This has been a pretty rough sickness, so I had to take some days off. I was fortunate that Celia Friedman turned back in her interview on Friday to give some weekend content, and though I wasn’t feeling great yesterday, I couldn’t pass up the chance to talk with Star Trek legend Doug Drexler. The full interview is amazing on video so don’t miss that one! Thank you Yorch Torch Games for contributing a great piece as well!
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Lanterns Episode 7 Spends a Full Hour Circling a Mystery It Never Solves
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Somebody closed up Alias’s chainmail, and nobody will say who. Hachette Partworks’ new 2026 reissue of the Dungeons & Dragons novel Azure Bonds alters the 1988 cover painting, and neither the publisher nor Wizards of the Coast, which owns D&D, has explained who made the call or why. The one person with a right to an opinion had stayed quiet until this w…
Everything That Insomniac’s Wolverine Did Wrong
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VIDEO Interview: Doug Drexler Talks Working On Star Trek And Battlestar Galactica
Had a wonderful and lengthy discussion with a makeup artist and visual effects legend (Academy Award-winning!) Doug Drexler: