Red Dead Redemption is a Sandbox Western by Rockstar Games, the company that brought you running over hookers for rebates (GTA).  Left in the lurch of confusion by last night’s Lost Finale, you may wish to pick up a pair of irons and go ape shit on a bunch of townsfolk.  Remember when you’re indiscriminately butchering, you get the Dastardly Achievement for hog tying a woman and putting her on the train tracks, it doesn’t have to be a nun.  But it can be a nun.  My cousin Craig whom I’m living with in the interim to my upcoming San Francisco move purchased the Xbox version of this game.  My current experience, due to budgeting lends me to only have played his guy while he was out of the room.  This involved me shooting someone and pausing it when the posse got there.  This caused a “Where did all these fucking guys come from from.”  I’d have to give my current experience getting Craig killed an A+.  But I haven’t really played the game.  Sandboxes are usually pretty awesome for the first couple of hours and this one is beautiful.  If you have the time to blow I  imagine this is a decent way to do it.

If you hadn’t heard, Tyra is writing a fantasy novel.  Those Twilight fans will be all a swoon when they find out that a tale of models and magic will be available for a quick read between vampire flicks.  Dibs Copyright on Models and Magic, I’ll be writing the 4th Edition DnD crossover.  I’m all for children reading and all but, this is the kind of thing that makes me long for a trashy vampire novel for them to go read.  Who am I to prejudge? I’m sure this book will be at least as good as it sounds.  Tyra seems chalk full of wit and great ideas.

In other news Straight Face Comics (that’s us) is participating in this week’s Joystiq.com Weekly Webcomic Roundup.  Head on over to choose your favorite of the nominated strips.

Also our RSS Feed is now operational again.  There was a slight typo causing errors for the past few weeks.

Girls love romance, yet hate romantics /discuss

They say having nightmares about your teeth falling out is you worrying about aging.  I’ve had them since I was about seven or eight.  I have a hard time believing as an eight year old I had the vanity of worrying about my nineth birthday to come.  Now I just worry that walking into a dentists office will cost me more than a transmission.  I really have a hard time believing dentistry is a more refined science than auto repair.  It’s pulling teeth out and drilling.  Anyone that can give an injection, and ask ‘Hey asshole, does this hurt when I do this?” could be a dentist.  In fact I’m going to start selling SFC Brand Home Dental Kits as soon as we get a store up.

I don’t have much of a blog for this morning, so I’ll put up a list of the board games I’ve been playing lately.  I highly recommend all of these:

(If you’re new to nerdy board gaming I recommend reading some reviews here!)

• Arkham Horror
• Fury of Dracula
• Dominion (plus expansions)
• Wasabi

(listed from longest to shortest play-time duration, entirely on accident.)

I have word from the Phillipines, and that word is “hooker.”  According to Don the frugal traveler can find a hooker for about 1-2$, they may have Hepatitis A/B and or Taburculosis, but man what a price.  I’m assuming the 2$ hooker has the TB, Doc Holiday had TB that’s a manly disease.  Speaking of manly, Don also informs me that there’s a long standing Filipino Hooker tradition of being a surprise man, and it’s thought to be ok to keep this a secret as long as the client is drunk.  Don has gone deep undercover to get us this vital info.  He gets to charge 5$ though, because he’s not riddled with debilitating illness.

Saw Tv Spots for Avatar all Thanksgiving weekend.  James Cameron getting back on the action horse after a long time at sea–filming it.  I’ve voiced this before, but after getting Lucased in the nuts by new Star Wars, then New Indy, I feel like a battered woman at the shelter ready to date again.  He seems handsome, and he’s saying nice things, but then he talks about cat people.  And all I see are Gungans crawling out of a fridge after a nuclear blast.  Someone hold me and my first born alien to be.

Happy Thanksgiving from Off-putting Talking Dog and the rest of us at SFC.  This is my first attempt at coloring a strip, Don having a short time in which to do about 7 comics he left this one for me to color.  Go me.

Don is on his way to the Magical Land of the Philipines for 3ish weeks.  While there he will climb their infamous Mount Bootleg Dvd and learn to speak to dinosaurs.  I imagine this will be much like talking to Amy the Gorilla from Congo.  Except when the raptor says tickle Amy, it’s much more horrifying.  Also their will from the looks of the drawing be women bigger than those dinosaurs, perhaps riding them.  This trip of magical wonders leaves me with some comics already completed.  So unfortunately our rampant attacks on bad movies and dead celebrities will be at a cease fire as we’ll be unable to update our content with current events for a bit.  Please feel free to flood Don’s inbox. don@straightfacecomics.com with questions about the magic and piles of pornography that he experienced in the Philippines.  I’m sure he’d love to answer them when he gets back.

I thought it would be indescribable for the rest of my life.  Now the truth can finally be told: My talking wang is shaped just like a Motorola Droid.

If you’ve been following our Twitter, you can tell that I’ve been enjoying the shit out of my Droid this last week.  Being as I’ve had severe vision problems for the past 5 years or so (finally getting better) Tina usually drives.  This means she gets to sit in traffic while I titter about things on the internet and or my phone.  We were on our way to a Game Night with some friends this weekend, and I was browsing, twittering, had the Meebo chat app up and listening to my Pandora Station in the background.  Needless to say I had a good weekend.