I’m coming home from KSAGG. That’s the Krull Siblings Annual Gathering of Gamers. It is absolutely not Krull Sisters A-Go-Go. It’s been a fun three days of BattleTech-themed gaming, and I am happy to have been here with all the friends I hadn’t met yet. Gaming truly does bring people together.
This weekend I’ve been attending the first public all-BattleTech convention I’ve ever heard of in America. The official and marketable name is Krull Siblings Annual Gathering of Gamers. If you remember it as Krull Sisters A-Go-Go, that is the past, and we are men, not archeologists. We do not dig up the past. 
It is three days of playing nothing but BattleTech and BattleTech-related games. I brought an army for the 350-tournament rules, an Alpha Strike Demo Set, the new BattleTech Encounters game, and a pair of miniatures for the painting contest. That’s a fairly light load for me when I come to conventions. But this is also the first gaming convention I’ve been to in many years. So I’m coming in light.
Welcome shoppers, to the Goblin Bazaar!
Please stay and browse, you’ve traveled so far.
Touch and caress every item!
Make uncanny deals if you find ‘em.
But beware of getting lost in the stars.
The Goblin Bazaar awaits you if you dare…
Raconteur Press is publishing the Goblin Bazaar this weekend. It will include many interesting stories about the strange places you can find strange things for strange prices. And while you are waiting for it, check out the first in the series, Goblin Market. In it you can find many interesting stories about the strange places you can find strange things for strange prices. Mmmm… I sense a theme here. And in it you can find my story, Goblins in the Marketplace, where a hunter of otherworldly beings faces a great and terrible price for the weapons of his profession.
I’ve been watching Superman and Lois since it started. I’ve watched all of the Superman shows that have come out in my lifetime. As a major fan of Superman, I love to watch anything with him in it, and this one I think really hit the stride right.
Some treatments get the character more than others. Some shows go too long or get too gimmicky. The new Supergirl for instance started awesome with an amazing first season, but jumped the shark hard and quick. Smallville I loved even if it went on too long and ended up pretty gimmicky. I loved all the cameos they brought in of old Superman actors though. And I loved the pseudo-Justice League they built up. And of course I loved the old Dean Cain Superman back in the day. And if there is one thing I love Justice League for, it is giving the king of nerds the chance to finally play Superman as he is meant to be played. With a smile. The problem most of these treatments have is that they got a bit too much soap opera in them. People had to do dumb things to move the story along. Times that I just shook my head at the best of them.
Superman and Lois started as a story about a man with powers in love with his wife raising two growing boys. And it ended as a story about a man with powers in love with his wife with two grown boys. There was a bit of soup mixed in from time to time, but the creators kept it out for the most part. And even if they didn’t always make the right decisions, there was never too much case of the dumbs. Even the teenage boys didn’t go stupid too much. Don’t worry. They had their moments. But Mom and Dad were always there somewhere to help them out in the end. And that was it.
From beginning to end, it was a story about a family who never gave up on each other, and who were always there to help each other. Through all the trials and enemies and friends they made along the way, they never stopped. And Superman never stopped being Clark Kent. The small town boy who always had a smile for his friends in Smallville. It when by so fast in the end, but somehow I think it was just about right.
Superman and Lois is in my humble opinion the best of the Superman TV shows. Maybe better than the movies. Not knocking the actors of any of them. But this show got the character better than any of them I think. Yes. Even that one. I loved it from beginning to end, with very few steps into like. And the last episode made me cry. And then they made me cry a second time. If you’ve seen the finale, you can probably guess where.
If you have even a passing affinity for Superman and haven’t seen it, I think you’ll like it if you track it down. I know I do. I really loved it, even if it went by so fast.
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