Welcome back to Scary-Crayon, y'all! How ya been? Sure glad t'see ya again! Hope yer glad t'be back! Feel free t'click some Google ads or make donations or buy some shirts while yer here.

Anyway, today's Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash episode touches on one of the weirder incidents that took place following the release of the Xbox 360. At first I heard it and thought, "What crazy fuckers...!" but now, having seen Xboxes going for upwards of $2000 on eBay, I'm kinda wishing I'd thought of it. $1600 profit per system ain't bad at all, and that dude stole two! And I'd like to know more about the robber -- because you've gotta be at least marginally interesting to steal Xboxes at gunpoint. Hell, there should be a game about him (or her! The article doesn't sex the thief): True Crime: Hardcore Gamers. I'd play it.

Oh, and the comic also stars ST@N (Stan) of Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #48 fame. Yeah, that was some twisted stuff.

...with Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #63. Spam is pretty weird stuff, isn't it? In one message they'll be trying to sell you products for the purposes of penis enlargement; in the next they'll be trying to sell you steaks. Given that all of these messages collect in the spam folder -- and that, given the nature of spam, the senders are generally faceless and/or unimportant -- it's pretty easy to think of the e-mails as being related and coming from the same sender, which can make for some pretty horrific and disgusting images. Hence the look on my face in today's comic.

Anyway, that's the end of The Week of Hot Flashes -- hope you've enjoyed it! There will, of course, be more Hot Flashes in the future; they just won't be part of The Week of Hot Flashes (or at least not the FIRST one, as it's entirely possible that I'll decide to have another one at some point). Alrighty then. Hope y'all had a happy Thanksgiving, and thanks for reading Scary-Crayon! Ja.

Of course, Thanksgiving isn't very happy for me, as you'll read -- and hear! -- in "A Thanksgiving Poem", today's fittingly titled special edition of Crayon Poetry Corner. Though I guess it's not entirely true, seeing as how if you're one of the five people who actually reads the blog you probably appreciate whatever "wit" I have to offer at least a little bit. Which doesn't really help improve my situation, but thanks for reading and stuff. Hope you enjoy Scary-Crayon! Yep.

Also, keeping The Week of Hot Flashes rolling along, we've got not one but TWO new comics for you today -- Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #62 and a special edition Thanksgiving Hot Flash. Both are based on spam, seeing as how I get like 100+ spam e-mails a day. It's sick.

Well, that's all I've got for this holiday update. Once again, Happy Thanksgiving! Be good to yourselves... and each other. And try some tofurky while you're at it. Seriously.

And our holiday week of spam-based Hot Flashes continues with Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #61! Now you're playing with power.

And there WILL be another Hot Flash tomorrow, but if you're too busy celebrating with friends and family and stuff to swing by, HAPPY THANKSGIVING in advance! The comic(s) will be here for you when you get back from your fun-filled vacation.

And while that is indeed true with Dusty Plastic HELL: Hot Flash #60, today's update also boasts something a little more substantial: A Random Lunch #9! Thrill to the wacky, cheesy, grahammy adventures of Kain and Wild Boar Alien in another instance of one of Scary-Crayon's most beloved recurring themes. And regarding the Hot Flash, yes, I know what the spam message really meant -- but that was a rather odd way of putting it, don't you think?

Hey, speaking of dinosaurs fighting giant more or less humanoid creatures, have you seen the new King Kong toys? The T-Rex figure -- or V-Rex, as they're calling it, which I think is hella stupid -- has that weird collapsing action "feature". A few of the figures in the new TMNT line have it also. And you know what? I hate it and would like to meet the moron that came up with it just so I can slap that person. Action figures ALREADY have a built-in collapsing feature, people -- it's called being vulnerable to gravity and falling the fuck over. There's no need for a character to collapse into a mess of limbs connected by string, like that's what really happens when somebody loses a fight anyway. It might make sense if this were a feature on, say, one of the Kill Bill enemy action figures, but anywhere else? DUMB.

The Week of Hot Flashes continues tomorrow with Hot Flash #61!