Tycho: Today marks the debut of a guest Automata "event," drawn by the incomparable Ben Caldwell and "Book of Eli" scribe Gary Whitta. We don't have any right to talent like this, and giving the site over to them for a week or so will probably get you accustomed to work of genuine quality, at which point they will usurp us and we will have to get new jobs. So, maybe not our best plan ever. I guess we'll see. Dragon Quest IX and my Nintendo DSi entertainment system are now fused, representing a single, dedicated entertainment apparatus. Anything not absolutely ...

New Comic: The S Word

Tycho: The room scenario described in the strip is brutally mega-real. My response was to haul out the big guns. Actually, it's my policy to leverage the big guns exclusively. I had a few little guns for awhile, and I sent them back. "Won't be needing these," I said. Heading south. A few items: - Should you be one of those attending the San Diego Comic Con this year (a group which must include a statistically significant portion of the readership) please stop by our boof, which is located conveniently at shanty number "1237" in the strange and temporary society of ...

Tycho: Gabriel specializes in names like "Mantis Eaglehawk," that is to say, names that puncture the carefully calibrated drama of their setting. He has retained Dudefella lo these many years, long enough for me to substitute "Du'defaella" in my mind whenever I see it, with its notes of an elven upbringing grimmed with the dust of prophecy. He's got plans for Cataclysm, name-wise - big plans. And if those plans fall through, there are plans within plans. I'm waiting for him to take the serious name ironically, because honestly I don't care why. I'm still playing Transformers, still, which must put ...

New Comic: Planting A Flag

Tycho: Seriously, all kinds of shit. We've got the newMosey shirt,Wolfman/Dracula, some some new Automata stuff as well. Also: MORE. Here's the banner, if you're curious. It also covers any "comboz." (CW)TB

Tycho: It's a 4th Panel, and it's more or less about what happens when things go wrong. (CW)TB

New Comic: This Would Actually Be Rad

Tycho: This holiday's Harry Potter offering forgoes the Grand Theft Hogwarts/campus crawling adventure for something like a third-person cover shooter, which I have heard alternately called "Order of the Marcus Fenix" or "Gears of Wand." I am not without affection for Harry Potter, and I like Video Games, but I've only played a couple hours total of products set in the universe which I'm sure must strike them as odd. It's just that they've never given me a game I want to play all the way through. I think there is something to this new approach. I'm sure that makes me ...

Gabe: I had a dream the other night that we decided to hold PAX in a huge field this year. It seemed like a good idea for some reason but when we got there it was raining and everyone was all wet. Then I looked down and I had no pants. These sorts of dreams tell me that PAX is coming up pretty quick. You should know that it looks like we will sell out of our 3 day badges sometime between Thursday and Sunday of this week. If you want to grab a couple of these you should head over ...

Tycho: When Christian Bale was recorded in the middle of some kind of aggressive territorial display, we queued it up expressly to be titillated but ultimately came away sympathetic. It's possible that every moment of his "presentation" won't be to your liking, but as someone who attempts to communicate for a living (and also, as someone who is married to an actor) that shit isn't exactly a joke. Actors are incredibly weird people, they tap into a pervasive band of shamanic data, and when they're tuning in some kind of anguished spirit you probably just want to stay the fuck away ...

New Comic: Duplicity

Tycho: I don't know exactly how prevalent "Sony Style" stores are. I know of exactly one in my town, and one in another town. If you have one close, if such a thing exists, you should certainly make it a point to penetrate their outer defenses and watch their astounding 3D demo reel. I've seen plenty of demos for 3D televisions, really quite a lot of them, and they've never managed to accomplish what this one did. I watched it fully three times through. Glasses were limited, which mean that husbands would wear them while wives knit their brows. Like Feminist ...

New Comic: Our Partial Future

Tycho: What I think is probably the best, best, best Blamimation yet can be found by clicking here. (CW)TB