News Roundup: 5/11/2012

Some things I’ve accumulated while I was busy studying/sicking:

Like Cultural Anxiety? I hope so. Well, in between my writings check out this Tumblr Box Vs. Box, which does a box art comparison much like I do, but without the in-depth textiness. I’ve gotten some ideas for future posts from there. Worth a look!

Curious about the Street Fighter manga by Masahiko Nakahira? Be curious no more, for Jason Thompson at ANN thoroughly details them out here. Now I want to read them!

If you want to wander through your days to the themes of the Gamecube Animal Crossing, now you can.

1UP’s The Grind digs into the latest Fire Emblem quite nicely here.

Okay, I think that’s all for now. I’ve got other things to do, so I’ll see you tomorrow!

Imagery Updates – Persona 4, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Misc. (Pandora’s Tower, 1080, Disaster: Day of Crisis)

Over the weekend I’ve been updating the Imagery in the midst of schoolwork.  So, there’s a fair amount of new stuff to take a look at today!

Persona 4 – Rise’s Ultimate in Wootywoot Arena art has been added alongside a wallpaper from the official site.  I also got some nice .png images from The Golden’s poster with each cast member separated out, plus some of the character’s winter costume art.

Marvel Vs. Capcom – Shinriko’s latest poster for ULTIMATE has been added.  I didn’t care for Kinu Nishimura’s at all – it really looked phoned in to me.  Shame, as hers was the best for the original game’s.  So hey, I didn’t include it. :p

Misc. Imagery Page 1 – Three games with new art on the first page – Pandora’s Tower has a bunch of new images, and there will be some more choice monsters being added soon.  1080 now has some art from the first game, as well as Ron Haywood’s full-body Avalanche art.  And lastly, Disaster: Day of Crisis has an alternative poster of the wave crashing through the city.

In related news, our sister blog The George Macy Imagery has a lot of new stuff that’s been added the last couple of weeks as well.  Enjoy!

Zelda Timeline – Now With Actual Logic

If you’re anything like me, you felt a little bit annoyed by Nintendo’s recent reveal of the “official” Zelda timeline.  “If the Hero won”, “If the Hero lost”…just give me a straight line of events from beginning to end.  Is that too much to ask?

Apparently not, as Zach over at View From Heaven has seen fit to create his own version of Zelda’s official canon, playing through all of the non-embarrassing titles and collecting his thoughts in a rather well-written essay.  It’s impressive to see how much time and thought he’s put into this thing, especially when you consider that Nintendo themselves couldn’t be bothered to do something similar for the franchise’s 25th anniversary.

Good job, Zach!

Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

I saw this just now and had to share – Sagan was a brilliant man who died too soon.  Grace loved his works, and since we’ve been together, I’ve grown to like what he has to say as well.  This is a perfect nugget of Sagan’s philosophy.  His birthday would have been last Wednesday.

Enjoy, and think about this.

Imagery Updates – Persona 4, Legend of Zelda, Marvel Vs. Capcom, George Macy Imagery

After some time off from updating the galleries, I’ve put up some stuff I’ve gathered up in the break.  Here’s a rundown:

Legend of Zelda – More pieces from Skyward Sword, including this nice poster.  I also put in the 25th Anniversary artwork I hosted a couple days ago.

Marvel Vs. Capcom – Frank West and Rocket Raccoon are added, as well as another Shinkiro poster.

Persona 4 – Naoto and Teddie’s Mayonaka pics are added, plus a heap of promotional material from the original.

Lastly, the George Macy Imagery has added several posts since last time I mentioned it here – The Iliad, The Histories of William Shakespeare and A Child’s Garden of Verses are among the new additions.

Imagery Updates! – Dragon Quest, Marvel Vs. Capcom, Sin & Punishment and the George Macy Imagery!

Dragon Quest marches closer to completion, with Dragon Quest VI uploaded, alongside a couple more DQ Swords pieces.  Dragon Quest VIII is going to take some time, though, as many of the images out on the web are watermarked.

Marvel Vs. Capcom has Phoenix Wright and Nova added, plus ALL of the returning cast renders and a couple of promotional arts.

Sin & Punishment has two pages from a Japanese magazine with tiny pictures of many of the first game’s cast – shame I can’t find much in a decent size.

Lastly, the George Macy Imagery has some updates, too – a personal bio of me plus two book posts and some updating to some older posts, which that blog details out.

Enjoy all the art!  I’ll probably wind it down a bit the rest of the month to focus on writing and drawing.

 

Imagery Updates!

First off, let’s talk about our lovely sister blog!  Three books were posted yesterday over there.  They are:

Limited Editions Club:

The Wanderer by Alain-Fournier/Andre Dignimont

The Three-Cornered Hat by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón/Roger Duvoisin

Readers Club:

The Days of the King by Bruno Frank/Adolf von Menzel/Sinclair Lewis

And speaking of the Readers Club, I did some research and compiled my findings here.

However, I’m sure most of you are more curious about what happened here at LVLs., so let’s break down those updates:

Before getting into why there’s a giant, somewhat apprehensive face glaring at you, let me explain some revising I’ve done to the Imagery dropdown menu.  Before today it was becoming a long, long mess, but now I’ve added some pages to break it up into smaller chunks.  The Gifts, Misc. Imagery and Shi Kurai/Snow Dragon Archives are still in the main dropdown, but I think we can all agree that this solution is a good one.

Now, to get back to Miss Stare, I’ve updated several Misc. Imagery selections on Page 1, including Gravity Rush/Daze (where she’s from), Odin Sphere, Silent Hill 3, Strider, 1080 Avalanche, Disaster: Day of Crisis, Power Stone and Ghosts N’ Goblins.

While I was at it, I also did some extensive updating to the Dragon Quest Imagery.  It’s got Dragon Quest I – IV featured now, plus a couple of examples from some of the spinoffs.  I’ve got V, VI and VIII to do next.

For now, though, I’m going to get the hell away from this monitor until later this afternoon.  Enjoy all of the new visuals!

 

Goerge Macy Imagery Updates!

Two new posts to check out:

Monsieur Beaucaire by Booth Tarkington/T.M. Cleland (LEC)

The Story of Manon Lescaut by the Abbe Provost D’Exiles/Pierre Brissaud (Limited Heritage)

 

George Macy Imagery Updates!

More weekend work on the George Macy Imagery.  Here’s a post on the LEC Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy, a lovely edition with Agnes Miller Parker rendering the illustrations.

I’ve also updated three more Heritage posts with more info:

Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman/Rockwell Kent

The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde/Zhenya Gay

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand/Pierre Brissaud

Enjoy!

George Macy Imagery Updates, plus LVLs. Imagery Updates!

I wasn’t around LVLs. much this weekend – I got a massive kick into revising posts over at our sister blog The George Macy Imagery, plus I got two new posts up.  Here’s what new/revised:

Revised:

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

William Tell by Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Poems of W.B. Yeats

Salome by Oscar Wilde

This is the Hour: A Novel About Goya by Leon Feuchtwanger

The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Man and Superman by George Bernard Shaw

New:

Zadig by Voltaire/Sylvain Sauvage

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain/Norman Rockwell

Now for Imagery updates to this blog: I’ve gotten one new image for Grandia II and several cast arts for Jet Grind Radio I did not have before up over the weekend.  Metroid pieces from recent articles were also added to its respective page.  I think I’ll put up some more art today, so stay tuned!