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With the absence of Waluigi in Mario Kart 7 to make way for some odd new choices, there's been talk of Nintendo giving their character the chop. My buddy Pedro at NWR wrote up a retrospective feature about the life and times of the character, and to celebrate the event I've added my own page about the April Fool's joke I did way back when involving Waluigi's appearance in SM64DS. If you guys are interested, here it is. http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/28610

So, this is where I usually say "I've been so busy and so lazy, I haven't done anything creative in a long time", etc etc. It seems all my journal entries start like this. But, true as that may be on the artwork front, I'm very busy with the creative juices at the moment. As of two weeks ago, I've begun writing for Nintendo World Report, as some of you may already know. I get to test games for reviews, attend press conferences and media events, I even get the opportunity to meet some of the game industry bigwigs! Hopefully in the future this will lead to more media-related work and help develop my career, it could even, in obscure ways,

So, Metroid Other M looks really good. Samus, on the other hand, does not. Try as I might, I simply cannot comprehend the artistic direction behind slapping that gigantic, ugly mole on Sammy's chin. She never had it in any previous games or artwork. It doesn't even look real - it's too obvious and too dark, like it was put there for the sole purpose of people noticing a blemish on her otherwise lovingly-sculpted face. It didn't work for Cindy Crawford, it doesn't work for Samus. Say all you want about so-called beauty spots, I'll never see the beauty in them. Especially drawn-on-with-a-Sharpie, fake attention-grabbers. I just hope they come