Thanks DA for da mudkips!

Happy April Fools y'all. Hope everyone is doing well. Shiney-chan, we need to hit up Applebees since your sister is sorta free from busy season.

New job is super busy- scribbling time is non-existent but I have hijacked the wacom tablet for home. Also saving up for the smaller Cintiq.

In a few weeks I'll be headed to the NY Comic Con with a couple of co-workers, Al, and possibly the Brother (it all depends on the video game showings.) This is my first comic convention so it should be interesting. Stan Lee will be there! XD Square Enix is also supposed to be there so I wonder if they'll have merchandise available for sale. I've been hunting down the Lenneth statue ever since they announced it.

A few days after that, the Brother will be on Spring Break and we'll be headed to a taping of the Colbert Report! good times, good times. Between bouts of baking and work, I always make tiem for teh games

Video games:
Dynasty Warriors 6- Short story, it's a very pretty Dynasty Warriors 3. You either love the series or you hate it, there is no in between. Very much let down by lack of musou modes and freakin cloned characters. "Story"-wise, it seems Koei is running into the very opposite of what the Dragonball games face. Whereas the DB games are always retelling the same freakin story (OMG Goku saves the world from EVIL!), the DW series is always caught between being historical or giving fanservice. I have a distinct feeling that no one's playing these games to learn about history (and if you are, there's something VERY wrong with you ). DW6 for the most part feels like a cliched kung fu movie with lots of posing, deep thought, some angst, and lots of "Start writing bad fanfic NAO!" moments. The new Renbu system is just another word for button mashing (square button ad infinitum). Charge moves (triangle) are more useful but rarely used. No weapon fusions or 4th weapons. And again, cloned characters/cut characters. I'd rather they downright cut characters out of it and give us better musou modes than have cloned characters that are good for nothing except Free Mode. The more I hear about the stuff they packed into Musou Orochi: Maou Sarin/Orochi 2 (ninety something characters!), the more I get pissed at DW6. For your Koei fix, you're better off with Musou Orochi/Warriors Orochi (character switching on the fly FTW)

SMT: Persona 3- Freakin awesome. it's an odd combination of a dating sim, dungeon crawler, and good ol' turn based RPG. This is quickly becoming my favorite RPG series, even more than FF. Overall quality of the series is just awesome, likeable characters, deep storyline, excellent voice acting (Liam O'Brian, Tara Platt, Michelle Ruff, Yuri Lowenthal in this one, Crispin Freeman aka dub Alucard was in DDS) and no freakin angsty whiny protagonists (for the most part, they're mute or don't talk much )!

Crisis Core: heard many good things about this one, esp the voice acting (I'm VA obsessed) but I'm waiting for the Euro Version- it comes with a slipcase and artbook. What I don't understand is their having to wait if UMDs are supposed to be region free (the Japanese VP Lenneth plays fine on my PSP)

Valkyrie Profile: The Accused One- this one was just announced but WOO HOO!! My precious Lennethhh.... ahem. I'm excited