John Kovalic is best known for Dork Tower, a comic book, comic strip, and webcomic. He is the co-founder and co-owner of Out of the Box Publishing. He has illustrated many board and card games including the “Super Deluxx” edition of Kobolds Ate My Baby!, Apples to Apples, and the Munchkin card game.

Speaking of Munchkin, John Kovalic has very generously donated to Desert Bus a signed copy of  Munchkin with Desert Bus Card. We’ll be giving that away sometime between 10am – 10pm PST on Nov 20th. Thank you John Kovalic for your contributions to Desert Bus! We’ll strive to keep the bus from being deserted.

So last year Billsmom was reimagined as Billzmom, The Matron of Giants. Her new planeswalker persona has stuck since and we’re bringing that theme back for her art challenge this year. The photo linked above is a shot that Billsmom took in New Mexico and is her inspiration for this challenge. On the line is the Billzmom Planeswalker card Lenticular GIF, and the pig has been sweetened by Billsmom herself with a Death of Superman Comic!

Your challenge is to use this photo, either as inspiration or directly, and create Billzmom’s cloud retreat. Wherever the Planeswalker returns to rest after journeying forth on adventure. This contest will run until 7:30 PM PST. Please send all entries to contest@desertbus.org with the subject line Cloud Retreat. Please include the public name you’d like to be announced as if victorious.

THIS IS A GIVEAWAY. I REPEAT WE ARE DOING THIS AMAZING DARK LINK’S SWORD REPLICA AS A GIVEAWAY!!!!!! The sword measures 42 inches long and weighs in at 5 lbs, with detail work that would make the master craftsmen of Hyrule weep. This sword can be yours to win by donating $8.87 or multiples thereof until 1:00 PM PST!!!! 

We’ve got Kate’s first giveaway happening RIGHT NOW! Until 11:00 AM PST, any donation of $5.73 or multiples thereof will enter you for a chance to win the Sweet Treats Prize Pack, full of delicious tasty treats!

Oh do we have a sweet Donation Drive for you right now! Until 9:55 AM PST you can donate $6.77 or multiples thereof for a chance to win this amazing Mass Effect Lot! If the Mass Effect Trilogy for PC, Turian Cruiser Model, Alliance Dropshop model, and the Mass Effect Risk game wasn’t enough, Cam has sweetened this lot. Surprising EVERYONE in the room he pulled out a Coke Bottle…that said Alex on it…that was frozen in liquid nitrogen and smashed with a sledgehammer. That’s right, you can own a piece of the infamous LRR Share a Coke Wars of 2014!!!!!!!

Bill Corbett will be calling into Desert Bus at 11am PST on Wednesday, November 19th.

Bill is an American writer and performer known for his work as the voice and puppeteer of Crow T. Robot (v.2.0) on the cult television show Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K). He also played an omnipotent dim witted alien, The Observer (also known as “Brain Guy”) along with other minor roles on MST3K.

As a playwright and screenwriter his body of work includes the screenplay, Starship Dave (released as the Eddie Murphy comedy Meet Dave), and the plays The Big Slam, Hate Mail, The Stuff of Dreams, and Super-Powered-Revenge-Christmas #1. He is also a contributing writer to NPR’s A Prairie Home Companion and All Things Considered.

Bill reunited with his MST3K teammates Mike Nelson and Kevin Murphy to create Rifftrax, which creates MST3K style riff audio commentaries for movies of all sorts from blockbuster hits to B-movies to educational short films.

Have a question for Bill? Leave them in the comments below!

MomoCon opened it’s doors to the public for the first time in 2005 as a free convention in Atlanta, GA. The evolution of the Techwood convention in 2004 put on by Georgia Tech’s anime club Anime O-Tekku, MomoCon has risen to become one of the top 10 anime conventions by size in North America.

MomoCon is an all-ages convention with a  focus on Japanese and American animation, comics, video games and tabletop games. In their most recent year they attracted 15,000 attendees and expect that number to keep growing!

We thank MomoCon for providing us with a host of amazing things to auction off and give away, chief among them this gorgeous Blue Spirit Mask

Let’s get the morning amped up with a donation drive! Donations of $5.14 or multiples thereof until 8:50 AM PST for your chance to win! Included in the pack are copies of Just Dance 2014, Forza Motorsport 5, and FIFA 14 as well as an Energizer controller charging station.

This Zeta shift was FULL of stuff going on! We kicked off the night with the auction of Andrew’s Desert Bus 7 photo book for a mind-bending $3250.

Alex and Matt mastered the high five:

The stream went down temporarily, but we fixed it like so:

We had a Cards Against Equestria giveaway that made us all laugh heartily. Kate and Kathleen gave us horrible advice and we broke Graham.

We had a whole conversation about comics, and a fabulous Magic: the Gathering giveaway that made us all jealous. Alex and Graham’s QWERPLINE gave us this thing:

We exorcised the seizure chicken, and Andrew by extension:

And we generally broke Johnny.

You! Yes, you. Do you like The Sims? Well, if you donate $8.44 in the next hour (until 7:30 am) then you’ll be entered for a chance to win this fantabulous Sims prize pack! Here’s what you’ll get if you’re the lucky winner: