You have to understand that we didn't start playing the Tony Hawk series until it hit the Dreamcast, the next version I played being the 2X one that came out for the Xbox - so when I saw the Treyarch symbol at the beginning of Spider-Man, what came to mind immediately was Tony Hawk. That's actually Neversoft's game, but Treyarch did handle the ports of it - so when Gabe mentions Tony Hark and Treyarch up there it's based on something I said that is sort of factual and sort of not. At any rate, it's my fault and he shouldn't be held responsible for it.

I picked up Spider-Man 2 yesterday and had a chance to play quite a bit of it last night. All the great stuff you have been reading about this game is true. It’s pretty amazing how all of a sudden developers are learning that a licensed game can actually kick ass. If you had told me even a year ago that some of my favorite games in 2004 would be based off of movies I’d have laughed in your face and then asked you for winning some lottery numbers since you were obviously some kind of clairvoyant.

I spelled "possess" wrong in the title of the strip and post - I just changed it. In my defense, it was practically six o'clock in the morning when I finished that post. Also, possess is as improbably spelled as any word I've ever seen. I'm surprised we have a single s left over for any other English word.

I rarely have nice things to say regarding continuity, using modifiers such as "dreaded" or "despicable" to characterize it. Aside from our general aversion to the concept, which - as we've established - is really quite vile indeed, it's simply not compatible with the way we do things around here. Certainly, we can envision a series of sequential events and transcribe them. However, the moment we commit to something of that nature, invariably something entertaining or revolting occurs and we're forced to make a decision between maintaining some artificial scenario we've invented or covering the events of the industry in real time.

We have two brand new shirts for sale in our fabulous online store. You can now purchase your very own Twisp and Catsby shirt. Now you can finally show your love for your favorite British cat and his demon sidekick. In keeping with the nonsensical nature of the T&C comics, I suggest you purchase fifty shirts and cover your car with them.

We had originally planned to announce the winners of the accounts today, but two wrinkles have appeared in the plan.

As is established every time an entry in this genre is released, Gabriel actually played Golf in high school and has retained this coarse habit even to the present day. And, by luring me onto an actual course with tales of high powered carts and mobile refreshment stands, he drew me into his dark world. You've seen his twisted interpretation of my own passtime, but starting today, we will dip into his perverted cesspool for a series of undetermined length.

I have only one real gripe with Xbox Live and that is that the feedback system is worthless. I play Splinter Cell every night with my friend Robert and we run into jack ass after jack ass. Anyone who has played the game for more than a day knows what I am talking about. These are the guys who start out as spies and then when your turn to play as spies comes up they quit the server.

We sent an invitation to PAX to the editor of a fancy videogame magazine. We thought it was a nice thing to do. He responded saying that there were events like ours all the time and he couldn't make it. It was just another Lan party in his eyes and not worth his time.

There have been some changes and additions at PAX that are, in my estimation, fly.

I added a new wallpaper based on the Nova drawing I did yesterday to our wallpaper section. You can grab it here if you’re interested.

I just wanted to let everyone know that the Cardboard Showdown website has been updated with a bunch of new stuff. Brenna and Charles have been added to the character roster and a couple new wallpapers are available.

Credit exchanges for Massive games are inimitably useful mechanisms - the notion behind them seems counterintuitive, and we've certainly enjoyed some amusement at their expense. But - if you're a person that thinks of your own time as the prime currency and the various manifestations and products of that time as inherently fungible, it makes a lot of sense to resort to brokers of strange currencies. If somebody takes advantage of your exchange itself, though - if they purposefully manipulate the intangibility of the product you sell - it must be a pain explaining to normal people exactly what it is you do.

Lots of you asked for a larger picture of Nova after yesterday’s comic strip. I had some free time today so I went ahead and whipped this up. I hope you like it.

I'm still completely fixated on this thing. I saw on Gizmodo that someone managed to purchase an engineering sample of the device, and they proceeded to produce an erotic pictorial of the machine which you can see here. It's starting to look like the name of the device at retail will be MPX300, or something to that effect.

Our new posters are now available in our online store. We have a Gabe and Tycho poster as well as a CTS design. Our Twisp and Catsby shirt as well as our Aggro shirt should be popping up in the store very soon as well. Oh, and just to prove that we do listen when you guys ask for something here is a peek at one of the new shirts we will be bringing down to the San Diego comic con this year.