Death, an interesting topic. I’ve tried my hand at calling in dead to work, or as close as I ever felt like with effluent coming from both ends, which did work at least once.

1. Terrain: There is a small amount of order that comes into play when setting up things for a skirmish game. In playing Malifaux there’s always some back and forth to the setup as you do vie for leverage in foresight to later play. I can only guess that with battle board settings it probably eliminates that element. I’ve recently picked up Warcry to try out at my FLGS and it looks like the same despite my notion that it has strong elements of Mordheim.
2. Starter sets: I’d say they do have their place to get up and go for people who generally don’t collect and build or have limited chances to get out and play. I like the idea of having nearly matched forces to start off play with and then running wild with other crews/factions. Blood Bowl and Necromunda look like that. I’ve yet to get my hands on Guildball as I fell in love with the Butchers, building a collection slowly, and then grabbed a team of Alchemists on consignment for a damn good deal. That does remind me someone owes me a box set that I should follow up on.
3. Book to film: Oddly enough Jurassic Park was the last one that I watched which I had read the book beforehand. I’m curious to see how the film “It” stacks up against the book. With all the improvements in CG I’d think that more and more films might well come closer to the printed material.
4. Comedy sucks: I mostly agree. I just recently watched an Eddie Murphy special from the 80s on Netflix (Richard Pryor soon to be watched as well) and thought that the best comedy is offensive that takes the power out of polite humor. It generally is seated in our collective sense of guilty pleasure where we know we shouldn’t go but love to do so anyway.
5. Comedy duos: As far as duos I don’t think that there’ve been many in the way of many in Western countries that I’m aware of for some time. Maybe the most recent could be Jeff Dunham, for American audiences, eventhough he uses puppets and plays as voice for both straight man and funny man roles. It might be easier to look to Japan with their tsukkomi and boke partners of manzai tradition (the inspiration for C3P0 and R2D2 in Star Wars from Akira Kurosawa’s The Hidden Fortress).

For my pledge I will finish off my tiefling on display base and then get a basecoat for my superheroine. Yes, I’ve had my head down lately. I’ve been getting work issues and doing painting to try and get some ends to meet. Now, photos.