They woulda been great if only... Disney recently posted a request to take names for the next villain-was-really-misunderstood revisionist backstory, as relayed by Jon Mollison > Come on people. The only answer to this question that would get ME to lay down some cabbage? Joanna. https://t.co/tMmeRJBNqC — Mr. Wargaming (@NotJonMollison) May 31, 2021 [https://twitter.com/NotJonMollison/status/1399161667934556163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] As an aside, you know they'll never rehab the cardinal or Ca…
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Wanting to give Minna Sundberg some support and payback for the pleasure of reading her work [https://sssscomic.com/], I logged into Hivemill and purchased the first volume of her series, Stand Still, Stay Silent. The books are available in hardcover [https://hivemill.com/collections/stand-still-stay-silent/products/stand-still-stay-silent-book-1] and ebook [https://hivemill.com/collections/stand-still-stay-silent/products/stand-still-stay-silent-book-1-ebook] . At nearly $40, it isn't cheap,…
While a number of people have waxed eloquent about the new webcomics project at Arkhaven.com [https://arkhaven.com], I've held off. I know that Razor and Jon Mollison [https://jonmollison.com/2021/05/05/yes-they-really-are-that-good/] have had good things to say, and a good word from Razor, given his depth of knowledge of comics is certainly worth something. I want to be more tempered. So, first, how is it? It's good. No, not amazing, superlative, spectacular, or anything else like that.…
Unless you live under a rock, you've likely heard something like the following: > "Invalid plates are no reason to die." > "Passing a bad 20 is no reason to die" > "jogging in a neighborhood is no reason to die." Those statements, taken at face value, are, of course, absolutely true in any just system of proportionality. The problem is that those statements are utterly dishonestly used to defend behavior that ended up getting people killed. A friend uses the expression "above reproach, beneath…
DMR recently published two reviews of Bugman's Appendix N, one strongly taking the stance that the new one fatally misunderstands what it is dealing with, and not worthy of even beaing a torchbearing peasant to Jeffro's work [https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2021/4/7/wisdom-from-an-angry-god-a-rebuttal-to-peter-bebergals-appendix-n] , the other, kindly, being best described as "damned by faint praise [https://dmrbooks.com/test-blog/2021/4/1/review-appendix-n-the-eldritch-roots-of-dungeons-and-dra…