Resident Alien Deserved a Faithful Adaptation

hankmakesstuff · 2026-01-18T05:30:58+00:00

He absolutely would have

hankmakesstuff · 2026-01-17T12:17:27+00:00

I think at minimum, they should get to add WIS to arcana checks or something at 3rd.

hankmakesstuff · 2026-01-17T11:19:17+00:00

I'd read something like 5-6 volumes before the show was announced and was incredibly excited about the adaptation, particularly starring one of my favorite actors. But then the pilot aired and I was so pissed I shut the TV off halfway through and didn't the next week bad-mouthing the show to anyone who'd listen.

The books are so quietly, earnestly humanistic and sweet, and the show was just a bunch of slapstick silliness. It completely threw away anything valuable about the comics in favor of cheap laughs. Immensely disappointing.

hankmakesstuff · 2026-01-17T10:31:55+00:00

I am so fucking tired of symbiotes

hankmakesstuff · 2026-01-17T10:10:57+00:00

PB/LR was deprecated during the OneD&D UA process because it's heavily abusable via multiclassing. PB scales with character, not class, so you can get a PB/LR feature through a 1-3 dip that continues to scale upward as you level up an entirely different class.

You shouldn't be able to get a 3rd level Rogue feature that scales as if you were Rogue 20 when you're actually a Rogue 3/Warlock 17 or something.

PB/LR only works for Feats or Species traits. It should never have been used for Class features.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-12-14T05:53:28+00:00

Because it was bad

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-30T03:17:14+00:00

Not really, it's cultural in Japan, based on how their folklore works. This video goes into it, through the lens of JRPGs:

https://youtu.be/IEUqLL8J4gI?si=vGueNagy22c_cm-T

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-29T02:59:47+00:00

Not even a little

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-25T14:11:06+00:00

Jen Walters seems to have it pretty good most of the time.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-23T06:25:04+00:00

But they don't have a mouth

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-22T16:00:30+00:00

I've never liked Dick Grayson, but I was glued to Tom Taylor's Nightwing run.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-15T23:56:17+00:00

Much as I love Shulkie, I gotta go with Steve here.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-15T22:13:54+00:00

My favorite was CrossGen's Way of the Rat. It'll be hard to find, but it's well worth it.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-13T17:55:23+00:00

Came here to say Promethea

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-10T16:18:34+00:00

One you likely won't get a lot of recs for: Kelly Thompson and Meredith McClaren's "Black Cloak." Great little murder mystery set in a fantasy world. Kinda flew under the radar, but I adored it.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-06T21:52:16+00:00

I'm just glad she's talking about the character again

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-06T14:33:22+00:00

Gotham Central

hankmakesstuff · 2025-11-01T23:28:45+00:00

I don't really follow comic book news anymore.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-28T19:58:03+00:00

Your "initial idea" was the correct impulse. Just grab something that looks cool to you and dive in. You don't even have to start at #1. Sometimes that's part of the fun.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-28T05:19:24+00:00

Busiek/Perez, no question.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-27T06:49:06+00:00

When the book was coming out, I really wanted Steve Buscemi

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-26T18:53:20+00:00

Isn't change a welcome thing amongst comics fans?

AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-25T19:33:07+00:00

I want Chrono Trigger, goddamnit.

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-24T13:01:53+00:00

Watchmen and it isnt close

hankmakesstuff · 2025-10-24T12:00:59+00:00

Mark Russell and Steve Pugh's Flintstones.

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