I decided to add my Team Fortress prints to my Etsy store, check them out in 8.5×11 and 11×14.

As I mentioned, my art is on display at Austin Books this month! I went by yesterday afternoon and took some pictures of the show, it looks fantastic! Come on out and see it in person!

After nearly a year, I finished the last of my Team Fortress 2 series, the Sniper (done in the style of the Crocodile Dundee movie posters):

Alright, so E3 was this week and there was definitely some sqee-worthy stuff to be had, namely:

Valve unveils the teaser for Portal 2! I’ve made no secret about my love for their incredibly clever Portal, and the fact that they’re releasing official details about it makes me that much more excited.

LucasArts also showed off the trailer for the Secret of Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge Special Edition. Unfortunately the game won’t look quite as slick as this trailer (which would be thoroughly doable), but if the first Monkey Island SE is any indication, I’m sure it’ll be fantastic. Makes me want to go back and play Curse of Monkey Island again…

Not necessarily shown at E3 but still falling under the “awesome” category is the new international trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. the World:

This looks like an absurd amount of fun, it definitely looks like they made the right choice in choosing Edgar Wright to direct this.

One more thing, E3-related:

I do not care about Natal/Kinect/Move. I really don’t. Motion control is a fad, a fad that if declining Wii sales are any indication, is going away. Yeah it’s cool to be able to play games without a controller, but seriously, how do you expect to play the biggest games on the main two non-Wii consoles with motion control? Modern Warfare 2? Halo? Killzone? Uncharted? It’s a novelty, and nothing more. Kinda like the current trend of 3D movies. Plus Kinect is an extra $149 in addition to the price of the console and games. Really?

It’s Avengers-o-rama this week

First off! Captain America’s movie costume revealed!!

Also full shots of Thor’s costume!

And a side-by-side comparison of the main movie Avengers

Looks pretty sweet to me, though I feel like Cap’s costume is a little too sleek/modern for World War II, though they seemed to have mostly adapted Bryan Hitch’s Ultimate Captain America design. Also, I was kinda hoping that Thor would have A. mail pants like the Coipel design and B. have a tunic that extended a little down past the waistline. Just the same though, it’s great to see the full designs, I can’t wait to see them in action.

Also, according to Jon Favreau, Iron Man will not be appearing in the Captain America or Thor movies like at the end of the Hulk, where Stark meets with General Ross to discuss “a new team.” Now, this may just be semantics, in that we won’t see Iron Man, but may see Tony Stark. Thor is going to take place in the modern era, and we know Agent Coulson from the Iron Man movies will be in it, and the Captain America film will be bookended by modern segments, so we may see Tony Stark, just not with the armor.

Last bit of Avengers news is that Jeremy Renner is just about locked to play Hawkeye in the 2012 Avengers movie. I still haven’t seen the Hurt Locker, but I’ve heard that his character has the same sort of deadpan smartassery that Hawkeye is known for. As far as the look, just dye his hair blonde and he’s got it.

Next up is this fun piece I found on Kotaku:

I found this website a couple days ago and thought it was thoroughly fantastic:

As their tagline says, “wherein jokes and statements are made using typography.” So far it’s been goofiness like the girl kicking the flowers and seriousness like comments on the BP disaster.

Strap yourselves in, because I’ve got some fun for you.

First off is the first real footage from the upcoming Finnish Nazis-in-space film, “Iron Sky”:

They released a teaser trailer a while back, which just blew my mind in terms of sheer ridiculousness/awesomeness:

I really really love the art design and feel of the project so far, though apparently it’s supposed to be a sci-fi comedy. Not exactly sure how it’ll be a comedy, but I’m still interested to see how it turns out.

Speaking of sci-fi comedy, Valve is marking the release of their Steam digital download platform to Mac by releasing Portal for FREE. FOR FREE. Portal is one of the best games of the last few years, between the clever puzzle design and pitch black humor, it’s definitely worth picking up. And again, it’s FREE. $0. Nothing at all! So if you for whatever reason don’t have it, go here and get it NOW!

Also, I know it aired last week, but last week’s episode of Community, “Modern Warfare,” was one of the most insane and brilliant pieces of TV I’ve ever seen. Tons upon tons of movie references combined with some incredibly sharp writing led to one of the best 22 minutes I’ve watched in a long time. Check it out here.

Lastly, the final issues of Siege, New Avengers, and Dark Avengers came out this week, and I have to say that it was a wonderfully satisfying conclusion to the epic story that had first started in Avengers Disassembled in 2005. The finale to Siege played out rather quickly, but seeing the heroes finally and definitively beating the bad guys was a great experience. Same thing goes for the New Avengers finale, which read like the original Avengers finale at the end of Disassembled, except that the Avengers actually had something positive to celebrate instead of just mourning for the fallen. So congrats to Brian Bendis and the rest involved in the epic Avengers meta-story, it’s been a great ride, and the Heroic Age starting next week looks to be the beginning of a new, great chapter in Marvel comics history.

Starting today, I’ll be doing a weekly post of interesting things I found around online, the “Friday Bit of Awesome”.

First up, Samurai Star Wars:

From http://www.stevapalooza.blogspot.com/

I think these are brilliant, I love mashups (as you can see with my Imperial Saints series), and these are done with so much attention to detail, from the use of the various emblems and Aurabesh font to the exacting detail to make these look like authentic Japanese feudal art pieces.

Up next, Joss Whedon is directing The Avengers, as well as doing script rewrites/polishes. The fan reaction I’ve seen from this has been pretty positive, in between jokes about Fox cancelling it 2/3 of the way through, heh. I personally think it’s a good choice because A. Serenity had a large cast, but everyone got the spotlight at some point so no one really fell by the wayside, which is critical for the Avengers movie and B. Whedon is a huge comics fan, so you can be sure he’s going to be as true to the source material as possible and will (hopefully) ensure the best Avengers film we can get. He’s also apparently doing some script polishes for the upcoming The First Avenger: Captain America movie as well.

Lastly, TF2 meets Sam and Max:

I love Team Fortress 2 and I’ve loved Sam and Max since I was a kid, so it’s hilarious seeing the two combined like this. Valve is having a deal where if you order the new episode of Sam and Max within its first week of release (next week), you’ll get three Sam and Max-related items. Personally, the thought of a Heavy running around with a gleefully psychotic Max hat makes me happy inside.

From the TF2 Blog.