Erin Evans, one of my editors from Wizards of the Coast, called the other day. I immediately took this to be a bad sign. Editors are generally happy to work with you entirely by e-mail until something goes wrong. They they call you to break the bad news personally (which, honestly, is a brave and classy act). So when I …
Happy Anniversary!
Here’s to my wife, Ann, who has given me 16 years of wedded bliss (plus five wonderful kids!) and still puts up with me as well as ever. Plus, she’s taking me to see The Dark Knight tonight instead of Mamma Mia! I’m a lucky man.
Fanboy Love for Missing Comic?
Michael Pinto at Fanboy.com gives Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 a shout-out, which is great. However, my local stores claim to not have gotten their copies in yesterday when they were supposed to arrive. Anyone out there seen one in the wild? Let me know!
Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 Preview
The Comics Continuum has a preview of Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2. This includes the first five pages of the book, along with the two basic variant covers. Comic Book Resources has a set of previews too, and it features the third variant cover, which I’d not seen until now. Look for it in stores today!
Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #5
No, it’s not out yet. I did discover an image (go ahead–click it!) of one of the covers for issue #5, which pits the Bad Bay Hackers against the legendary Champions of Death!
Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 in Stores Tomorrow!
I just found out that Blood Bowl: Killer Contract #2 will be in comic-book stores tomorrow! 
It’s hard to believe that
Soundbombing
My friend and the editor of my Idiot’s Guide books, Kris Oprisko of IDW fame, just started a new audioblog: Gomek Soundbombing. Kris is a huge music fan and has spent the last couple years living in Spain with his wife and kids, broadening his horizons, along with his musical tastes. Check it out!
Forbecks in the News
My family’s been in the newspapers around here a number of times lately, for various reasons. My sister Kim–who lives with her family in Shorewood, just north of Milwaukee–is heading up an effort to give every house in the village a reusable shopping bag. Meanwhile, my son Ken’s photo was in the Janesville Messenger. We were at a Cinco de …
Libraries and Games
The Arizona Daily Star has an excellent article about how libraries are integrating video games. Better yet, it mentions how the ALA (with funding from the Verizon Foundation) has launched a $1 million research project about how playing video games affects players’ literacy. One of the librarian members of the study’s national panel is my friend Liz Danforth. Besides being …
Diana Jones Award Shortlist Released
The title says it all. To sum up, here’s this year’s shortlist: The Canon Puncture podcast The Child’s Play charity The Come Out and Play festival Grey Ranks by Jason Morningstar (Bully Pulpit Games) The Open Design funding process and roleplaying game projects and its inventor Wolfgang Baur Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media edited by …