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):

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.

First off, Capcom and Marvel announce Marvel vs. Capcom 3!! I’ve only had a passing interest in fighting games (Street Fighter 2 as a kid, Tekken 3 and beyond as a teen/adult), but Marvel vs. Capcom 2 has been one of my enduring favorites because it features a bunch of my favorite superheroes rendered in a distinctive, fluid style. This time around it’s being done in a similar style as last year’s Street Fighter IV, so it’s 3D with a drawn, cartoony style.

Official teaser:

People are already speculating as to who’s going to be in it, based on teaser images (seen here), a lot of the characters from MvC2 will return, along with some new faces like Deadpool (yes!) and the Super Skrull. Here’s hoping they’ll include Thor.

Up next, these Lost-themed tarot cards have recently surfaced. Obviously each image has a special significance to that particular character, but the images and designs themselves are striking enough for the cards to stand well on their own:

Lastly, one of my favorite movies from 2009 was the incredibly brilliant blaxploitation parody Black Dynamite, and they just posted this scene on Facebook:

I’m about 95% done with the animation on my Black Coffee Jones vs. Pimpasaurus video, here are a couple of characters from it:

Only two weeks until Iron Man 2! As good as the first one was, I’m sure this one will be just as great if not better.