Oolite Bulletins

OK, this is an odd one... Maniac Mansion: Day of the Purple Tentacle (1993), a graphics comedy computer game involving time travel and an evil alien tentacle with a couple of teeny arms that wants to rule the world. Lot's of travelling backward and forward in time and changing history etc. The Tenta...

Examples of suckers in an SF connotation, with multiple bonus points for making it disturbingly sexual. For your consideration … Noctupulis the Night-Squid, from the Adventures of Zirk (a character from the equally dubious adventures of Axel Pressbutton and Laser Eraser). The four-page story, by St...

Starro The Conqueror from DC comics - suckers galore! A giant starfish thing that fires off swarms of smaller starfish that use their suckers etc. to latch onto people and mind-control them. VERY icky! https://www.ign.com/articles/suicide-squad-starro-who-is-kaiju-starfish https://youtu.be/ss3k329_...

..... Delete your post! Quick! Do you have any idea at all as to what you are letting yourself in for? the Chalice of Doom? What did he do? Confession is good for the soul - particularly as someone else quaffs from the Chalice of Doom. I have a vague memory (and no remaining copies) of "Dirk G...

Hints:

There is a good TV example from the mid 1980s onward.

There is a good YA novel example, the second of a series, from the mid 2000s

There's a good web novel example from the last decade

There's a good web comic example that is still in progress

- but I will accept the Avengers universe Avengers... How could I resist? :D https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warner-bros-characters/images/5/58/Avengers-patrick-macnee-1.jpg On a more serious note: https://cdn.thedailymash.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/20190309173617/parker1.jpg Good old Parker. While...

a non-SF example all Smurfs wear weird caps, so a picture of a Smurf wearing one would be a good answer and earn an MBP. Never having looked closely enough (Smurfette being a multiple-bag experience), I wonder why the Smurfs are wearing Phrygian caps . I suspect some horrendous reason in the distan...

The 11th Doctor and his Fez. https://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/24100000/FEZ-2-the-eleventh-doctor-24144803-960-640.png Fezes are cool! One of the ones I had in mind when I set the question - have a MBP! Four to go - and no more Doctor Who, Torchwood, Sarah Jane adventures etc., and no more Fe...

And that's the black, and a three-ball break which rates an MBP. I'd suggest that, as question-setter, ffutures sits out this round. "Drudge, jury and executioner" probably isn't a good look. Happy to. Anyone got a good question? Later - RockDoctor has suggested something on the subject o...

Well, since nobody else seems to want to do it... grumble grumble.... bunch of wimps... grumble grumble.... In James Blish's Earthman Come Home (1955), part of the Cities In Flight series which I mentioned in the recent round on big bangs, the spindizzy drive can move anything at FTL speeds; the big...

In the Red Dwarf episode "White Hole" the crew use a thermonuclear device to cause a solar flare, knocking a planet off its orbit, sending it cannoning around a solar system, colliding with other planets, and eventually plugging up a white hole … Which reminded me of this - not sure if it...

Have another one - in The Witches of Karres (1966, expanding a 1949 novelette) by James H. Schmitz the titular witches - who it turns out can be male as well as female, but in this case are women - have reality-distorting "Klaatha powers" that (considering the stories first appeared in Ast...

dont worry about the planets are not rotating Ohhh, that would change the geometry of the diced planet. More like thin-sliced planet. Cosmic-scale bacon slicer. If you think that one's silly, there's another story from around the same period where someone wants a photo of Superboy doing something i...

Not sure which colour this is - green? VERY silly anyway...

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the "Great Evil," which appears to be a small planet- or planetoid-sized being that threatens earth every 5000 years Ummm, if it reappears on a 5000 year cycle, then it's in orbit around the Sun, not "rogue". Off the top of my "Solar system notes" sheet, at 5000yr, it'...