Michael Lunsford is the artist behind for the webcomic Supernormal Step. After he drew an amazing poster for Desert Bus for Hope 3, we realized we could never let him go, and signed him up for Desert Bus 4 and 5 as well! We’re lucky to have him back again doing this year’s poster and we can’t wait to see what he does for Desert Bus 6.

Best of all, dear Bus-fan, you will be not only be able to purchase that soon to be legendary poster from the LoadingReadyRun store but you’ll also be able to sleep sweetly in the knowledge that a portion of the proceeds will go to Child’s Play.

Be sure to check out Supernormal Step and Michael’s DeviantArt page to get a taste of how absolutely awesome his art is!

Stephen “Stepto” Toulouse is an author, w00tstock Performer, game industry policy consultant, and Former Xbox LIVE Enforcement Director. Stephen’s impressive eighteen year tenure at Microsoft began in April 1994 and culminated in his position as Director of Xbox LIVE Policy and Enforcement. W00tstock attendees will also recognize him from several guest appearances and readings.

During his call will be auctioning off as super sweet “Stepto Lot“, which features an  Assassin’s Creed Statue, Stepto’s book, and more!

Stephen will be calling on Saturday at 6:00 PM PST, 9:00 PM EST, 2:00 AM GMT, so if you have any questions for him, leave them in the comments!

God Save the Queen Fashions LLC is a fantastic sponsor that has volunteered their amazing skill and craftsmanship to Desert Bus 6.

The company was founded with the intent to deliver a quality, stress-free service to those with unique lifestyle choices and the innate fashion difficulties that accompany. From drag queens to cosplayers, if costumes are your game God Save the Queen Fashions has you covered—literally!

You can find them on Facebook and Flickr and absolutely should take the time to browse their galleries. Their work is phenomenal.

And speaking of their work, this year God Save the Queen Fashions has given us one of the absolute COOLEST prizes ever: a custom-made to your body’s specifications Mass Effect N7 Leather Jacket.

See the pictures of this beauty on our live auctions page, and remember, you can bid on it on Sunday!

All of you viewers are so talented that even when we’re not running contests (the entries for which are blowing us away), you’re sending us amazing drawings, music, photos, song lyrics, and who knows what else!

This time we’ve got cakes, posters, creepy dolls, Magic cards, pumpkins, Minecraft skins, animated gifs, and something written in Circular Gallifreyan!

If you have something neat you’d like us to see send it to stuff (at) desertbus.org

Please make your pictures no larger than 1000 x 1000 pixels wide (and 640 wide is great because we don’t have to resize!), and use the following file formats: JPG, PNG, GIF.

There are only a few people who can look good while crushing a popular uprising. In fact, I can only really think of one guy who could do that. In honor of the Glorious Leader of Camnada, the Great and Mighty Cam, we challenged our viewers to submit a propaganda poster honoring him.

Here’s Cam’s pick for his favourite poster, made by Jeroen! He wins this great Awesomeness prize pack, very generously donated by Fangamer.

And here’s the runner up, submitted by Caitlin:

And here is the gallery of all the other awesome propaganda posters!

While watching all the action happening on our live stream, you might forget that we have some amazing silent auctions going on all the time! There are four hours left for you to bid on.

• Chic Lady Geek Pack: Guys can bid on this too if they want!
• Creepy Doll Scarf: For when you want something creepy wrapped around your neck.
• Worms Armageddon Worm: Comes with the bazooka, the shotgun, the Holy Hand Grenade, and the sheep!
• Rebel Alliance hat: Perfect headgear to wear for destroying the Plush Death Star.
• Star Wars Widevision Collectible Cards, Complete Set: AND comes with bonus 1977 Wonderbread trading cards!

Bidding has also just gone live on a Creepy Doll sweatshirt, a Desert Bus Fleece Hat, a Signed Copy of Battlefield 3 with Child’s Play Dogtags, and a Signed Hildebrandt Hobbit Print!

And remember kids: Stop, Drop, and Bid.

The Rover Outpost is back as a sponsor this year supplying the awesome Desert Bus patches we can’t live without!

When they’re not doing amazing things for Desert Bus for Hope, The Rover Outpost is a supplier of reproduction Canadian Rover and Venturer scouting merchandise that also creates high quality custom embroidery and woven labels at unbelievable prices. These guys can supply crests of any shape or size, for any function or event, team or club, and take great pride in the creative energy that goes into each design. TRO utilizes social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to has streamline the process of customization and allows them to answer questions and provide their customers with their exact specifications regardless of the distance between them.

We are very happy to have The Rover Outpost back as one of Desert Bus’s sponsors!

While James was driving the bus he issued a challenge: Draw a one panel political cartoon showing the evil corporate tycoon Roscoe (the duck) thwarting James’s attempt to unionize Desert Bus.

The prize? A fez that the great and powerful Wil Wheaton donated to Desert Bus! It even has a d20 on it!

The winner of this hat-tastic headgear was K. V1NN4 (aka. Kev).

“War Gar Bhal” indeed!

Runner up / honourable mention goes to Haberley M.

Thanks to everyone that entered, and keep submitting to our future contests!

The crew at LoadingReadyRun and Desert Bus for Hope would like to extend our thanks the following companies for generously contributing the technical expertise that makes this event even remotely possible.

Shaw Communications supplies high-speed cable for the live stream of Desert Bus for Hope, free of charge. It’s easy to gush over the neat toys donated from gaming companies and the like, but this is a donation that almost cannot be overstated. Shaw gives us the “fattest pipes” to run the all-important HD live stream and reach all the willing donators around the world.

ServInt is a web hosting service provider based in Virginia. They have provided all the hosting for Desert Bus for Hope (which is substantial). Donating web service isn’t as exciting as donating a custom made N7 jacket, but every time you load the site and don’t get an error, you can thank the generous folks at ServInt. Visit these magnificent folks at http://www.servint.net.

But technology doesn’t stop with fat pipes and hosting. Boutique Mac has loaned us an amazing 12 core Mac Tower! This means we can host multiple cameras simultaneously! Think of it as their way allowing you to see what we do from a different point of view. Over and over again.

Once again, our deep and personal thanks from the entire Desert Bus crew to our 2012 technical sponsors.

Jim Sterling is the Reviews Editor for Destructoid and a self-professed “official Mysterio” of videogames. Jim keeps busy balancing the tasks that come with such titles, and still manages to release a weekly conversation piece on The Escapist aptly titled “Jimquisition”. Additionally, Jim regularly contributes to the gaming conglomerations GamesRadar, GamePro and Game Front.

Jim will be calling in at Saturday, 2:00 PM PST, 5:00 PM EST, 10:00 PM GMT, so leave your questions about whether he’s a wrestler or a Spider-Man villain (or anything else) here!