Happy Thanksgiving, US friends!

Star Wars: Andor 1.12: Rix Road

Star Wars: Andor

1.12: Rix Road

“Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks.”

As a northern industrial town planet, of course Ferrix has a brass band.

Credits scene. Oh, har har.

Tokyo Vice

From director Michael Mann, who knows a thing or two about Location Vice, the miniseries Tokyo Vice about a local cop and an American reporter at the front line of a Yakuza war is... well, pretty slow.

Another big sport thing

The World Cup (for football, it being the one that can get away without saying that) is happening, controversially for various reasons.

There'll be bluebirds over...

Twitter archive downloaded, and out for the duration of this regime and/or the site.

Vampire: The Masquerade - Last Dance 1.01

Vampire: The Masquerade

Last Dance

1.01: Nightclubbing

Malice, a Ministry hacker, thief, bassist and DJ

Mo, a Caitiff brought to them for shelter, a drummer

Preston, a Toreador lead guitarist, perhaps not the most unwanted of his lineage but close

Vincent, a Malkavian singer, with connections to the Daughters of Cacophony?

Mo followed the stranger to a club called the Electric Room, where he called in an old marker with Vincent and left unseen.

Shazam!

I missed Shazam! in cinemas, and I’ve only read a couple of DC event comics the character appears in. I appreciate it as the logical second step in superhero wish-fulfilment, and know it’s pretty light in tone. Anyway, here’s the film on TV...

The Shazam reference in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man is the one word. The Spider-Man: Homecoming reference in Shazam! is the end credits. Not subtle.

(And like that, this shows a world where superheroes are a known thing kids can be fans of, as they are in our world.)

I liked the Big reference too.

And I loved the meta bit about his superhero name. (His longest-running one being Captain Marvel, which Marvel used and one can see why DC stopped fighting there, after a few decades.)

Shazam himself really needed to work on his Chosen One letdown procedure.

How many DC villains can John Glover be the father of? (Why not all?)

Do a good deed

I have given some money to Children In Need and can therefore watch the show with a clear conscience.

Character Creation Challenge 2023 announcement

January 2023: Character Creation Challenge

After the success of the 2021 and 2022 challenges, the Character Creation Challenge returns for a third year!

And... hmm. Having managed a different system every day in 2021 that ate through a lot of systems I know, and the 2022 groups covered a lot of the games I know really well. What to do...

Winky The Owl

An owl named Winky is breaking into and trashing fancy houses in British Columbia.

The hero we need.

Leverage: Redemption season two

Leverage: Redemption season two is back on Amazon Freevee and here the same time as the US, with the first three episodes on day one and another episode weekly, like a TV show or something.

2.01: The Debutante Job takes a well deserved sideswipe at Britain hosting Russian oligarchs. It also has a hilariously unconvincing New Orleans as London moment, but never mind.

2:02: The One Man’s Trash Job introduces several extra problems in fun ways. It also addresses how the Crew can’t solve all the world’s rich and powerful asshole problems.

2.03: The Tournament Job is about an evil E-sports guy.

Star Wars: Andor 1.11: Daughter Of Ferrix

Star Wars: Andor

1.11: Daughter Of Ferrix

You made B2-EMO be too emo!

The Mummerset alien fishermen were a bit Star Wars for this Star Wars.

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Retaliation

Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Retaliation from the makers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Chapters and probably needing the miniatures more than it does because while still investigative and narrative it’s naturally designed to be more violent. Now on Kickstarter and already funded twice over.

Zola Jesus - Alive In Cappadocia

Zola Jesus performs Desire and Into The Wild from Arkhon, as well as Skin and Siphon, in Cappadocia where she filmed the video for Lost, on piano. The snow, log fire and candles make it sort of festive, while the songs do not.

Mastodon

I am on Mastodon having remembered my password from last time Twitter looked like vanishing. This may change to dice.camp later. I am not sure how any of this works.

Rats Have Rhythm

Rats have a sense f rhythm, something mostly restricted to humans, and not even some humans I know.

Welcome back Erich!

Off to try this again

Wish me luck.

Zen - Grogu And Dust Bunnies

Baby Yoda gets his own hand-drawn Studio Guibli short. So short it will take me about as much time to type this post as to watch it, but never mind. As the title implies, it is the least warlike Star Wars thing in quite some time.

Kevin Conroy

Kevin Conroy on being recognised as the voice of Batman in September 2001.

A reup for The Heart of Batman.