It’s live! If you want to check out my cosy, competitive mystery game based on the lives of Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and the X-Files, it’s in this issue of Sprigs & Kindling!

Mood: Fuck Ernest Cline

Finally, I am Pong!

That said, Marvel, hit me up and I can totally give you a What If…? Holy War in a heartbeat.

Midnight X-Men was great fun. For some reason my brain saw Bishop Nightcrawler and I got my hopes up that the inciting incident might have been The Leper Queen’s plan from Holy War actually happening and somehow causing the whole vampire situation. While I was disappointed, this is on me.

"Currently, if an employee makes anything creative in their free time, with their own resources, Hasbro can claim ownership" Yeah, fuck that Hasbro. Recognize the union.

Don’t let Truss kill me.

I’ve been revisiting Earthsea for the first time in 30 years.

As ever, you can check out Casual Trek on your podcatchers, on Spotify or on YouTube, where we review and rank three different episodes of Star Trek based on a theme and put them on our ‘objective’ list of best to worst.

Blink and you’ll miss Tom Morello in Voyager’s “Good Shepherd”, where Janeway adopts some lower decks crewmen and… I’m not going to lie to you, for a good shepherd, this isn’t a good episode.

Iggy Pop has a prominent role in Deep Space Nine’s “The Magnificent Ferengi” where he holds Moogie hostage, gets some skincare tips from her and then suffers through Quark’s ragtag team doing a Weekend at Bernie’s to him.

In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Manhunt”, Mick Fleetwood is unrecognisable as a fish alien who spends most of the episode in a catatonic state while Lwaxana Troi visits the Enterprise.

Playing Banjo 1 & 2 for the first time, seeing what games I already have look like on something bigger than my Atari Super Pocket.

Me when I’m faced with the slightest setback.