Today's update comes courtesy of Derwin, from our forums. He has created what may be the world's tiniest tribute to Sam & Max. An impressive achievement, no?
"I work in a microfabrication facility at my university, and I decided to make what I believe is the worlds smallest (as of now) tribute to Sam and Max. For a sense of scale, the average width of a human hair is supposedly 80 microns (thanks Wikipedia!)... while the Max head seen in the attached picture is 50 microns tall by 45 microns wide. The image was taken under the 50x setting on the microscope we have in the lab. I could have potentially made them smaller, but I felt that Max's nose was already pushing it at somewhere around 2-4 microns tall."
As some of you may have noticed, we are currently hiring for a concept artist. In anticipation of this presumably awesome person who will someday work for us, I found myself placing an order for a 21 inch Wacom Cintiq tablet. Once the deliveryman left us our new toy, I set it up on an empty desk and walked away, brushing the dirt from my hands with a smug sense of accomplishment.
Unfortunately, a number of other people in the office realized that they could use this unattended toy to actually draw things on. Begrudgingly, I present to you, our fine readers, the results of leaving a tablet out in the office for a week.
After many long hours of deliberation, four winners have been chosen for the "Make a Mii" contest. We had over a hundred entries, and believe me, narrowing them down was tough!
The entries were judged by Telltale staff and the Brothers Chaps. (Oh, and Strong Bad, too. Sort of.) And the winners are...
Boxing Strong Bad
by Jared D. Weiss
We saw many a Strong Bad Mii in this competition, but the clever addition of boxing gloves up this one over the top.
Random fact: Apparently you can't give Miis green glasses. What's up with that?
Update June 13: The hardcovers are now shipping! If you preordered, watch your email for a shipping notification.
Freakin finally! The hardcover edition of Surfin the Highway has finally started arriving in the office (and should be shipping out to you extremely soon!). The printer ended up printing two extra books (bringing the total to 2,502), and one of those two extra rare unnumbered babies spent the day floating around the office.