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Lollipop Chainsaw Calendar Giveaway: What’s Your Favorite Video Game Heroine?
Guess what? I have something that you don’t. But there’s good news, because this thing that I have is something you can actually get, and before you ask, no, it’s not my good looks. To celebrate the impending release of Lollipop Chainsaw we’re giving away five incredibly cool pin-up calendars that feature the chainsaw-wielding femme fatale, Juliet Starling. Who deserves her own calendar more than a lollipop-loving cheerleader with a fondness for chainsawing zombies in half? No one, that’s who.
In case you need a little extra motivation, you should know that these calendars I have have all twelve months of the year on them. Now that’s cool, right? To win one of these things all I need you to do is comment telling me your favorite video game heroine. In case you need an idea of what I’m looking for, the list of badass video game women is a long one, and can include: Resident Evil’s Jill Valentine, Tomb Raider’s Lara Croft, Half-Life’s Alyx Vance, Halo’s Cortana, StarCraft’s Sarah Kerrigan, Uncharted’s Elena Fisher, Parasite Eve’s Aya Brea, Metroid’s Samus Aran, and like, a billion others. So get on it, people! Get an extra dose of Adam on Twitter.
In the grim darkness of the far future there is only war, but it was a cheerful illustrator from England who helped to define the terrifying war-torn imagery that inspired what we now know as Grimdark (a hybrid genre combining horror with sci-fi/fantasy).
Unfortunately for fans of Warhammer 40,000, Trench Crusade and countless other sources of Grimdark thrills, veteran artist John Blanche passed away this week after struggling with health issues for the past few years.
While the artist retired back in 2023, he leaves us with an enormous legacy of iconic artwork that continues to inspire gamers and storytellers around the world to this very day.
The news is especially gloomy as it was only last year that Daniel Lowman and Napoleon Dynamite himself Jon Heder released The Grim & the Dark: The Search for John Blanche, a documentary following Heder’s exploration of the Grimdark genre culminating in a heartwarming encounter with Blanche in his own home.
Below is one of my favorite pieces by Blanche, his highly influential depiction of Warhammer 40k’s God-Emperor of Mankind on his Golden Throne.
We send our deepest condolences to John Blanche’s family, friends, and fans.
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