"Eye am, what eye am."

A tad dated and obscure now. But David Warner voiced Jon Irenicus, the main antagonist in Baldur's Gate II. Aside from the great gameplay and look, his cut scenes wiped away all the eye rolling yet beloved cheese of the ongoing voice acting in the game. I still count his ongoing monologuing to be one of the best.

this all sure lines up perfectly and delivers a nice package of irony, jaw dropping details and (as you cued record scratch trope) a moment where a lovable golden lab tilts its head with a dubbed Scooby-Astro like, 'Uurr!?'. Curious how long till we see this amidst those site recants and "what was fake on the internet…

Me too, and I remember watching it a few times and sometimes it would rerun and I'd think, "ooh a new one!", but it was the premiere again. I lived their opening theme. I recall Chinese characters floating above their heads when discussing plans or being mad as if to remind us of their being Chinese.

sexy lady bots, a monkey companion, the fat slob and Billy West! Perfection

makes sense and yeah my reaction was more knee jerk and easily influenced by pop culture and sci fi tropes. And maybe the fluke worm ep of X Files.

True but still "bend light" was just used by you and others in a non fictional context.

Oh shit... That honestly made me shudder and feel dread. Not sure why. Maybe the whole "upgrading" intellect with familiar and relatable creatures offers comfort and allows for fun speculation but the "move-eat-live-breed" mind of a simple creature suddenly wanting and deciding is awful

There are some amazing game players out there that relative to skill, devotion and hours invested, could be regarded as "olympic level".

It is it a Swing and a Ms.?

You even included Fox and the Hound!

Aw, she just needs Tig.

Ha! They tell us it's a wrench!

'Sup?

Your work is beautiful! And seems Mr. VanderMeer thinks so, had you illustrate twice!

Aah thank you! I read the excerpt on here a couple years back and really intended to buy it. I have been trying to search for it. You'd think "preislamic fantasy novel"would generate some specific hits

my wife will just order a salad or simply say, "eff it", and order something suspect and if nails her, she deals with it for a day or two.