Video Game Comics and Breath-taking Wallpapers
I was just going through my RSS feeds and saw the Absolutely Amazing Video Game Remake Wallpapers post at Lifehacker. These are old-school games re-rendered by Mikael Aguirre aka Orioto using advanced photoshop shading, texturing, and airbrush techniques. Absolutely amazing!
Check out this one from Street Fighter II Turbo:
Incidentally both of these video games have ongoing comic book series. Udon Entertainment makes a very beautiful Street Fighter II series, parts of which can be read at Crunchyroll. Archie Comics does the Sonic the Hedgehog comic and it's geared toward kids. It'd be super-cool if they re-published the Sonic the Hedgehog comics in a DVD like they did with the older Archie comics. The Archie Comics publisher has a very long history of producing comics for kids and they're the only one who makes sure their comics can be found outside of the comic book and book stores.
Exploring Orioto deviantArt page some more, I noticed that IGN commissioned a Final Fantasy VI wallpaper. I can't wait to see it! That was my favorite game from when I was a kid! Too bad there's no official Final Fantasy manga based on FFVI. There's a ton of back stories in FFVI to work with.
If you like Final Fantasy, check out the Wayrift fan comic set in the world of Final Fantasy IV. I've embedded the Introduction issue into this post.
