Grade Two!
It’s going to be an exciting year: New teacher, new shadow, new Principal! Ben marched off to the playground for the first day of school like it was the most natural things in the world.
For his parents, that’s still amazing.
Have fun, big guy!
Monthly Naomi Photo
I know which one would scare a T-Rex!
Monthly Ben Photo
Ben loves a good circus! .
Twenty Years Later…
…and not one person said “I killed the President of Paraguay with a fork. What do you do?”
Our stories were more interesting!
Gen Con Treasures!
Gaming with Scott and working at the KQ booth kept me out of trouble, but I still needed two suitcases for all my treasures:
- Kobold Quarterly Small But Fierce patch
- Sunken Empires sourcebook
- The 100 Best Family Games
- DC Adventures: Hero’s Handbook
- Cthulhu Dice
- Cookie Fu dice game starter sets (Vanilla Hare & Chocolate Ox)
- Navia Dratp demo set (at auction!)
- PK Cards starters (for participating in a demo game)
- L5R: Battle of Kyuden Tonbo intro set (next in a long line of awesome starter sets. But why is it always Lion vs Dragon?)
- Autographed 8×10 from the Mint Chocolate Chippies
- Dragon Dice (thanks, Scott!)
- Bones: Us and Our Dice (thanks, Scott!)
- TARDIS soap (from GeekyClean productions)
- Cthulhu for President T-Shirt
- Gen Con Travel mug
And, of course, gifts aplenty (but that’s of no interest to anyone but the taxman, and I was under my limit this time around)
All in all, a fantastic haul! My only disappointments were missing out on the Captain America anthology from McFarlane Books, and on the final part of the L5R Imperial Gift – which was demoed as part of a tournament that I was woefully unqualified to attempt.
4 Days of Gen Con!
Ah, Gen Con – a much-needed reminder that games and gamers are AWESOME! (Particularly the ones I hang out with.)
I picked up treasures off my shopping list, got goodies for the kids, visited new restaurants, visited the game library, tried games outside my comfort zone, closed a bar, won a treasure at the auction, never got lost on the walk back to the B&B, and helped out at the Kobold Quarterly booth.
Will I be back next year? ::shakes 8-ball:: Signs point to Yes!
49. THANK YOU!
…to everyone who donated
…to everyone who checked in with me
…to Tanya, Tamu, Michel and everyone else who crossposted the FB event
…to Michel, for his macro photo contest and his crazy word rates
…to Boom! Studios, for donating the TPBs
…to Dominique, Duff and Scott for loaning me cool books
…to Stephane and Jill & Kathy for donating material for the eBay auction
…to Carol, for helping me keep track of time (and for delicious French Toast)
…to Ben and Naomi, for talking my ear off on the phone
…to all the other Blogathon participants, for keeping this crazy event going
…to the writers and artists, for making this hobby so much fun
…G’night!
48. YOUR HILARIOUS LEGAL BRIEF OF THE DAY (Comic Book Edition)
In handing down her verdict in favour of Neil Gaiman and against Todd McFarlane over the question of derivative Spawn characters, the judge quotes comics canon and continuity with all the skill of a veteran nerd:
Much as defendant [McFarlane] tries to distinguish the two knight Hellspawn, he never explains why, of all the universe of possible Hellspawn incarnations, he introduced two knights from the same century,” Crabb writes. “Not only does this break the Hellspawn ‘rule’ that Malebolgia never returns a Hellspawns [sic] to Earth more than once every 400 years (or possibly every 100 years, as suggested in Spawn, No. 9, exh. #1, at 4), it suggests that what defendant really wanted to do was exploit the possibilities of the knight introduced in issue no. 9. [...]
“If defendant really wanted to differentiate the new Hellspawn,” the judge continues, “why not make him a Portuguese explorer in the 16th century; an officer of the Royal Navy in the 18th century, an idealistic recruit of Simon Bolivar in the 19th century, a companion of Odysseus on his voyages, a Roman gladiator, a younger brother of Emperor Nakamikado in the early 18th century, a Spanish conquistador, an aristocrat in the Qing dynasty, an American Indian warrior or a member of the court of Queen Elizabeth I? It seems far more than coincidence that Dark Ages (McFarlane) Spawn is a knight from the same century as Medieval (Gaiman) Spawn.”
Not only does she have a keen mind for continuity, but her plots are already better than McFarlane’s!
(Libby, when you become a judge, I’ll hold you to this standard!)
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47. TV SHOWS THAT REQUIRE IMMEDIATE COMIC ADAPTATIONS
(Yes, we’ve reached the huge listmaking portion of the Blogathon…only two more posts to go!)
- Samurai Jack (but only if there’s no dialogue between the first and last panel)
- Burn Notice (but only if it comes with a Michael Weston voiceover tape)
- Friday Night Lights (but only if drawn in Manga style. Or Mary Worth)
- Sledgehammer (but only if there’s a crossover with Lobo)
46. HOW DOES ONE RECOVER FROM THE BLOGATHON?
With a day-long nap, of course, followed by a long drive to pick up the kids. I haven’t seen them for a week, and I can’t wait to see how they’ve grown.
And in-between, I should get that laundry done. At least I can run the machien while I nap. Running the dryer in the middle of the night seemed rude.
Oh, French Toast helps too….