Well, gambling can be life-threatening (and life-destroying). Honestly I'm glad they got rid of the whole Game Corner thing after a few generations.

Pokémon is okay though!

 After that last comic, I of course had to draw the follow-up--the spectacular landing of the Huygens craft on Titan! This was such an incredible achievement as the first landing in the outer Solar System. I'm just kinda bummed out that I missed it when it was happening because I was in high school at the time, and too busy with terrible friendships and pretending like video games solved everything to pay adequate attention to really awesome stuff like this.

But at least I can re-live the excitement vicariously through my buddy Chris Lintott, who was at ESA headquarters reporting on the landing for The Sky at Night and adorably lost all composure when the signal started coming through. Journalism at its finest.

 I always thought it was kind of weird that Blue was hanging around Pokémon Tower trying to find a Marowak (which don't even appear in Pokémon Tower), when he should have been focusing on leveling up his Cubone. But maybe Blue didn't read the Nintendo Power Player's Guide obsessively like I did.

 There's some fantastic NPC dialogue in the Pokémon games. Like this creepy little girl in Lavender Town. Who gave me a great excuse to throw in Zombie Lass again.

 My mom requested this one, and honestly it's such a great anecdote from the Voyager mission that I just had to. Voyager 1 was specifically directed toward Titan (which would put it on a trajectory that would not allow it to continue to Uranus and Neptune) because it was known at the time that Titan had a thick atmosphere, and astronomers were really curious about what the surface looked like.

Well, turns out Titan has a thick, opaque atmosphere, so we got lots of great pictures of a fuzzy, featureless orange ball. Oops. (Thankfully Voyager 2 made it to Uranus and Neptune, and Cassini-Huygens came back later with radar and a cute little lander to give us a proper look at the surface.)

 There's this one Hiker on Route 10 who just laughs when you battle him, and afterward explains he's not laughing--he's sneezy from hay fever.

Or he ingested too much Repel and he's on the fast track to becoming another Professor Oak.

 I was listening to a paleontology podcast where they were discussing Scutellosaurus, and one of the hosts called it "scutey", and this popped into my head and I just had to draw it.

I think we need to celebrate cute little dinosaurs more. They were dinosaurs too! (Scutellosaurus was about the size of a turkey. So cute!)