Well, clearly I need to figure out how to better use this crazy new blogging interface thing.

I am back in the land of Kaiju catastrophes and am sadly going to miss out on Christmas back home. The good news is that I get to enjoy all the insane Christmas art here!

Every year it gets more and more insane with Christmas everything and I’ll be sure more gems in the near future.

Gary has returned to Japan. I finally have the hemisphere to myself.

Art by Gary Panter.

Gary lost his shit the last time I professed admiration for a non-Capcom fighting game, so it’s with some trepidation that I reveal that I am enjoying the hell out of Tekken 6.

In our neighbourhood the fighting games of choice were Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter, and the latter only because the convenience store across from the high school held onto their cabinet years past relevance. I had only played Tekken a few times before last week and walked away unimpressed. I think the reason I wasn’t interested back in the day is the same reason that I’m digging it now; despite a few whimsical flourishes, Tekken is a pretty straight-forward martial arts simulator, at least in comparison to most fighters. Now that I’m older and know a little bit more about actual martial arts I find I can appreciate the nuances in what I once perceived as practically interchangeable characters.

I’ve been using Lei Wulong exclusively since picking the game up, mostly so I can pit him against Marshall Law and simulate the Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee brawl I’ve always dreamed of. At this rate it’ll take me a year before I get through all 40 characters.

“If CPT or even LRT sounds too futuristic for a city that’s used to subways and streetcars, keep in mind that we’re entering the future.” – Eye Weekly

So I’ve been very busy. Busy growing a moustache. And it’s fucking beautiful. Now that it’s almost large enough to survive on its own I will have the time to post more regularly.