Grand Admiral Thrawn is back, welcomed into loving embrace of canon, and I could not be more pleased. The younger iteration of myself liked him much more than the current revision, but the main thing is what it proves: that they aren't above boring into the years upon years of calcified work to haul worthies to the surface. They have an eye on it. Hopefully not all of it. Hopefully we can erect some tasteful shōji or something to obscure certain parts. You can tell from Panel Two where my own fantasies lie, in the voice Karen Traviss brought to the setting, a little more military and a little less mystic. Time will tell.

It seemed like a good time to take it all the way back, back in the day, with a podcast of the new Acquisitions Incorporated season we have promoted so vociferously. It was too fun not to do, and it's something I get asked about a lot at the PAX shows - essentially, "can I listen to the new stuff while i'm driving to work." Absolutely you can. The feed is here, so go for it! "Watch" the new season however you like, even if that includes not "watching" it per se. Big thanks to Erik Bronnum, Kiko Villasenor, Josh Price, and Jeff Kalles for making it happen. Super proud to work with these guys - official sub-interns, all.

James Patterson, as has been established, is a necromancer. And he has only begun his dark work.

I am really excited to announce our latest pin set. This is one that I’ve been working on for a while now and I can finally show off the end result.

I don't like having my teeth scraped with metal hooks, but I can endure it. I don't seek it out, or anything. But I love having teeth, so if there is the occasional tooth maintenance procedure sign me up. I'm trying to imagine eating a Fruit Roll-Up with no teeth and friends it is a fucking mess.

Lone Shark Games & Friends put together a Humble Puzzle Bundle, a truly bonkersville collection of puzzle collections. Child's Play is among the potential benefactors, along with Worldbuilders and It Gets Better!

There's a podcast for this strip that'll hit in a little while, and the reason I call it out specifically is that you will hear within this podcast that the strip is essentially a documentary - you'll be able to hear the moment my heart breaks. I was getting on at 10 because I thought everybody was getting on at ten. Not true! They're actually getting on much, much earlier.

I was late to all this Monster Huntery in general, but since 3 I've been trying to get caught up; the bizarre life you have enabled occasionally gets me stuck in the air from time to time, sometimes for upwards of fifteen hours, and I know of no medicine for this ailment so potent as Monster Hunter. The high fives this game generates on cooperative hunts are seismic. And probably bad for the plane.

We were part of an ADSL Pilot Program in Spokane, back in 98 or so, and I would say that ever since then I have had to contend with Gabriel's fragmentary understanding of the network that literally makes our lives possible.

Like a delicious seasonal fruit, the new PAX 10 are hanging heavy on the bough. Our multidisciplinary team of writers, artists, designers, producers, and assorted thinkers have brought in the harvest:

Lot's of people here at PA had a hand in this new Acquisitions Inc. series and we're all very proud of it. I think it's a great show and easily our best YouTube offering. My son doesn't watch TV like normal people. He just watches YouTube and I have to be honest I don't entirely understand it. He tells me all the time about the amazing things "Lachlan" is doing. I have no grand plans of becoming a YouTube star. I have no cool accent (unless lisps are rad) and while I think Jerry and I are both ruggedly handsome in our own ways, I don't expect we will ignite the tween demographic. We do not expect to be nor do we have any desire to be the next YouTube sensation. I do think this Acquisitions Inc. series is really good though and I'd love more people to see it. It would be great if you could help us out and spread the word about the new series. We do what we can on the site but I honestly think there are lots of folks outside the PA world who would really enjoy the show. So if you've seen the new AI show and you dig it, please do us a solid and share it with your friends.

Gabriel and I agree on some things, and not others; for example, my plump larvae don't whirl in a demonic blood tornado and tell people to die. They do other bad stuff. But do they aspire to be hellborne assassins?

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I have been playing videogames for at least 30 years now and I have never experienced anything like Pokemon GO. I took the family over to downtown Kirkland yesterday to hunt for Pokemon and we had a blast. It was amazing to walk around the waterfront and meet so many other people doing the exact same thing. A group of boys who saw us playing ran up and told us about a Growlithe nearby. We stopped to get some ice cream and I could hear people outside shouting about an especially elusive Zubat. Everywhere we looked we saw people catching Pokemon and not just that but talking with complete strangers about Pokemon. It was one of the coolest experiences I have ever had.

The nefarious payload of Pokemon GO: one of health, has already begun to yolk and swell its hapless victims. I feel strongly that there's a way to bring Pokemon Gyms into this paragraph somehow. Just, like, the idea of them. I'll consider my options.

My experience with the launch of Pokemon GO has been kinda rocky; sometimes it only wants to be a loading screen and not a game. Obviously, I respect its decision. Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. But it does make it harder to play.