Loved the comic!

If Leno gets moved back to 11:30 (or 10:30, as we CST'ers know it) it will at least make my Conan v. Letterman decision easier...

Sadly, Carson didn't pick the successor. Well, he did, he picked Letterman, but the network ignored him. Which is why he was the first guest on the Late Show with David Letterman, and never appeared on Jay Leno.

@Santy: You mean one of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4_cube ?

After having one for a couple of years, switching back to one with a fan was torture (For the first few days).

Fair enough.

Nice.

I should have rolled up to the midnight launch at Gamestop yesterday and yelled "Chapman kills Lennon!!" before speeding off. Sigh, missed opportunities.

I just found out that comments over a certain word count are moderated. Interesting.

So, would it be appropriate to shout after a long session of playing the Beatles Video Game, "I've got blisters on my thumbs!!"?

No? Okay.

Great strip, Joel... but I would be remiss if I reminisced about the White Album, instead I want to share about about my white console.

I was a little late to the Dreamcast party. It was Fall 2001, my first semester of College, when I purchased mine at Best Buy for a paltry $50. They were clearancing them out, since the console had been discontinued for the better part of six months at that point. One of the Blue Shirts saw me picking it up and told me to get a PS2, since the Dreamcast was dead and they wouldn't be making any new games for it anymore. I didn't take his advice, and I'm very glad I didn't.

The Dreamcast was the first console that I ever owned. Don't get me wrong, I grew up playing NES, SNES, and Genesis, but those were my family's consoles, they stayed at their house when I moved into my first apartment. Along with the console, I picked up a few titles, also clearanced down to a svelte $15, among them were Sonic Adventure, Crazy Taxi, Jet Grind Radio, and Soul Calibur. I would add many more later, but those 4 titles cemented my knowledge that I had made the right decision by going Dreamcast instead of the in-vogue PS2. I took it home and immediately hooked it up to my little 13" TV, the now-familiar Swirl and annoying VMU beeps greeting me for the first time of many.

The bulk of my close friends and I went to the local community college. Looking back, I really do think those two years were the halcyon days of my life. We were all at that stage of our life where we had achieved independence but hadn't yet accumulated the responsibilities that begin to drag you down. My little attic apartment was situated conveniently close to the college, and there were always friends coming and going. We'd play Magic and watch movies, but mostly we played Soul Calibur. It was the defining activity of this wonderful time. There would be four or five of us patiently waiting our turn to take on the winner. We each had our own characters and our styles of playing; sometimes one of us would figure out some new strategy that would send us on a winning streak, but we would eventually adapt and come up with our own strategies. If one of us would be having a particularly rough stretch, off would come our jacket or shoes to signify that we were "getting serious". I could still rattle of everyone's primary, secondary, and tertiary characters they fought with and which characters they despised above others. For something I spent $15 on, I got over a thousand hours of entertainment out of.

We played more than just Soul Calibur on our little Machine of Wonder. Early on I picked up Power Stone 2, Armada, and Skies of Arcadia. The first two I would play for many hour with my friends. The latter I would play into the wee hours of the morning on those special nights where I didn't have anywhere to be before noon the next day. I knew when light started coming through the small windows of the door that it was time to hang up the controller for the night.

Such times can't last though, eventually we all started moving on from the College, some of us to various Universities, others to Full-Time employment and the start of the rest of our lives. I eventually picked up other consoles and other friends. I traded my 13" TV for a HD Big Screen, that now has a Wii and an Xbox 360 hooked into it. I play mostly single-player titles now. For all the extra features they now offer, whether it's HD graphics, Motion Controls or built-in Wi-Fi; they just can't compare to the amount of fun I had playing the now ten-year-old console, that was supposedly dead when I bought it, but still managed to provide me thousands of hours of entertainment.

Aww.. I was hoping they would use Ian Holmes and whatever technique they used for the flashback scene from Lord of the Rings to make him look young.
Daniel Radcliffe is a little to 'Frodo' for me... but I'm sure whatever delToro does will impress.

But Futurama has made a lot of money for 20th30th Century Fox, so it does stand to reason that based on past performance of the brand, that the most visible aspects of the show should see some sort of raise. Would you work at a job for 10 years and never ask for raise? Especially if you had proven that you were able to generate years of good returns?

It's sad, the Evil Fox Executive is my favorite reoccurring character on HE, but I only get to see him when Fox does something evil to one of my favorite shows....

Also, hearing the phrase "Let me consult the bones." instantly reminded me of Willow. I half-expected the HDPoNRSD to reply with "The bones tell me nothing! Tell me Evil Fox Executive, do you have hate for this show?" after he casted them.