Of Bobbleheads and the Beast
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Don't take the headlines too seriously, because they're long on facts, short on truth, and they just don't matter.
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Sure, any old dog can go out trick-or-treating in a mass-produced costume. For less than &#36;30, he can be a pumpkin, a devil, an astronaut, a cheerleader or &#151; oh, the insult! &#151; a cat. But what about that very special pooch, the dog whose fur should never touch vinyl and who wouldn't be caught dead in the same costume as the mutt down the block? Enter: E&amp;E Hallstrom Haute Couture.
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Thanks to the degenerate minds behind the Nintendo Wii, young gamers are being transformed into murderous, ravening beasts. Commentary by Lore Sj&#246;berg.
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Welcome to the world of Archie, Betty, Veronica and Jughead, the popular comic book characters.
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The names of the characters have also changed.
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Some words of advice for ticket-holders to tomorrow night's Celtics-Suns game: Get to the FleetCenter early because it's Walter McCarty bobblehead doll night.
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By Blair Dedrick Special to BartlettCordova Appeal  Though lions and tigers were in short supply, snakes and monkeys abounded in the forest-themed posters that lined the Lakeland City Hall chamber this week.
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Movie tie-in games tend to suck. Hope springs eternal, though, and the allure of giant transforming robots is keeping me at least a little bit hopeful for the Transformers games.
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One of the world's most bizarre scientific collections has gone on show.
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Gabe: The Penny Arcade store has been updated with some new items. First we've got a brand new zip up hoodie.    It's got a slick PA logo on the front and Tycho's speech from the comic strip "I Hope You Like Text" on the back. We've been getting requests for a zip up like this for a long time. I don't want to sound like a used car salesman but my guess is that these will not last long.     We've also added a new sticker pack. This pack includes Tycho, Gabe, Annarchy, Charles, The Merch, The Fleshreaper, The Fruit Fucker and two bumper stickers.  The sticker pack is $10 but we've got a special deal going right now. If you spend $50 in the store we'll toss in the sticker pack for free.    Also, don't forget that you can now purchase prints of just about all our comic strips. If you're looking for strips with specific characters or games, Pennypacker is a great way to search our archives. I've had a few people ask me what my favorites are or which ones I think would make for especially nice prints. Tycho and I are each working on a list of our favorites but off the top of my head I'd say "The Hawk And The Hare" series would look pretty classy all framed up and hung on someone's wall.     -Gabe out
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Hogzilla is being made into a horror movie. But the sequel may be even bigger: Meet Monster Pig. An 11-year-old boy used a pistol to kill a wild hog his father says weighed a staggering 1,051 pounds and measured 9 feet 4, from the tip of its snout to the base of its tail. Think hams as big as car tires.
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Some are unusual but compelling, while others are rather gruesome.
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Two new books Â one about phrenology, the other a biography of a proponent of lobotomy Â examine discredited theories of the brain.
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David Bolinsky's animated journey through a white blood cell is a surprise hit. Even The Matrix's Wachowski brothers are calling. Wired News interview by Kim Zetter.
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photos There's also room in the humidor and the Darth Vader helmet. Take a gander at some strange and wonderful creations.
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1. "The Grim Grotto" by Lemony Snicket
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Tycho:  We never sit down with the firm intention of making another Bioshock comic - indeed, we intend the opposite - but somehow Bioshock comics continue to be written.  One day, science will pierce these mysteries.  Until then, you'll simply have to endure more strips regarding interactive storytelling's electronic opus.  My recovery from this weekend's rigors would be quite accelerated if I were not up until two or more every night, which is to say morning, hacking and slashing my way through the new releases like some malarial jungle guide.  I put Bioshock to bed last night, and theoretically this should be cause for joy, but I suppose it's like finishing a pie.  There is a whiff of accomplishment, semisweet - but the pie is gone.  Without pause, I slapped the input stud on the video switcher before the final cinema faded to black.  Hurling the gamepad into a knitting basket, I dug deep into the faultlines of the couch, producing a wiimote/nunchuk pair.  I've now played enough of Metroid Prime 3 to know that they've washed the filth of Red Steel completely from the system.  For awhile, I was doing that thing we sometimes do, playing until "the next savepoint," which so frequently becomes "until the savepoint after that," only to meld seamlessly into "until I can no longer see."  They've been spinning the tumbler at Retro for awhile on this one, trying to define first person on Nintendo's weird little chimera, and they've drilled down with enough diligence to find it.  No doubt some measure of the enthusiasm directed toward the game is due to the fact that people are actually using their Wii again, but that shouldn't diminish what they've done.    People have seen Corruption for a couple years, now, builds that bubbled up at different press events, and it's been slightly different each time.  I think they've moved some of the interactions since I last played it - things that were mapped to the nunchuck's gyro before are now handled by the wiimote's pointing device, and I understand why.  Gestures are a very immersive, intuitive means of interaction, but when they fail (or when they fail to express us correctly) they are Goddamned infuriating.  In a case when your hand is actually "present" in the simulation - such as when your left hand is pulling, then twisting, then pushing forward - those motions need to be as authentic as possible.  They must have chosen the perfect translation of the pointing device over the more "correct" left hand interaction.  It creates situations where you are using a different hand than your character, but because the motion is really one to one it still feels pretty good.    That's the long way of saying what you could learn in five minutes, sitting in front of it.  This entire exercise has only stoked my ardor.  It is my intention to begin playing this game at ten, and continue doing so until light begins to creep under the curtains.