The latest episode of Brothers McLeod’s Sticks has a little fun with jargon. If you follow what’s going on this episode, you’re probably ready to join the police squad. Animation on this episode, titled Detective Inspector Plank, was handled by Tom Evans.

Newgrounds.com has been accepting user submissions since 1999, but here in 2010, reaching over 100 million users a month, they’ve been accepted into the mainstream. The site was listed in Time Magazine’s 50 Best Websites of 2010, along with Vimeo, Etsy and TheOnion.com. You’ll notice that the Time folks kinda botched their review, describing the site purely as a gaming depot. Doh! Flash-animated shorts are what put the site on the map, but it does seem like gaming is what elevated the site into the mainstream.

I uploaded my first short back in 2001, and ever since I’ve seen extremely insightful feedback poured into the comments section. Of course, I’ve also seen useless nonsense, but on the whole the site’s user-base is fairly respectful, especially compared to the mobs at sites like YouTube.com. What I’m most impressed about, however, is the collaboration, or collabs as they’re called at Newgrounds. Artists, voice actors and musicians team up virtually to create something new. The site even allows the teams to divvy up the ad revenue using a sophisticated profit-sharing system.

By the way, if you squint your eyes, you’ll see that my little show Larkmart squeezed into the bottom part of screenngrab on the Time.com site.

Vancouver-based Klei Entertainment launched their latest game yesterday – Shank. You play Shank, a bruiser who chops people up with knives and chainsaws. The 16-person team used Sketchbook Pro and Flash to build the game, which is available on PS3 and XBOX360. The creative director, Jeff Agala, is probably best known as the director of Atomic Betty. Here’s a trailer:

Karate Kid 2 was a good film, a passable sequel, but looking back, it was missing something. And that something was Chazz, who stars along with Ralph Macchio and Pat Morita in Karate Kid 2: With Chazz! It’s Dan Meth’s latest short for College Humor, produced, as he puts it, in “Roger Rabbit style.”

The 2010 Tournament of Flash Artists (TOFA) competition has come down to 2 animators, squaring off for the $1000 prize. It’s Zeurel (Josh Palmer) vs. Dave Bruno, who each had about 3 weeks to craft their final film, working off the theme A Second Chance. Zeurel’s previous entry, Bear Bear, has already found a big audience at Newgrounds, and his final entry, titled A Robo Western, appears poised to take the top prize when it’s announced next Monday. Palmer crafted this traditionally animated Flash short in 16 days.