Hey, kids! Remember the '90s? You know, back when everyone wore boots and flannel all the time; mobile phones and home computers were not yet ubiquitous; and the powers that be tried to revitalize the sagging Japanese Beetle! franchise (and grab precious merchandising dollars) by reframing it as the eternal struggle of jocks vs. geeks in a ( Read more... )

The prodigal mutant Governor of Pennsylvaniohiaware has finally woken up from his winter hibernation; and now, clean and roughly ten stone lighter than he had been three months ago, he has come down to the bar with his squirmy baby son, and is enjoying some pizza and soda ( Read more... )

Edie's got a list, and she's checked it twice, and is giving a few gifts (along with Tony) regardless ( Read more... )

[OOM: Squirrel tries to sort out his thoughts in the aftermath of the attack on Coreen, but the day is saved by his Golden Age self.]So it is that the Flying Squirrel who returns to the bar from the outside door is about a hundred and fifty pounds lighter, a lot more Texan, normal non-mutant human as far as anyone can see, and dressed in his USAAF ( Read more... )

[OOM: Coreen has an encounter while doing some late night drawing by an open window.  Warnings for nommage.]

A very woozy and hungry Coreen wakes up next to an open window, in a quiet hallway.  She has her charcoal and pad with her, and yet, no memory of how she got there, or why there's no sketch.

She sits there for a few minutes, trying her ( Read more... )

Two squirrel-human hybrids are occupying a big corner booth today.

...well, more precisely, one of them (the increasingly beach-ball-shaped baby in an incongruous banana outfit) has rolled just out of reach, under the table, while his father (just a couple weeks from hibernation, and almost at his final weight) can't fit under the table to get him ( Read more... )

One strongly chocolate-scented mutant man-squirrel in the bar tonight ( Read more... )

Taking care of someone that's hallucinating he's a vampire, and a surprisingly angry one at that, can be tiresome. Especially when he drinks blood, without the vampiric mechanisms necessary to digest it, and thus, vomits all over silk sheets. Repeatedly ( Read more... )

Squirrel, in spite of having gained approximately two-thirds of his fiancée in pre-hibernation weight, is almost disturbingly healthy. Purely human diseases don't affect him. Sure, he did dream the other night that he was a rock star, but last night he dreamed he was a penguin--doesn't mean anything ( Read more... )

"Oh, come on ( Read more... )