The first game I ever ran was a Changeling: the Dreaming campaign way back in high school. My players were an eshu, satyr, redcap and sluagh, and somewhere in there I ended up crossing things over with The X-Files because I was young and didn't know any better. Do you remember those metal spikes they … Continue reading (Gaming) Finding My Path
(Writing) The State of the Rabbit
This summer I've been trying to focus more on my writing -- after all, I'm a writer, and that's what I do. The trouble is I lead a pretty full life as it is. I have a day job that's fairly intensive, so I need to spend my work hours actually, you know, working. My … Continue reading (Writing) The State of the Rabbit
(Comic Review) The Totally Awesome Hulk #1-4
The Hulk has been one of those characters where it's been impossible for him to settle down for very long. Every writer has a wild idea with him that they'd like to try out, and that means over the past several years he's had wildly different status quos. After Greg Pak's legendary run with Planet … Continue reading (Comic Review) The Totally Awesome Hulk #1-4
(Personal) Cracking Myself Open
One of the earliest memories I have about my mental illness is breaking down in the middle of lunch in sixth or seventh grade. Things were not going well for me. I was a shy and awkward kid who loved reading fantasy books. I was really sensitive, so I didn't hold up to bullying very … Continue reading (Personal) Cracking Myself Open
(Personal) What Makes Me Anxious
One of the new podcasts I've picked up recently is Fear The Boot, this great gaming podcast that talks about aspects of role-playing in tabletop games, MMORPGs and other things. It's really a bunch of gamers who get along really well shooting the shit and offering their perspective on games both modern and...historical? They recently … Continue reading (Personal) What Makes Me Anxious
(Politics) In(ter)dependence Day
Today is the 240th anniversary of the birth of our nation. The Declaration of Independence was signed (at least apocryphally) on this date long, long ago. It stated that as a nation, "we hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable … Continue reading (Politics) In(ter)dependence Day
(Friday Fiction) The Job Interview of Dr. Henry McCoy
I've had superheroes on the brain for a while now, and there are a number of reasons for this. However, Beast of the X-Men is someone I just can't get out of my head -- also for a number of reasons. Ever since All-New Marvel Now!, when Brian Michael Bendis took over as the guiding … Continue reading (Friday Fiction) The Job Interview of Dr. Henry McCoy
(Movie Reviews) A Hunchback, a Demigod and an Only Child Walk Into a Bar…
Ryan and I are coming up on the back half of the Disney Renaissance, which reminds me a lot of the risks the animation studio took during the "Dark Ages" of the 70s and early 80s. The storytellers in place at the time were concerned with telling different kinds of stories that were a little … Continue reading (Movie Reviews) A Hunchback, a Demigod and an Only Child Walk Into a Bar…
(Review) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1-6
When Marvel resumed their regular universe in the wake of Secret Wars last November, they released a really great line-up of diverse comics under the "All-New, All-Different Marvel" banner. I wrote a little about the titles I was most interested in here, and it's taken me a little time to get to most of the … Continue reading (Review) Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #1-6
(Reviews) The Circle of Life, The Colors of the Wind, The Virtue of Playing Nice
Ryan and I are holding a weekly film festival where we watch the entire Disney animated canon in chronological order, from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs all the way to Zootopia. Currently, we're up to the latter half of the studio's first Renaissance. Here are my reviews of the latest batch of movies! The … Continue reading (Reviews) The Circle of Life, The Colors of the Wind, The Virtue of Playing Nice
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 