The constant rolling disaster that is Overwatch's game development aside, what really perplexes me about how Blizzard is handling the broader franchise is their continual insistence that a canon narrative exists in spite of their equally continual refusal to tell anyone what it is.
Like, okay, the events of the games aren't canon. Fair enough: the games are multiplayer-only, and you can't account for player actions.
Oh, and the animated short films aren't canon either – they're properly understood as in-universe propaganda, not depictions of actual events. That's a little high concept for you guys, but fine.
But surely the comics are canon, right? Well, no; some of the comics (we're not telling you which ones) were canon at one point, but the writing team has decided to go in a different direction.
My dudes, what is left? The weird Source Filmmaker porn? Is that canon? Well, apparently it's at least as canon as anything else!
as mentioned sky germany has three kids reporter this weekend & they got to interview max.
a short rundown:
- he was very cute with the kids (always cute talking german & cute with kids. so we got cute squared)
- the kids were so nervous (especially about asking for a selfie) but he was so nice to them & they seemed very comfortable once they started talking
- they asked who would drive for him & what the team name would be if he had his own f1 team. he picked lando & oscar as drivers & mentioned his sim team verstappen.com as a name.
- next question was who would play him in a movie. he said he‘d rather not have the movie but maybe leonardo dicaprio
- answer to his all time favorite driver is michael schumacher
- he looked a little lost about the question what his job would be if he weren‘t in f1. he said maybe a motor go driver.
- then max vs 1 kid drew the zanvoort layout while blindfolded. max won by a mile. he couldn‘t let the kid win if he wanted to.
- he let the kids wear his helmet & told them they looked really cool
- they wanted to know what the best & worst thung was about being a driver. best is driving & worst ist media (but he said with the kids it‘s fun, he just doesn‘t like the adults hahaha)
- he privately mostly drives an audi. i didn‘t catch which one exactly but it just looked like a standard svu (?). nothing flashy just a normal road car.
- the kids debriefed the interview together & mentioned how nice he was & that they had a lot of fun.
I don’t think I’ve ever put more love and effort into a singe piece of fanart ever in my life, and this is literally the first ISaT related thing I’ve made. I just needed a Siffrin to stare at me from my desk since I was too late to get the plush.
I've been meaning to do some kind of comic based on the events of Farewell, My Turnabout since I played it last summer, so here's something a little bit amped up from Phoenix's canon reaction to Edgeworth's return mixed with my own reaction to it (I was so relieved to see him)