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Freaktastic Fanart: Mother 3 Models

The fan made Mother 3 handbook is much gabbed-about for a reason. It is, without a doubt, the best way you'll spend $20. Outside of buying a fluffy new kitten. A grey one. With white socks.

The guide, put together by good-hearted people at Fangamer.net, Starmen.net, and possibly God, draws major inspiration from the Earthbound player's guide that came packed in with the ill-fated RPG when Nintendo localized it for American audiences. It's funny, it's thorough, it's well-written, and its pages are dotted with custom clay character models. The handbook is recorded proof that fans can come together to produce something beyond pornographic fanfiction or seventy-page arguments about who could reach the sun faster, Goku or Superman?

The clay figurines photographed in the handbook are by Arizona artist Camille Young. Young shows off some of her most impressive pieces in a blog post, including the Mecha-Drago, the Ultimate Chimera, the N.K. Cyborg, and, of course, Porky the sadist man-child.

Posted Apr 16 2009, 09:12 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with no comments

Filed under: mother 3, fan stuff, nadia oxford, freaktastic fanart

Freaktastic Fanart: Join the Nintendo Fun Club, Little Mac!

I've been able to count on Shmorky for violent and filthy comics for many fulfilling Internet years (1 Internet year = 0.965 human years). He's turned kittens into crack addicts and squirrels into chain-smoking maniacs, but my favourite thing in the world is when he makes video game characters say and do things they never would.

Unless Yoshi really does have sex with his sister. He's not a talkative mount, and I think that's grounds for suspicion.

The one problem with Shmorky's work (that's right, there is only one problem) is that he fails to archive it with any kind of consistency. He just draws and leaves, like a mama sea turtle shuffling away from her eggs, or a tomcat spraying a filthy alley wall before slinking after a female. So I have no idea how old this Punch-Out!! comic is, but Doc's dead stare probably gets funnier with age, anyway.

Posted Mar 27 2009, 11:19 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 7 comment(s)

Filed under: fan stuff, nadia oxford, little mac, freaktastic fanart, punch-out, shmorky

WTFriday: Silent Hill. Star Wars. No. Words.

Note to readers: WTFriday is a weekly feature where we find something stupid about video games and get you to laugh until it goes away. Please try to forget this is what we normally do every day of the week.

So. Fanart. Like cosplay, fan fiction, and an unwholesome love of tie-in knick knacks, fanart is a common pastime for media fanatics. Often times, as our own Nadia Oxford has noted recently, videogame fanart can be quite good. Talented artists love games too, dontcha know.

Like koala bears, who appear to be adorable little ragamuffins until they reveal themselves to be heartless, savage killers of the most deranged kind, fanart has a hidden and terrible dark side. One most only type a scant few words into Google’s image search to discover it.

This, though. This goes beyond anything else I’ve seen.

Posted Mar 27 2009, 05:00 PM by John Constantine with | with 1 comment(s)

Filed under: john constantine, star wars, silent hill, wtfriday, cosplay, freaktastic fanart, evil koalas

Freaktastic Fanart: Mega Man Zero Fanservice

I haven't yet decided if game-related fandoms are more like the Hotel California (where you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave) or the maze of the Minotaur (where attempts at escape just draw you closer and closer to a misbegotten beast-man who will slit your belly with a horn).

I'm still active in the Mega Man fandom, though I'm not in the middle of it anymore. I just kind of squat on the fringes in my hermit shack and poke sticks at the bad yaoi fanfiction. But I still love the Blue Bomber, and I maintain a close group of like-minded friends. One such friend is Irene, also known as “Wave.” Her alias should give you an idea of how long she's been in the fandom, since it lacks a string of numbers at the end.

Wave has been an eye-popping artist for as long as I've known her. Even though she's all growed up now and working at Marvel, she can always be counted on for completely rad Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero oekakis. What's an oekaki? Sort of an illustrated message board. With a limited range of tools and layers, you draw what's on your mind and others comment on your work.

Click the jump for delightful samples of Wave's work. Check out her Deviantart account for the full-sized pics.

Posted Mar 17 2009, 10:44 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with no comments

Filed under: mega man x, fan stuff, nadia oxford, freaktastic fanart, mega man zero

Freaktastic Fanart: The Momachu

If you hold your breath and look slowly to your right, you'll see a rare thing indeed: a baby Pikachu, commonly referred to as a “Pichu” by zoologists.

Pichus weigh approximately four ounces at birth, and exit the womb with a faint yellow fuzz already present on their shoulders and backs. Over the coming weeks, this fuzz thickens into the striking black-and-yellow coat Pikachus are so well known for.

Also, I'm talking complete nonsense. But it is fun to consider Pokemon at their tiniest and most vulnerable. They're pretty interesting critters with a wide variety of talents, but I guess when you come right down to it, Nintendo's most famous mascot since Super Mario is a mammal. And mammals have an inborn set of instructions they follow when it's time to carry and raise young.

That's what makes “Momachu” by Dogsfather two parts fascinating and two parts disturbing. Pikachus grow up to shoot lightning out their cheeks, but first they have to drink their milk and grow up strong.

Momma is celebrating the circle of life just past the jump.

Posted Mar 06 2009, 11:38 PM by Nadia Oxford with | with 2 comment(s)

Filed under: pokemon, nadia oxford, pikachu, pichu, freaktastic fanart

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John Constantine, our superhero, was raised by birds and then attended Penn State University. He is currently working on a novel about a fictional city that exists only in his mind. John has an astonishingly extensive knowledge of Scientology. Ultimately he would like to learn how to effectively use his brain. He continues to keep Wu-Tang's secret to himself.

Derrick Sanskrit is a self-professed geek in a variety of fields including typography, graphic design, comic books, music and cartoons. As a professional hipster graphic designer, his recent clients have included Nerve, Pitchfork and MoCCA, among others.

Amber Ahlborn - artist, writer, gamer and DigiPen survivor, she maintains a day job as a graphic artist. By night Amber moonlights as a professional Metroid Fanatic and keeps a metal suit in the closet just in case. Has lived in the state of Washington and insists that it really doesn't rain as much as everyone says it does.

Nadia Oxford is a housekeeping robot who was refurbished into a warrior when the world's need for justice was great. Now that the galaxy is at peace (give or take a conflict here or there), she works as a freelance writer for various sites and magazines. Based in Toronto, Nadia prizes the certificate from the Ministry of Health declaring her tick and rabies-free.

Bob Mackey is a grad student, writer, and cyborg, who uses the powerful girl-repelling nanomachines mad science grafted onto his body to allocate time towards interests of the nerd persuasion. He believes that complaining about things on the Internet is akin to the fine art of wine tasting, but with more spitting into buckets.

Joe Keiser has a programming degree from Johns Hopkins University, a tiny apartment in Brooklyn, and a fake toy guitar built in the hollowed-out shell of a real guitar. He writes about games and technology for a variety of outlets. One day he will stop doing this. The day after that, police will find his body under a collapsed pile of (formerly neatly alphabetized) collector's edition tchotchkes.

Cole Stryker is an American freelance writer living in York, England, where he resides with his archeologist wife. He writes for a travel company by day and argues about pop culture on the internet by night. Find him writing regularly here and here.

Peter Smith is like the lead character of Irwin Shaw's The 80-Yard Run, except less athletic. He considers himself very lucky to have this job. But it's a little premature to take "jack-off of all trades" off his resume. Besides writing, travelling, and painting houses, Pete plays guitar in a rock trio called The Aye-Ayes. He calls them a 'power pop' band, but they generally sound more like Motorhead on a drinking binge.