Victory! We have victory!

Congratulations are in order for Javis Ray. Legacy Control has been picked up for "syndication" in Kotaku's Sunday Comics feature.

While there were seven other equally worthy contenders, LC managed to pull ahead in the votes. Inside sources say the numbers were very close, so community support was doubtless invaluable.

So a big thank you from Javis, and from me for helping me help him. He's put a lot of work into LC over the past few months… a 3-day-a-week release schedule is very grueling. And I think you'll agree that he's really locked down his art and storytelling.

Legacy Control will be joining Kotaku's lineup of video game-related webcomics this Sunday, October 9th. And of course, you can still find it over at legacy-control.com.

Call to Duty: Vote Legacy Control

Some exciting news in the world of webcomics...

Javis Ray's Legacy Control (featured here previously with Unicorn Soup), is now an official candidate for inclusion in Kotaku's Sunday Comics feature.

This is a huge breakthrough for the strip, which has been in obscure indie territory for too long. With your help, we can finally get it some much-deserved recognition.

Even if you don't read it (which is a shame, you really should), please take five seconds of your day to click some buttons and help Javis out. Wrecklaimer and I have a vested interest in seeing the strip succeed, and we're really pulling for Javis to make the big time.

Please show your support at Kotaku's voting page. And stop by Legacy Control for a thrice-weekly dose of funny bone dry humping. Oh, and Javis and the family are ill right now, so think of this as a charity event. No, we have no shame, but thanks for asking!

And for all you Battlefield 3 Beta "fans", I'll just leave this here...

Speaking of rabbits...

I was pleasantly surprised to find webcomic Legacy Control up and running the other day. I must say, Javis is still doing one heckuva job on the comics. The new site design is pretty boss, too. I recommend taking a look through all the comics, if you have a few spare minutes.

If my two cents is worth anything, I'd say that Legacy Control is above and beyond most of what you'll find in Kotaku's Sunday Comics. The artwork is especially good, and with some dedicated editing, I think the strip could really take off.

Take off into what, I'm not sure. Certainly a bigger readership couldn't hurt. All any artist really wants is for their work to be appreciated. When I say "don't quit your day job," I mean it in the nicest way, though. Because if he can manage a full-time job and a family, and still find time to put out such great work, that's the best of several worlds right there.

Codetalkers: The Lingo of BC2

One of the great joys of language, aside from being able to insult someone in horrendously colorful ways, is the creation of slang. We take for granted that many of the words and phrases we use everyday had their origin with one person or a small group.

Sports have left us a particularly rich legacy, with terms like "slam dunk," "home run," and "bush league." Video games have a rich vernacular too. Many a "noob" (or n00b, if you like) have been "pwnd" by an "l33t" gamer's skill with mouse and keyboard or buttons and sticks.

When one plays a game long enough, they develop shorthand terminology for everyday objects, players, and situations in the game world. We're all familiar with "spawn," "campers" (and the unholy union of "spawncampers")