Suggestions Unboxed -- Free-for-All Friday!

Doug: Because Fridays can be somewhat slower than the beginning of the week, I am taking the liberty of tossing together a cornucopia of suggestions from several of our comments. Anything below is fair fodder for rumination today, friends!

Colin Bray: Perhaps the golden age of comics podcasting has passed, but there is still a lot of great existing material to explore. How about favourite comics podcast together with favourite comics podcast episode complete with links?

David B: Best original cast SNL character(s).., again from 1975-1980? And with 'Star Wars' fever raging back in 1978, helmed by the still-hot comic genius of Buck Henry along with notable movie star Richard Benjamin fresh off Westworld, why was 'Quark' so miserably terrible..?


Redartz: Comic creators' work in other media (such as Kirby and Gerber in animation, for instance), and how about Dungeons and Dragons/role playing games... or even favorite board games?

Discuss: Let's Play A Game!

Karen: Ah, the joy of pulling out that cardboard box and setting up the board, picking out your playing piece...what were some of your favorite board games as a kid?

Karen: We had several in my house. There was the completely insane Mousetrap, which was more about setting up the Rube Goldberg-like plastic contraption than actually playing the game. In a similar fashion, the Planet of the Apes game had a great deal of set up (but really cool pictures on the box!). My brother had the Amazing Kreskin game, which seemed less like a game and more like a talent show. I loved the ESP cards and the pendulum, even though we never managed to hypnotize anyone.

Karen: Games I always wanted included the Green Ghost game, which you knew had to be cool because it glowed in the dark! I also desperately wanted Battleship, which Hollywood has somehow turned into a movie. What's next, a big budget Uno? A friend of mine had Clue and I really enjoyed playing that.

Karen: Of course we played Monopoly and Life, but they were never terribly exciting to me. And forget Candyland! That was for babies!

Karen: What games did you love? Which ones did you long for?