Anyone who has ever played a game of D&D with their friends has met a Ronald. The one guy with encyclopedic knowledge of the game and absolutely no idea how to interact with anyone at all, especially the people sitting around the table.  You could say that he’s based on someone I’ve gamed with personally, and you would probably be right, but at this point I think that everyone has gamed with a Ron at some point in their tabletop career.

Over the past week I’ve been working my way through the Nightmare on Elm Street boxed set.  It’s been a point of quiet shame in my horror-fan life that I hadn’t ever watched one of those movies all the way through.  Luckily my brother-in-law was nice enough to loan the entire set to me.  The movies are definitely a more cerebral experience than the other 80s horror juggernaut Friday the 13th, but the series is also definitely hit-or-miss and suffers from a lack of ideas towards the end.  I’d say any of the films that Wes Craven had a hand in are worth watching, and the rest are just attempts to cash in on the series success.  Still, I can see why Freddy became one of the enduring horror icons of the 80s, and he definitely makes a more interesting villain than the lumbering Jason Voorhees.

I’ve been working up a reserve of strips slowly but surely. Three a week isn’t backbreaking at this point, so I think I’ll be sticking with the Monday-Wednesday-Friday update schedule for the foreseeable future.

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