAT I'M JEALOUS! (Totally am) And big points for whoever got him to quote the comic. <3

PS. Crab Battle.

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.

I can't quite tell you how excited I am for a new NES Megaman Game. It's looking sooooo good too. I was a hardcore megaman fan back in the day. It'll be interesting to see how much I suck at it now. One new thing is the addtion of a female robot master, Splash Woman. Only took 20 years. A regular robo sausagefest.

Here's a Video dump for you guys. Meet the S****, Ketchup mania Music vid, Spore Zelda Creatures, Simpsons for Quake 3, Crashman is Super, and the Window Seat. A nice series of shorts about air travel.

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:


This song will haunt me to my GRAVE.

New Super Effective! Also a few cool videos... Meet the Sniper, Rent Roman, Ironman Spiderman & Hulk, and YTMND VGC Starfox. ZOINKS!

Edit 6/23/08 3:40 PM: Ian drew this little sketch for me during Fanime. Finally inked and coloured it. Thanks man! Wallpaperized for your convenience. EDIT EDIT: BIG CONGRATS TO JES AN IAN! Welcome to the club.

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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.

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.

On the plus side Trunks and Soto sent in this guest comic. Very awesome guys. Asked for this one while we were doing a panel at A-Kon. So very thankful he did it. Also who were in attendace at A-Kon; Apple Geeks (Thanks for the Eve fig), Dominic Deegan (Thanks for the book!), Fireball20XL (Thanks for the CDs!), Mystic Revolution (Thanks for the book!), Star Crossed Destiny (Thanks for the table!), Konsekai: Swordwaltzer (Thanks for the book!), Two Lumps (thanks for being awesome!), and a HUGE thanks to Herms for the cameos in the Sonic Comic. BIGGEST thanks to everyone who came down. Lots of fun!

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.

Edit: New Super Effective. Dibadiba.

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.

Keep forgetting to post this... Tiny site survey if you've got a sec. Click, click, done. Thanks everyone for helping out!

Oh and this! I'm informed we've got some brand new items up for sale. Posters and a shirt.

Enjoy!

Edit 05/20/2008 7:20 PM: Normally I try not to talk about the space cowboy... but...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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 those two 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)

Also pruned my Links Section and added a bunch I should have for a while now. Cause I'm lazy like that. In fact this week's Slackers is just gold. But yeah;Allan Comic, Awkward Zombie, Digital Unrest, Dueling Analogs, Katebeaton, Slackerz, Star Crossed Destiny, and Wasted Talent. GO READ!

VIDEO DUMP! Metal Slug 7! I know a song...The Girls of Phoenix Wright, Super awesome animated short with pirates, music made using a mario level, a REALLY cute Phoenix Wright anime intro, and a slightly creepy one. BOOT TO THE HEAD!

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.

Video dump time! POOP JOKE!
Most awesome music in GTA 4, Sony defense force lololo, make your own hero, Smash Bros 64 Wii hack ...As much as I like a bricked Wii I'll just stick to the real one, Live reading of Gurren Lagann, "Yuri the Only One for Me" little corny but well done, Resident Evil Caramelldansen, cutest dancing animation ever, OE Cake! It's a water/fire/physics stimulator, Playing Tetris with arm wrestling, Classic SNES controller for Wii, fucking weird Mario music video, Caramell dansen Metal Version.

Also I got Nominated for a Shuster Award. Doubt I'll win but whatever, still cool.

Oh yeah, new vg cats and new super effective. PEACE.

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.

Edit Monday, May 5, 2008 1:26 PM: Sorry the comic keeps changing. I really don't know which one to go with. I'll keep the alternate one over at my deviant art account.

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 like 3 Karts 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.