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“Better figure it out, quick! I got killin’ hands!”

Max kind of reminds me of Frankie from The Goon.

I love Sam & Max. It’s a crime Lucasarts never made the sequel game. Actually it’s a crime Lucasarts hasn’t made a sequel to any of their awesome adventure games–Maniac Mansion, Grim Fandango, Monkey Island and so forth. I love the Monkey Island series, too…

PS—I enjoy interactive Web comics. Here’s another good one, possibly the best Hellboy story ever: The Corpse (It’s hosted by Playboy’s site, but it’s safe for work, though if your company tracks URLs you may want to wait until you get home.)

There are more Hellboy Web comics here.

Monkey Island is the one game that did see multiple sequels.

The Secret of Monkey Island (1990)
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck’s Revenge (1991)
The Curse of Monkey Island (1997)
Escape from Monkey Island (2000)

If you like those games – you should check out Psychonauts for the X-Box. It’s a platformer, but made by Tim Schaefer, the genius behind Day of the Tentacle, Full Throttle and Grim Fandango.

Also, as Sean mentioned, the company hosting that comic is developing a Sam n’ Max game. They finally got the rights off of LucasArts.

@Sean—I bet you’re thinking of Mignola’s fill-in stint on X-Force #8, which at the time was being drawn by Rob Liefeld. Now, looking back, can you really believe you were mad because someone other than Liefeld was drawing the book? A lot of people were, because Liefeld was the big thing back then until people remembered what good comic art looked like. I think I was probably one of five people who were happy to see Mignola take over the drawing duties for an issue.

I’ve always liked Mignola, but he’s definitely not to everyone’s taste. However, I think he’s a brilliant artist with a very unique style. A lot of his skill comes out in his pacing, layouts, and use of color–which he didn’t really have much control of in his Marvel days. His work in Hellboy is much better.

@Ed—My understanding is that the Sam and Max game won’t be a console game but a Web-based game, like the Bone game they already have up.

Haha, Youngblood. I was on the Liefeld bandwagon, but inwardly I at least knew he wasn’t nearly as good as, say, Jim Lee (who I think is over-rated, especially these days, but he’s better than the guy who created Supreme and Prophet).

I like Silvestri. He had a good run on Wolverine.

And I’ll agree no one’s ever drawn a hotter Psylocke than Lee.

Turner I’ve never been that big on, but to be honest I’m not really big on comics in general outside of Hellboy/BPRD/The Goon. Superhero action figures yes, but not so much comics.

@JFCC

I know damn well Sam n’ Max is a PC web-based game.

Look here ya’ young whippersnapper. I was guiding Pitfall Harry from Croc to Croc while you were still a blink in your mama’s eye. Don’t try educating me on games.

@Ed—Now wait just a goddamned minute. I did my fair share of helping out Pitfall Harry, and I also managed to shoot a few snakes in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons despite their creepy hissing noise…just because I can’t lay claim to the dubious distinction of having though Pong was state-of-the-art videogame design doesn’t mean I don’t know a thing or to about my electronic entertainment history.

@Sean—Even calling me a Dark Horse man is stretching it. If Hellboy and the Goon left Dark Horse for somewhere else, I’d just follow them–Dark Horse just happens to publish what I read.

As for Peter David, I enjoyed his Incredible Hulk run during the brief period that I was reading superhero comics in the early 1990s, but that’s it for his comic work.

As for Marvel and DC…I’ve bought one-shot stuff here and there, like Mignola’s Gotham by Gaslight and The Doom that Came to Gotham, but again, I bought those for Mignola. I’m just not that big on superheroes really, except as a kind of interesting modern form of folklore. But I’d rather read Philip Wylie’s novel Gladiator (a direct inspiration for Superman) than a modern Superman comic.

And what with all this House of M and Infinite Crisis nonsense, who can even follow comics today? The only stuff I read is the occasional one-shot graphic novel, particularly if they take place outside the normal continuity.

To be fair, I have been reading Alan Moore’s Swamp Thing run and some Hellblazer TPBs, but again, those are Vertigo.

@Jason

Did you ever exploit the Berzerk glitch where you could shoot from the left side of the screen and have the lazer come out the right and if your buddy positioned his character right – have the bullet slice through the two pixel-wide space separating his head from his body without killing him?

Can you tell me what the Konami code is and which game it first appeared in?

Or tell me which game Bullet Bill costars in?

If not, your a n00b who just got pWNed.

Relax though dude, I’m just dating myself – carbon dating that is.

Well I certainly know the Konami code. If the first appearance wasn’t in Contra, well then la-di-da, but ↑↑↓↓←→←→BA was my email signature for a while.

You got them both right. You are hereby bestowed Old School status.

I remember beating Contra over and over with my cousin Mike…never could do it with just three lives though…

…AUTOMATIC SPREAD-FIRE FOREVER!

By the way, it appears we’re both wrong…the Konami code first appeared in Gladius:
Konami Code

[…] I was going thru some links that I haven’t visited in a while and one of them happened to be the Sam & Max web comic. It’s hosted by the Telltale Games folks who are busy on making a new web-based Sam & Max game. Since I originally posted an Aside about the comic in April, there have been two updates: July and August. […]