Watch it and tell me this guy isn't EXACTLY what you'd expect the developer of a 4X game to be like.

I'm not trying to be nasty. I love this guy! He's so genuinely enthusiastic about his product! If I had to choose whether to listen to this guy or ... say ... Leigh Alexander, I would choose this guy every time. At least he takes a breath now and then.

(I kid, Leigh! Personally, I thought that whole thing was hilarious.)

This has to be one of the most hilarious PR fuckups ever. It is the equivalent of the Godfreys man dropping a 16-pound bowling ball on his foot. "Just to show you all how safe it is, I'll jump in the piranha pool first." Ha ha ha. Jesus Christ. It could not have went any worse for them.

But on the plus side, I'm sure Micah will appreciate the excuse to change his name and get a new job.

On an unrelated note:

Ever wondered what you'd look like on methamphetamine?

Take a look at what it does to others:

METH: NONE FOR ME, THANKS.

(Thanks to the Street Fighter Galleries for character portraits!)

(And thanks to Str8 Off Tha Streetz Of Muthaphukkin Compton by Eazy-E for the background.)

James Cameron's Space Hippies vs Space Marines extravaganza would have us thinking avatar technology is the stuff of future dreams. We gamers know better. Simply combine $15 a month, a comfy chair and a disregard for family / work commitments, and successful avatar living can be yours in any number of virtual worlds. 

This short film is a must watch for MMORPG fans. The themes on self-identity and immersion in gaming worlds are all well and good. The real highlight though, is seeing World of Warcraft toons seamlessly walking around a Western European city. Epic production values.

It is amazing.

Someone should do the same with Street Fighter. Bison as the ruler of a genocidal police-state; Ryu, Ken, Guile, and Chun-Li as the crack team of assassins sent to end his life. Or maybe you could do it Aronofsky-style: washed-up boxer Balrog, high on meth and half naked, fighting police on the street while his pregnant wife sobs violently in the background. I'd watch it either way.

Uh-oh!

So yeah it looks like I'll be doing a comic here every couple of weeks, maybe? Who can say for sure. Not me.

Here is a drawing of Guile from Street Fighter II, or possibly Super Street Fighter II Turbo HD Remix:

I drew it for the hilarious and now available for purchase Tootleg Boy by fellow genius Ben Hutchings. I wrote about Tootleg Boy and how wonderful it is right here. If you enjoy Hilarity Comics, you will certainly enjoy Tootleg Boy, and everything else by Ben Hutchings ever! Like this for example:

** FOR IMMEDIATE PENIS **

** I MEAN RELEASE **

‘Hilarity Comics’ Returns With Vengeance, Slaughters Thousands In Bloody Reprisals

THE INTERNET, Computers – October 20 – Thinkers, artists and aesthetes shat their pants in unrestrained bliss today, upon learning that Patrick Alexander’s Hilarity Comics have returned to the internet. “Oh me oh my,” they went, rolling gleefully in their own wet filth.

Imagine the intensity of their incontinent squirtings when they learn that Hilarity Comics have not just returned, but returned TWICE! Oh, what a mess, what a mess.

* EEGRA, that website about videogames, will feature Hilarity Comics about videogames, like it did before! Except smaller!

* A second, parallel series of Hilarity Comics will appear at a brand new website, simply called ‘Comics by Patrick Alexander’, which also incorporates Raymondo Person (currently frustrated).

Here are the goddamned URLs!

EEGRA Hilarity Comics: http://comics.eegra.com/
Sexy new Hilarity Comics: http://hilarity.chickennation.com/
Comics by Patrick Alexander: http://comics.chickennation.com/

Cartoonist Patrick Alexander, described by onlookers as ‘2 Legit 2 Quit’, emitted the following statement:

“Piss and farts and tits and balls –
“Hilarity Comics has it alls.”

* About Hilarity Comics *

Patrick Alexander’s Hilarity Comics were originally created for EEGRA, “the internet’s premier website for making you feel bad about liking videogames,” and read by probably about 250,000 self-hating nerds. Frequently described as the videogame webcomic for people who don’t play videogames, Hilarity Comics is now both not about videogames anymore and still about videogames, making that description even more paradoxical and confusing, and therefore apt.

* About Patrick Alexander *

Patrick Alexander spiller musikalsk gennemtænkt singer/songwriter pop/rock, med stor troværdighed og engageret intensitet, både når han fremfører sangene i et sparsomt akustisk set-up, og når han spiller med sit godt sammenspillede og kompetente elektriske backingband.

* Contact *

Madeline ‘Chicken’ Parmigiana, Public Relations
press@chickennation.com

Patrick Alexander, Cartoonist
panic@chickennation.com

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For reals.