Retro Questing

The Adventures of Ledo and Ix
Official Site: HERE
PATV Page: HERE



Ledo and Ix is a cute little web-series about two Heroes on a Quest, They don't what they're quest for, Fame, Glory, Power, Money, Princesses? No one seems to know, all we know is that they have only each other to rely on.

Created by Emily Carmichael and the rest of the Team from Kid Can Drive this 8 Part series is delightful. Ledo is a strong and closed off Person more focused on the Quest at hand. She is Brave and an Expert with Swords. Ix is a carefree spirit that would rather have Fun then do this tedious quest, He is vibrant yet cautious and is armed with a Bo-Staff. The typical odd couple scenario but they're close friends never the less and they seem to genuinely care for each other.

The Midnight Channel... Fan dubbed

Hiimdaisy Persona 4 Comics Fan Dubbed
Hiimdaisy LiveJournal: HERE
YouTube Channel: HERE



If you didn't know by now the Midnight Channel is something I kind of borrowed from the Awesome Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4 video game on the PS2. It's a Japanese RPG about these kids finding a new World through Televisions and trying to solve a murder mystery in the sleepy town of Inoba.

The idea of the Midnight Channel is that if you stare into a turned off Television set at the stroke of Midnight on a rainy night your soul mate supposedly appears on the screen.

Webcomic artist Hiimdaisy posts long and thorough webcomics about video games she's played and enjoyed. She's done previous comics on Metal Gear Solid 1, 2 & 3, Legend of Zelda and Phoenix Wright Attorney at Law. These webcomics are greatly acclaimed in the gaming community online and have received millions of views due to the comics being featured on various gaming sites like Joystiq and Destructoid.

Animating the Alternative Ending

How It Should Have Ended
Website: HERE
YouTube Channel: HERE



Movie endings are possibly the most important part of a movie, it's the ending that ultimately defines most people's opinions of an entire film. Even if the movie was great a sub-par, anticlimactic ending can ruin just about anyone's overall opinion of a Movie. I'd probably go out of my way and say 'Signs' was a good movie with a really poor ending, I mean really... The Aliens were weak to Water? Why the hell try and invade a planet where 70% of the freaking surface is water?

Anyway...

How It Should've Ended is animated web-series that takes the initiative to improve upon major motion picture endings. Not that all these movies needed a better ending but each animated short is a fresh parody take off which humorously points inconsistencies and abnormalities in the existing plot or sometimes coming up with a much easier and less dramatic or dangerous solution to the movie.

Cyanide & Happiness - Stick Figure Simplicity

Cyanide & Happiness
Website (Comics): HERE
Website (Shorts): HERE

Cyanide and Happiness are infamous on the internet for having some of the most depraved, offensive, disturbing and of course hilarious comic strips to ever grace the cyber world. The group over at Explosm in charge of Cyanide and Happiness must be rather large to come up with such creative and contrasting stories on a weekly basis, in fact they've been doing this for 2004 and seem to get more and more popular as the years roll on.

The simplistic art style of stick figures takes nothing away from the superb and brilliant writing content exhibited in the comic strips. I'd go out of my way and say that I yet to see a web comic online as consistently funny as Cyanide & Happiness.





Coupled with it's comic success Explosm have been able to distribute real comics which are generally just a collection of strips which have been selected to be published into a book. Buy it on Amazon

Explosm have also been able to create a series of shorts on the comics. My current favourite is the Man vs. Wild Bear Grylls parody which was voiced by one of my favourite internet voice over artist's in Egoraptor.

Lights, Camera, Action Figures

Just Some Random guy
YouTube Channel: HERE

If I were to tell you one of the most popular users on YouTube was named ItsJustSomeRandomGuy, I guess you'd find it a little odd, nothing too extraordinary but a little odd. But what you'd find even more strange is the idea that pretty much all of his video content is him voicing over little skits between marvel and DC comic book characters using Action Figures you'd think the internet is populated by complete idiots. (Well it is but that's besides the point)

ItsJustSomeRandomGuy may act out funny little skits about Comic Book characters as he some how manages to run in some social commentary about the state of comic book movies in modern society but that isn't the only thing he does with action figures and the intellectual property of both Marvel and DC.

As First he started off making simple joke "I'm a Mac and I'm a PC" parodies using Superman and Spiderman in March of 2007.



Quickly the popularity of the videos grew and grew and JSRG had to churn out more and more clever Mac v. PC parodies but that wasn't enough.

Soon afterwards he created a Mini Series called After Hours where it showcased all the Marvel and DC characters interacting amongst each other in a fiction place called Stan's Bar discussing their movie deals and various other things. But what it evolved into was Superman having a personal crisis questioning his relevance in a World where they no longer look up to Superman because he's Perfect and unrelatable Super being... compared to more "Human" Heroes like Spiderman and Batman



Currently he is up to his 3rd little mini series called Zero Hour and it will do a number on you with its sheer complexity and scope. The idea of dimensional time travel and self awareness of their comic book universe compared to reality is just over whelming. JSRG's writing gets more complex, insightful and intelligent with each upload and I hope he somehow end up being able to publish his works in a more lucrative and more appealing medium then just acting them out with Action Figures. Hell if he was somehow able to get Marvel and DC and the other involved comics involved to agree to a DVD release that would Unworldly Awesome.