This is play on a combination of two of Escher’s works: “Metamorphosis I” and “Day and Night.”  I thought it would be appropriate as Q*bert, like, jumps on cubes and stuff. >.>

~Race

You know, I’m still not done with that strip that Arlo talked about in the last post, and believe or not, it took me much less time to get this one in rather than primp up the planned strip. This was actually a last-minute idea, and proof positive that perhaps I still haven’t quite gotten over the incident. Oh well. It’s about time we put up another one of these anyway. =) Besides which, Etch-a-Sketches are fun! You can see more of them in the photo gallery if you’d like.

In other news, Gears of War is awesome!!! That is all.

~Race

They’re back! Aren’t you happy? Turns out the next strip was going to take a little longer than previously anticipated, so rather than disappoint (because I know you care so much), we decided to push that one out to Monday and have this little guy up in the interim. Remember the Trapezoid Bros.? No? I don’t blame you. I was quite a while ago. They first appeared in number 43. This one is 80. 80?! So close to that unreachable star!

-Arlo

So yeah. Arlo’s out having a life and stuff. This is what he gets. =P

Once again, you are all subject to my whims! You know you like it.

~Race

Ask and ye shall receive. Now that that’s over with, we can move on to more important things.

I’ve been coerced by a female-type into playing World of Warcraft again. Ok, that’s not entirely true. Ever since expansion talk started springing up again with the announcement of faction-specific classes going cross-faction (!), I’ve been getting the itch. I had two choices: apply the proper ointment to the affected area at least twice a day, or; start playing WoW again. They both cost about the same, only one’s considerably more fun than the other. But, I went ahead and chose WoW anyway. The girl situation helped. All I know right now is that I’m going to be on the Uldaman server, Hordeside. I’ll let you know when I have a name.

Peace out.

-Arlo

The new site is coming along nicely. I wish you could see it. Well, actually, you can see it, but you’re gonna have to earn it. It exists… out there in the ether. It is yours to find. However, it is not yet finished, and causing our sweet Race much distress. It is to the point that whenever she isn’t working on the site, she gets aggravated. And then, on top of that, Photoshop starts acting up on ‘er and it’s the middle of the god damned night. I’m sitting there with my thumb up my… mouth? and feeling useless. So, I figure I’ll come to the rescue with this.  And now that I’m looking at it… I’m not sure if we weren’t better off with a broken Photoshop project. Seriously. The idea just popped into my head in a split second and I’m starting to regret it. Save it now as it might not be here tomorrow.

-Arlo

So, so true. We had this guy planned for a “strip” for a couple of weeks now (and the concept has been around for a while), but not too long ago, Penny Arcade bust out with their own etch-a-sketch boobs. Ours are real. Race is so good with the etch-a-sketch boobs. You should see her Einstein.

The reason this “strip” comes with quotes is because it’s almost like filler. It’s a chance to give a break to Race for a turn because she need to get ready for The Great Move. Pray for her. The move will be long, arduous, and across town. Seriously. I mean, you remember that episode of Bobby’s World where the family has to move because of the new addition to the family and Bobby is really scared because he doesn’t want to move and then when they all pile into the car Bobby goes, “Are we there yet?!” and his parents go, “Yes!” and they really were because the new house was on the other side of the cul-de-sac? This is exactly like that. Except not.

New strip on Friday.

Hello, Naive Believers.

Well, since this past day was a holiday and all, we here at Level 99 decided to take a breather. But so as not to disappoint, I figured I’d take this opportunity to show to you why I (Arlo) should never be allowed to do this comic on my own.

To give you a little perspective, Race’s one-off solo strip can be found here, if you are a forum member. ::shakes head:: So much more talent.

Never leave me. I need you, Race. But, oh, wait, not in that way.

So this is what happens when you leave me to my own devices. I’ve wanted to do a couple of single panel strips for a while now and this is a VERY early idea I presented to Race to let her know what I was talking about. Thank the Lord you are seeing this now instead of as a full-fledged comic. Superhappymechafuntime only has a couple of strips to go before its conclusion, at which point I plan to release a Platinum Collector’s Edition of the final installment with special features of some sort in honor of the completion of our first major story arch. You don’t believe me?! Just you wait.

I’m spending the night over at Lou’s place tonight so I’d better get going. We are hitting up Nickel Nickel tomorrow. Race will possibly be joining us. We’ll see. I will make a fool of myself on DDR and Lou’s little brother will show me up.

Expect another, “fuller” post tomorrow or the next day. Expect a new strip on Friday as scheduled.

-Arlo

Hey, so we nailed 1000 hits over the weekend while I was at the river, riding around on my sea-doo, drinking beer, and doing hoes. Actually, that’s not true. The river part, not the 1000 hits thing (that really happened). The first time I typed that opening sentence I wrote “drinking bear,” if that tells you anything about my familiarity with the Bro scene. So anyway, Race and I thought, as a thank you, that we’d post an extra one-off for your help. I say help, but really I should be thanking my refresh button. Thank you, refresh button. You are a god amongst buttons.

So, on top of the single panel, you get the next installment in our dramagy. That’s a fake word. I made it up.

I played Full Auto over the weekend (instead of “doing hoes”). Full Auto = Burnout + Twisted Metal + Prince of Persia. I know I’m not the first one to say that, but I’m here to tell you that it’s true. It was fun enough, I suppose, but like you would expect, just got very repetative. The only desire I had to go to the next level was to blow more shit up, which I know works for some people. It just made me long for the day when Burnout comes to the 360. I’ll play Full Auto some more before I’m done, because, don’t get me wrong, it did provide a cerain modicum of amusement higher than, say, not playing it. As for the Unwreck (or Sands of Time, as it were), it isn’t as tacked on as you might think. You must use it sparingly for it to be useful and know how to not make the same mistake twice (which is harder than it sounds) which means tactical use of the rewind time feature makes the difference between winning and…. umm… not.

Come back Friday for the conclusion to our epic dramalogery!

-Arlo