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• Star Wars
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• Starbucks
• Star Trek: The Next Generation
• Star Wars: Rebels
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars
• StarCraft II
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• Battle Beyond The Stars
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• The Last Starfighter
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• Fist of the North Star
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• Stargate: Universe
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• Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
• Star Citizen
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• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
• Star Trek: Discovery
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The ghost of Cassiopeia

About 550 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia lies IC 63, a stunning and slightly eerie nebula. Also known as the ghost of Cassiopeia, IC 63 is being shaped by radiation from a nearby unpredictably variable star, Gamma Cassiopeiae, which is slowly eroding away the ghostly cloud of dust and gas. This celestial ghost makes the perfect backdrop for the upcoming feast of All Hallow’s Eve â?? better known as Halloween.

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Sam Webb on Continuing Mission

Continuing Mission recently featured Sam Webb:

The folks at Modiphius are working hard to produce a top-quality game. But who are the exact people who make it happen?

I was able to corner Sam Webb, Star Trek Line Manager, in his geek cave (as seen in photo) to find out what makes him tick! Sam started tabletop gaming as a teenager, starting with Warhammer 40k and moving onto Dungeons and Dragons in his last year at Drama School, where he trained to be a theatre director.

Check out the Sam Webb author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!

Bird Box

When a mysterious force decimates the world’s population, only one thing is certain: if you see it, you take your life. Facing the unknown, Malorie finds love, hope and a new beginning only for it to unravel. Now she must flee with her two children down a treacherous river to the one place left that may offer sanctuary. But to survive, they’ll have to undertake the perilous two-day journey blindfolded. Academy Award® winner Sandra Bullock leads an all-star cast that includes Trevante Rhodes, with Sarah Paulson, and John Malkovich in #BirdBox, a compelling new thriller from Academy Award® winner Susanne Bier.

Showtimes Halo Series to Begin Filming in 2019

Showtime’s television adaptation of the Halo video game franchise has set a start date and filming location for next year.

Vox Lux

An unusual set of circumstances brings unexpected success to a pop star.

Amy Ratcliffe on SyFy Wire

SyFy Wire recently featured Amy Ratcliffe:

Ratcliffe is a stage host at Star Wars Celebration, has co-hosted popular Star Wars podcasts (currently Lattes With Leia, formerly Full of Sith), written numerous articles for Star Wars Insider, and writes for the official Star Warswebsite. Currently, she’s working as the managing editor for Nerdist and still writes about Star Wars. When it was announced that she would be authoring a new Star Wars book called Women of the Galaxy, I don’t think anyone was surprised. She’s a perfect fit.

Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy takes a look at 75 different characters from a galaxy far, far away. Each one is written about by Ratcliffe and new art has been commissioned by a team of 18 female and non-binary artists for each one.

Check out the Amy Ratcliffe author page to view other sightings and a full list of books!

Nightmare on Elm Street 2 Freddys Revenge

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Freddy’s back…and he wants revenge. When teenager Jesse Walsh moves to Elm Street, Freddy Krueger starts appearing in his nightmares.

As impressed as I was with the first film, the second one is better in nearly every way. There’s a great look into the boiler room Fred worked at, something only vaguely hinted at in the first movie, much more use of fire as one of Freddy’s tools, explosive birds, a father that refuses to hire help to fix the a/c in the Hellhouse, A grade gore (specifically the coach’s back in the shower, youch!), a fantastic pool party, and then wrapped up with an impressively steady long shot of one of the main characters running around the previously mentioned boiler room. It took me a couple rewinds to even figure out how they made the shot, but even knowing how it was done doesn’t lessen how impressed I was with the lighting, stability and planning that had to go into those 30-45 seconds of screen time.

Comic Review for week of October 17 2018

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  JUDGE DREDD MEGAZINE #400
  Lots of Dredd equals #400 issues of this magazine!
   

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  JUDGE DREDD: TOXIC! #1
  Oct 24th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 100
  Marvel Comics
  MARVEL PREVIEWS #16
  Oct 24th, 2018  ·  $0.00
   

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  THE PUNISHER #3
  There’s a double page spread right at the start of the series that blew me away, the rest of the book is just as good.  For people that know about Frank and DD’s history there’s a bit of humor there, but it all ends with Frank using knives instead of guns due to DD’s protests.  That goes about as well as you’d expect.
   

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  SHADOWMAN #8 COVER B GRANT
  Continuing it’s fun run, in this issue there’s a couple in bed, a sulking god/demon thing (moa?), and a chase scene that ends with a bunch of dead demon infused cops.
   

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  STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: TERRA INCOGNITA #4
  Is this some kind of ongoing series or something?
   

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  STAR WARS ADVENTURES: TALES FROM VADER’S CASTLE #4
  With this running at the same time as the Castle storyline in Star Wars: Vader, I’m confusing myself on what exactly is happening in which book.
   

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  STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #25
  Diamond neglected to send this to my comic shop.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF KRAVEN THE HUNTER HAD KILLED SPIDER-MAN? #1
  I had forgotten that Kraven was borderline insane when he first came around, the following books and cartoons never really played up how absolutely bonkers he was.  This is a great What If story that really takes things to the extreme.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF SILVER SURFER POSSESSED THE INFINITY GUANTLET #1
  In comparison to the above Kraven storyline, this one is downright tame, though I love the artwork here much more.

Conservative Pundit Barbies I Love You America on Hulu

Meet Brambi Streeter, the latest in a line of near-identical blonde conservative pundits. Starring: Sarah Silverman as herself; Lawrence O’Donnell as himself…

Avengers Infinity War Art of the Movie Cover Revealed

Thanos battling Mantis, Star-Lord, Spider-Man, Iron Man and Nebula!

Buy it on Amazon!

Milo Yiannopoulos Facebook rant shows that deplatforming actually works

A recent Facebook rant from the largely shunned former star of the alt-right shows that deplatforming is a strategy for combatting hate speech that works.

Curse Words TPBs 1 & 2

A wizard has appeared in present-day New York! His name is Wizord, and he’s here to save us all from dark magical forces bent on our destruction. He’s the best wizard of all time! Or…he’s not, and he’s lying to everyone, and secretly is the dark magical force, but wants to hang out in our world for a while because it’s so much nicer than the hellhole he comes from. Secrets, and spells, and talking koalas—CURSE WORDS is a gonzo dark fantasy from CHARLES SOULE (Daredevil, Letter 44, Star Wars) and RYAN BROWNE (GOD HATES ASTRONAUTS).

Image Comics has this great program named “Image Firsts” in which they reprint first issues of books that are about to go to TPB or are doing well enough that they think they can grab a larger audience by practically giving away the first issue. It’s a clever idea that Marvel is also doing with their “True Believer” books, but I’ve actually not found anything that was of interest to me yet from all the Marvel $1 comics, yet with the Image ones, I think I’m up to 5 or 6 different series that I would have never tried that I think I’m going to buy collections of.

The first that I’ve bought from is Curse Words, which has a familiar story of someone being sent somewhere to destroy a place or person, only to fall in love with said place/person and defending it against the powers that sent them there in the first place. What makes this particular story unique is that there’s a talking koalas named Margaret, there’s a great backstory and the main story moves in a pretty rapid pace, no filler content here! Another reason is that these trades were pretty cheap, just $10 each!

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  Pulls 524
  Image Comics
  HIT-GIRL #9
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 776
  Marvel Comics
  THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL #4
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 180
  Valiant
  QUANTUM & WOODY #11
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 1903
  Marvel Comics
  STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #22
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 188
  IDW Publishing
  STAR WARS: TALES FROM VADER’S CASTLE #3
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $3.99
   

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  Pulls 124
  Marvel Comics
  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF THE ALIEN COSTUME HAD POSSESSED SPIDER-MAN? #1
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $1.00
   

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  Pulls 80
  Marvel Comics
  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF THE FANTASTIC FOUR HAD NOT GAINED THEIR POWERS? #1
  Oct 17th, 2018  ·  $1.00

Comic Review for week of October 10 2018

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  EXILES #9
  I love that cover, sadly the story within is just not up to the same quality.  It’s the first part of a new storyline, so maybe it’ll pick up.
   

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  INFINITE DARK #1
  Absolutely fantastic book on multiple levels, it’s a hard science fiction story that seems to be a seriou coping mechanism for the author, and as with all work done from an emotional center, it shows.
   

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  KICK-ASS #8
  Ethical dilemmas abound with some gratuitous violence sprinkled about.
   

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  NINJA-K #12
  Dark and muddy art work with a story that’s still ok. Not great, but ok.
   

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  SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY #1
  As with the other movie adaptations, the only way this is going to make sense is if you’ve seen the movie AND seen the deleted scenes.
   

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  STAR WARS: TALES FROM VADER’S CASTLE #2
  Only two stories in this edition (previous had 3), both are silly halloween type shlock that I love to read.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF DR. DOOM HAD BECOME A HERO? #1
  Dr. Doom goes good, but still has trouble asking for help from others!
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF SPIDER-MAN HAD RESCUED GWEN STACY? #1
  Spidey gets married, but then gets in trouble!

Notable mentions:

• Captain Canuck First Summer Special – Printed the same month that I was born, this is a hilariously poorly printed and constructed book, there’s no set uniform for the Captain, the stories are jumpy, and there’s likely not a single page that was error free.  I loved this look into how poorly a book can be published and how quality control for both the character’s designs and print production go hand in hand in making a good comic book experience.
• X-O Manowar #19 75th issue anniversary, which was shipped late by Diamond, a great story about picking up the pieces from the rushed and poorly executed “harbinger 2” mini series.  All the post-war stuff has been so much better than the actual mini series, I do wonder if that was intentional somewhat.  Also, the numbering shenanigans reminds me that it’s not just the big two that have problems with counting.

Holy Cow Iron Fist Has Been Cancelled By Netflix

If you were one of the people incredibly excited by the possibilities left open at the end of Iron Fist season two, we have some very bad news. Netflix just cancelled the show, making it the first Marvel show to get the axe.

Such a shame, the second season was so much better than the first one, I can only imagine how much better the third one would be. My only hope is that this makes way for a Daughters of the Dragon series that guest stars Danny Rand.

Aladdin

“Aladdin” is the exciting tale of the charming street rat Aladdin, the courageous and self-determined Princess Jasmine and the Genie who may be the key to their future. Directed by Guy Ritchie, who brings his singular flair for fast-paced, visceral action to the fictitious port city of Agrabah, the film is written by John August and Ritchie based on Disney’s “Aladdin.”

“Aladdin” stars Will Smith as the larger-than-life Genie; Mena Massoud as the charming scoundrel Aladdin; Naomi Scott as Jasmine, the beautiful, self-determined princess; Marwan Kenzari as Jafar, the powerful sorcerer; Navid Negahban as the Sultan concerned with his daughter’s future; Nasim Pedrad as Dalia, Princess Jasmine’s free-spirited best friend and confidante; Billy Magnussen as the handsome and arrogant suitor Prince Anders; and Numan Acar as Hakim, Jafar’s right-hand man and captain of the palace guards. The film is produced by Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich with Marc Platt and Kevin De La Noy serving as executive producers. Alan Menken provides the score, which includes new recordings of the original songs written by Menken and lyricists Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and two new songs written by Menken and songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.The film, which was shot on practical stages in London and on location amidst the stunning desert vistas of Jordan, has a talented creative team helping to bring Agrabah to life, including: director of photography Alan Stewart, production designer Gemma Jackson and costume designer Michael Wilkinson.

DIY Simple Egg Opener This Gadget Should Be in Every Kitchen

DIY Simple Egg Opener This Gadget Should Be in Every Kitchen In today’s video we want to show you our own brand new invention Egg Opener! This amazing kitche…

Lets Play Super Mario Bros LIVE wFULL ORCHESTRA ep1

The entire first two worlds of gameplay from Super Mario Bros. for the NES with music accompanied LIVE by a full sized jazz big band, orchestra, and choir! A…

I survived Hurricane Michael

Here’s the latest from my city:

Update as of 6:00pm Thursday

• No reported serious injuries.
• Began the day with more the 90% without power.
• Thousands of trees are down and have caused widespread damage and blocked roads
• Road clearing has been a priority focus today. All major roads are now passable. Road clearing efforts are now focused on neighborhoods.
• 61% of traffic signals are active and crews continue to deploy backup generators for signals without power. Expect 100% coverage by Friday morning.
• Citizens are still encouraged to stay off of the road tonight.
• 28 mutual utilities are in Tallahassee providing assistance.
• Repairs to transmission, substation and distribution circuits are occurring simultaneously.
• Hopkins Unit 2 is being restarted to support the new load once circuits are energized.
• Repairs to the 230kv transmission tie to Southern Company have been completed. Awaiting clearance to close the interconnection from Southern Company. Estimated clearance at 6pm.
• Coordination with nursing homes and assisted living facilities continues.
• Facilitated back-up generation for the Tapestry Senior Living on Lakeshore Dr.
• Expect significant customer restoration tonight as repairs are completed.
• No physical damage has been found at Purdom Power Plant. PP8 is ready to return to service.
• TPD continues to operate with enhanced staffing providing support. No public safety issues to report.
• Business are quickly reopening. Target, Walmart, Publix, numerous restaurants, Home Depot, Walgreens, Costco, etc.

I’ve survived just fine, several of my neighbors have had trees come down, but it seems like no one has had any serious damage to their property, just 100 year old oaks and 200 foot pine trees falling down all over the place. I went out with my beagle yesterday to survey the damage and it looks like there’s at least 3 different power lines that have to be repaired in my neighborhood alone before I’ll have power again. I have no clue what will need to be done outside of my neighborhood, I’m told that there’s several lines still in the road on the main drag.

As you can see, I’m really roughing it out here. I’m going to venture out later today for some more supplies (beer), but for the moment I’m going to enjoy the cool temperatures and strong coffee.

Comic Review for week of October 3 2018

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  BATMAN: WHITE KNIGHT TP
  One of the best comics I’ve read from DC in the last decade.  Highly recommend!
   

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  CHAMPIONS #25
  LCS forgot to pull for me, so I bought from another shop, then promptly forgot I had it.
   

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  DC NATION #5
  I get the distinct feeling that the old layout people from Wizard are doing this magazine now.
   

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  MARVEL UNIVERSE MAGAZINE #1 FALL
  Forgot to pick up my copy, oops.
   

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  STAR WARS #55
  This storyline has been amazing and it keeps getting better.
   

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  STAR WARS: TALES FROM VADER’S CASTLE #1
  A story within a story to distract from how short the original story was.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF AVENGERS FOUGHT EVIL DURING 1950S #1
  Old what if stories are hard to read.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: WHAT IF JANE FOSTER HAD FOUND THE HAMMER OF THOR? #1
  Use this issue to show people how long Marvel’s been doing the “what if someone was a lady” thing with their characters.

Venom

Tom Hardy stars as the lethal protector and anti-hero Venom – one of Marvel’s most enigmatic and complex characters.

This wasn’t the venom I knew from the comic books, but some weird combination of The Odd Couple, The Darkness, and Forest Gump. Considering what Sony’s done to the other Spider-man related movies, I’m willing to consider this as a goof movie, just not a great movie, and absolutely mess of an MCU movie.  Luckily this isn’t a “proper” MCU movie, but a “Sony’s Universe of Marvel Movies” that will soon include Silver Sable, Black Cat, and more Venom movies. Maybe.  Depends on if Tom Hardy really takes to heart some of the criticisms that are heading his way for how weird this movie turned out being.

HARLEY QUINN New York Comic Con 2018 First Look #WBNYCC

THE BIG BANG THEORY’s Kaley Cuoco stars as the voice of Gotham’s criminal queenpin Harley Quinn in the new animated series for the DC UNIVERSE digital subscr…

the legend of the hidden temple

Three siblings embark on a temple tour and discover the legends behind it are real. They must navigate a series of booby-trapped rooms to lift the temple’s curse and escape with their lives.

Defunctland mentioned this show in one of their episodes, along with the fact that there was a movie made after the wrap of the show. It’s not an award winning movie, but it’s a fun story that I slept through a fair bit of. My wife was dutifully entertained, as she was a fan of the original show when it was on air. One thing that interested me for the 20 or 30 minutes I was awake for, but the eldest of the three kids is played by Isabela Moner, who later went to to star in Transformers: Last Knight.

Hightech heels transform into flats with the push of a button

A start-up footwear maker is trying to steal the hearts of Manolo-loving New York fashionistas with a high-tech high heel that can be converted into a comfortable flat at the press of a button. Run…

SPIDERMAN INTO THE SPIDERVERSE Official Trailer #2 HD

“How many more Spider-People are there?” Watch the new #SpiderVerse trailer to find out. 12.14.18 Subscribe to Sony Pictures for exclusive content: bi…

Peter Porker!

Comic Review for week of September 26th 2018

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  FAITH: DREAMSIDE #1
  No dreams, but a great “previously on” section caught me up on the character, I havent’ read anything of her before, other than the Faith and the Future Force mini series which didn’t really have much Faith back story.
   

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  HARBINGER WARS 2: AFTERMATH #1
  How is this story any different than the one that’s playing out in the current issues of Ninja-K?
   

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  HEROES IN CRISIS #1
  Absolutely fantastic artwork by Clay Mann, with a story that I’m not sure I’m ok with, but i’m going to give this event time to breath before saying the story isn’t good.
   

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  THE PUNISHER #2
  The Punisher continues punishing to great effect.
   

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  QUANTUM & WOODY #10 COVER B ULTRA FOIL SHAW
  TV Advertising man vs Quantum and Woody!  This issue had a great holographic foil cover.
   

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  STAR TREK VS. TRANSFORMERS #1
  Fantastic throwback to the short lived Star Trek Animated series with absolutely no continuity concerns at all.  Love!
   

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  STAR WARS ADVENTURES #14
  Chewie’s day at the spa.  Turns out wookies like being pampered too.
   

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  STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA #24
  I kinda dropped into this character without reading up on her first, so I’m somewhat concerned why she’s so upset about a protocol droid showing up.
   

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  STAR WARS: POE DAMERON #31
  Lackluster final issue to a series that had some good ups and downs, but never really found it’s footing.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: HELLCAT FIRST APPEARANCE #1
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY LUKE CAGE FANTASTIC FOUR #1
  Sep 26th, 2018  ·  $1.00
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – BLACK WIDOW BY DEVIN GRAYSON & JG JONES #1
  Sep 26th, 2018  ·  $1
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY PUNISHER BY GARTH ENNIS, STEVE DILLON & JIMMY PALMIOTTI #1
  Sep 26th, 2018  ·  $1.00
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL BY POTTS & LEE #1
  Sep 26th, 2018  ·  $1.00
   

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  X-O MANOWAR #19
  Sep 26th, 2018  ·  $3.99

Stan & Ollie

The true story of Hollywood’s greatest comedy double act, Laurel and Hardy, is brought to the big screen for the first time. Starring Steve Coogan and John C. Reilly as the legendary movie icons, Stan & Ollie is the heart-warming story of what would become the pair’s triumphant farewell tour.

With their golden era long behind them, the pair embark on a variety hall tour of Britain and Ireland. Despite the pressures of a hectic schedule, and with the support of their wives Lucille (Shirley Henderson) and Ida (Nina Arianda) – a formidable double act in their own right – the pair’s love of performing, as well as for each other, endures as they secure their place in the hearts of their adoring public.

Books added to the Physical Collection

As I strive to own every Star Trek book printed, a kind soul on the opposite side of the country found a treasure trove of Trek books and offered to send them from California to Florida, and a month later I finally got them all out to inventory the latest books to the collection:

Two of these:

Resulted in one of these:

The books are in great condition and I’m eternally grateful they made their way to me.

This Inflatable Han Solo in Carbonite Costume Is Hilarious

Star Wars fans looking for something different to wear this Halloween might want to check out Rubies’ inflatable version of Han Solo, frozen in carbonite….

Decision to fire James Gunn was unanimous according to Disney CEO

Disney CEO Bob Iger wields perhaps more power in the film world than anyone else, as his company owns the most successful franchises in history and isn’t looking to let up any time soon. Star Wars, all the Disney princesses, and of course, the MCU — Iger’s got a lot going on. Which means his team is ultra-protective of it, cracking down when, say, offensive and ill-conceived old tweets from one of their directors suddenly resurface.

I call bullshit.

Hook

A high-flying adventure from the magic of Steven Spielberg, HOOK stars Robin Williams as a grown-up Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as the infamous Captain Hook. Joining the fun is Julia Roberts as Tinkerbell, Bob Hoskins as the pirate Smee, and Maggie Smith as Granny Wendy Darling, who must convince middle-aged lawyer Peter Banning that he was once the legendary Peter Pan. And so the adventure begins anew, with Peter off to Neverland to save his two children from Captain Hook. Along the way, he rediscovers the power of imagination, friendship, and of magic. A classic tale updated for children of all ages, HOOK was nominated for five Academy Awards(r) including Best Visual Effects in 1991.

Half the problems in this movie wouldn’t have been problems if Peter Panning wasn’t such a bad parent. Honestly, the first quarter of the movie is a lesson in how poorly he was raising his kids! I mean, sure the problems were all resolved with imagination, flying, and murder, but my point stands.

Damage Control 1989 I

Who does the world call on in the wake of super hero disasters? Meet the Clean-Up Op that handles the messes no one else wants to touch! Where there’s property damage…there’s Damage Control! Creator Dwayne McDuffie introduces you to the cast of characters responsible for keeping the Marvel Universe clean. It all starts here!

My recent adventure at Megacon 2018 netted a few “new to me” comic books, the first mini series for Damage Control was the first purchase. It’s written by Dwayne McDuffie, which was a surprise to me, I didn’t know he was doing work this far back in 1989, though I guess it makes sense, he would have been in his late 20’s then. As always with McDuffie, the stories are fun to read and of the four issues, two of them are related to bigger things going on in the Marvel Universe, so while there’s meta story through the four issues, they’re all still a blast.

Bumblebee Official Trailer Paramount Pictures UK

Every adventure has a beginning. Watch the official trailer for Bumblebee now, starring Hailee Steinfeld and John Cena! #Bumblebee arrives in cinemas this Ch…

ILMxLABs Darth Vader VR Story Experience Teaser

ILMxLAB announced its latest project at Star Wars Celebration Europe. The infamous villain Darth Vader will take a central role in ushering us back into the …

Macaulay Culkin really wants to play a wizard in Fantastic Beasts 3

Macaulay Culkin is angling for a role in the Wizarding World. Culkin, the 38-year-old former child star remembered for films like Home Alone, The Pagemaster, and Saved!, recently revealed that he was repeatedly offered a key role in the hit CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, only to turn it down.

Fantastic Four 1234

Reed Richards. Sue Richards. Benjamin Grimm. Johnny Storm. They rocketed into outer space aboard an experimental starship, the first humans to attempt interstellar travel. But a freak encounter with cosmic radiation altered their lives forever, granting each amazing abilities! Now, Marvel’s First Family finds its members divided – their unique powers stretched to the absolute limit, their time-tested resolve pushed to the point of breaking. Each chapter of this quintessential collection focuses on one member of the cosmic quartet as the team’s greatest foes band together in an all-out assault on the FF! Plus: In Grant Morrison’s only other Marvel Knights story, superspy Nick Fury is targeted for death!

Found all four issues for $1 each in my LCS’s dollar bin, perfect condition! The story was pretty fun, but at times pretty confusing if you didn’t know what Doom was ultimately going to be up to here.

IIRC, this was back when the whole “Marvel Knights” thing was just taking off in an attempt to save Marvel Comics. Pretty sure it helped, I know that I enjoyed a fair number of the stories that were told in the MK books.

Tilting at Windmills #270 Pondering Whether to Close A Comic Shop

A periodical-based comics shop in SF is in jeopardy of closing.

Absolutely fantastic opinion piece about the future of the comic books industry. Specifically he mentions Spider-Geddon which looks like it could be a really cool miniseries, but when I was doing my Previews order I couldn’t make heads or tails of how many issues were going to be involved and what exactly I would be getting into or what I needed to read to even know what was going on.  Much like Brian, I have no faith that Marvel Comics will have a series with a distinct start, middle, and end, and don’t want to get roped into a mini series with 8 different tie in series and 30 different variant covers, none of which actually look very good.

Marvel Rising Secret Warriors Full Trailer

Check out the previous adventures of the Secret Warriors team in Marvel Rising: Initiation, starring Dove Cameron as Ghost-Spider — WATCH NOW: youtu….

The Beyond

Astronauts modified with advanced robotics are sent through a newly discovered wormhole. When the mission returns unexpectedly, the space agency race to discover what the astronauts encountered on their groundbreaking interstellar journey.

Tries to be too smart for it’s own capabilities, starts with a great premise of weird things going on into orbit and makes a massive and unexpected hard turn into robots and post humanist concepts that are great in a written form but are pretty boring to watch on the screen.

Someone gets me Someone really gets me

(Although, actually, it starts with a love of biology and then acquires a layer of anger at people who lie about the science, so this cartoon isn’t all that accurate.)

Tiki-bot by The Cynical Woman Website

I’ve said it before – I’m always happiest when I’m drawing robots. I don’t know if I’m particularly good at drawing robots, but drawing them makes me happy.

This speaks to me on so many levels.

Comic Review for week of September 19th 2018

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  BRITANNIA: LOST EAGLES OF ROME #3
  I’m still surprised that I’m enjoying a Roman Legion story this much.
   

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  BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER SEASON 12: THE RECKONING #4
  A great ending to a very long running series.  Yet another flower plucked well before it’s time and who do we have to blame for that? Disney.
   

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  G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO – SILENT OPTION #1
  Confusing to see three or four different people being called Snake-Eyes
   

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  HIT-GIRL #8
  A neat little wrap up of her adventure in Canada, I think I’m ready for some character growth with Hit-Girl, she’s stuck in a one note rut of hero worshipping her father and not having time for the simpler things in life.
   

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  KICK-ASS #7
  This story is getting bonkers, but not in a good way.  Lady has time to go to college, raise her kids, sleep, run a criminal empire, and isn’t ready to pull her own eyeballs out from her head?  Additionally, she’s taking “just” $800 a week from her criminal activities and saying it’s a “soldier’s pay”?  I don’t know much about military pay, but having $3200 a month take home sounds great, especially if it’s just side revenue to her main job.
   

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  THE LIFE OF CAPTAIN MARVEL #3
  Oh ffs, are they really going to make fundamental changes to Captain Marvel’s origin story in the comics months before the Captain Marvel movie comes out?
   

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  QUANTUM & WOODY #10
  LCS did not have a copy of this pulled for me.
   

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  SHADOWMAN #7 COVER B MACK
  After 6 issues of wondering if I was ever going to be really interested in this character, here’s the issue that made the wait worth it.  An amazing dawn of time story of how the first spirit was bound to man.  Great story and art, but there’s six months of build up that you have to get through to really understand what’s going on.
   

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  STAR WARS #54
  Continuing one of the best storylines that Marvel OR LucasBooks has done in a while.
   

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  STAR WARS: LANDO – DOUBLE OR NOTHING #5
  A mediocre mini series comes to a mediocre ending.  I’m still shocked that no one objected to naming a robot “L3-37” like some kind of mid 2000’s haxxor kid.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: IRON FIST BY THOMAS & KANE #1
  Iron fist works much better on the page than he does on the screen, and this book is evidence of that.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: PUNISHER BY GRANT & ZECK #1
  The punisher gets reinvented!  An entertaining story with Frank heading to prision, then escaping from prison with a long trail of dead bodies behind him.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: PUNISHER THE FIRST APPEREANCE #1
  A merc with a heart of gold, hired to kill the evil and murderous Spider-man, who was recently framed for a murder, then framed again for another one in this issue.

There were four books that I pulled from the Free or $1 bins:

• Captain Canuck Year One fcbd
  Fantastic story that I’m going to start following up on in trade.
• Destroyer
  Weak art, but fantastic setting and an interesting story.  This was a character I didn’t know of before finding him in the dollar bin, apparently he’s Solar, but…angrier?
• Judge Dredd: Legends of the Law
  Tourists from “Cit Brit” visiting Mega City One with predictably entertaining outcomes.
• batman li’l gotham special edition
  I love the art and story, but I’m not sure I’d be able to deal with an entire series like this.
• Batman: White Knight Batman Day
  I missed this story line completely when it came through originally, based on this free issue though, I’ll be picking up the TPB.

Rebel Galaxy

Rebel Galaxy is a swashbuckling space adventure, with action-packed combat, exploration, discovery, trade, and “negotiation” with the outlandish denizens at the edge of the known universe.

Released nearly 3 years ago to the day that I started playing it, I swear it was a coincidence, or at least I didn’t know why I picked it up. I seent it on humble bundle or chrono.gg for obscenely cheap, thought maybe I would try it out, but maybe I should check my Steam library before I spent $3 on it.

Low and behold, I’ve owned this since April 2017, it’s nice to get a game out of my unplayed queue after only a year and a half. I really wish I had started this back when I first bought it, I have some complaints about how shallow the gameplay is, but I honestly think that even that shallow game play is a positive with my current game playing style. All of the missions are resolvable within 20-30 minutes, the game automatically saves your progress when you quit out, and you can completely pause the game when you’re doing laundry.

The soundtrack is great the first 200 times I heard the twangy battle music, but after that….well I can see why they included a custom music direction option, so you can insert your own music into the game. Due to a severe case of apathetic laziness I did not partake in this feature, but if it annoys you, there it is.

Canadians who smoke marijuana legally or work or invest in the industry will be barred from the US Customs and Border Protection official

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday that he will not “impress upon the U.S. who they have to let in or not.”

Comic Review for week of September 12th 2018

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  EXILES #8
  Oh no!  Judgmental Watchers have seized our heroes and are judging them!
   

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  G.I. JOE: A REAL AMERICAN HERO #256
  This story came out of no where with no lead in and references stuff that didn’t happen in the last 5 issues.  Mind you, I only started this series back up with issues 251, but they mention “snake-eye’s current status” maybe suggesting that he’s dead?  but he was just in two issues ago.  Muddled and confusing I’m regretting picking this series back up if this is the way they’re treating their stories.
   

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  MECH CADET YU #12
  Is this series canceled after this issue? It has a weird charm that was starting to grow on me.
   

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  NINJA-K #11
  A great followup to the lackluster Harbinger Wars 2 mini series, I still feel like Ninja-K is a concept that shouldn’t work as well as it continually does.
   

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  STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION: TERRA INCOGNITA #3
  Boring A story, Boring B story.
   

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  STAR WARS: DARTH VADER #21
  The Star Wars books continue to be the best content that Marvel is putting out, this is an amazing look into how the architecture of Vader’s castle came about.  Yes, seriously, this issue was all about architecture.   and ghosts.
   

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  STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI ADAPTATION #6
  They fit about 100 pages of content into 30 pages, so this issue (and this entire mini series) felt rushed and only really lands if you’ve seen the movie.  The art was absolutely fantastic though, great lines and great coloring throughout.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – DAREDEVIL AND THE DEFENDERS #1
  I did not read this story when it was first printed, but I think I may pick up this collection.  Maybe.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – JESSICA JONES: ALIAS BY BENDIS & GAYDOS #1
  As hopeless and sad as I thought the Jessica Jones TV series was, this series was even more hopeless and sad.  It’s only redeeming
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – LUKE CAGE, HERO FOR HIRE #1
  What in tarnation did I just read.

Iron Fist Season 2

Danny Rand resurfaces 15 years after being presumed dead. Now, with the power of the Iron Fist, he seeks to reclaim his past and fulfill his destiny.

A much better experience than the first season, still not enough to really capture my attention until the last two episodes when some pretty insane stuff starts to happen. Alice Eve was absolutely perfect as Typhoid Mary, and the combination of Jessica Henwick (Wing) and Simone Missick (Knight) makes for some tantalizing possibilities. I never really read the comics, so there’s a lot that gets past me, but I’m excited to see what they’re going to do with the threads they’ve left danging at the end of season two.

Level 99 Alexander Brandon Aven Colony

Alexander Brandon has been making music for games for quite some time, like back to the days of Unreal and Unreal Tournament.

His new project is Aven Colony, a city-building strategy game where you build a colony on an alien planet. The music changes and develops as you build your colony successfully, slowly adding more and more acoustic elements after beginning with more synth and electronic sounds.

Alex is also a voice actor (he’s Amaund Motierre in Skyrim, the fella who asks you to assassinate the Emperor), so we chat about how he got into that part of the games industry.

PLAYLIST:
The Farthest Reaches
Midday at Azara Falls
Danger On Vanaar
Vanaari Glory
Vanaari Triumph
Vanaari Glory
Midday on Hyla’s Crescent
Sandy Gulch Danger
Dawn at Azara Falls
Protoss 1 from StarCraft by Jason Hayes
Protoss 1 from StarCraft by Jason Hayes
The Necromorphs Attack from Dead Space by Jason Graves
Daybreak at Hyla’s Crescent
Sandy Gulch Rises
Hyla’s Crescent Triumph

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Serena Williamss US Open Loss Was HumiliatingBut Not for Her

What happened to the superstar was shocking. It was not surprising.

Comic Review for week of September 5th 2018

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  DC NATION #4
  These types of magazines make me miss Wizard.
   

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  JINXWORLD SAMPLER #1
  Guess I didn’t know I needed to read this, lots of good stuff here.
   

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  RELAY #3
  Last issue was meh, this issue….whew lad.  There’s a lot more explained about The Relay and for the most part, it’s all damn interesting.
   

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  STAR WARS #53
  There’s a high level of polish in this current storyline that’s really appealing to me, this is legit one of the best books Marvel is putting out.
   

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  STAR WARS: DOCTOR APHRA ANNUAL #2
  Completely unrelated to the main story that’s going on in the rest of the series and unrelated to any other Star Wars book, it’s a cute tale none the less.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – DAREDEVIL BY BENDIS & MALEEV #1
  Remember when DD was cool in comic book form?  Marvel Knights remembers
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – DAREDEVIL BY LEE & EVERETT #1
  I forget how wordy these books were back in the golden age of comic books.
   

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  TRUE BELIEVERS: MARVEL KNIGHTS 20TH ANNIVERSARY – DAREDEVIL BY SMITH, QUESADA, & PALMIOTTI #1
  Upside down DD is best DD?