OMG, actual content on Scary-Crayon?!? You're not dreaming!

Okay, so first we have another quick comic in Dusty Plastic HELLside #19 -- nothing fancy there, but hopefully you'll find it a bit amusing. The more substantial offering, however, is a review of The White Chamber, a freeware game from Studio Trophis. I first played this delightfully creepy gem (and took most of the screencaps for this review, incidentally) back in 2005, and it's still as enjoyable today as it was back then (though admittedly much of it seemed new to me, since I'd forgotten the solutions to the bulk of the puzzles). The current version even has German speech -- something the older one didn't -- so listening to the foreign voices made the experience even more fresh!

Anyway, the review is largely spoiler free (despite how wicked cool they look, I avoided including screencaps of the really freaky sequences so you won't be any less horrified when you encounter them in the game), so feel free to read it before you download the game... which you definitely should. It's not a long game (unless you really get stuck -- in which case Google is your friend; there are a number of walkthroughs on the web -- you'll almost certainly finish in under two hours), but it is a very fun one. Be warned, however, as The White Chamber is not for the faint of heart or the squeamish of stomach.

In other news, I've always got more content on Articulated Discussion -- recently I posted reviews of Masters of the Universe Classics She-Ra and the BioShock 2 Young Eleanor & Little Sister 2-pack over there, and I'm still doing Bootleg Tuesday (almost) every week. I'm also going to be covering a certain convention for AD soon... which should result in quite a bit of content over there and maybe a little for SC as well. We'll see!

Okay, that's all for now; hopefully I'll be back sooner rather than later! Ja --

So it's been ages since the last update. I apologize, but I totally had a good reason! See, I got bitten by the customizing bug again... and you know I tend to disappear for a while when that happens. But my absence bore fruit, for I finally finished my Shredder custom figure! That's right -- the one I started working on back in March of last year, and that appears at a very early stage in this Crayon Haiku collection. Among other projects I've finished in the last couple of months, I also completed that Wolverine! In addition to some other recent customizing projects, expect Logan to appear on SC in the near future as well.

But today belongs to the Cyber Shredder -- and in Dusty Plastic HELLside #18, he makes his triumphant Scary-Crayon debut! This'll hardly be the last time you'll see him, though, as (much like Grodd) I'll probably find excuses to work him into a whole bunch of features and articles before I finally "retire" him to the display area. In the meantime, I'm having a blast posing and photographing the guy!

Anyway, that's all I've got for now. Until next time -- which will hopefully be sooner rather than later!

Aaand after the April Fool's Day hijinx, we're back to less deceptive (but still foolish enough!) content with Dusty Plastic HELLside #17. If you don't get the joke, I'll explain: Little Sisters grow up to be Big Sisters, and Big Sisters wear that tight, sexy fetish garb that would probably choke the life from a fetus before it even began to form. And the title... well, you don't see any feminine bulges up top, do you?

Moving along! If you find the Little Sister figure awesome -- I know I do -- you should check out my more in-depth review of her over at Articulated Discussion. I've got a new installment of Bootleg Tuesday there, so you should read that as well! Oh, and I posted an April Fool's Day review on AD... funny stuff, to be sure.

Heck, let's plug a new site while we're at it! Wes GRogan's Is it Fun? is off to a great start and is definitely worth a look. In the near future I'll have it added to the links block -- basically, whenever I get around to making a link button for it or whenever Wes GR sends me one (HINT HINT), since apparently Heroine Addict has gone the way of the dodo. Man, why do cool sites keep going away? Ah well, it's teh Internet -- there's always new content popping up. Most of it is pr0n, but still.

Until next time, kiddies!

In case you couldn't tell or didn't notice the date, I totally wasn't being serious in my review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon -- this movie is terrible. Bella spends most of it being a whiny bitch; the vampires are either uninteresting stock characters, stupid, or just plain jerks (or all of the above); and there's a lot of stuff with the story that just doesn't work, except it does because Stephenie Meyer (or the director/screenwriter/etc.) says it does. Perhaps because it's based on a book, there's also a lot of exposition -- much of which involves the characters explaining why they have to do things a certain way, as with the whole stopping Edward from exposing himself thing. And there's the stupid sparkling.

I can't say this is the worst vampire movie I've ever seen, but it's probably the worst I've seen with production values this high. It's not even really a vampire movie. It's a movie about a teenage girl whining and flirting with death because her boyfriend moved away and she's oh-so sad, but then she meets this other guy and things aren't so bad except they are because she's still oh-so sad and runs off at the drop of a hat to be with the dude who left her -- it just has vampires and werewolves and other supernatural stuff along for the ride.

Speaking of rides, the Twilight series depicts vampires as being Flash fast -- so why the hell are they driving cars? I'd just run everywhere.

So if you just jumped to the blog and bypassed the front page, you should probably check it out... or, if it's no longer April 1, 2010, you can view the mock layout here. Pretty horrific stuff, if I do say so myself! I'm rather proud of it. Here's hoping it doesn't inspire too many nightmares...

EDIT: And do let me know if it's not displaying properly! I didn't spend the weeks that I spent working on the actual site design, so there may be browser quirks I haven't tested and accounted for... not that I'll actually go to the trouble of trying to address them for a mock layout (although that's precisely what I've spent the last hour doing @_@), but I would like to know about them for future reference.