Artist Travis Pitts came up with this fun T-Shirt design (“We’ve Got Some Work To Do Now”) featuring Velma Dinkley of Scooby-Doo fame and the titular Great Dane chewing on what appears to be some vanquished monster’s (Frankenstein’s Monster?) hand:
I love the older, battle-hardened, post-apocalyptic version of Velma shown above.
The Mystery Machine (now Misery Machine, apparently) has been refitted with side-mounted chainsaws for hacking away at undead armies.
(Wonder what the giant wooden stake up top is for?)
Also, Shaggy, Fred, and Daphne are no more it seems.
What a great concept!
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Here’s what the artist himself had to say about the design:
Sticking with my favorite theme of heroic girls … and injecting realism or plausibilty [sic] to silly pop culture icons …, I knew I wanted to make a certain teen detective [and] her canine companion into the sole survivors of a Monsterpocalypse for the threadless loves Horror contest.
Everyone knows that it’s always the timid, quiet, second-string female character that gets the dramatic arc and has the wits and skill to survive most horror movies. I struggled for days trying to come up with a semi-realistic interpretation of this toughened, nerdy survivor-type gal- until I remembered I was dating one, and asked her to model for it.
Fun stuff!
Click here to buy the shirt over at Threadless.com and to check out more of the artist’s designs!
Here’s the trailer for From Software’snewest PS3 title, 3D Dot Game Heroes, released in Japan November 5th:
(I love the way the 2D game map “pops” up into 3D towards the beginning of the clip.)
The game’s designers seem to have borrowed heavily from Nintendo’s original 8-bit The Legend Of Zelda (also, the SNES sequel, A Link To The Past, if the hero’s dash move and ability to swipe at chickens are any indication). The hero, besides wielding a comically long sword that would give even Final Fantasy VII‘s Cloud a serious case of sword envy, even uses a boomerang to flip a switch in one of the dungeons shown in the trailer. The score, too, is very Zelda-like.
The simple, Zelda-inspired visuals share much of the same all ages appeal that makes games like Lego Star Wars and Lego Batman so endearing:
Looks like a Tektite, Leaps like a Tektite...
Town Square, Get It?
Though an official release date has yet to be announced, the game will belocalized and made available to the North American gaming public in the future.
