Matt cooked up a wallpaper with everyone’s favorite jackass, Master Fei.

1440 x 900 | 1280 x 1024 | 800 x 600

Suddenly, I have the urge to mention that Matt is available for commissions. Gosh, I wonder why that occurred to me just now.

This week’s Nerdy Show is right here.

Lydia is visiting her family for a week and I’ve already become more animal than man. Speaking of animals…

1. A strap of leather from a purse. When thrown up it measured roughly three inches in length.

2. Half of a shirt sleeve.

3. Half of a different shirt’s sleeve.

4. What?!

I never did plug last week’s Nerdy Show, so I’m doin’ that now!

Zack, the crew, and I are still plugging away at Emerson Wild. The bad news is that this has caused delays for Warbot! Or, wait, is that good news? Either way, I should have the next one written by Tuesday so it can go live later this week or early next.

The next issue of Atomic Robo and the Shadow From Beyond Time hits next Wednesday, September 16th, and looks like this. It’s the conclusion of the current storyline and it should be a treat for time travel nerds because we do it right. Like Primer, but with a robot and decipherable. Or Timecrimes, but with a protagonist who doesn’t make you want to invent time travel yourself for the sole purpose of getting to punch him forever. And we do this without traveling through time. So, yeah, probably not the best jumping on point. But if you pick(ed) up the previous issues or the upcoming trade (Dec ’09), oh man, you’re in for a treat.

But the big thing, the truly big thing, the moment of hideous clarity when you realize your entire life until now has been one long fugue, that thing is the release of a new album by The Protomen.

Disney buys Marvel. That came out of nowhere. Since Marvel wasn’t in any financial trouble and under no pressure to make any deal at all, it’s certain the terms are quite fair to Marvel and its properties. So, no, we are not going to see Amazing Spider-Man turn into Chip ‘n’ Spidey’s Rescue Rangers. All signs point to Business As Usual at Marvel Comics and they probably have better leverage for film and animation projects beyond those currently in the works, so they can make more money. Meanwhile, Disney is probably looking to grab exclusive distribution rights to those movies, getting them more money. By all accounts, this whole thing sounds like a very Pixar-ish kind of deal, and I think that’s worked out rather well for everyone involved, audiences most certainly included.

Whoops! We’ll have those archives back online in a jiffy.