Doing a cursory check of natural disaster probabilities, it looks like @PedanticEditorType is correct that the Pacific Northwest seems ideal within the continental US: free from virtually all natural disasters, temperate climate, fertile, and with enough urbanity to harvest for resources.

…The dogs are all slobs, and the cats are all uptight?

A U-Haul trailer! She probably even left a deposit in the till.

Astronaut Jones will appear, of course.

It also proves that a lot of times, all it takes is a single line or wordless expression to pay something off.

Yeah, the main fault of the rulebooks, I think, were that they didn't flesh out how differing paradigms would really work enough. It's a concept as vast as human imagination - you've got to put a box around the sandbox, otherwise you've just got an undifferentiated pile.

What might be ideal, if turn-based is out of the question, is borrowing a page out of the FTL playbook and have pausable real-time, which certainly would allow more of the strategic planning and tactical thinking possibilities of the original boardgame.

I think one of the reasons it flew under a lot of people's radar is that it was a smaller-stakes, lower budget picture - it owed a lot more to John Carpenter than to George Lucas or Peter Jackson, as well as being built on a comic property perhaps a bit tainted by the laughingstock that is the Stallone version, and I…

I like the sound of it. Bookmarked!

Great point. One of the touches I love about the Dune series is that he built counters to any weapon, no matter how powerful: blades against personal shields, political strictures against the use of atomics, mantras against mind attacks, and so on - it forced the use of careful planning and lateral thinking (and…

I suppose you're not too thrilled about this?

Wow. I knew Woodring worked in animation (where is my Saturday Morning Frank cartoon?!), but not that he rubbed shoulders with Toth and The King.

I'm terribly excited for all the possibilities of a second season, if it's in the offing. Jimmy Woo and the Agents of ATLAS would be incredibly fun (though perhaps the whole misfit crew would be too diluting), but I think it might serve the show best to forge its own ground - so if they're going to raid the Marvel…

GET OUT.

Mage had a really interesting idea - that all human endeavour, magical, technological, or what-have-you, was the result of humanity's facility for pattern-making and belief, and that the Enlightenment was a secret war where the technologists won out over the others, technology becoming the dominant paradigm of the…

Some of my favorite science/fantasy books:
The Iron Dragon's Daughter, Michael Swanwick. A frankly amazing syncretism of Dickensian industrial dystopia, Seelie/Unseelie class oppression, and a deep nihilism embedded within the cyclical nature of folklore. Also, dragons with missiles.

Appropriately enough, perhaps the most iconic poster is by Tim Hildebrandt, who made his fame as a Tolkien illustrator (amongst other fantasy work).

One of the reasons I really enjoyed Dredd - the stakes were simply "survive the night". And not just that - the way it ends makes it seem like just another day in the life of Joe Dredd.

I honestly think he would have said exactly the same thing if Peggy were a man.

Though I think the show has handled retro-topicality well, I'm glad they avoided tackling the dastardly Jim Crowbar.