So as some of you may know, my friends and I get together around most major holidays and vacations for a LAN party. Even fewer of you may remember when we (for some reason) had a live webcam feed and I posted a link so you all could watch our all-night game fest.
Well, little did you know, I'd been commissioned for most of these LANs to design the logo for the events. It started the year that I hosted ChristmaLAN in my basement, for which I drew this:
Basically, this is Bruce Willis bursting out of the Coca Cola Santa's chest like the babies aliens from Alien. This was done for the reason that we all agreed that Die Hard was a Christmas movie. I thought the best way to get Bruce and Santa together was to have them literally together.
So, ChristmaLAN was a success, next we moved over to SpringLAN, which I drew:
Bruce Willis had been a reoccurring theme at this point, because our LANs needed a mascot, and he fit. He's killing bunnies whilst smoking a cigarette. What a lovely image of spring.
Now, over summer vacation we have two LANs: one at the beginning and one at the end. I didn't have time to design LAN 1, but I was able to do Summer LAN 2:
This one is Bruce denotation some sort of nuclear device (playing off of both nuclear summer and the fact that summer is hot as hell) while holding an alcoholic beverage, to look like a total badass.
Christmas is coming up again. This means a new LAN. Which means a need for a new logo.
Move over Bruce:
This one is full of jokes. Firstly, the spy is wearing a mask of our friend Matt, which is an inside joke. There's the meme of the Coach's "Cheeseburger Apocalypse." Finally the most recent of our inside jokes, during a game of L4D2 when I insisted on carrying around the tank of propane wherever I went (which soon caught on) I would shout: "I'm Hank Hill and I sell propane and propane accessories" to coincide with the meme. This degraded to "I sell propane!" to "Sellin' Propane!"
Each zombie that was hit or blown up by a tank of propane, or really just anything, was thus referred to as a "happy propane customer."
Best of all were all the bad puns we started with the melee weapons. From "I have to
axe you a question" to "Those guitar chords are
killer!" to even "he never thought his life would
pan out this way!" Really, really bad. But so funny when you're playing.
So, long story short (tl;dr), this ChristmaLAN is going to be awesome and Hank Hill is our new mascot.
Talk about LAN parties, go!
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