XSEED just announced the grand opening of their online store. Aside from individual bonus items, you can also purchase copies of various XSEED games including Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky, several Ys games (both in limited and standard editions), Little King’s Story, Lunar: Silver Star Harmony, The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, and more.

Curiously, there’s no sign of either Retro Game Challenge or the recently released Solatorobo: Red the Hunter at this time, but given that the store just went live that could change. While shipping is already included in the prices, there is a $20 minimum per order. Of course, most of the games are $20 anyway, but if you were just looking to get one of those fancy schmancy cloth maps, you’ll have to throw something else onto the order.

Source: XSEED

In the spirit of DC comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths and Marvel Comics’ Civil War, comic creator Erik Northfell and I have crossed our characters over in the most epic way possible… Wii Bowling to the death! Okay, no one dies. But we did make a cool poster out of it. Click through to see the complete poster in all of it’s glory.

Northfell and I have been online comic buddies for a while. I really love his character design aesthetic, and the plots and concepts that he comes up with for his stories. Beyond being really unique and imaginative, he writes stuff that I’m really interested in; magicians in a world that appears to be ancient Egyptian and post apocalyptic simultaneously, a mysterious man who catches the last flight onto a planet about to be obliterated by a dying sun and populated by those too poor to book travel off of it. The basic premises of his books are completely unique and intriguing. Also, I think Erik’s and my work shares some common aesthetic and thematic ground that made the idea of some kind of a collaboration seem like a natural fit.

After batting around a few ideas, we decided to make a poster that would cross over Thad from my comic Dead Man Holiday and Mark from Erik’s comic SOL, under the premise that they would be playing Wii Bowling together. We looked at some old boxing posters for inspiration, drew our characters, Erik worked his typographical magic on it and it was done. Really, it was all an excuse to get to make Miis for our characters. You can purchase the poster for $2.99 on this IndyPlanet page. You can also check out this entry on my blog to see a cool behind the scenes sketch!

Purchase this poster HERE! Only $2.99!