Just a few more hours until the election is in the history books — and it looks like people are still busy on both sides of the metaphorical aisle, at least in Stevens Point, Wisconsin. The GOP headquarters seemed busy when I drove past it after dark Saturday night — I couldn’t see inside from the road, but it was really lit up and there were cars out front, so …
Having brought it up in what I wrote about issue #34, I remembered my past pronunciation guide died with my old website. I’ll get something more permanent up on my StarWars.com blog, but here are a few pronunciations off the top of my head. They’re how I hear them — although, of course, note that none of these characters has appeared in an audio medium to date, so while I …
…in this line of work, the past and the future are happening at once. So I have here some thoughts about the current release, Knights of the Old Republic #34 (though I’m fairly careful, as always, consider a Spoiler Warning attached — read the comics first). And I also have the cover and page set up for Knights of the Old Republic #37, January’s issue. And, no, that’s not a …
Good to see that Richard Garriott has landed safely from space. I cut my computer-game teeth on Ultima II (and then the others), the series Garriott created under the name Lord British — Lord British also was a character in the games, himself. Many was the time I trudged back to Lord British to level up. My favorite of all the games remains the time- and space-traveling Ultima II, though …
And there’s stuff from yours truly hither, thither, and yon today. In addition to the new Sword & Sarcasm, there’s the September edition of my Newsarama column on comics history. Enjoy!
Well, all kinds of cards are being turned over in this corner of the Star Wars timeline this week! First, of course, there’s news about Star Wars: The Old Republic, the online RPG. You can read more background on the site itself, but a factor of note to comics readers is when it says it’s set — a good while after the events of the earlier video games (and of …
If you haven’t checked it out in a while, the Sword & Sarcasm webcomic Chuck Fiala and I do is getting crazier by the episode. Good Herbert is in danger of being nibbled to death by ducks — literally — and the obnoxious Duke Benedict is dealing with a sudden transformation himself. Not counting the time when the whole site was offline, we’ve posted the strip regularly for more than …
And there are a couple of signed sets on eBay at the moment — a big complete KOTOR set, but also a rarely-seen batch with all my Iron Man and Crimson Dynamo issues. May be worth a look.
Well, I try to keep everyone apprised here of what stuff I have coming out — but when you’ve got stuff in print in various places, these things are not always easy to keep track of. I used to edit Scrye magazine eons ago — and there I also produced two volumes of the Scrye Collectible Card Game Checklist and Price Guide and co-edited a Pokemon book. Some of that …
Momentary observation: While I am always pleased to hear Three Dog Night‘s “Shambala”, it does seem odd that it’s currently the background music on both a beer commercial and a blood glucose meter commercial in heavy rotation. Someone needs to manage these rights libraries better!