Hi guys! Here’s a quick lil thing while I wait for other things to happen so I can start posting comics regularly. Secret things afoot!!
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05 Jun 20:46
Hi guys! Here’s a quick lil thing while I wait for other...
Tom WrightSee, this one put the punchline under the break. That's just practical thinking.
05 Jun 14:13
Beer
Tom WrightAs a non-beer drinker, I can't really participate in the conversation. Except to say that I've smelled beer, and didn't care for the smell.
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05 Jun 04:51
#1113 – Future (3 Comments)
by Chris
Tom WrightSee, when the last panel is too obvious and catches the eye before it should, it ruins the joke.
I say try to put the punchline under the break.
04 Jun 18:22
So When Can I Eat Them?
by Mark
Tom WrightI don't get it. Is this funny? I missed something here.
Noah, you scamp.
04 Jun 18:10
Meating
by Justin Boyd
Tom WrightThe bonus panel. I love broccoli.
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04 Jun 17:23
• U.S. publisher Mayfair Games runs a number of tournaments and events each Gen Con, and for Gen Con 2015 it has two big events planned.
First, Mayfair is hosting "The Big Game", a sequel to its Big Game event from Gen Con 2013 in which more than nine hundred people participated in the same game of Catan. The 2015 Big Game takes place Friday, July 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the White River Ballroom in the J.W. Marriott hotel (event: BGM1576923), with all proceeds raised during the event going to The Julian Center, the official Gen Con charity.
Second, also benefitting The Julian Center, is a "Warp Speed" tournament featuring Five Year Mission, a new cooperative Star Trek-based dice game. Mayfair held a similar charity event at Gen Con 2013 with the finalists competing in a game of Catan with actor Wil Wheaton. For 2015, the guest of honor is actor Marina Sirtis, who played Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. As for the game you'll be playing, here's a short description:
Mayfair has yet to release artwork, the name of the designer(s), a release date, and other details for this game. All in good time...
• Designer J. Alex Kevern got a nod in yesterday's round-up of TMG releases, and he has a second title coming in 2015 from Dutch publisher White Goblin Games. Here's an overview of Daxu:
• Designer Chad Jensen and publisher GMT Games have paired frequently on lengthy titles such as Combat Commander: Europe, Dominant Species and Urban Sprawl, but their next release is the more streamlined Centerville, which bears this gameplay summary:
Centerville is available for preorder through GMT's P500 program, and a more detailed game description is available on that page.
• Joe Fatula has released a number of games through The Lumenaris Group, which appears to be a family business or collective that sells felt kits, sewing tools and jigsaw puzzles in addition to games. Browsing through the Lumenaris product offerings is weirdly charming! Fatula's next release is Leaving Earth, which seems like a departure from all he's done before, but that also seems standard for his releases! An overview:
• Matt Hyra from Cryptozoic Entertainment has notified BGG of two previously announced titles that will not be released — Mystic Warlords of Ka'a, written up in a March 2013 BGG News post, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Expandable Card Game, covered in a different March 2013 BGGN post — so I've removed these game listings from the database, merging the entries with our "unpublished prototype" listing reserved for such abandoned projects.
New Game Round-up: Building a New Community, Leaving Earth, Then Starting a New Five Year Mission
by W Eric Martin
Tom WrightMolly, the Star Trek game he mentions in the middle might be fun.
First, Mayfair is hosting "The Big Game", a sequel to its Big Game event from Gen Con 2013 in which more than nine hundred people participated in the same game of Catan. The 2015 Big Game takes place Friday, July 31 at 7:00 p.m. in the White River Ballroom in the J.W. Marriott hotel (event: BGM1576923), with all proceeds raised during the event going to The Julian Center, the official Gen Con charity.
Second, also benefitting The Julian Center, is a "Warp Speed" tournament featuring Five Year Mission, a new cooperative Star Trek-based dice game. Mayfair held a similar charity event at Gen Con 2013 with the finalists competing in a game of Catan with actor Wil Wheaton. For 2015, the guest of honor is actor Marina Sirtis, who played Counselor Deanna Troi on Star Trek: The Next Generation. As for the game you'll be playing, here's a short description:
Five Year Mission is a cooperative dice game for 3-7 players who take the roles of crew members of either the USS Enterprise (from the original Star Trek series) or the USS Enterprise-D (from Star Trek: The Next Generation).
In these roles, players try to cooperatively solve a series of Green, Yellow and Red alerts before failing five such alerts, or getting the Enterprise destroyed. Crew members have different abilities, and both the crew and the alert encounters differ depending on the era in which the game takes place.
In these roles, players try to cooperatively solve a series of Green, Yellow and Red alerts before failing five such alerts, or getting the Enterprise destroyed. Crew members have different abilities, and both the crew and the alert encounters differ depending on the era in which the game takes place.
Mayfair has yet to release artwork, the name of the designer(s), a release date, and other details for this game. All in good time...
In Daxu, players collect sets of cards of six different types of shops: bakery, rice wine shop, wood cutter, basket maker, silk dealer, and tea house.
Each round, several cards are flipped and players decide whether they want the cards for themselves or they want to give the cards to their opponent. Obtained cards go into your personal collection, and some of these cards provide (or make you lose) reputation points. If you focus too much on one type of shop, your customers will be dissatisfied and your opponent will gain points instead of you!
At the end of the game, players score points based on who holds majorities in which shops. Holding a majority by only a few cards earns points for you, but from a certain point on, that majority provides points for your opponent instead! Whoever collects the most points from majorities and reputation points wins.
Each round, several cards are flipped and players decide whether they want the cards for themselves or they want to give the cards to their opponent. Obtained cards go into your personal collection, and some of these cards provide (or make you lose) reputation points. If you focus too much on one type of shop, your customers will be dissatisfied and your opponent will gain points instead of you!
At the end of the game, players score points based on who holds majorities in which shops. Holding a majority by only a few cards earns points for you, but from a certain point on, that majority provides points for your opponent instead! Whoever collects the most points from majorities and reputation points wins.
Centerville is a relatively light board game for 2-4 players. Centerville abstractly models the growth and management of a small city — perhaps not unlike the one you're in right now.
Players act as entrepreneurs, tycoons, politicians, and other local movers and shakers working to develop a modern urban area. Fortunes will be made and fame will rise. As time goes by, personal milestones will enrich the players even further.
Throughout the game, players will roll six dice, keeping some and rerolling others, then implementing the various die faces on the game board. This will result in political offices being gained and lost, new vocations learned, new land acquired, or new buildings constructed. The end result is a vibrant community revered near and wide — but only the player who has best balanced their wealth and prestige will emerge the final victor.
Playing time is 15-20 minutes per player.
Players act as entrepreneurs, tycoons, politicians, and other local movers and shakers working to develop a modern urban area. Fortunes will be made and fame will rise. As time goes by, personal milestones will enrich the players even further.
Throughout the game, players will roll six dice, keeping some and rerolling others, then implementing the various die faces on the game board. This will result in political offices being gained and lost, new vocations learned, new land acquired, or new buildings constructed. The end result is a vibrant community revered near and wide — but only the player who has best balanced their wealth and prestige will emerge the final victor.
Playing time is 15-20 minutes per player.
Centerville is available for preorder through GMT's P500 program, and a more detailed game description is available on that page.
The year is 1956. Mankind stands at the dawn of a new age, the Space Age, when the flying bombs of yesteryear will become the rocket ships of tomorrow. As the director of a national space program, your country is depending on you for success in this great contest. You may be the first to create an artificial satellite, send a probe to another planet, or even put a man on the moon.
Leaving Earth is a game about planning and about managing risk. With even a single grand journey into outer space, you might claim victory in the game. Consequently, it is your job to plan each journey carefully, finding the cheapest, quickest, and safest ways to reach your objective — but do not spend too long preparing, or another nation might reach their goal before you.
On your turn, you will be conducting research, building spacecraft, and directing journeys into outer space. To conduct research, you buy an advancement that begins with certain flaws, then you test the advancement to find and eliminate those flaws. To build a spacecraft, you purchase components and assemble them into a whole. To travel to outer space, you expend rockets to maneuver from one location to another.
Leaving Earth is a game about planning and about managing risk. With even a single grand journey into outer space, you might claim victory in the game. Consequently, it is your job to plan each journey carefully, finding the cheapest, quickest, and safest ways to reach your objective — but do not spend too long preparing, or another nation might reach their goal before you.
On your turn, you will be conducting research, building spacecraft, and directing journeys into outer space. To conduct research, you buy an advancement that begins with certain flaws, then you test the advancement to find and eliminate those flaws. To build a spacecraft, you purchase components and assemble them into a whole. To travel to outer space, you expend rockets to maneuver from one location to another.
• Matt Hyra from Cryptozoic Entertainment has notified BGG of two previously announced titles that will not be released — Mystic Warlords of Ka'a, written up in a March 2013 BGG News post, and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Expandable Card Game, covered in a different March 2013 BGGN post — so I've removed these game listings from the database, merging the entries with our "unpublished prototype" listing reserved for such abandoned projects.
04 Jun 17:22
Early news from the 2015 Origins Game Fair (with me arriving in Columbus, Ohio soon to find out more things firsthand) has WizKids Games announcing a deal with Nickelodeon to release "multiple tabletop games based on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise".
In what might not be surprising news to those familiar with WizKids, the first two TMNT games planned for release by WizKids are a "special series" of TMNT HeroClix figures and a TMNT Dice Masters game, with both of those scheduled to appear in 2015.
If you're curious as to which versions of the turtles you might see in these games, the answer seems to be "all of them". In a press release announcing the partnership, a representative of WizKids Games writes that the company "is very excited to bring fan-favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, spanning all iterations of the comics from classic to present day as well as the classic cartoon and current hit CG-animated series on Nickelodeon, to both games. "
Completely by chance, my 6yo son and I had started to assemble this LEGO set on Wednesday morning before this announcement had been made:
He discovered the Nickelodeon cartoon show while we were on a trip in late May 2015, and I suspect that my wallet will be saddened once he finds out that these games are on the way...
WizKids Readies Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Games for 2015
by W Eric Martin
Tom WrightBut are there enough characters in TMNT to make a Dice Masters set?
In what might not be surprising news to those familiar with WizKids, the first two TMNT games planned for release by WizKids are a "special series" of TMNT HeroClix figures and a TMNT Dice Masters game, with both of those scheduled to appear in 2015.
If you're curious as to which versions of the turtles you might see in these games, the answer seems to be "all of them". In a press release announcing the partnership, a representative of WizKids Games writes that the company "is very excited to bring fan-favorite Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles characters, spanning all iterations of the comics from classic to present day as well as the classic cartoon and current hit CG-animated series on Nickelodeon, to both games. "
Completely by chance, my 6yo son and I had started to assemble this LEGO set on Wednesday morning before this announcement had been made:
He discovered the Nickelodeon cartoon show while we were on a trip in late May 2015, and I suspect that my wallet will be saddened once he finds out that these games are on the way...
03 Jun 14:45
Weird
by The Awkward Yeti
Tom WrightIs the butterfly Joker? I can't tell.
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03 Jun 13:05
Antique Factory
Tom WrightThat one took me a second...
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03 Jun 13:02
#1112 – Goodness (15 Comments)
by Chris
Tom WrightI will always provide sincere advice on the internet.
30 May 00:04
Always stuck somewhere in my head
by CommitStrip
Tom WrightNot me. I file that squarely under, "Not my problem."
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29 May 21:08
Plans
by Justin Boyd
Tom WrightSounds like someone canceled on Justin Boyd...
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29 May 01:12
IT Consulting Magic
by CommitStrip
Tom WrightI use the words "Senior Developer" so much at my job.
Except I actually mean them...
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27 May 23:13
Photo
Tom WrightBoardgamegeek was down yesterday. Molly and I did not feel the withdrawal symptoms. We did go to the game store, though.
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27 May 22:02
Equipping A Drone With Roman Candles And Then Letting It Attack
by Remy Carreiro
Tom WrightI feel like it would scar where it hit...
You know those days when you are sitting around with your friends and you can’t think of anything productive to do, so you think of something insane? Yes, this is kind of like that. YouTuber Andy Stewart decided to attach some roman candles to an attack drone and then run around helplessly while it fired at him and his shirtless friend in the snow.
It may sound kinda silly, but it ends up being rather hilarious and looking like a video game in real life. Man, this drone technology is exactly as awesome as most of us thought it would be. Delivering pizzas and attacking its masters. Welcome to the future, people.
(Seriously people, don’t try that at home, or in fact, anywhere)
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27 May 19:49
Photo
Tom WrightThey really do say "cousin" a lot. We get it. You're cousins.
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27 May 16:21
Cat Lady Dance – A WTF music video
by ufunk
Tom WrightThat was amazing.
Cat Lady Dance, the WTF music video of the day, featuring two dancers surrounded by a gaggle of fake cats, with as background a rain of Oreo, robot dance and edgy music. A video directed by Scott Winn.
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27 May 03:05
“Then there’s Superboy. Is a clone a dependent? Is he me? Do we...
Tom WrightThe duo really makes this at the end.
“Then there’s Superboy. Is a clone a dependent? Is he me? Do we file together? What does it all mean? What’s the meaning of life?”
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27 May 02:51
Drawing Tears
by Mark
Tom WrightLiteral.
Don’t feel bad for this paper, it was made from a one hundred year old tree and now here it is creeping on school kids.
smh.
26 May 17:41
Photo
Tom WrightEmily, when you get your dragon, remember that even though we had our missteps, in the end we won Ticket to Ride Team Asia.
23 May 22:51
I AM NOT GOOD AT THIS.
Tom WrightHow Molly feels? But which person in the comic is she?
Which one?!!
I AM NOT GOOD AT THIS.
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22 May 21:11
What it Feels Like Getting a Paycheck as an Adult [Comic]
by Geeks are Sexy
Tom WrightThe tear. The tear.
[Source: Adam Ellis Comics on Facebook | Follow Adam Ellis on Twitter | Adam Ellis (Official)]
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22 May 13:26
A First Look at Supergirl (The New TV Series) [Extended Trailer]
by Geeks are Sexy
Tom WrightI'm hopeful this is good. It'd be hard to catch up to The Flash, though. Get it? Catch up? Because he has superspeed? Get it?
It’s not a bird. It’s not a plane. It’s not a man. It’s Supergirl. In the new drama from the world of DC Comics, Superman’s cousin, Kara Zor-El, embraces her superhuman abilities and becomes the hero she was always meant to be. This Fall on CBS.
Plus, she looks like a huge nerd, which I think is totally awesome! :)
[CBS]
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