The final act of this drama starts several days later. While before it was the beginning of the Christmas holidays for the nephews, now it’s Christmas Eve, I’m pretty sure. Scrooge, now impoverished, has moved in with Donald the nephews. … Continue reading →

I’m pretty confident everybody knows what Donald Duck’s deal is (he’s got the sweetest disposition, never starts an argument or shows a bit of temperament, is never wrong and always right, wouldn’t dream of starting a fight, and gets stuck … Continue reading →

Okay, so that one Jughead story I don’t know the title of, or the writer, or the artist, or the year of first publication. But this one, this one I can tell you is "A Christmas for Shacktown," written and … Continue reading →

When I was a kid I read a bunch of Archie comics for a while there. I don’t recall the exact years but probably something like 1987 to 1989. I remember having a subscription (?) to the Jughead digest. I … Continue reading →

In 2005 I ran a game called AIRPORTATION for a couple of months. These are some documents related to that game. They were originally written on my livejournal, but around 2009 I locked and deleted my livejournal, because I was … Continue reading →

Okay, you know what? I’m not going to apologize for it. When we found out my wife was pregnant, I decided it was time to stop screwing around and ever since that day I’ve written at least a thousand words … Continue reading →

So to get a sense of this whole set of stories, we need a little context. A decade earlier Amasis, the pharaoh whom Cambyses deposed, had sought to create an alliance to contain Persian power in the Mediterranean. Cyprus, Samos, and … Continue reading →

We join the scene already in progress: the Fish Eaters, diplomats/spies/envoys to Mythic Ethiopia, preparing to present the tallest man in Mythic Ethiopia (and therefore the king) with a series of gifts Cambyses thought would impress him. The lead Fish … Continue reading →

As we head into Book III of the Histories, THALIA, you may need to be reminded that Book II, EUTERPE, was a book-length digression off of the main narrative. Herodotus does this kind of thing a lot. Book III picks … Continue reading →

Nutshell: The Incredibles meets Dynasty in Waterdeep. Characters: Everybody is a former high-fantasy Dungeons-and-Dragons adventuring hero; the group hid the upper levels, gained tremendous fame and fortune and eldritch power, and retired to their homeland’s cultural capital. Mix, match, create … Continue reading →