• David Davis of Studio Blu drew this awesome picture of Dan! Oof, did not mean to hold onto this pic for so long. I can only assume the best way to make it up to the guy is to plug his site… go there, there’s like three webcomics going, and an army of artists posting stuff!!
• I think it’s no secret I’m not exactly 100% about this new homepage design. I’m keeping it, no doubt about that… just saying it’s a little too dry. Part of me wants to add in some characters all over the place, but part of me doesn’t want to clutter everything up… the focus should be on the comic. Prolly going to try another animated header logo next week for the holidays. Also, I fixed the search… for some reason, the new version of WordPress natively supports tags, but the built in search box? Nope, doesn’t look for tags. Gotta love plugins that pick up the slack.
• This unaired 1994 pilot for the show 24 is very amusing, even if you’re not a fan of the show. Especially amusing if you used a computer back in the dark ages.
• My brother’s going to grad school! Congrats Patrick!
• Mario Galaxy. One week. One looong week.

Hoo boy. Sharon pointed me toward the recently relaunched official site for Mystery Science Theater 3000.

Longtime readers know that I am somewhat of a fan of the show. The fact that there’s new MST3K anything should be cause for celebration. But it’s very clear that things have… changed.

Now, the common trait of an internet nerd is to run, screaming and hollering preferably, away from the first sign of change. Add a mere flame decal to Optimus Prime and you’ve immediately ruined 10,000 childhoods. So instead, I’d like to give these guys a chance to have fun and experiment a little. The show certainly has been through many changes already, so what’s another voice cast and art style?

But the new Flash show *is* a pretty big leap from the bots I grew up with. I know we’re lucky to get anything now that everyone from the old show has parted ways. It’s just… I dunno. Maybe they need to make fun of some movies or something?

Anyone else a fan of Joel, Mike and the Bots? Got a favorite host segment? Episode? Short? Just no Joel v. Mike stuff… had enough of that back on AOL.

Hey! Spotlights! Remember those?

Reader Starflier sends in this month’s webcomic spotlight. There’s a lot to like about Ben Hatke’s comic: The art is incredible, the stories are sweet (but aren’t afraid to show their fangs once in a while,) and the personalities really come across, even with the one-shot incidental characters. Zita’s premise is ultra simple (reread the title,) but comics tend to not end up where you think they will.

Hey! You with the computer! If you’re reading this and it’s Saturday Morning (or Sunday, depending on your city… check your local listings) throw on CBS. If you’re lucky, you’ll be watching Sushi Pack, a new cartoon that our division at AG Properties created.

It’s an energetic action show for kids about a group of crime fighting Sushi, saving the day without being devoured by the Legion of Low Tide. Trust me: if you were seven, this would rock your socks off.

Check out Saxton Moore’s blog… he’s got a ton of great production sketches to share.

So I’m really happy for their success! My Kevin Baconesque connection to the show is the official web site. It’s a little bare bones at the moment, but stay tuned. We’ve got some cool games in the pipeline :D

Been playing a lot of The Orange Box lately. This was originally going to be a sketch from Team Fortress 2, but Portal is so much more fun. Honestly one of the best, funniest games I’ve played in years. It’s short but sweet; like a giant Zelda dungeon as a game.

Almost forgot to add in Companion Cube… how could I ever forget? Cube 4-ever. I’d never throw you into a fire.

Over a year ago, we had a thread on the message boards about everyone’s favorite episode of Breakpoint City. I’ve been meaning to add some sort of ranking system to the site ever since. The aim here is to help new readers quickly get to comics that our veteran fans highly recommend.

So for this week’s experiment, I’m trying out a voting system. Each comic in the archive has a little “Recommend this” button at the bottom, and the comics with the most votes will appear in a list in the sidebar. I’ve already added a bunch of my favorite comics to the list, so feel free to do the same. It would help me out a ton.

Will be interesting to see where this goes. Thanks to Blue Hat SEO for the plugin!

I don’t know about you, but to me, a video game’s musical score plays a large part in determining it’s greatness. A game can be truly awful in every other aspect, but I’ll still play it to hear the ice level’s theme again.

There hasn’t been much talk about it, but Nintendo’s got something really great planned for Super Mario Galaxy’s soundtrack. They’re using a live orchestra for several of the game’s tracks, and the result is stunning. Give these two songs a listen… it’s way beyond what I expected.

Song 1
Song 2

Man, Galaxy’s going to make me feel like I’m eight again. At least I won’t have to blow out the cartridge to get it working.