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The Cheddar Monk Academy.

I’m giving some not-serious thought to doing this. To understand why, go to Darths & Droids and just keep going.

You may be some time.

This will not end well.

Although it all depends on whether or not Lego does a tollbooth set.

This trick would never work on my wife.

She would immediately insist on seeing whether I was able to replicate the effect.

I suppose that it’d probably work in a dorm environment, though – especially if everybody on your floor is a liberals art major.

I oppose a second option here, too.

And I suspect that most people who read this site would agree.

Moe Lane

PS: The mouseover text in the webcomic in question isn’t precisely an ‘option.’ More like a warning of potential consequences.

Crossposted to RedState.

Cricket has rules? (Plus: Tom Clancy should do a zombie book)

Who knew?

Yes, I stole that from Patriot Games. And may I note in passing that if Tom Clancy is looking for something to spark the creative juices again, he could hardly do worse than combining the technothriller and zombie apocalypse genres? Don’t tell me that people wouldn’t read that: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is still #34 on Amazon, and #6 on the NYT Paperback Trade Fiction list. Clancy doing a zombie book would be instant money.

What is this, Significant Thoughts from Webcomics Day?

Nobody said anything to me about it, but apparently it is.

Cornelius’s perfect comment after the break. Continue reading What is this, Significant Thoughts from Webcomics Day?

‘Mind Flayers.’

‘Why did it have to be mind flayers?’ See also here, here, and here. On the other hand, it was always nice to see one in Nethack; once you killed it, eating it would raise your Intelligence score a point. Of course, hopefully you had on a helmet that would keep it from eating your brain down to Intelligence 3 first.

Why, yes, that link does lead to a download that will likewise eat your brain through the wonders of text-based nostalgia. You want that to happen again? No? Then hit the tip jar for the travel fund, and maybe it won’t.

Moo hoo bwah hah.

‘Automata.’

Penny Arcade can stop asking what people want. If they have an idea like this ready to go:

The second concept is Automata, nineteen-twenties crime fiction which unfolds in a time where “machine intellect” has been outlawed. It wasn’t always, certainly, and the problem of what to do with the existing “stock” of fully sentient, mechanical citizens endures. Detective Regal and his stenophone Carl Swangee traverse the margin where these worlds overlap.

…then they can just get on with it, and they can save the third one for later. Don’t get me wrong; Lookouts looks like it’d be fun. But to hell with fun; I want mechanical men noir, dammit.

Moe Lane

PS: Let me put it this way: I would buy this.

I dunno: would this Amazon/Kindle/newspaper business model work?

I could see where it might, but there’s something… off about it, and I’m not sure what it is.

Yes, yes, I’m taking a webcomic’s in-strip business model concept seriously. Brain is Swiss cheese right now, remember?

Balefires is coming back out in paperback.

At the end of June; Balefires is a collection of David Drake‘s fantasy short stories, and is noteworthy for having “Than Curse the Darkness,” which is probably in the top ten of most people’s short lists of Greatest Cthulhu Mythos Stories*. The collection is also available in hardback, so if you’re into instant gratification, knock yourself out.

Meanwhile, Lovecraft is Missing continues its surveys of… stuff. Interesting stuff, but… stuff.

Moe Lane

*Including a couple written by HP Lovecraft himself, if you’ll pardon the rank heresy.