Here at the Next Era Network, we keep a close eye on any developments related to the classic Mega Man franchise, because, hey, that’s what we grew up with and the reason we are what we are today.

So there was Mega Man 9. Rokkuman 2 de ippatsu neta.

And now, Mega Man 2.5D.

Just look at all this glory!

Also 2-player mode with Proto Man fuck yes. All sensors indicate that this will be a glorious game of much awesome.

And the developer is Swedish. How awesome is not that?

In other news, the Dreamhost account has now been paid in full, meaning we have another two years confirmed.

Additionally, this last weekend saw the big Next Era gathering of ‘09. The only one missing was our resident Thai, who’s in America.

Things that were done:
- Playing Worms
- Playing Starcraft
- Playing Little Big Planet
- Going around in cars
- Barbecue (”I’m standing by a fire!” is my new catchprase)
- Movie watching (Rat Race, Starshitship Troopers 3, Cube Zero, Dracula: Dead and Loving it)
- Making of what now is the official Next Era pizza

And, of course, last but not least:
- A lot of insane chattering about everything under the sky.

Pictures of this plus a longer description of the whole debacle is likely to come later.

Additionally additionally, check out our Tropes page.

So hi. It’s 6.46 AM and .. I haven’t slept all that much. Went to bed (which happens to be a sofa since brother is visiting) at 11 PM and I didn’t really fall asleep until.. 4 AM. And now on to a very, very exciting day. I started getting nervous yesterday. I’m very nervous now :P

I’ve had some time off work now so I could deal with all preparations. I am so extremely lucky Tommy and I have such great, amaziing friends which has helped so much. It’s not really a big wedding, but even small ones takes some planning, I know that now :P
Right now I’m waiting. At 8 AM the alarm clock should wake me up, I’ll take a shower, eat some breakfast, Miriam will pick me up, we will go and get the bouqett…
We are going to get married outside, so pray for good weather. It’s not a total disaster if it rains but it means there will be some more preparations to do. So far te weather looks nice. The sun is shining, but the ckouds move real fast.. and they are a bit dark. Hm.
I don’t really have any images yet, suppose I’ll have to put up alot of them later :D

Alrighty. The next time I visit this page I’m gonna have to change my name in the ‘crew’ section.

Cheers.

Two years ago, it was.

Two long years since the domain next-era.net, together with a Dreamhost account giving us obscene amounts of webspace and bandwidth, was purchased as a step-up from the old JX-hosted wiki on karlstrom.se/mhw/, that you probably don’t remember. It was because we ran out of space there the much more comfortable Dreamhost account (which as of now has “unlimited” storage space and bandwidth, even though we weren’t even using a fraction of what we had) was purchased.

Purchased for a two year period, that is.

Now, we’re not really that bad off. $190,80 (that’s €150,85; or 1689,80 SEK. Or £135,03. Or ¥19422,77. Or- you get it) for two more years is what we’re facing, and there’ll be at least four of us splitting that sum. This website isn’t the only thing using our hosting account, since karlstrom.se has been moved over here as well, used mainly by my brother. Yes, he’s going to be one of the people paying for the new period.

That said, if you like us, and want to give us your soul, eternal love, sexual favours, etc etc etc – no better way to do it than to donate a few dollars for the payment! Donators will be recognized in some special way here on the site – perhaps in some sort of hall of shame fame, but I should probably run that idea with the crew first.

Since I’ll be the one handling the financial stuff amidst this crisis, donations go through me. That is, through my Paypal, since we have not and will not be arsed to set up an account for the whole thing. I mean, we pay only every two years. Of course, if you want to give us money for other occasions, you’re welcome to do so, but we’re only going to spend it on porn and booze video games and ice cream.

Also – because of the impending doom upcoming celebration for our beloved artist, while any donation money that comes in will be used for hosting payment only, I will personally match the total donated sum and pitch that in towards the cost of the wedding.

So a donation would serve not only one, but two purposes!

Now, what are you waiting for?

(fun fact: the above donation button refused to work… until I removed a single linebreak in the code for it, which is obscenely long and makes no sense. Go go Paypal!)

Hi folks. The reason there was no comic this week was because I was and still am a bit busy. Tommy and I got engaged last week and we are now planning our wedding. That’s .. a pretty big deal.


There are alot of things to do.. good luck work is a bit slack at the moment. A friend joked that I would become a real Bride-zilla but Tommy said I’d only become a Fie-zilla. I asked him what that was and he explained that I am pretty all over the place and emotional as it is so there won’t really be a change there. Haha, I’m lucky he puts up with me.

I feel really lucky. We’ve been together for five and a half years now so it’s about time.
Since it’s not gonna be a big wedding we won’t wait too long either. We are thinking of having it
sometime early this summer. I’ll probably post images here as well laters..

Our engagement rings looks like this. They are nice :)


Oh well, wish me luck!
Cheers

Hi people. Just one more weeks work then our producer at Black Drop Studios leaves for the US, San Fransisco. It’s time for GDC once more. We are extremely busy and I have other things which takes up my minds right now so a comic this week wasn’t really ..possible. I tried, but my hand wouldn’t really co-operate.

I feel a bit empty nowadays and I can’t really find anything to inspire me. The only thing I’ve wanted to draw recently has been a half naked girl with a huge ass revolver.. but not even that has been inspiring enough. Lady Gaga’s song ‘Poker face’ wanted me to draw that. Usually music helps, but not right now.
My arm started cramping up last week, not my draw-arm but my left arm. It works alot to in photoshop ya know, someone’s gotta handle the hotkeys :P by the end of the day it hurts a bit though. It seems we might get some time off next week, if so, I’ll be super happy.. I need it.

But for now, have fun people, I’ll get back to this place next week. Love ya all.
Cheers

Listen to Lady Gaga now, she rocks.

Hi people. A few months ago I got a muscle inflammation in my right jaw muscles but it only lasted for a week. My dentist told me I got it because of stress, since stress makes me grind my teeth in my sleep. To help me, I got a latex strip to keep in my mouth when I sleep. I don’t know if it helps, but I have a new muscle inflammation… in my left jaw muscle. This time it’s worse. I’ve called my dentist, going there this thursday. I also called my doctor but they all say the same thing: There’s nothing I can do. Woho. Painkillers works. For a while. The whole situation is a bit annoying. Since my mucles are inflammated they can’t stretch so I can only open my mouth a centimetre or so. That’s not alot. I can barely eat. Breakfast takes an hour. I’m having problems conctrating because of this since it hurts. Constantly. Quite alot. But I just felt like I had to rest yesterday so no comic. Blah. Hope it gets better T_T

UPDATE: The inflammation was caused by a wisdom tooth livin la vida loca or something. The dentist tried to clean it up yesterday but couldn’t. Today he tried the same thing with a syringe. Gawd it hurt. All of a sudden I feel this liquid in my mouth and when I get to rinse there’s alot of blood and pus. Tasted.. bad -_- and he exlpained he had found the infected area. Now it hurts alot, and I got the syringe with me. He wants me to do the same thing he did. .. makes me scared D: Friggin wisdom tooth!

Cheers.

Hi everyone! Just wanted to say that I took this week of from comic-drawing. Mostly since I wanted a free week, and also because I’m have an art-block. It seems I used up all my drawing-powers of doom on the Christmas images. The rest of this week, I’ll just rest and have fun and if anything comes to my mind, I wanna feel like I can draw it, not that I have to draw something else.

However, I’ll manage a comic next week, I hope.. I might have time.. might not.. because I’m going to London! Most friends already know this but still. Going on January 7th and returns on Januray 10th. I’m going there with Miriam and one of her friends.
The main reason we are going is a girl. A girl I became addicted to a few months ago and somehow, that also happened to Miriam after I introduced the girl to her. This girl is Julia Nunes! If you haven’t seen her work, check it out on youtube or similair places.
http://www.junumusic.com/

Miriam also bought me her CDs so now I only listen to that haha! Also we are going to see the Lion King Musical! It’ll be great! I wonder if I’ll manage to do all the things I want in 3 days!?

Also.. I haven’t flown before.. I’m a bit nervous!

Cheers!

aka “Mega Man 2 in one shot story”.

A small freeware Japanese PC game, it’s, well… I think I’ll let this screenshot speak for itself:

Yes, it’s exactly what it looks like – fighting all eight Robot Masters from Mega Man 2 at once. You have access to all weapons, and after dying a few times you get E-tanks. You’re not really supposed to win in your first few hundred tries.

The author’s website is located here, with the download link located a bit down, but I have also mirrored the file here.

Also, if you don’t have a gamepad connected, default controls are retarded. A and B are A and S, Select (which is completely pointless) is D, Start is Q and… Up/Down/Left/Right are Y/B/G/J. WTF. Luckily, there’s a key config.

So far, I haven’t beaten it myself, but I’m starting to take down a FEW of them, at least. Also, going left at the start takes to a hatch where you can fight them underwater. Beware of spikes, though.

Hi everyone.

There won’t be a comic this week! Why, you ask? Instead there will be something special this month, since it’s almost christmas and all. So you’ll just have to wait and see.

I’ve been having hard time sleeping the last couple of days. And the little sleep I’ve gotten has been filled with bad dreams about people I don’t want to meet, weird situations, missfortunes, failures and Immortal Super Zombies with katanas.

Cheers.

Yesterday I and my boyfriend took of to DreamHack Winter 2008, a three hour long drive, but oh so worth it. I had talked Kenny into going there with us, so he jumped on a train and met us there.
We got there around 11.30, had to walk a long walk to get to the entrance (which apparently was on the other side of the building) in the freezing cold, yes it was cold outside! XD
But of course, once we got warm pretty fast. over 10 000 computers does give off alot of heat don’t they?

So what did we do all day? I’m gonna try to sum it up here.
First we just checked around, not doing anything special. Meeting up with some old classmates of mine, Linda and Henrik, surprisingly bumping into Erenius, just catching up with each other.
I also ran into some guys from the ShortFuse team and talked some to them, darn nice guys really! But they seemed to stalk us later since we met them at a take out restaurant at the station, which is a 15 minute drive from DH.

We also began a freebie hunt! Muahaha, freebies makes me happy. I got alot of things :3 Kenny also succeeded with a pretty neat task. The entrance fee was 100 SEK, but he managed to find 101,50 SEK on the floor at DH haha.

My boyfriend ran of to PC City and bought a processor and a motherboard, and during that time, me and Kenny talked alot about NE, good ideas and .. less appropriate ideas. He also managed to convince me which comic to draw next haha.
Met Kenny two times this year, that’s a new record :D Just sad Peter and Flex couldn’t come, you guys must go with me next year, you hear!

Then when we got home, around 11PM Mims had invited us over for Tacos! Nom!

Let’s end this with an image of me and Kenny just chillin in the most comfortable pillows ever over at the Norton booth! We could act as booth-babes, don’t you think?





Cheers!