It's Gundam Wednesday!

While I thought that my Haro Chief was all kinds of cute, he would get totally squashed if he went up against this amazing Master Grade MS-06 Zaku II Master Chief conversion. *drooooool*

Now I know that both the Zaku and Master Chief share military green as their base color. But I kind of want to see this guy in a Char Aznable red. I totally admit it, I'm super gay for Char!

Source: Mech Designer Gelo

To combat the stereotype that Asian men are shy, the SexyDragon strips off his clothes and dances in public.

My one and only complaint is the choice of backing track. Soulja Boy? Seriously? Come on, SexyDragon, this shit would have been epic with "Sexy Back." Aside from that, we here at YP salute you and look forward to more!




Source: Sexy Dragon Production

Being a Gundam and Halo fan, I just couldn't resist. Haro Chief is available at the YP MySoti store. So if you've got a Covenant or Zeon problem at home, Haro Chief can help you take care of that!

Giant Robot is one of my most favorite magazines. I try to pick it up whenever I can find it. Their tag line says "Asian American Pop Culture & Beyond" but it doesn't quite capture the amazing breadth of Pop Culture that they cover. You just can't sum up the awesomeness contained in each issue with a simple tag line. What I love best about GR is its universal appeal. It's never pretentious or elitist. You don't have to be Asian to get GR.

They've just launched a video podcast for issue 64. In part 1, they talk about the cover story on Black Rock Shooter by Japanese artist Huke.



Looks like I'm headed to the bookstore sometime soon! I <3 GR!

Sure, the addition of a yellow pixel to the standard red, green, and blue spectrum sounds pretty snazy. But it's really George Takei's catch phrase that makes all the difference. I couldn't stop laughing after watching this.



And just for nostalgia's sake, here's an old E*Trade commercial with ol' George blowin' shits up!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this week's two mini contests. They were a lot of fun to set up and I'm happy that so many of you took the time to figure out who the hell I was drawing.

For the “Metro Hates You Mini Contest," the big win goes to Mathew Ling who correctly guessed from left to right Black Jack, Astro Boy, Cammy, Hawk, Homer, Rorschache, and Logan. He's got a Logan sketch coming his way.

And for the "Stuck Mini Contest" we've got a tie! Both Kamen Otaku and Wilt Manglicmot guessed all but one correctly. If they pooled their answers, they would have won. But since they were the closest, I'm giving them both a sketch of one of these characters who can be seen squished in the Metro car. In the background from left to right we've got Battle Angel Alita, a chick wearing a Gundam jacket (I would have accepted Gundam or RX-78), Kenshiro from Fist of the Northstar, Kamen Rider, Ultraman, Aang, Jubilee, Akuma (aka Gouki), E. Honda, and Power Girl. In the foreground we've got Yuko, Ananth, Harry Potter, and Vash the Stampede.

Thanks again to all who participated. You can be sure that the next time I have a lot of background characters to draw, there will be another mini contest!

If you're a fan of webcomics then you know of the genius that is Axe Cop. A few weeks ago, Ethan, the illustrator, was asking if anyone could color this badass poster he wanted to produce. I took a look and saw the manliest thing I've ever seen, a cop riding a dinosaur with machine gun arms blasting away at a bunch of aliens. That, my friends, is fucking epic. So I fired off an email and volunteered my services and voila! I'm coloring me a machine gun dino!

I'm sending Ethan progress shots as I go and they may or may not show up on the Axe Blog. If you want to see the dark and gritty behind-the-scenes kind of crap that colorists go through, he's posted the first progress shots I sent along. When it's done, I might do some kind of fancy timelapse thingy. Oh, and while you're visiting Axe Cop, be sure to pre-order that badass t-shirt!

Capcom unleashed the newest Street Fighter to the Super Street Fighter IV roster. The greasy and enthusiastic Hakan is a Turkish Ya?l? güre? fighter which is apparently the Turkish national sport. In Ya?l? güre?, wrestlers lube up with olive oil and go at it. Like all the Street Fighter styles, Hakan's actual use of Ya?l? güre? is probably fairly inaccurate and wildly exaggerated. And just fucking creepy.

If I had to go on character design alone, I would have thought he was some kind of tengu. A tengu is a yokai, Japanese mythical creatures. There are a bunch of yokai that appear in Japanese folk tales, art, manga, and anime. I'm not really up on my yokai lore, unfortunately, but there's this awesome book entitled Yokai Attack!: The Japanese Monster Survival Guide that might be worth checking out. All I know is that tengu typically have longish noses and the ones I've seen have red skin. So I instantly thought Hakan was a tengu.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to the Super Street Fighter IV. Loved the first one although I still haven't unlocked Gouken. Oh, and I just got SFIV for the iPhone. It's actually a lot of damn fun. Button mashing is slightly more difficult, but it's a fun way to get aggression out on the commute to and from work.

A few of you are already subscribed to Yellow Peril via RSS. You can also have the comic emailed to you! There are links to subscribe via RSS or email on the sidebar. I haven't quite figured out how to make a separate RSS feed for the comic and the blog so be aware that when you subscribe, you'll get the comic and the blog posts.

Also doing some research on how to get YP on iPhones, iPads, Androids, and other mobile devices.

NOTE: I apologize if you are getting a duplicate of this in the feed. You can see how I screwed up the email link so it didn't quite work. It should work now.

My brother lives in Redmond, WA and works at this little place called Bungie. And apparently, there's this awesome Japanese place out there called Boom Noodle. I say awesome without actually ever being there because, well, the place is called Boom Noodle! That's fucking awesome!

Anyway, he sent me this photo of something called Ramen Noodle. You know those chocolate bars that use crispy rice for crunch? Ramen Noodle chocolate is kinda like that except instead of rice, they use ramen! *faint*

Now, I'm one of those weird people who don't particularly like chocolate. But this I have to try! I believe Komforte Chockolate is a local Washington brand so I'll have to check it out when I visit my brother the next time. If any of you ¥P fans have tried this stuff, please write us with word on how awesome it is! Because it has ramen and that's fucking awesome!