My wife loves the Costume Quest games and at one point I got her this comic, which she tells me was very good. I have gone through two consectutive Octobers now where I said I would read it (because you have to read it around Halloween, duh) and haven't yet. But I have read this Prince of Persia comic and it's really weird. Not bad but...seriously, there are giant sand babies at one point. Weeeeird.

I have about 15 minutes until I have to officially get up but I’ve been up since 6:30am just listening to the radio. Currently I am typing on the iPad and man if someone ever creates a keyboard with a trackpad I’ll be a fan for life. I’m thinking about trying to get back to reading the newspaper and the local paper has a special where I can get 3 months of their digital version for a $1. Not bad but I am in a small town so stories would most likely be palm tree on fire (this was an actual news story on the local news right after the main story of the day).

At one point Nintendo Power—back when print journalism was a thing—ran comics for some of their big franchises. My favorite, by far, is the Mario Adventures comic. It was just so much fun, especially when Luigi and Princess Toadstool (who was not yet known as Peach) swapped clothes to fool the koopalings. Such hijinks! And I love the art. The A Link to the Past comic was good as well, though of course much less silly. There have also been a bunch of high quality Zelda manga but I've read only the one for Ocarina of Time. I'd like to get more of them though. There is even a short Skyward Sword manga in the back of Hyrule Historia.

A lot of work followed by being exhausted messed up BaD this year. Oh well, there's always next year.

Oh I just got off the phone with a lovely scam caller. This is how the conversation went down:

Since Mega Man and Sonic were under the same publishing roof for a while and written by the same person, we got to enjoy TWO big crossovers between the franchises (and the second one then brought in all kinds of Capcom and Sega goodness). The first crossever, Worlds Collide, came out in three trades and then one large omnibus, which is what I bought. The first two trades of the second crossover, Worlds Unite, came out before Archie dropped the ball and I had to buy the remainder of the series as used single issues.

This time I found a list of Wikipedia. This one takes 45 different all-time greatest game lists and notes the ones mentioned the most. From this I made a list of games I’d like to enter my personal library. Here are they:

Yesterday I had a random CD hunt where I scored some stuff but i want to save that for it's usual Quick Hits spot so today I thought I'd share a single from one of the CDs I bought. This song came out right around the time I started to learn how to play the saxophone and it blew my mind. We had no girls in our sax line in school, yet here was this saxophonist who kicked major *** . I would say this song opened doors for me to look for other saxophonists and really got me going on finding new music and trying to figure out how to play songs by ear. 

When I ran out of Mega Man comics to read, I shifted over to Sonic. Writer Ian Flynn got his start with Sonic before being given Mega Man as well and while I don't think Sonic ever reaches the heights of the blue bomber, it is still quite enjoyable. Archie was still bungling publishing. Trades came out something like two years after the issues they collected. If I had the time and money (I don't have enough of either), I could hunt down all the single issues that didn't make it into trades, but that's a pipedream.

Happy Valentine’s Day!  I’ve got some valentines for all of you!  It’s more game reviews I’ve recently written at GamerDad.com!  Please click on the links and read as many as you can, and maybe even post a ‘like’ or comment or two.  I’d really appreciate it.  Doing those things is the best valentine ever!

Okey dokey. Here are the last titles I’m grabbing from Metacritic. These cover all the games I want to play (or play again) with a 90 rating.

Ok so here I am on a Tuesday waiting for my second alarm to go off so I can get the day started so instead of playing a random game on my iPad or Switch I will catch you folks up on the next No Theme Theme BaD 2020. I’m being all fancy and typing on my iPad. (Spoiler: I love my iPad keyboard but when I backspace in this word app it is slow. Also when I paste here from that word doc into the word doc button the Insert and Cancel buttons disappear.)

I think I've mentioned before that Archie's Mega Man comic is my all-time favorite comic, and that hasn't changed. I have very strong feelings about how Archie ran and published the comic (i.e., lousy and not fan-friendly) but I think what writer Ian Flynn accomplished with it is nothing short of astounding. There is no reason an adaptation of an 8-bit action game should have such deep characters and satisfying plots.

I just can’t stop. I’ve got 49 games in my all-time list to build my library from, and I go another page on Metacritic to get more. What’s up with that? It's listomania. I think I’ll stop at games with a score of 90 and then search some other lists to get older games. This current list includes games rated at 91, so I’m almost done.

Well good morning Pixlpeeps! It is week two of BaD and I have just decided to not go with a theme for this year. Maybe not having a theme is the theme, who knows, I’ll figure out what I am going to do on the fly…WE’LL DO IT LIVE!