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How Does This Darn Thing Work?

January 10, 2007 by Bartoneus

I noticed that on my last comic there somehow appeared a #1 after New Years Resolution, which could have been my subconcious zombie-mind giving subtle (and sexy) hints.  Thus we have my second New Years Resolution, the second of a series, one that I only assume I should not attempt to carry out much further […]

Filed Under: The Architect DM

Testing My Resolve

January 3, 2007 by Bartoneus

Certainly a heavy stipulation to tag onto any resolution is the line “unless I die in the process,” but with a game as sinisterly difficult as Ultimate Ghosts’n’Goblins it may just come down to that.  Given to me as a christmas present, I dove right in on December 25th and chose the Normal Difficulty level […]

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Beware the Winter Solstice!

December 27, 2006 by Bartoneus

Thankfully we have passed this day, when the sun rises for only a few short hours, and now we have begun to blissful journey towards longer days and sunnier times.  It may commonly be referred to as the Winter Solstice, which more accurately happened just into December 22nd, but technicalities aside we’re passed it and […]

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Child's Play – Penny Arcade Contest

December 13, 2006 by Bartoneus

Last wednesday Gabe from Penny Arcade ran a contest to give away a group of tickets to their Child’s Play Charity Dinner that is being held in Washington state tomorrow, the contest was to do a three-panel comic that had to include the following elements: – The 2006 Child’s Play Logo – A Cat – […]

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Even the Diligent can be Consumed

December 6, 2006 by Bartoneus

There is a great monster in my life now, a gnawing, gnashing, biting, consuming beast that thrashes its way into every day of life. It can barely be satiated, and only with the expenditure of great resources may it be contained. You might think you have obligations, or free time, or even a bit of […]

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Unused Nintendo Ad Campaign

November 22, 2006 by Bartoneus

 

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Around the Survivors a Perimeter Create!

November 15, 2006 by Bartoneus

While preparing for last week’s comic, I went to an obvious source for cartoon-yoda images, which was of course the fantastic Clone Wars cartoons.  Pictured to the right is a quick drawing I did from one of the images, just to get a feel for the style and see what I could learn from it.  […]

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Lost Tales from the Dagobah System

November 8, 2006 by Bartoneus

I’ll begin this with an apology, I’ve had Star Wars stuck on the mind the last few days.  The worst part is that it stems from an incomprehensible desire to watch Revenge of the Sith again.  I really only ever saw it all the way through once, the first time in theaters, when a ooze […]

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Quite the Predicament

November 1, 2006 by Bartoneus

Obviously when you are playing a game like World of Warcraft, it is all consuming to the level that it begins to invade the other aspects of your life.  It was a joy, as I talk about back in that old post, to be playing with my (now wife) then girlfriend and hear her make […]

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LAN Party: Specificity is a Necessity

October 18, 2006 by Bartoneus

No, I’m serious, this actually happened.  The Ochbad depicted here offers more of an excuse then was actually given, not that any was really needed, because we’ve come to expect no less from him.  This isn’t to say that we dislike him for it at all, in fact the hilarity of the situation more then made up […]

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