AFNB

My initial thoughts about Faerie Ellen before reading the commentary can be summed up as "Hey!" "Listen!"

Didn't even recognize Vladia - shows how much Dan's art style has changed (for the better).

"I consume a lot of protein." (dramatic, ominous shading)

So we're going to see a shift in how Rich is going to act like a dick.

For some reason, I feel like the irony and possible level of self-awareness is going to go completely over Rich's head.

Yeah, I seem to remember a lot of people speculating on Noah's ponytail being antennae. As someone with autism who has experienced degrees of sensory overload, I can see that.

Going back and reading the arc from the beginning - hoping it ends with Elliot coming to pick up Ellen, and breaking George's brain.

I think we may be seeing the reason Di- I mean Rick had so much trouble as a GM - he isn't quick-on-his-feet creative.

It may be because I just woke up, but does anyone understand what he means by "charm of three"?

Yay for character growth!

Murky!

Bear in mind, people, that Dan has not declared this storyline to be canon - especially when you consider this.

Yeah, bit of a surprise to me too. ....I'm trying to remember - did Dan say anything about calling Rich "Dick" being too on the nose?

Yay, Larry has grown as a person! He's not hitting on everything hot and female anymore! Not holding my breath for Rick though.

We already know that Dan is a "Cheers" fan. Clearly he has Carla in mind here.

It seems like there have been several recent times that Dan's delayed the comic for health reasons. Is anyone else becoming concerned?

Seems like Owl-Griffin agrees with me - Elliot calling this a "villain" form is a huge exaggeration. Dude sees things in black and white, and that's a very bad thing.

Elliot sees things far too polarized - this form seems more anti-hero than villain to me. Willing to cross the line for the right reasons.

Fit Grace looks goooood (and not just because I like abs on a girl).

I don't think there has been a GIRL named Spike.

"Is she a ninja?" Only when she's sleepy.

It is Hasbro, and there have always been cards as part of it - spells, treasures, and artifacts mostly. This new release also uses the Equipment deck from the Euro release rather than a big cardboard sheet, in addition to equipment from said Euro release. And yes, Hasbro is publishing it now.

In 1989, Milton Bradley worked with Games Workshop to produce a fantasy adventure board game called Hero Quest. It was, I believe, the first of it's kind, a simple dungeon crawl - go in, fight the monsters, find the treasure, and make it out alive. A board provides the basic framework, and a quest map tells how each individual adventure is set up. Four heroes - a fighting barbarian, a spell-slinging wizard, an elf who does a little of both, and a dwarven warrior-rogue good at disarming traps. Several expansions came out, the last one in the mid-90s. MB eventually let their trademark lapse, but a fan following has endured, making new quests, new tiles, and new adventures. A year or two ago, someone at Hasbro (which has apparently bought Milton Bradley) apparently looked through the game, and discovered that Games Workshop's contribution included very little of the lore that came from Warhammer, and decided to re-release the game. It's been sized up a bit, and received a cosmetic upgrade. Cardboard furniture and brittle plastic hero/monster pieces were replaced with sturdier plastic. The result looks glorious, and I got a copy of it for Christmas - including the first two original expansions, three completely new quest books, and three new playable options for heroes. Does anyone else have any fond memories of this game?

At least you survived.

I was always planning on sharing the official NASA rankings and reasons behind them. That's the last part of the exercise - scoring, seeing how well you did.