I Feel Like The Same Exact Scene From The JJ 'Level 2' Short Would Play Out If Barry And Peppino Met

i feel like the same exact scene from the JJ 'Level 2' short would play out if Barry and Peppino met so i doodled it :)

this entire frame from the Air Barrys short is so funny to me and i am going to list the reasons why in a nice little list:

Barry's knees behaving less like knees and more like two floppy wet noodles due to being stuck in an in-between frame

hair jiggle physics

the really stupid expression Flash has on his face that makes him look rather stoned

the really stupid expression Barry has on his face that makes him look..... i don't even know.

the fact that Barry felt the need to roll literally not even a metre away towards his conveniently placed jetpack rather than just walk towards it

Barry looking like some sort of weird goblin creature reaching out to snatch a morsel of food away

Craig being very concerned as to what is happening to his dear boyfriend's knees and choosing to just hide from it all rather than be involved

all of this happened because Barry did not simply steal from the claw machine immediately and instead chose to feed into his 10c Powered Gambling Addiction™

the shorts are so silly i love them

Finding An Old, Weird, Forgotten Raskulls Website

this post is dedicated to those in the Raskulls fandom... do you believe in the teapot?

this was a sort of inside joke going around Halfbrick's emails, specifically an email to a Destructoid writer in 2009. it started as a simple image attachment (the one above), before another, slightly more threatening email was sent saying you WILL believe in the teapot, as well as containing a URL to the now defunct "believeintheteapot" website. you can find the articles about this here and here. under the cut is me exploring an archive of this website and the many wack ass oddities on it.

i found out about this a little while ago, around the same time i was messing around with the Wayback Machine on Halfbrick's old blog from 2010, but i never knew there was a website related to it. seeing that the URL no longer worked, i popped it into the Wayback Machine and this is what i got:

.... a bit threatening of a question. even weirder, if you click "I believe", this is what you get:

if you're wondering what that countdown is counting down to, it's... well, Duck isn't the best counter as the website says, so it just continuously boosts up to random numbers in the thousands. guess we'll never know what godly endeavors the Holy Teapot has waiting for us... let's explore more of the site! what if i say "no" this time?

... cool! i just got sent straight to Hell! awesome! i guess the Teapot has more power than i first thought... just how many poor damned heathens are trapped within that cave? what the hell is that thing in the back? could it be the byproduct of the combined sins of those who denied lour lord and savior the Teapot? i never knew Raskulls had this much hidden lore.

according to the second article, the website feature only this image on it...

... which i didn't find when searching the website on the Wayback Machine. the article is dated on the 5th of October 2009, and the earliest capture on the Wayback Machine is on the 9th. at least there are plenty more captures of the website's more updated incarnation up to 2016 and that i get to show this anomaly to you :)

praise be the all-knowing Teapot, for it is our lord and savior. tell me... do you believe?

so i've been learning how to draw the dude (who i'll call Mach until his actual name is revealed) from Halfbrick's new prototype game TapKO cause i kinda got fixated on him,,, he's a stoic boxer who works his way up to becoming a true pro by punching the shit out of everything he sees, basically. the game he's from is on Halfbrick+ and it's pretty swell! (i may have also strained my wrist and forearm from all the excessive spamming while playing it.....)

(ignore the pupiless Garfield i forgor to crop the photo) i like drawing him in a sort of "come here" pose with his boxing gloves and giving his head a slight tilt (despite the fact that i can't draw head tilts properly...) i think he looks pretty cool like that :)

i like to imagine he doesn't really smile a lot, mostly out of slight embarrassment as he prefers to always have a permanent stone-faced Kubrick Stare™ and not show much emotion :P

did a little blender test to try to figure out how i should shade him. still figuring out how to shade properly on paper, i think this turned out alright :) i want his scar to be less defined though,, eh i'll fix it later

bonus machfries (barry x mach) crack ship sketches under the cut

man, this game hasn't even been out for a week and i'm already making stupid ship art of Mach and Barry lmao..... imagine if these two did get together though, Barry trying to lighten the mood and telling jokes, while Mach just gives him this absolute poker face,, and Barry just laughs awkwardly about it trying to change the subject. Mach would like him back though, they'd probably do little boxing matches in Barry's backyard or something :) (also sorry barry looks a little off, i keep forgetting how i usually draw him,,)

ok real talk.... this would happen.... probably. maybe Barry said something that pissed Mach off and lead him to punch him in the face, and as Mach gets close to him, Barry suddenly gets caught in his handsome focused eyes, his manly face, his awesome hair.... and then immediately gets pulled out of the moment as Mach punches the shit out of him. Barry's sitting down grimacing and recovering afterwards as Flash offers him bandages and ice packs. he looks pissed, and he is, but the way Mach so effortlessly beat his ass is still fresh in his mind. i think someone's in love :3

everyone likes to make fun of Pepperman for looking like an apple, but i've never seen anyone call him a capsicum before...... i like to think calling a pepper a capsicum in the Pizza Tower universe is like calling someone an imbecile or something incredibly demeaning, and Barry has no idea because us people in Australia usually call bell peppers 'capsicums' :P

shoutout to this 2012 Jetpack Joyride promotional button i found on ebay

can't wait to stab randoms on the street with a sick ass Barry pin :3