COTW 7 winner Coppertops has finally submitted his request and his drawing will be up a little bit later in the week. The winner this week has to go to Trevnor for his comment,
“Except for you. And its on your face.”
“That means I’m more of a man then you’ll ever be, bitch.”
which made me laugh. [...]

Recently I was wandering through Futureshop (an electronics store) with loyal ONAMite Coppertops and we noticed a copy of Team Fortress 2 being sold for $29.99. Normally that wouldn’t be an issue, however it was right beside a copy of The Orange Box which was also retailing for $29.99. Why would anyone ever buy just [...]

With this recent storyline I thought that you guys and gals might enjoy some purely videogame related comics. On that note I’ve resolved to try to do one comic a week that is less intense art-wise but completely videogame centered. I’ve decided to call them oNaM Tangents and the first one is below.

Last week I tasked you guys with putting in captions for a classic ONAM comic to win Comment of the Week. There were a surprising amount of entries, but I thought this one by Coppertops was the best.

Check out the rest of the awesome entries here. 
For this coming week we will be going back to the regular [...]

I’m quite sorry. The comic for the 25th of November will be a bit late. I will do everything in my power to have it up today. Thank you for understanding.
Tales of your legendary patience will be heard around the internet for years to come.

Kevin I wins it this first week back with “Ug, it’s like Dead Rising all over again, in that game I just basically guessed what they were saying and then proceeded to run over more zombies with the lawnmower.” on Font Size Follies. Kevin, I will be emailing you soon to find out what you’d [...]

Thats right, ladies and gentlemen. Trevnor’s Comment of the Week win from last June is finally done, and with it COTW is starting up again.
The contests to win COTW will be varying from now on, though. This week, lasting until next Tuesday, will be the standard rules. Who ever posts the best, or funniest comment [...]

Of Noobs and Men has been mentioned in the Weekly Webcomic Wrapup over on Joystiq.com for this past Tuesday’s comic “Sackboy’s First Day”. Please head over here and vote for ONAM. If you’re reading this Ross Miller, thanks.

I just wanted to pass along a link to an article that sums up the purpose of readers much better than I ever could.

Kevin Ireland over at the wonderfully bizarre webcomic Ominous Knife has drawn an image of Jim that I find quite awesome (and also kinda creepy).

If anyone else would like to try their hand at drawing any of the characters from the strip, please send them to evan@ofnoobsandmen.com
I will be placing them in a new section [...]

I’ve had a Twitter account for a while now, but have only really started using it recently. If you’d like to follow me on Twitter, click here.

Of Noobs and Men has grown a lot over the course of the first hundred comics. Starting out I jumped in without any research, thinking “I can bang out a couple of comic strips, no problem.” I quickly learned just how time consuming a process these things can be. The first comics took close to [...]

Check out this amazing collection of sketches of the X-Men’s Nightcrawler. They’re from a large assortment of artists and are quite awesome.

The comic will be up a little bit later today. The holiday yesterday screwed up my regular schedule. Sorry, dudes.

To all of my Canadian readers, I’d like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. May you stuff yourselves till you’re uncomfortably full!

This is the story of my experience with Force Unleashed. Last Sunday I decided to rent the game (PS3 Version). I got it home and played for about an hour when I got a phone call that my Grampa was in the hospital, and that he was in a dire condition. Immediately I rushed home [...]

Due to family issues, there will be no comics this week.

I just saw this on Digg and I found it to be hilarious.
I mean, who hasn’t been there?

I can’t believe how quick this release date came up, but Force Unleashed comes out Tuesday, September 16th! If you devoured the demo as voraciously as me I know you are practically bubbling over with excitement.

Hey dudes and dudettes, I’m back.
I am still having technical issues so I will be going back to the regular Tuesday and Friday update schedule until those are sorted out.
Now that I’ve had a chance to recharge my batteries, I think the comic will be much better.

I am taking a sort of vacation from the comic for this week. I’ve been at it for over a year now, and I’d like a little time off. As well, I’ve been having some technical difficulties, so I need some time to sort that out.
You can look forward to new comics starting the week [...]

Earlier in the month I began doing a sketchblog, and I forgot to mention it here. You’re probably thinking “great, another so called ‘cartoonist’ started posting up half assed pictures he drew.” And to that I say, “Yes” and “Fuck you.” It’ll be a place where I will put up the work that I do [...]

 
The amazing demo for TFU is out now and it is, as you may have guessed, amazing!
I played through it three times, once on each difficulty and each time I was amazed. If you have a 360 or PS3 you need to go download this demo immediately.
If you’ve already played it, here are five things [...]

Perhaps not, but definately the greatest ever made by EA.
If you think of EA as a monolithic corporation that never pays any attention to what its fans do, as I did, then check this out.

It has been about six months since I posted a wallpaper. You can find the new one here (in three sizes). It’s based off of a thread in the forums.

There is a guest strip by yours truly currently up at Fuzznuts. I suggest that you go check it out!

Excellent title aside, Pirates vs Ninjas Dodgeball has just about the greatest ground textures I’ve ever seen. Look at the sand in the shot below.

It looks like the scene had been rendered in claymation or something. The snow in other shots on the website is just as breathtaking.
Though these could very easily be bullshots, they [...]

GoNintendo has some shots of the next Sonic game, Sonic Unleashed and they are as dissapointing as I’d feared. If they could just make a 2d Sonic game with a beautiful 3d engine (or even hand drawn) they’d be back on track. Instead we get Sonic as a werewolf.
The guy selling PCP outside of Sega [...]

Hey dudes and dudettes, I’ve been listening to this podcast for the past couple of weeks and I thought it worthy of your attention. It is the Secondary Fire Podcast and it stars two regular gamers, Jon and Amrit. It is quite simply the best consumer level podcast I’ve listened to. They keep things consistently [...]

It sort of slipped past in the news a couple of days ago, but people have played skate 2. I adored the first skate and grew somewhat of an addiction to it. The sequel looks outstanding. It’s awesomeosity is, at bare minimum, an 8.

The footage of the Wolverine movie which is coming out next year that was shown at comicon has leaked to the internet. The link for part one is here. Part two is here.
I had my doubts about this movie but it looks pretty darn cool. The only problem I have with it is that Gambits [...]

If you haven’t seen it already, VG Cats has up a comic that sums up perfectly how Nintendo is treating it’s fan base.
Check it out here.

What’d you guys think of it? Who would you like to see as a villain in the innevitable sequel? Let me know in the forums.

Massively.com has a large amount of info up about DCUO. This article tells us, among other things that speedsters (like The Flash) can run up the sides of buildings. This article here explains that the game will be playable at San Diego Comic Con next week! I played City of Heroes for years and this [...]

 
Today is the first anniversary for of Noobs and Men! One year ago today I posted the first god awful comic on a horrible looking website. If you go looking for the first comic now, you wouldn’t be able to find it. I took it out of the archive to spare you my dear readers. [...]

The newest Star Wars retrospecive came out recently at Game Trailers. It details Kyle Katarn’s games, from Dark Forces to Jedi Academy. Watching it, I started to wonder why we haven’t seen Katarn in anything for the past couple of years. He was a great character that I’d love to see it more things. Perhaps [...]

So this is the new look for of Noobs and Men. I tried to declutter as much as I could, to make it cleaner looking overall.
The biggest thing though is the Forum, which you can access via the link at the top of the page. I think we can make a kickass community there.
This isn’t [...]

I’ve noticed that a lot of people that I know, who I would consider hardcore gamers, don’t listen to any podcasts at all. Perhaps they don’t know how to get them on their iPods, or they don’t think there is anything worthwhile in podcasts. I’d like to help.
First of all, to get podcasts on your [...]

Last night I watched a cool new TV show called The Middleman. In the show comic book evil is real and the titular Middleman fights it. It’s goofy and quirky and I liked it a lot. The sad bit is that it’s broadcast on ABC Family, but being a resourceful bunch I’m sure you guys [...]

Dudes and Dudettes the next two weeks will be rather light on blog posts as I have exams. When that period is over though, you can look forward to some rather big changes happening with the comic.
The comics will go up on their regular days. It is just the blog posts that will be affected.

I was thinking about the eventual Avengers movie the other day and it brought up an interesting question that I’d like to pose to you dudes and dudettes.
What are we going to say to refer to years when we get to 2010?
Will we keep  up with the nomenclature that we’ve had thus far like ‘oh-seven’, [...]

It was recently rumored that Microsoft would try and make an answer to the Wii’s Miis and PS3’s home by having Avatars. Imagine Master Chiefs as far as the eye can see. Or god forbid, if they give customization tools to 360 owners. It will be a sea of walking penises in every color of [...]

A fortnight ago I rented the game in question with every intention of beating it. Reviews said that it was easier than the first game and in my head that meant that I should have no problem.
8 hours in, when I had seen the ‘game over’ screen for the fiftieth time I thought, “perhaps I [...]

This week goes to the man that has commented the most of any reader, Trevor Holm.
His comment was:
When we return to Cutscene Watch 2008!
Shawn contiunes to sit there, while the Police search his home! What will they find! What will they do when they make the gursome discovery! Find out after these messages!!
It was on [...]

I’m rather proud of this one. It is of, in the winner G-Money’s words:
Guillaume rendered as an old spy on the battlefield, much like snake in GOTP

and here’s the same image but done in my “traditional” coloring methods.

The fourth Comment of the Week winner is G-Money for his comment on Every Night It’s God Damned Scrabble!!
What is Ninja Gaiden without face-melting, controller throwing, beating a baby with a stray cat rage induced by a level of difficulty so challenging it makes keeping lindsay lohan off of crack and out of rehab look [...]

I’ve been trying some stuff in 3D Studio Max lately and I felt this model of Jim’s head came out quite well.

This week’s COTW was difficult to choose. There were a number of excellent comments. The ones that almost made it were:
Apparently Fenix went to the George W Bush school of medicine, where the motto is “If someone is willing to give blood for, you take it, all of it.”
by G-Money, and
hopefully thats not carpet. think [...]

I have finished the first request for a comment of the week winner. It is located on the new COTW page, which you can conveniently find a link to at the top of the site.

I’ve been playing the Penny Arcade Adventures game that came out last week some and it’s pretty good. The humour of the strip is very apparent in the game. The battle system is turn based, but in a real timey way. You can cycle through your party members and make then do an attack whenever [...]

This week’s winner is bob for his comment on Duct Tape Solves Everything.
i totally thought that said F*** not flick… whoa need to get some sleep
bob can you please email me at evan@ofnoobsandmen.com so that you can tell me what it is that you’d like to have drawn. Remember the only restriction is that it [...]

This weeks winner is Luke for his comment on Of Course! Web Parachutes:
It all makes sense now! These random-swinging spider-men of that old old show can finally be at peace and not think “Shit, i hope the camera doesn’t pan upwards, or I’m done for.”
It made me chuckle, so it won.
Next week’s Comment of the [...]

In a move sure to be familiar to fans of 2p Start, I have decided to start picking my favorite comment of the week.
Basically what will happen is that on Sundays I will pick what I felt was the best comment on either a comic or Nooblog post from that week. That person will have [...]

I recently have started playing the God of War game for PSP. I’ve completed the past two games for PS2 and I have to agree with the reviews that it is just as fun as it’s console predecessors. The graphics are great and the only problem that arises from the lack of a second control [...]

Today the site Webcomic Asylum put up a review of ONAM. You can read it here. The review might seem really negative, but I appreciate the honest feedback.
 I have to say that several of the complaints are things that I am working on. The earlier comics did tend to be a bit heavy on the [...]

Hey dudes and dudettes.
As I’m sure you’ve noticed, I’ve started to do the lettering on the comic by hand. I’d really like to know what you think. Is it too hard to read? Do you like the look it gives the comic? Please lemme know. You can do that easily, either in the comments or [...]

If you notice that the top navigation bar is looking odd, or different it’s because I am changing things up and trying to get the site to look the way I want it to.  So, if it causes any inconvenience, I’m sorry.

While making today’s comic I accidentally turned off the inks layer when I was all done and it gave the comic a really weird but cool effect.

Très bizarre.

So this is a video showing in-game footage of an upcoming first person parkour game called mirrors edge. I have some nits to pick with this game. Number one, why first person? Too lazy to develop a good camera for a third person game? Number two, why go with an emo asian chick as your [...]

On Friday I went and witnessed the Iron Man movie with some friends. I loved every minute of it. From the building of the suit, to the battle with the main villain, to the fan-freakin-tastic cameo at the very end after the credits. Basically, it was as good or better than the first and second [...]

This is the last GTA IV comic for a good while, I promise. I had to do this Sunday bonus strip just to get it out of my system.
[Ratings]

I made a video of the process of drawing of Noobs and Men #48. The software I used to record it was annoying so its really only bits and peices of the whole process. Take a look below.

This past weekend I took in Harold and Kumar 2 with my friend Jason and his girlfriend. The movie was pretty funny, but not as good as the first. The amount of nudity in it was higher though, so there’s that. My real beef was with the audience. I counted a number of kids under [...]

Some changes will be coming down the pike for the comic, come Tuesday. The main characters, Guillaume and Jim, will be getting a little bit of a redesign. There might be some bonus comics that I start to put up on non-comic days. The site will be getting less wordpressy-looking and more customized.
Also, something that [...]

Tomorrow marks the fiftieth comic here at ONAM. I know that it’s not a big deal for most people, but it means something to me. I’ll save the ‘look back’ for July 10th, which is the site’s year anniversary. Today I just wanted to thank all of you that have grown this site from having [...]

The release of the PS3’s Home has been pushed back yet again. Why was it pushed back? Who knows. More BS from Sony. There have been reports for months now that its perfectly functional and that it was supposed to be coming soon. We’ve been told it will be a service that will be added [...]

This Backbreaker game looks really cool. All the animation is generated on the fly just using, I believe, the engine that powers The Force Unleashed and GTA4. I think it might actually entice me to play a football game for once in my life. Below is a clip of a minigame in the game.

If you click here right now then you can probably see the leaked trailer for the new Clone Wars animated show. But hurry, because it is sure to disappear soonly due to copyright reasons.
And here is another trailer that is not in danger of going away, but if you haven’t seen it is just as [...]

This newest trailer for The Force Unleashed is astounding. Take a look below.Smply incredible. The bit in the beginning where he crushes the AT-AT in on itself sent chills down my spine. Later on when Vader force chokes the Wookie all over the place was really violent and kinetic. There’s a reason why Vader was [...]

Growing up I watched a lot of The Simpsons.
In the mid nineties when I was old enough to start watching it though, my family and I took in Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman on Sunday nights while Simpsons was airing. As that show was running out of steam we would [...]

Well, thats the end of Jim. Good riddance, I say. Now we can all look forward to seeing Guillaume’s crazy robot adventures in the year 92,009! Huzzah!

I’d like to be the one place on teh intarwebs that isn’t trying to pull your chain here on the tricksiest of days. Every year I go around to my favorite gaming blogs and sites and read the stories on April 1st and I get tricked. I fall for one or two stories and then, [...]

I played through Dark Sector (on 360 and PS3) this past weekend. I rented the 360 version and it was quite a lot of fun. I’ve heard that both versions run very well, so if you’re not sure which to rent it on, you’re good either way. The achievements for 360 did sway me to [...]

I am (as the title indicates) condemned by my own fear not to play Condemned 2.
Everything that I read or hear about this game exacerbates my inability to play it. The graphics are great. The investigations that you do sound deeply immersive. For instance, when you have to examine a corpse you find, there is [...]

There is a flash game that recently made the transition from online to Xbox Live Arcade. That game is N+. Its a straightforward platformer where the player must open a door and then get through that door. There are obstacles and enemies though, in addition to a time limit, that get in your way. I [...]

Here are some wallpapers based around the moon painting that was in LtD#5.

Playing Smash Bros Brawl is a very chaotic experience. There’s items flying everywhere and people and creatures punching and kicking and Smash Balls you need to whack. Its also a hell of a lot of fun. Especially, if you play as Snake.
I’ve found such joy in his ability to plant proximity mines in the ground. [...]

Remember last fall when Halo 3 came out? Remember the massive amount of hype and hubbub about it?  If you had bought it, are you still playing  it now?  I know I’m not.

There was news today that a new map pack would be made available on April 15th for Halo 3.
It seems like if Bungie [...]

I would like to remind everybody that this coming week is the final week of the “Living the Dream” storyline.
I’ve had a lot of fun writing this series and I hope you’ve enjoyed reading it. I’ve always been fairly obsessed with superheroes and this series has been a nice outlet for that.
Just to show you [...]

Thanks to Geoff I was alerted that Mario Kart for the Wii is coming out on April 27th.
That is retarded.
Nintendo never does things that make sense. Looking back at their long history one can see the poor decisions. Why has there never been a proper 3D Pokemon RPG? Why did they push connectivity with the [...]

First things first, click here and check this Incredible Hulk trailer out.
This year there’s going to be a veritable avalanche of superhero goodness. From  the kickass looking Iron Man, to the undeniable greatness that will be The Dark Night, this year is crammed full of good stuff for comic book lovers.
Not only does the Incredible [...]

I could have sworn that when I was in Edmonton I went to a Tim Hortons and they took debit cards. I am almost certain that their retarded anti-debit stance is not chain wide. If I’m incorrect someone please correct me in the comments. Anyway, there’s probably been a point in your life where you’re [...]

How to Unlock
Captain Falcon – Complete Classic Mode in twenty minutes or less. (70)
Falco – Complete 100-Man Brawl. (50)
Ganondorf – Complete Classic Mode on Hard difficulty using either Zelda or Link. (200)
Jigglypuff – Complete Classic Mode or complete Event Match #20. (350)
Lucario – Using Meta Knight, defeat Lucario in Adventure Mode. Or, complete five [...]

Firstly, check this out.
Making todays comic I realized something about my dreams.
Not enough of them involve sandwiches.
As I’m sure you may imagine this realization has been startling to say the least. A couple of years ago I started to think of what I liked about sandwiches. Was it the interplay of vegetables and bread? The [...]

As you may notice the site has undergone its final transformation for a while. This design will be the one that I stick with for the forseeable future. It is my sincerest hope you find it provides the functionality, pleasing aesthetics and ease of navigation that I believe it does. If you are bookmarking the [...]

Turok: Dinosaur Stabber
By Geoff Ryeland and Evan Hodgins
 
We still remember the first time we picked up the n64 controller and sat down with Turok: Dinosaur Hunter. That was a great game, the thrill of the fusion cannon still pulses in my veins. This was the Turok before the endless puzzles, and horrendous mazes for maps. [...]

Here are a set of ‘of Noobs and Men’ wallpaper. If you’d like to request a resolution please do so in the comments.
1920 x 1080

1024 x 768

The Game Developers Conference was this week and some really cool stuff got shown off. The game I’m most excited about out of the bunch is a ‘cops and robbers action MMO’ from the studio that did Crackdown for the 360. The game is called APB. The character customization alone has got to be [...]

The new layout of the site is up and running. You can get to all of the content that was previously available on the site as it exists now. The only thing that went the way of the dodo were the embedded videos, but they will always exist on the old site if you really [...]

Hey, I’m just changing up the site. It might be in dissarray for a couple days. Everything should be back to normal come Friday.
In the mean time you can get to the old site here.

The same can be said of any game character really. It’s the genocide of entire races of monsters just to get to one man.
Those monsters could have been rehabilitated.
Dang, there’s another comic idea…

That explains so much.
Especially why the 3D Realms offices don’t contain any wood products.

I’m sure I’m not alone in wishing that Burger King would actually make a BK Thunder burger. They could have lightning bolt shaped bacon on it! Mmmmm…
You may have missed it, but for the holiday break Tangents will take the place of regular comics. ONAM Tangents are the same as the regular comics, but are [...]

Hugs are an integral part of a healthy childhood, people!
Happy New Years!
You can stop being hung over now.

Well here we are again another review, this time for a gem of a game.
First things first, heres the non technical run down. This game has just beat out every other game on my top 5 to become my most favoritest game EVAR, and it doesnt even have multiplayer (note I dont consider that a [...]

Well, picked this game up cause I couldn’t find any Guitar Hero 3 bundles, which was my other choice. No regrets here though, this game is amazing in every aspect.
Graphics:
Graphical wise I dont think i’ve seen better on Wii (maybe Metroid, it’s probably close) either way they look great, no glitches at all so far [...]

Confused about this comic? It’s a departure from the typical comics, as its about my real life. The first bit is about my “relationship” with a girl named Amanda Miller. What follows is what actually happened when I was discussing her with my friends Jason and Edielee.
Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction is just [...]

Confused about this comic? So am I.
This weeks comic is up early. Andrew and I were able to get together during the week so we could get a comic done together, which rarely happens. I know the art style is crazy and quite different from what we normally do here at oNaM but we felt [...]

Confused about this comic? Just know that Orange Box is excellent. Oh, and that Penny Arcade already did this comic, which I realized months after making it.
Today’s comic is based on an actual conversation between he and I. The Orange Box is such an incredible value. If you don’t buy it then you should go [...]

Confused about this comic? Click here, here and here. Even after that though, you might still be confused. I know I am and I wrote the comic.
This fall is a terrible, icy, bitch. She brings with her on the one hand beautiful foliage and cozy sweaters, but on the other hand she brings with her [...]