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Starting Over with the new year. This year I also hope to include regular gaming updates - both on the theory and practice of caper games learned running "an Invitation" and continued work on Mech & Matrimony
1) Jonny Quest (reread) : I pulled the entire 1980's Comico comic book out last week for something to read before Christmas, finishing the last one on Christmas morning. This is one of William Messiner-Lobes titles from the 80s, which are very character and relationship driven. We spend more time dealing with the relations between Jonny and his father (and of fathers and sons in general), Race and Benton, Jonny and Hajid, and the ongoing subplot of Jonny and Benton letting go of the grief over Jonny's mother's death and Benton starting to date and ultimately proposing to the social case worker who monitored Jonny & Hajid's home schooling. In the midst of this they have adventures - fighting Dr. Zin, exploring lost caves of Neanderthals or islands with living dinosaurs, but thos ebecome almost seconday. They also have current events issues adventures, usually involving Bandit being lost in the urban landscape somewhere so we can have a "very special episode". In this it is very much like Messiner-Loeb's run on the Flash, which occurred around the same time - intelligent, if a little preachy non-standard action/supers fare. One bit I did like was Benton's occasionally being roped in by his college roommate to clean up one mess or another while never actually appearing on panel - a clever enough use of a plot driving disadvantage that also underscored how Dr. Quest can be a bit of a softie.
2) Fortune and Glory: Brian Michael Bendis' tale of his adventures in Hollywood, this is an enormous amount of fun.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
40yearsagotoday recommended it to me some time ago and I finally got a copy for Christmas. It's the sort of thing that makes you weep for the entertainment industry while still laughing out loud. Find it if you can.
1) Jonny Quest (reread) : I pulled the entire 1980's Comico comic book out last week for something to read before Christmas, finishing the last one on Christmas morning. This is one of William Messiner-Lobes titles from the 80s, which are very character and relationship driven. We spend more time dealing with the relations between Jonny and his father (and of fathers and sons in general), Race and Benton, Jonny and Hajid, and the ongoing subplot of Jonny and Benton letting go of the grief over Jonny's mother's death and Benton starting to date and ultimately proposing to the social case worker who monitored Jonny & Hajid's home schooling. In the midst of this they have adventures - fighting Dr. Zin, exploring lost caves of Neanderthals or islands with living dinosaurs, but thos ebecome almost seconday. They also have current events issues adventures, usually involving Bandit being lost in the urban landscape somewhere so we can have a "very special episode". In this it is very much like Messiner-Loeb's run on the Flash, which occurred around the same time - intelligent, if a little preachy non-standard action/supers fare. One bit I did like was Benton's occasionally being roped in by his college roommate to clean up one mess or another while never actually appearing on panel - a clever enough use of a plot driving disadvantage that also underscored how Dr. Quest can be a bit of a softie.
2) Fortune and Glory: Brian Michael Bendis' tale of his adventures in Hollywood, this is an enormous amount of fun.
40yearsagotoday recommended it to me some time ago and I finally got a copy for Christmas. It's the sort of thing that makes you weep for the entertainment industry while still laughing out loud. Find it if you can. 
