Flames Rising - Legend of the Five Rings Review

Here's a review of the Fourth Edition corebook. I'll be doing more reviews of the line in the future, including one of their new print on demand books. L5r is one of my favorite RPG settings.

AV Club - Great Lakes Avengers

Here's a little love for Milwaukee's own superhero team from the Marvel Universe. Some of them have to show up in Avengers 2, right?

AV Club - LEGO Store

My dad instilled a life long love of these bricks in my fragile little mind. A boutique store opened up in a local mall. Brad and I checked it out for this article, but we would have went anyway.

Onion AV Club - Cinematic Titanic Review

Here’s my review of the Cinematic Titanic shows over the weekend. The audience was pull of people I knew like my editor and a few friends,  people I recognized like some of the dancers from Brew City Burlesque, and a ton of people that seemed familiar from years and years at Gen Con.

Page XX - Adaptive Tradecraft

Night's Black Agents is an upcoming RPG that pits burned spies against a vampire conspiracy. Burn Notice is one of my favorite TV shows, especially the parts where Michael Weston cobbles together some cool improvised gadget. I combined these two elements for an article in Pelgrane Press' Page XX magazine.

Onion AV Club - Last Hope LARP

Another interview with a coordinator of a LARP some of my friends are doing this weekend.

Old School Wrap Up - c2e2 2012

High light: Meeting a ton of people I've known only via Twitter and being able to wisecrack with them without the need for thumbs.

Low light: The free wifi on the floor was hit or miss. My tablet never connected but my Kindle Fire worked just fine.

Best experience: Having Ken Hite say he read an upcoming article I wrote and liked it.

Worst experience: My tablet running out of disk space early on Friday and missing some great costumes, like a drag Skrull Phoenix. And that should be a band name.

Best bargain (had to buy it, no freebies): The 5 for $25 Marvel trades booth seemed pretty tapped out this year, but $5 for 35 on hardcovers was still a pretty good deal.

Best freebie:The DC superhero logo pins are always a hit, even if I re-purpose mine as Hero Points for Mutants and Masterminds.


Best Photo Op: The crew at the Zombies Eat Republicans web comic were taking photos of people and photoshopping them to look like zombies. Or maybe Republicans. Scary either way.


Most welcome surprise: A lot of great discussions at the panels I attended.

Most unwelcome surprise:  One of my good friends missing out on Friday due to, and I quote, "puking for the last 12 hours like it was my job."

Best costume: Deadpool wearing a Brony shirt. Because of course he would.

Best costume try: A great Cthulhu, but not as great as the Cthulhu cake.

Most amusing costume: The Beachtrooper, combing stormtrooper armor with bermuda shorts.

Coolest booth: The booth for the Captain America prop auction. Lots of neat things to see there.

Strangest moment: Hanging out with one of  my Nerds@Heart colleagues at a nerd dating panel and wondering if people thought I was creepy because I was wearing a wedding ring.

Favorite item available in the Exhibit Hall: The Mustache Monocle.

Stuff bought:
Atomic Robo trades
Rucka Punisher trade
Iron Man trades
Kitten in a Blender card game
Tardis cookie

Stuff got for free:
AvsX coasters
DC hero pins
Awesome costume shots
Ren Fair tickets

Stuff that was wanted that was unavailable:
Iron Fist trades

Things to buy after c2e2:
The rest of the Atomic Robo collection

Best Quote:
"I call this pose One in the Pink."  - Brony Deadpool