Gaming Offer

So the former roommate has offered to get me into his bi-weekly Thursday gaming group. And it is a good offer. But I'm tempted to turn him down for a couple of reasons.

1. They play a 3.x D&D game. I play in one online and I've played in them in the past, but I really just do not LIKE the system...

2. The group drinks while playing. While I'm not someone who demands people cut out table chatter and joking and just game, I do appreciate if people stay sober enough to concentrate on it. Plus the years of working the Scottsdale hotel in the middle of a club district have left with me with a distaste for drunks...

But neither of those is a total deal-breaker, they're just annoyances. And I would REALLY like a gaming group and a way to get out of the house to see other people socially...

New Comics Day 7/15/09

Another week where I manage to still buy most of the comics I want. Which tells me one thing. I was going out for fast food WAAAAAAY too often before...

Starting this week with a new RASL. Dimension hopping, duplicate loves, some dude who looks like a lizard, the Philadelphia Experiment and Tesla. This is such an odd book...

Lockjaw & the Pet Avengers has our group of heroic animals venturing from the bottom of the sea to the White House in search of the Infinity Gems. Also I didn't know Namor had two sea turtle side-kicks who can create air pockets...

The Hulk guest stars in Agents of ATLAS after one of the less well suprivised ATLAS projects grabs the wrong drifter to experiment on...

Franklin Richards Son of Genius School's Out! is another fun one-shot by Eliopoulos featuring young Franklin and his robot H.E.R.B.I.E. Plus guests! Like Katie Power and Squid Kid and Puppy the Teleporting puppy...

Incognito has Zach teamed with his dead brother's girl, perpetual teen Ava Destruction as they learn more about the origins of their world's super-humans. And the Overkill brothers specifically...

With the Literals cross-over finally done, Fables returns to Mr. Dark aka the Boogeyman. The secret of his entrapment and the Witching Cloak is revealed. And we're also introduced to the Boxers, the Empire's elite anti-Legendary Fable group...

Scalped starts a new story arc as well. With Red Crow cutting his ties with the Hmong and tasking Badhorse with finding the FBI rat in his organization...

DMZ meanwhile continues with the "No Future" arc and broken killer Tony M...

And we finish with this week's Wednesday Comics. The "Teen Titans" and "Superman" pages are probably still the weakest writing wise, but the art is still great all-around. And Gaiman (Metamorpho) and Pope (Strange Adventures) both do a great deal with the single page serial nature of the title, as does Caldwell (Wonder Woman)...