Waffle Squadron Omega

Its now about 3am and just can’t get any sleep. So I decided to break out my pens and try my had at some doodling. yes I said doodling dammit, got a problem with that! eh..hem.. sorry. Anyhow! I did this up after looking at the old waffle site and thinking about the cartoon the guys was supposed to do. Would have been so cool, I was trying to convince them into letting me be a villain. Villains are the shiznit. So for you wallpappering, voodoo doll creating, otaku cosplaying pleasure; I give you my crappy doodle of Matt. Expect more sleepless nights to result in more doodles. F34r the doodles!

What’s up guys. Once again it the most distant, hidden and formidable of the Waffle Squadron team here to bring you a review so mind bogglingly cool you may need to change those Alf underroos you got on afterward.

So here I am, stuck at work for a 9 hour Sunday, no one else here and my wife is in Japan with her feet kicked up. What’s a guy to do right? How about surf the web for cool web comics. Its my thing afterall. So this one may be news to you, it may not; but Tokyo is the weirdest place on earth and appearently the guys from MegaTokyo are experiencing this frist hand.

MegaTokyo is the story of two friends Piro and Largo who end up “trapped” in Japan broke, homeless and confussed. As the two attempt to make their way home they also seem to be tearing poor Japan apart in the process. Piro, the resident artist; is spending what little they earn to get home on what can only be described as a R.O.D. level infactuation with Japanese love manga.

Largo on the other hand is spending everyone elses cash (cause he’s the mooch of the pair) on beer and action games. He’s also the computer junkie and speeks fluent L33T. He’s that friend everyone has…the one so into games that it seems to bleed out into his real life and language. He’s right at home in Japan.

Japan itself is far from typical either. Everthing that you could possibly imagine would happen here does. Monsters invade with permits from the police. The local cops ride around in Mechas and you can get a passport by beating a ninja in Mortal Kombat.

Hands down MegaTokyo is a Otaku’s dream. Making ridiculous jokes about everything from D&D to game noobs and the designers who create them. Even other web comics aren’t sacred as they spend several stips making fun of their buds at Penny Arcade. If you haven’t read this awesome web comic you need to. Go check it out at www.megatokyo.com this I command!

There was a two part miniseries on the UK’s SkyOne channel this week called “Terry Pratchett’s The Colour of Magic“. It’s an adaptation of his first two Discworld books and it’s far and away the best Terry Pratchett adaptation I’ve ever seen. Jenn and I watched the first part and a little of the second part last night and we were really impressed. Sean Astin plays the cheerful but clueless Twoflower, the Disc’s first tourist. Tim Curry plays a conniving wizard named Trymon, who is constantly looking to move up in the ranks at Unseen University. Jeremy Irons plays The Patrician, the incredibly intimidating ruler of the sprawling city of Ankh-Morpork. Christopher Lee is the voice of Death. The miniseries is also filled with a million other UK actors you may have seen somewhere, maybe flipping past WHYY or BBC America or something. The guy who plays Mr. Filch (the grumpy old caretaker of Hogwarts) in the Harry Potter movies is in the second part. He plays Cohen the Barbarian, an adventuring hero who so good at what he does that he’s able to survive into his 90’s. But the celebrity actors are only half of what makes this miniseries great. The overall presentation, the look and feel of it, brings a good measure of class to an otherwise ridiculous comedy.

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