Joe Simon & Jack Kirby
Playing around with an old photo in Photoshop. Captain America creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby in the early 1940s after leaving Timely/Marvel.
Critical Kate’s Thrilling Threads
The cover to my new ebook, available for a limited time in the current gaming-themed StoryBundle alongside many other exciting books!
Fake mock-up of a book is like to write some day.
Which Platform Has The Most Metroid?
Happy Metroid Day! It’s been awhile since I made an infographic, but my Patreon recently crossed 50 patrons / $200 month, so to celebrate all the occasions I put together this Metroid series backwards compatibility chart!
Wii U was really only missing Metroid II and Pinball at the time to complete the set. I wonder, if the Wii U had sold better…?
[adele]We could’ve had it aaaaa-all
Rolling in the tuuuu-ubes
You had a second screeeen in your hand
And you failed it…like a GameCube.[/adele]
Also, check out the Discord-style Samus emoji I created earlier this week!
Metroid Samus Aran Discord-Style Emojis
Are you excited for Samus’ 35th birthday this week? I am! So I made a set of Samus emojis you can use in your Discord!
The Mario-Popeye Connection
My New Profile Banner
For a long time I couldn’t think of a background image that would represent my interest in both comics and video games. Then I remembered these old Nintendo Power school folders I used to have that sort of treated pixel noise like Kirby Krackle. Ooo, what if I made an image that transformed from krackle to pixels?
Created in Illustrator, so I could use a transform filter to make the circles gradually more square. It was a challenge!
A jaw-dropping discovery by the G. Williams Jones Film & Video Collection of Southern Methodist University: crisp, color footage of Stan Lee promoting the new, Grantray-Lewis-produced, Marvel Super Heroes series.
Microsoft founders Paul Allen and Bill Gates using teletype computers at Lakeside School in 1970.
Computer access was provided to the school by the Computer Center Corporation, who Allen and Gates credit for playing a major role in developing their interest in computers.
Recently I learned that one of CCC’s employees, William Weiher, created the earliest known Easter Egg in software! I interviewed him all about it here.
READY PLAYER ONE WAS WRONG: The First Easter Eggs In Video Games
The first Easter Egg wasn’t in Atari Adventure, but where was it? Earlier secret messages have been found, but what if I told you I rediscovered a forgotten Easter Egg that predates them all by almost half a decade?
It’s all in my new video essay.