Carja

I Hate Being Sick

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Sep 242012
 

Being sick is no fun. On Wednesday I had a scratchy throat. On Thursday I started getting a running nose. On Friday I was feeling really stuffed up and kinda slow. As I finished giving the training I was scheduled to give, I decided to use some of my accumulated time to finish early. On Saturday, I ventured out of the house for a few hours and came home feeling exhausted. I spent most of the rest of the weekend sleeping and today I’m home as I finish getting over my cold. There are fluid build ups I could do without, but tomorrow I should be fine.

I found Intellivision cartridges at Comic-Con so for the first time in years I hooked up my Intellivision to my television to play. My HD TV did not seem to enjoy the experience so much. It’s sad that I might have to get an old TV just to play old school games on. I have fond memories playing with that machine. I was late in getting a Nintendo and I played Intellivision (actually it was a Tandyvision clone) way into the late eighties. I once found the Intellivoice module for $20 at Canadian Tire. We lent the machine to a person who shall remain nameless who never returned it. I found an actual Intellivision along with a bunch of cartridges at a neighbour’s garage sale. I don’t have an Intellivoice module for it though. Maybe someday I’ll buy one on eBay.

September is almost over and some of you blog readers may be wondering “Hey! I thought you said you had something new for Fridays in September!” And I did. However, I wanted to finish the coming home from the Crimson Coast storyline before I started it. The last strip of that arc goes up on October 4th, so you’ll have to wait until October 5th for that. I wish I could say that I was able to advance in that project with all that added time, but the sad truth is that combined with Comic-Con and trying to maintain my lead on Funnies and mash-ups, I haven’t worked on it in a long time. I’ll have to set aside one day per week to work on it.

Before I close, I have a question to ask you blog readers: What is your favorite old-school video game (Atari/Colecovision/Intellivision)?

 

World Warriors

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Sep 192012
 

Wednesday has snuck up on us again and that means one thing around here: MASH-UPS!

This week’s theme is Street Fighter. A quick check shows that I haven’t tackled video games yet (Tron doesn’t count) and that’s all the reason I need. This theme got me to play around a little with poses, specifically fighting poses.

First up is Nektara as Chun-Li. Chun-Li was one of my go-to characters in Street Fighter II because her combos were easy to do. This was probably the most difficult pose to figure out. I had to cheat a little with the length of Nektara’s legs to get it to work at all.

If you take Green Rich and add a military look and straight blond hair, apparently, you get Guile.

Zoë gets to play Cammy. I bet you didn’t know that Zoë had such killer abs huh? Me neither! She’s wearing a beret just like I did at Comic-Con this year!

Vega (or Balrog as he was known in the original Japanese version of the game) is played by Cyran. Why Vega for Cyran? Well, the claws gave me a way to incorporate wrenches in his design and the ears could replicate Vega’s long braids.

Finally, we have the main villain of the game, Big Oonch is M. Bison, or Vega for those of you more familiar with the original Japanese version. The problem with Oonch (and Cyran) is that he has no legs to speak of, which means that I couldn’t give him M. Bison’s cool shin guards. I think he looks good without them though. It’s all about the hat!

Okay, that’s all for now. Come back next week as we continue duking it out in the streets!

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