Last year, Christina and I were eagerly awaiting Disney Epic Mickey for Wii, which was being headed by legendary game designer Warren Spector. In several interviews, Warren expressed his fondness for classic Disney animation block Disney Afternoon, and would love to make a new game based on DuckTales if given the opportunity. The game never happened, but he wrote a new comic book series based on the property.

This was exciting for me, because as a child of the 80s, I LOVED Disney Afternoon and thought Warren Spector was a totally rad guy, and knowing that he had the desire to breathe new life into something I loved as a kid was an incredible feeling. The back page of one of the DuckTales issues was advertising a few of Boom! Studios’ upcoming releases, and one jumped out at me immediately: Chip ‘n’ Dale Rescue Rangers.

Rescue Rangers was my FAVORITE cartoon series as a kid. I could talk for hours about how much I loved it, how much fun the characters were, how the NES game is STILL AWESOME TO THIS DAY, and how disappointed I was that there was no merch at Disney World for me to spend money on.

I’m not going to, though. I’m going to talk about the comic instead.

We made shirts for the premiere of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World! We’re nerds so we like dressing up for things. We decided to do homemade band shirts for all the bands from the comic, and did them with fabric paint so they would have that real indie band vibe to them.

I went with The Boys!! and Crash! because I love how it completely disregards grammar rules (and AutoCorrect is giving me hell right now). It doesn’t come across very well in the picture, but you can see little extra brush marks on the bottoms and side of the letters from where I had too much paint. I think it makes it look pretty rad.

I don’t really know how to start an article about how awesome Scott Pilgrim is so I’ll start it by saying that I don’t really know how to start an article about how awesome Scott Pilgrim is.

Scott Pilgrim’s Finest Hour, the sixth and final volume of the Scott Pilgrim graphic novel series was released on Tuesday. I’ve read it a couple of times now, and really, it was a great ending to what is honestly one of the best things to happen to comics in the past decade.

For those of you who don’t know (all five of you) Scott Pilgrim is a graphic novel series written and drawn by Bryan Lee O’Malley about a guy named Scott Pilgrim who falls in love with a girl named Ramona Flowers. In order to be with Ramona, though, Scott first has to fight, and defeat, her Seven Evil Ex-Boyfriends. Hilarity and video game references ensue.

No podcast again. We’re really, really sorry. We just upgraded to cable internet today, but when we tried to get it set up, of course it didn’t work, and of course, tech support was no help. In the meantime, we’re back on our slow-ass DSL line. To describe it using my favorite similie, it’s slower than molasses in January.

Next week we are FOR SURE going to have a podcast I PROMISE. Believe me, I feel like a giant ass for missing two in a row. I hope all you sexy folks can forgive me.

But! I have more comics for you. Remember to click them for full size, otherwise they break the layout. First one by Jacob, other two by me.

New Pokémon games were announced too! They’ll have more information on the Japanese television show Pokémon Sunday, so look for my thoughts in my post on Monday.

There’s no podcast tonight. Sorry about that! There’s a lot going on. I have something neat for you just the same: comics!

Back in 2003-2004, I used to do a webcomic called Terminal Crossing with some old friends of mine. Most of the time it was pretty crappy but we had a few gems in there. I’ll share some of my favorites with you on nights like this when I just don’t have the time to get anything done for real.

The first one was written by my old friend Jacob, the second and third are by me. Click for full size, because otherwise they break the blog’s layout. Enjoy!