I read someone describe Xanth as young adult erotica, and I couldn't disagree. I did shudder in disgust, though.

I read like nine or ten of them. I am a slow learner

And randomly assigned apostrophes in the middle of words.

Michael Moorcock vehemently disagrees.

Well, Xanth for one. Supposedly.

I have to admit, giving up on A Song of Ice and Fire was even easier than giving on The Wheel of Time, because Jordan had prepped me pretty well.

That's the one I just skimmed. And then completely gave up.

There's a rumor somebody is developing that for TV, too. No, seriously. I read it on the internet.

Game of Thrones has tits and dragons. Two things that The Wheel of Time does not have, hot naked Aes Sedai apprenticeships aside.

You dodged a bullet.

"A couple"?

Dinosaur people with swords for hands. The show writes itself!

I don't object to the pairing - like I said, I like both characters - but they already had gal pals in place. Admittedly, sometimes those people are dead (Janet Van Dyne, frex), but they're already in place. I was just curious as to why these two specifically.

Oh, that is cool, the PI thing. Although, lady private investigators now seem to be a thing at Marvel, if that's the case.

If you do it wrong. You have to make sure they think it's their idea.

And getting them to do what you want anyway is DMing 204.

I've never read that. It looks pretty awesome, though.

I think you could spin out a decent adventure or setting from them. They don't have to connect, you just need a couple cities, some overland adventure space, and good spots for dungeons.

Ok, cool.

The one with Kevin Maguire on art? That was fun, I liked it a lot. DeMatteis sidelined Surfer (either because he doesn't like Norrin, or thought he'd be too powerful), so it's just the three main guys, who are all varying degrees of pure asshole and/or rage monster, and it was pretty delightful. I do like the…