Supergirl (2026)

 

Synopsis

Drowning her loss in an intergalactic pub crawl for her birthday, Kara Zor-El encounters a young girl seeking revenge for her family's murder. When Krypto is poisoned, she joins the girl in taking down the intergalactic brigand and seeking the antidote.

Review

I'm going to start this review with the negative. Like a lot of movies and tv shows with gritty settings, I
found some of the scenes to physically dark to truly appreciate visually. I had similar issues with scenes from the Guardians of the Galaxy flicks. Honestly, that's my only real negative take of the movie. Did I like this one as much as I liked Superman? No, but that doesn't mean it's not a fantastic flick. Superman was a classic superhero story. While based on a great miniseries (Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow), this movie felt more like a quest story about someone that's felt loss greatly finding purpose.

Milly Alcock is phenomenal as Supergirl. She plays a character who's lost everything so well. Yet despite what the character has lost, in her heart she still retains her true nature. I really can't wait to see more of her in Gunn's DCU. Eve Ridley also did a wonderful job as Ruthye Marye Knoll, the quest giver of the tale. She's a young, honor-bound woman that reminds Supergirl of who she is and promises she's made.  Of course, David Corenswet is absolutely perfect as Clark Kent. While he's not in the movie too much, his wholesome portrayal just makes me heart happy when I see him on screen. Finally we have to talk about Jason Mamoa's portrayal of Lobo. Mamoa was made to play the character. Like Superman, he isn't on the screen too much, but by the gods when he is, he's the Main Man. It's like Giffen's character stepped out from the comic pages. Gunn better fraggin' use him more!

Sexual exploitation of children wasn't something I expected from the plot, but it's there. I could go on about how this is one of the reasons CHUDs on the internet are bashing the movie, but I won't. I'll just share a meme.

I don't want to end this on a bad note. This movie passed the Pun test. There was at least one scene that evoked enough emotion from me to wet eyes. Oh yeah, the soundtrack/score rocked too. I mean any flick that used Modest Mouse rocks in my book.

 

In Your Game

For game stats I thought I'd write up, Ruthye, the young deuteragonist of the movie.

Ruthye Marye Knoll (Level 1 Warrior): Init +4; Atk +d3+2 Knoll longsword (1d8); Crit I/1d6; AC 13; HD 1d12; HP 24; Act 1d20; SQ threat range (18-20), luck (sword) +2; SV Ref +4; For +1, Will +2; AL L

Gear: Knoll longsword (1d8, increases crit range by 1, nearly indestructible)

Punch A Nazi Week - The Holy Roller

This time the first Punch A Nazi Week is a little different. I recently picked up the Holy Roller collection. I've decided to give a short review of the miniseries before statting out the titular Nazi bashing hero. 

Holy Roller is a collaboration between some different celebrities. It was written by comedian Andy Samberg (SNL and The Lonely Island), Joe Trohman (Fall Out Boy), and Rick Remender (Deadly Class, Uncanny X-Force). It features art by Roland Boschi. As you might expect from the creative team, the story has a comedic edge. It's one part satire and one part loving tribute to comic books. The humor is off-kilter, but endearing (and delightfully dumb at times).

The story follows Levi Coen, a man who returns home to help his ailing father. He finds that his hometown has been taken over by Neo-Nazis. After being forced to defend himself with his bowling balls, he teams up with his child hood friend to become the Holy Roller, a trick bowl  bowling ball wielding vigilante. Levi looks like a muscular Samberg and I couldn't help but hear his voice when I read Levi's lines.

The plot of this one isn't too original, but it works. There are some plot beats borrowed from the first Kingsmen movie, but that's alright. The story has a cinematic vibe and I wouldn't mind seeing a live action or animated adaptation. If you want to see a Jewish vigilante beat the shit out of Neo-Nazis and rich assholes, then check this one out.

Holy Roller in Your Game

Levi is an athlete with gadgets, so I figured I'd stat him using the DCC crimefighter class from Gunzo! True Vigilante #1. For the kind of racist shitsheads Levi smashes with his balls, use these stats.

Holy Roller (Level 4 Crime Fighter): Init +2; Atk +4 bowling bowl (1d8+1) or +5 bowling bowl (1d8+2) [range 20'/40']; Crit III/1d10; AC 15; HD 4d6+8; HP 24; Act 1d20; SQ disguise self +3, investigation, subterfuge; SV Ref +5; For +4, Will +3; AL L

Gear: Armored costume (+3 to AC, -2 fumble), bowling ball (1d8), exploding bowling ball (1d8+2d8 fire damage to all creatures within 20' radius), EMP bowling ball (1d8 + 3d6 to unprotected electronic devices within 50' radius)

Fuccubus Friday

 I love Ruttu’s art. 

Superman Is An Alien

This inhuman take on Superman by Frederik Hornung is interesting and I wanted to share. It has a cool pulp sci-fi vibe that I dig. Going to watch Supergirl tonight. I wonder if any of the aliens will look this wild.

Blood in Borca

  This week’s Season of Horror adventure was Blood in Borca. A few players were out so we combined player groups and I ran the session. The party included

• Human Artificer (not sure what his subclass was) [normally plays in other group]
• Bugbear Ranger (Hollow Warden)
• Dwarf Barbarian (Path of the Berserker)
• Lupin Druid (Circle of the Moon) [same build as the druid in my previous game but different player)

After slaying the illithid vampire in Darkon, the players wake in the domain of Borca. They save a noble from wolves. He hires them to accompany him to a party. The host uses his newly acquired shadow raven powers to incapacitate the party. They wake up in a lab and their new noble patron is ordered to repair a mechanical spider. While this is going on the party are forced to fight a fiery dwarf (an azer). The battle is hard fought and the artificer and barbarian are severely wounded, but survive.

The next room (and final encounter) contains the evil noble (a Priest of Osybus), his two fanatical cultists, and four spies that serve him. This fight was BRUTAL. The cultists started the fight by casting Hold Person on the barbarian and artificer (who failed). Then the Priest used his Soul Blade to constantly paralyze the wildshaped druid. There were many rounds of characters doing nothing but taking critical hits because they were paralyzed. If it wasn’t for the druid, it would have been a TPK. After several rounds, eventually the druid (with help from the ranger and mechanical spider) were able to take out their foes. The fight was frustrating, but ultimately the heroes triumphed. While I was chuckling at first, honestly, I felt bad during this fight. The constant paralyzing effects just made the fight tedious.

Next week will be the final Season of Horror adventure, Victory in Valachan.

Origins 2026 Photodump

In no particular order, here are some pics I took at Origins.

This is Matt from Forever Stoked Creative and his shirt is dope!

The Columbus Pride parade was Saturday and locals decorated the Arnie stature in front of the GCC.

Brandon from Wet Ink Games is such a great human being. Love him!

If you love 80's/90's sleeze, you HAVE to check out Brian Shutter's work.

Doug Schute is an aspiring force of positivity in the gaming space. 

With signs like this, its easy to see why I love Wet Ink Games.

Edwin Mullavey is an amazing artist and GM I met through Lurking Fears a few years back.

This gargoyle at the Mythic Legions booth is so cool.

I brought a lot of props from my personal collection for my Honk Legions game.

This is James, aka Jimmy D. He's an artist and geek I've been friends with since 7th grade. Love this guy. 

It was wonderful seeing Mr. Dragonbane himself, Jonathon Myhre.

Justin Sirois is a friend and inspiration. It was so cool to see himi again and meet his family.

Mike and Andy from Limitless Adventures are real class acts. They are the reason I've been able to go to Origins the past few years.

I spent so much money on 1st and 3rd party Pirate Borg stuff from this booth.

Caught Matt from Wet Ink Games and Brian from Creature Curation filming a game jam vid.

My kid and I before we left for the con Wednesday. I was so happy we went to Origins together this year.

Origins 2026 - Overview

Origins Game Fair 2025 was fantastic! I went with my kiddo and we both had a lot of fun and made great memories. While it’s nice to stay at a connected hotel, they can be pricey. That’s why we stayed at the Worthington Motor Lodge. It’s a no-frills motel about 20 minutes from the convention center. It’s clean, the beds were comfortable, and I saved 600 dollars by staying there. If you just need a clean place to stay while in Columbus and don’t plan on spending much time at your hotel, I’d say it’s a great value and worth it.

We were able to attend the convention as exhibitors this year thanks to Andy and Mike from Limitless-Adventures. I ran several sessions of their upcoming game Further Adventures TTRPG. The system is fast and streamlined. It hits the perfect sweet spot between free-form narrative games and classic crunchy systems. The GM describes a session, the player reacts with their action and make a roll based on their skills. A cool feature of the system is rather than a bunch of bonuses or negatives added to die rolls, there is a dice progression system. For example, of rolling an extra 1 to your d6 roll, you would roll a d6 instead. This works the other way too, as die can be dialed down as well. The Kickstarter launches at the end of July and there are several sessions being ran at GenCon. Y’all definitely need to keep an eye on this one. 

I also ran two sessions of The Honk Legion. I went all out with this one. Since it was demon clown themed, I had several circus props for the game. I also used Laffy Taffy to represent heroic inspiration and made folks read one of the awful jokes from the candy when using it. Both groups successfully turned Chookles-Chookles lieutenants against him, though in different ways.

As far as con swag goes, I may have went a little overboard of the Pirate Borg and Pirate Borg adjacent items I didn’t have. I also snagged a few DCC books.  My most exciting purchase was my Caver mini from Severed Books. I’ll talk more about it and the books related to it later this week. Speaking of Severed Books, it was so great to Justin Sirois of SB. He’s an amazing artist, excellent writer, and all-around beautiful soul.

I’ll do another post later today or tomorrow with sharing pics.

Punching Nazis Is Always The Right Choice

I've decided its time for another Punch A Nazi Week. Come back in a week for new allies and foes for your DCC supers game.

Art by Frenzzy Soda

Happy Father's Day to my fellow father's and I can't wait to let y'all know how Origins went.

Fuccubus Friday - Mozul

 Last week I talked about Malcanthet, this week I thought I'd share some art of one of her high priests (and sometimes plaything), Mozul.