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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/10/2026

Arkham Horror tonight, using new miniatures from Vanquish the Darkness, painted by @smileham.bsky.social.

Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/10/2026

Emma Frost has a bit of a breakdown on the lawn, punches Matthew who of course brought himself back and is killed. Young Professor C had better fix all this. #dailyxmen

Rachel, Storm and Kitty watch Emma Frost collapsed on the front lawn.
Rachel: I’ll go calm her.
Storm: I would no go near her. Let her grieve.
Kitty: and Magik?

Matthew Malloy uses his powers to snap Emma Frost’s neck and fling her away.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/10/2026

Eva’s in the past, so we know it’ll all get fixed. She’s ruining a young Professor X’s life and seeing his real self come through when threatened. #dailyxmen

A conversation between Eva and young Charles. He’s offended by her being here, telling her everything and suggests mindwiping her and getting her to walk away.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/10/2026

Hank’s upset as he’s just realised Scott’s attitude about SHIELD and the government’s attitude towards mutants was true, and he can’t blame Scott for all his problems anymore. #dailyxmen

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 16/10/2026

SHIELD’s just killed Cyclops, Magik and Matthew Malloy, and even they don’t know if this is a good thing. #dailyxmen

Maria Hill: Oh my god.
Agent: What happens next?
Maria: Scott Summers is dead. Either we just went to war with the entire mutant population… or they are going to send us the nicest bouquet of flowers ever seen.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 15/10/2026

“We’re all $#%&ed, we’re the X-Men” feels like it could be a tagline for them. #dailyxmen

Emma talks to Dazzler in her new punk look, glowing pink.
Dazzler: I thought your psychic powers were broken, Emma.
Emma: They are. You’re an open book, darling. One damaged, open book.
Dazzler: And, wow, you should talk, Ms Frost.
Emma: Don’t be catty. We’re all $#%&ed, we’re the X-Men.

She gives Dazzler a kiss on the cheek in the next panel.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 15/10/2026

I like to think that Magneto landed exactly in Cyclops’ outline from a couple of issues ago. #dailyxmen

Cyclops is teleported into the snow with a THWAP

Magneto is also teleported into the snow with a THWAP

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 15/10/2026

Scott, you know that it was actually an alien from the planet Quistalium. #dailyxmen

Scott Summers from Uncanny X-Men, written by Bendis and drawn by Bachalo.
“Eric, here, was also the reason Charles Xavier lived in a wheelchair. They were friends before either of us had ever—“

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 14/10/2026

Every X-Men fan who only knows Cyclops from the 90’s cartoon and the 2000 movie. #dailyxmen

Maria Hill staggering out of a crashed Helicarrier, other SHIELD agents doing the same behind her. She’s just seen Scott Summers aka Cyclops try to recruit the overly-powerful Matthew Malloy (don’t worry about it), they’re off-panel and we’re seeing Maria from, far away, shouting, “Scott Summers! No!” In a speech bubble that’s larger than she is.
From Uncanny X-Men’s Last Will and Testament of Charles Xavier.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 11/10/2026

I’ve gone back to my video game reviewing roots and written a review of Pong, which I’ve been playing on the Atari Super Pocket for the last few weeks. fakedtales.com/2026/10/11/p...

The Pong arcade cabinet. I didn’t play on this, but the Evercade Super Pocket instead.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 10/10/2026

It’s live! If you want to check out my cosy, competitive mystery game based on the lives of Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and the X-Files, it’s in this issue of Sprigs & Kindling!

Harry & Arthur, a cosily-competitive mystery game for two players and one GM, by Charlie Etheridge-Nunn.
Silhouettes of Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle flank a mysterious chair with a hat on it.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 07/10/2026

Midnight X-Men was great fun. For some reason my brain saw Bishop Nightcrawler and I got my hopes up that the inciting incident might have been The Leper Queen’s plan from Holy War actually happening and somehow causing the whole vampire situation. While I was disappointed, this is on me.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 06/10/2026

I’ve been revisiting Earthsea for the first time in 30 years.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Blink and you’ll miss Tom Morello in Voyager’s “Good Shepherd”, where Janeway adopts some lower decks crewmen and… I’m not going to lie to you, for a good shepherd, this isn’t a good episode.

Janeway asks an unnamed Tom Morello where one of the lower decks scamps is.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Iggy Pop has a prominent role in Deep Space Nine’s “The Magnificent Ferengi” where he holds Moogie hostage, gets some skincare tips from her and then suffers through Quark’s ragtag team doing a Weekend at Bernie’s to him.

Moogie and Iggy Pop. I forget his character’s name, and might just refer to him as Iggy Pop in the episode.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 05/10/2026

In Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Manhunt”, Mick Fleetwood is unrecognisable as a fish alien who spends most of the episode in a catatonic state while Lwaxana Troi visits the Enterprise.

Two fish aliens. I think Mick’s the one to the right? Dr Pulaski’s scanning him.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 05/10/2026

Casual Trek’s rocking out with three cameos of rock stars in various Star Trek series! #StarTrek #TrekSky open.spotify.com/episode/3t1C...

The Weekend at Bernie’s poster, badly edited in Affinity to say, “Weekend at Keevan’s” with the dead Keenan being puppeted by Nog with his head tilted to one side. He’s the Bernie in this situation, with Quark and Rom as the lads either side of him.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 03/10/2026

My belated prog and meg showed up! It’s a Dredd Day miracle!

2000 AD Prog 2502 and Judge Dredd Megazine 496!
They’ve been having problems arriving so 2000 AD kindly sent me replacements for these two.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Magik and Kitty, gay monster hunters. Let this be a thing, Marvel. #dailyxmen

An alternate future Kitty Pryde and Illyana, who are monster hunters and almost certainly a couple.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 02/10/2026

We’re starting a new campaign for Arkham Horror and up against The Children of Blood!

A playmat of Arkham with Arkham’s waterfront represented with cards. We’re chasing a suspected vampire around the streets.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 29/09/2026

Last night I started a two-shot of Good Society 2E’s QuickStart from @storybrewersroleplaying.com last night. A return from the military brought up some old feelings, some longing and rumours of all manner of scandals for our cast.

A rumour board:
A young village girl went ‘to relatives’ for nine months right when Wendsworth took off to the Navy. Coincidence?
Pennyworth gave Lady Jane an engagement brooch.
Andrew lost the family fortune (later revealed to be true)
Fitzwilliam threatened Wendsworth not to marry Jane (who still loves him) because he doesn’t want to lose his estate.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 27/09/2026

In All-New X-Factor, Pietro calls Danger out for reading a novel by a massively anti-mutant bigot using his money and influence to fund hate. Be like Pietro, not Danger.

Pietro yelling at Danger about reading a Scott Dakei novel. It’s a thriller, not a book about boy wizards, but yeah, you can get my point.
By Peter David (who had some shit opinions, so admittedly I would be fine if people held the same opinion about reading his things) and Carmine Di Giandomenico.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Horror on the Orient Express was great fun. We found two definite non-cultists in the list of suspects, but the cosmic horrors piled up and we never made it to Constantinople. Hopefully we’ll do better next time.

The train board from the front of the locomotive.

My vaudeville stuntman with a crime writer in the sanctuary carriage. One passenger is calm and two have gone mad.

Matt’s scientist alone with a corpse in the fourgon at the rear of the train. The curtains are closed, but you can just about see the vampire and two monsters on the other side.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 26/09/2026

Jubilee, I’m pretty sure this isn’t how a defibrillator works. #dailyxmen

Jubilee’s got a defibrillator and is shocking Storm in the crotch to resuscitate her.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 23/09/2026

Showing linear time who’s boss by punching out my pills out of order.

A sheet of Candesartan with days of the week on them. I’ve punched out Tuesday, Sunday and Thursday, leaving Wednesday (today) and Friday.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 23/09/2026

Jeremy the Cheetah and an army of crows were pivotal to the final moments, giving me memories of Echoes of Wisdom where most problems could be solved with an army of crows.

An adorable webcomic where Zelda’s little bell friend asks her to think about solving a puzzle and she just says, “snakes?” And then summons four snakes. This is the right way to play Echoes of Wisdom (albeit the correct version of this is with crows)

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 23/09/2026

We finished our Fate of Cthulhu campaign last night. Despite some terrible rolls all round, the group managed to stop a reality show archaeologist from becoming Nyarlathotep. Featured here is one of my favourite Aspects: Jeremy the Cheetah, belonging to @wharthur.bsky.social’s character.

Arthur’s Fate of Cthulhu character sheet after a terrible roll. They have an index card with an Aspect in my terrible handwriting: Jeremy the Cheetah.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 21/09/2026

We also have two other stories which aren’t by Claremont. Ro Laren almost gets Riker killed, which he approves of. And Kelsey Grammar’s a grump even in comic form.

Riker giving the ‘OK’ with a smug, shit-eating grin. Title, “Riker Approved”

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 21/09/2026

Casual Trek’s returning to Star Trek comics for Chris Claremont’s second and currently last Star Trek story, featuring returning character Jame Finney, who instantly wows everyone with how great she is, and Alexander has the best day he will ever have. #StarTrek open.spotify.com/episode/1gPe...

A panel where Alexander Rozhenko is literally jumping for joy after giving Jame Finney a potted plant, titled, “Alexander Rozhenko has a good day”
From DC’s Star Trek: The Next Generation Special 2

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 18/09/2026

One of the abandoned covers for Monday’s episode of Casual Trek. I’m going to have to keep it for future use.

Riker giving an OK sign to Ro Laren to show that she did good, even though she nearly killed him.
From Star Trek: The Next Generation Special 2.
I’ve removed the speech bubbles and added, “Riker Approved”

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 18/09/2026

Final Girl Series Four has arrived! I’m looking forward to trying the scenarios and already apologising to my minis guy for the amount of painting that’ll be coming his way (follow @smileham.bsky.social if you want to see his great paint jobs). Copy of The Cape shown here for scale.

The Final Girl catch-up box, the mystery box (tbh, not a big fan of the inside), two promo Final Girls and the packs of miniatures for the scenarios.
Oh, and I did buy most of the scenarios ahead of time which is why it’s a catch-up box. I’ve just left them sealed up until now.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 17/09/2026

As much as it was a fine story, Reed’s conflict felt a bit contrived as I’m certain he’s helped Doom and other villains before. And Sue shuts the conflict down due to the imminent disaster. #xspoilers

Reed points out that there are 1.6 million people in Philadelphia (go birds!) and Sue mentions that if that’s the case, why were they arguing about Magneto.
Why indeed?

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Event comics often demand a casualty and I don’t know if this happened elsewhere, but I’m counting Johnny’s tash as the first casualty of the event. #xspoilers

Johnny Storm, without a moustache. Shameful.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 17/09/2026

DNX was fine. Like Age of Revelation, so far it feels like an X-Men story arc instead of an event. I didn’t care for the giant chin on the regular cover so I took a punt on a blind bag. Here’s a shiny cover of a war criminal. #xspoilers

It’s Hank McCoy aka The Beast aka The Chairman. His shorts are a bit tattered and black, blending in with the background and providing a good contrast to his white fur, long hair which is in a style I had as a teenager and a pair of glasses.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Horror on the Orient Express has arrived. It was one of the last games I backed before instituting a, “I won’t back games which will take up a whole Kallax pod by itself” rule. Copy of The Cape on DVD for scale.

Two gigantic cardboard boxes. Also The Cape on DVD, as picked up at a CEX… I think in Chester?

Horror on the Orient Express laid out on my bed. The game, the campaign box which runs for fix sessions and is almost as big, Investigators Unveiled which has some KS exclusives and a little pack of I assume prompts or errata’d cards. Also The Cape, starring Keith David and Vinnie Jones.

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Charlie Etheridge-Nunn 🔜 Thought Bubble 2026 @skyshark.itch.io · 17/09/2026

I told myself I’d only get the new Fire Emblem if I knuckled down and finally finished Fates. That’s a wrap, right on time!

Part of the end animation from Fire Emblem Fates: Revelation. The families of Nohr and Hoshido are united, which is good as you have to kill the possessed husks of a lot of theirs (and your) parents.

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