Queue music. After two years and 116 comics we’re shutting UUDD down. This will be our final weekly comic. Holiday comics were always special for us, so we decided to do our send-off as one final Halloween party with all our characters. It’s as much a celebration of our body of work as it is [...]
For the uninitiated, the crucible in Mass Effect 3 is supposed to save the universe from the Reaper invasion. Get it? There’s also a fairly prominent gameplay mechanic where you can romance a crew member “to completion.” This is what the comic would look like if I were drawing it. And there would probably be [...]
What Robin Hood fails to understand is that robbing from the rich and giving to the poor causes inflation. As a kid I loved the Disney Robin Hood movie. I remember on a trip to visit my grandparents in England they had that movie and I asked to re-watch it twice a day, every day. [...]
I love Independence Day. And Will Smith. How could you not? I even watched, and possibly enjoyed, Hancock. I’m a monster. But there’s a huge technical flaw in Independence Day that I just can’t overlook: Jeff Goldblum somehow magically writes a “computer virus” that infects alien systems. What, the aliens just happened to have a [...]
Ammo in Resident Evil cannot be created, but it can certainly be destroyed. As we sat down to play Resident Evil 5 I told automaton, “Resident Evil isn’t like other shooting games. They purposefully limit your ammo so that you are afraid of losing it all and having no ammo. Now, take this magnum/ammo and [...]
This comic is as “real life” as stories get. It happened (and was reiterated) exactly like this. Stories are tricky things to convert into a three panel comic form, but we wanted to tackle the challenge. Sopes in particular has the most difficult job with unusual scripts. He’s not in the room when we create [...]