You should be excited about this. Like, sure-let’s-raise-and-drop-the-New-Year’s-Ball-again excited.  If you don’t know why, here’s some homework.

Anyway, at today’s Valve DICE keynote, Gabe Newell announced that a series of Valve-penned comics are setting up shop on Valve’s Monopoly map, and – even better – that they will receive their Certified Fine Art status from the team responsible for Valve’s “Meet the” series of Team Fortress 2 movies.

Ohboyohboyohboyohboy!  

Ahem. Apparently, the comic is meant to “excite customers about the company’s games outside of creating game content.”

Delightful. 2009 is now officially Best Year of the Century.