The winner for the MegaCynics Art Contest is:

With the honour of runner up going to:

Both artists have been offered a guest strip on MegaCynics.com

Justin McElroy is a podcasting legend, famous for his hard work on the Joystiq Show and his project, My Brother, My Brother and Me. He is also the reviews editor for Joystiq.com, star of The Time Belt, and a generally fantastic human being.

Justin will be calling in to wish our drivers well at 2:30 PM PST, and we’re very much looking forward to hearing from him. You should too, so check in on the drivercam in one hour!

Googly Eyes are taking over the world! I can’t stop laughing at these…

And the winner is…

With a close 2nd Place to:

And 3rd Place belongs to:

Africaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

Thanks to everyone for participating. We had 100+ submissions, possibly the largest art challenge this year. You rock!

Best known for directing The Guild, Sean Becker is a new media and webseries pioneer, with projects ranging from his award-winning short Tuesday, to the Jeff Lewis 5-Minute Comedy hour, to work with Team Unicorn, Sean has left his mark across the internet. He’s won Streamy awards, as well as the first Youtube Sketchies award, and has been screened at The San Diego Comic-Con International Film Fesival, as well as the Wizard World Film Festival in Los Angeles, (where his entry took the “Best in Fest” prize).

Sean Will be calling in at 1:00PM, so make sure to check this call out.

The latest chapter of the thrilling Dengler & Butts comes to us from Johannes K:

“Bus it” Butts was refilling his trusty 9mm Dr. Doctorate, bullets still flying past their cover “We don’t have time to wait for them. You ready for this?”

“Yes. And stop asking old man” Butts nodded, and the two mean leapt out, firing like madmen. The terrorists returned fire, ineffectually spraying bullets.

“The right” Dengler noted “They veer to the right” They took down three, four, when suddenly the masked men turned around and fled down the street.

Wheels screeching. Butts and Dengler turned around, immediately covering their eyes caught in the headlights. Even blinded, the sound was unmistakable. The bus was finally here.

The silver missile sped down the street, slowing down just in time to stop right in front of the dynamic duo. “Well I’ll be bussed” Butts sighed. “I told you, long as there’s a bus there’s hope”

The doors opened, hissing loudly, and out stepped the gruff Korean, shotgun on his shoulders.

Butts looked startled “What the bus? Where are the other guys?”

“Don’t worry” Dong said “The others have moved out as well. What has taken you so long anyway?”

“Well Dong, we’ve had a little trouble with the uninvited guests”

“Alright now” Dengler threw in “Let’s move on. Still got a few thugs to bring to justice”

Butt’s nodded, readying his gun once more “Let’s do this”

BANG! The street exploded in noise. Dengler fell over, screaming in pain, hands on his bleeding leg.

Butts whirled around, but he was to slow. The shotgun caught him on his chin, and Butts was sent flying on his backside.

“Bussing Bus” He coughed, wiping blood from his face “What you do that for”

Dong smiled, cocking the shotgun once more. “You don’t know a bit, do you? This is bigger than the bus, bigger than the moonbase. Unfortunately, you won’t be around to see the end of it.”

 

QWOP has taken the Desert Bus by storm with its well-meaning but incredibly clumsy athlete. We solicited many fanarts from QWOP, but this one from Victoria (not the city, that’s her name) was declared the winner. She wins an Escapist prize pack and buttons.

Here are the runner-ups.

Board member of the Ümloud! charity gaming event held each year in San Francisco, Seg is also a content programmer for Telltale games. Seg will be calling in at 8:00AM to talk to us for a little bit about the Ümloud! RockBand night, some of the things they plan to do this year, and why you might like to attend yourself, to keep helping the kids even after the bus has stopped rolling!

Tune in when Seg calls at 8:00AM.

If you’ve never played a Capcom game, it’s quite likely you’ve never played any games at all. This beloved company has one of the largest collection of franchises in the gaming pantheon, including Street Fighter, Darkstalkers, Breath of Fire, Super Ghouls and Ghosts, Dead Rising, Viewtiful Joe, Resident Evil, Marvel vs. Capcom, Megaman and MOST IMPORTANTLY Resident Evil and Dead Rising, which they’ve sent us two really awesome prize packs for! If there isn’t one series list here you love, then you have a heart of stone. That’s right. We said it.

Check out Capcom at www.capcom.com

We just hit $240,000! I don’t know how many different ways else I can say, “Thanks for the help, you’re all awesome, etc. etc.” so here’s some milestone pics!

Now let’s DANCE!