In case you can’t tell I’ve been a little bit obsessed with Zelda recently. I’m about 50 hours into Skyward sword and I think I’m pretty near the end. I’ve also been working on the Zelda comic that we announced last week. The second page of that will go up tomorrow by the way. One of the things I did when I first started the Zelda comic was to get a little sketchbook just for the project. So I’ve been doodling and making little water color paintings in it for a couple of months now. One of the sketches I did I actually really liked and when I looked at it I felt like it should be a painting.

Penny Arcade TV season 3 kicked off last week and hopefully you checked out the first episode. Meanwhile the PATV season 2 DVD is now available for pre-order. Originally we had set Sunday as the final day for ordering your special signed copy but we've pushed that out a couple of days. So now you have until tomorrow Tuesday Nov, 22 at midnight to pre-order a copy of the Season 2 DVD. We will be signing all the pre-orders so hit the store and grab yours today.

We've already explained in absolute terms why you might find the occasional rupee spirited away. I found a Link inside a Wind Waker gashapon that I ostensibly got for my son, and the figure included a little rupee inside the egg, and they're just as desirable in real life. I took it. Oh, don't look at me like that. He has no idea what it is.

As promised:

We - we as in "everybody at Penny Arcade" - will sign any sets purchased in the next few days! What kind of sets? I'm so glad you asked.

I didn't know about Movember, or the extent to which one could movemb. I'd seen the power of human facial hair to create charity wealth through our local 826 chapter, but the practice has apparently become much more codified since then. Movember is a "hairity" drive to focus awareness squarely on a man's most harrowed, gruesome, and unspeakable realms.

Apparently there is a terrible hunger for these codes! Sorry, they all got eaten up. I suspect you'll enjoy it quite a bit; I know we did.

As suggested previously, Super Mario Land 3D is a game you can own for your 3DS. What's novel about it, supremely novel, is that you will actually want to.

A few months ago Nintendo approached us about doing a project for them. I was interested, but my schedule was full at the time. Then they told us it was Zelda. The business guys were hesitant to put any more work on my plate but I told them I had to do it. Like a little kid offering to do chores I promised I would work late and come in on the weekends. I had to draw Zelda!

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I’ve got another cool PA presents project to tell you about. This time we were approached by Capcom to create something for Asura’s Wrath. We ended up making a six page comic book that explores how Asura’s "wrath issues" effect his day to day life.

If Skyrim had come out a little earlier, say, anytime before Modern Warfare, it might have fared better with my cohort. In Modern Warfare games, all you have to do is hold the right trigger down and seven hundred different bars go up, the culmination of each accompanied by a heavy-metal choir.

Like Tycho I have also jumped into a few MW3 games without having muted everyone. I honestly can’t believe the shit they say to me and the names they call me. I would make a Fat, Ugly, or Slutty site for guys but I actually don’t feel comfortable repeating the things that have been said to me. If they know you’re a girl that gives these monsters an obvious avenue of attack. If you’re just a dude they need to be more, “creative”. The answer is to mute them. Mute them right away and never stop muting them. Mute them forever.

I never got into any of the previous Elder Scrolls games. I could never get past the graphics which as Tycho likes to say “has kept me from enjoying a great many things.” I just always thought the characters looked ridiculous and the world felt so bland. I was able to get a copy of Skyrim for the Xbox a bit early though and so I decided to give this one a shot.

It had fully been my intention to hold out on Modern Warfare 3, but if Robert drops a copy on my desk in an effort to catalyze the ancient ritual I'm not going to tell him no. We have enough people that we could very easily play nothing but Private games forever. And that's more or less what we do.