I had a joke here originally: but it is unfortunately not currently a good joke, because it will hurt people’s feelings unintentionally. Not that I am above hurting people’s feelings – quite the opposite – but I don’t like doing it except when it’s part of a deliberate campaign to administer a good kicking to the truly deserving. So I’ll just mention some of the geekstuff that I picked up, thanks largely to generous reader contributions.
In no particular order:
- Future Lovecraft. Anthology of space/future-themed Lovecraftian fiction. Acquired primarily because one of the authors is Robyn Seale, whose weekly steampunk-Mythos webcomic The Watcher of Yaathagggu is a favorite of mine.
- The Specialists, Issue 1 & 2. World War II superhero comic. Bought largely because while the comic’s available for free as it goes, these guys have to eat and it was two bucks a PDF.
- This Favored Land. Civil War superhero RPG using the Wild Talents game engine. This one I decided to get the print version.
- Spinnerette, Chapters 1-5. Guilty-pleasure, yes-there-is-cheesecake, I-regret-nothing, anime-style superhero comic. As I said, these people have to eat.
- And, of course, the aforementioned Whisperer in Darkness / HPLHS membership.
Ah, Spinnerette. Krazy Krow has finally got both a great concept and a pair of steady artists to pound out steady content. Used to read Krakow back in the day and followed Marilith through all the artist changes.
Also, if you’re not reading bladebunny.com, you should.
Krakow *was* fun. But it ended well.
That’s also how I feel about Futurama. Still haven’t decided to recognize the new material yet.