Another week closer to Comicpalooza. I have to admit I’m getting pretty excited about this. Sure, it’s going to be great working with the crew once again, and most of my time will be with them.

It’s just that my son will be with me, and that’s going to help a lot. At the very least I can get him to go grab food for me! And of course there is the fact I will be getting another seven autographs added to my armor.

It’s costing me a pretty penny, but it’ll be worth it.

That’s only a minor part of going down. I had such a great time last year I am damn eager to repeat it this time around.

Despite how tiring it can be!

As you have now come to see, spending most of my time hunting for a job has eaten away at my creativity. So it’s damn nice to be able to get up the New Mutant Monday Series Two entries each week, such as the Fungal Puff-Heads and Blue shell. I have two coming tomorrow, of which I really waffled about writing up as conversions. Anyone my age or older will probably get the references, but who knows.

Reason I did not bother doing that is because with the new Fallout 4 DLC: Far Harbor, the game added quite a few new types of mutant monsters, and I really want to write them up and add them to the list.

I have also decided after I’m finished with the last conversion, I will probably change any more conversions so radically as to make them my own and use them for New Mutant Monday.

Who knows, my decisions are quite mercurial, and I might continue with the conversions. We shall see.

As usual the boys had their fun with D-Infinity live this week, nice to see it returned after a single week hiatus.

If you have grown used to the longer blogs, this week will be a little shorter. I did not have the time to watch as much as I would have liked.

Still I did manage to finish season one of The Expanse. This is based on the first novel called Leviathan Wakes, and holy hell! The first season covered more than half of the novel in ten episodes. Loved it! And the effects were really great!

Space opera with believable technology, very human characters, and a deep, expansive mystery with multiple layers and machinations.

I will be eager to see season two begin. I’m also going to read the second novel in the series in the next month or so.

Speaking of reading, I finished book two of Remaining: Aftermath. This is a zombie apocalypse series, but instead of the creatures being the dead having risen to feast on the flesh of the living, they are still living humans who have turned feral and animal-like in their behavior. It still spread like wildfire and has brought civilization to its knees.

This series is VERY reminiscent of the old Morrow Project RPG, with the main character being a Captain in the US army. Instead of being frozen and woken years after the fall, he was stowed away in a bunker beneath his home, waiting for the time to come out and help the survivors.

He has a series of ten caches of food, medical supplies, equipment and so forth scattered around the state he works in, and is to use it to help survivors rebuild and thrive. And he is but one of fifty such operatives scattered in all the states.

If you’re familiar with the Morrow Project, you can easily see the similarities. Still despite this the books are pretty entertaining, and the main character is constantly getting his ass handed to him.

I will continue with the series as I am quite entertained.  

Last week I made another RPG purchase, this the Grimtooth’s Ultimate traps collection. It is all the venerable Grimtooth traps books compiled in one massive hardcover (you can likewise purchase the softcover if you so prefer).

It will take a little work to adapt some of the traps to your current game system, but there are so many different and deadly types of traps in the book you should never run out of ways to challenge and vex your players.

Not being a DM this book will not see much use, but I collect RPG books and as such it makes a wonderful addition to my collection.

And didn’t I say this blog would be shorter than it has been for the past several weeks?

Yes, yes I did.

Until next Sunday, stay happy and may you be dead in heaven five minutes before the devil realizes you’ve passed on.

No idea why I wrote that, just felt like the right thing to say!