Ever since the announcement ofNintendo Power‘s cancellation, former Nintendo of America spokesman and official Gamemaster Howard Phillips has decided to start sharing all kinds of Nintendo-related goodies on hisFacebook page. If you thought theNintendo Knitting Machinewas a strange piece of Nintendo history, you ought to check out theHoward & Nestercomic that was never printed!
If you aren’t familiar withHoward & Nester, it was a regular series in the early days ofNintendo Powerstarring Howard — the magazine’s original editor — and a teenage pastiche of Howard named Nester. They were a two-man comedy duo who ventured into a different videogame world each month. When Howard left Nintendo, the comic was re-branded asNester’s Adventuresand ran for a couple more years.
Thisis Howard’s final official comic appearance before he left for Lucasfilm Games. However, Howard’s friends wanted to send him off with one final gift, a specialHoward & Nesterepisode with a much more… err…explicit edge. Definitely not something that you’d want to kiddies to read! It’s naturally filled with a bunch of in-jokes, since it wasn’t meant for the public. I’m just happy that Howard is being so open and letting us into his world.
The final and never-before-published Howard & Nester comic[Tiny Cartridge]
