• If you thought George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones stories were the height of “anyone can die” TV, Hulu is going to adapt the superhero novel series he edited, Wild Cards, for television. I never finished reading the entire series, as I fell off somewhere in the high teen-numbered volumes, but it was the first book collection I’d ever seen referred to as “splatterpunk” for all the inventive ways people died.
• 2019 will be the year planned to see a Harry Potter mobile game from the makers of Pokemon Go. This game, Wizards United, will probably move a lot of licensed scarves for players to wear.
• Making me think a bit of the news anchor from the old Batman Beyond cartoon, China has shown off some virtual news anchors. If they look like video game characters, maybe they’ll deliver salient plot points on whatever quests you need to accomplish during the day?
• On the sidewalk outside of Hollywood’s Chinese Theater, Mel Brooks made handprint impressions in the cement with an eleventh finger on display. Yes, they say it’s a prosthetic, but I’m disappointed that no one floated the possibility that he’s secretly an Andoran.
• The Dangerous Minds blog shows us loads of photos demonstrating how we really need to revive the concept of novelty radios. I had the Tropicana Orange one at one time, but time was unkind to the circuitry inside of it.
• I had no idea (though it makes sense) that jigsaw puzzle companies would use the same dies to cut different puzzles. An artist takes puzzles with the same cut pattern and makes interesting art pieces by combining them.
• As mentioned previously, a “Who Year’s Special” is set for January 1st, 2019. It’ll be preceded by a Doctor Who marathon starting on midnight of December 24th. I’m still not sure what to think of the new Doctor. Like I did with Capaldi, I think I need about one-and-a-half seasons to see if the writers can figure the character out again.
• And this post’s browser game is a little experimental. It’s called Stick Ranger 2, and it’s sort of a click-n-hack-n-slash game. You drag your stickman to move him across the playfield, then sort of jiggle him with the mouse to make him attack things (I think).
