Stan Lee @ Anaheim Comic Con!!!

That’s right Fanboys (and Fangirls), Stan “The Man” Lee has confirmed an appearance at the Anaheim Comic Con this year (as reported on the Wizard website: http://www.wizardworld.com/stlewofacomo.html)

As some of you already know, my loving wife surprised me this year with tickets to this convention so the two of us will be going. 

There’s a great guest list already scheduled, but with the addition of Stan Lee,  I’m even more thrilled to be among the attendees.

Like many comic readers, Stan is a living legend and my idol.  I was fortunate to get to meet him at the last (and first) Wizard World in Long Beach, CA back in 2004 (thanks to Beaucifer who was the only one of us that got a ticket to see Stan and who selfishly let me have it.)

According to the article, Stan will have a couple of announcements and participate in a Q&A session.  Assuming he’ll make himself available for autographs, I’ll need to find something worthy of his signature.  Last time I saw him, he only had time to sign two items for each fan and I handed him a copy of his novel, The Alien Factor, and a Galactus comic for Akanthos.

I’ll check with Beaucifer to see if he has anything he’d like to have signed.

Excelsior!

Game Night Tomorrow. Same Bat-Time, Different Bat-Cave

Game night tomorrow at my place.

Per Mattimus, the game specs are:

Game 1: Darkest Night

700 points, every team must have at least two lanterns from any lantern corps on their team, figs with the sinestro corp as a keyword are welcomed,  and they will have the transporter ability since they do not have a team ability (We can change this if you want).

Ganthet is also usable for the game.  (Editor’s note: why wouldn’t he be???)

Game 2 is Open Build 500 points.

It looks like there will be 4 of us playing – Mattimus, Wes Sayid, Beaucifer and me. 

Bring your game faces, your geek shirts and your own booze.  (I don’t have much, or else I’d offer to share.)

Excelsior!

Oh, and just for fun:

Last Night On Earth

Last Friday, we took a break from Heroclix to play a new game recently acquired by Beaucifer:  Last Night On Earth, which is described as:

“A survival horror board game that pits small-town Heroes head-to-head against a limitless horde of Zombies (players can play on the Hero team or as the Zombies). A modular board randomly determines the layout of the town at the start of each game and there are several different scenarios to play, adding lots of replayability. Fast Paced Game Play with Easy To Learn rules allows players to jump right into the action, while Strategic Depth and Strong Cooperative Play keeps the game interesting.

To achieve a horror movie feel, all of the art for the game is photographic and the game comes with a CD Soundtrack of original music.”

The rule book was rather long and wordy (and took almost two hours to get through), but once we started playing, we had a blast.  Akanthos and I played the Zombies while Beaucifer, Wes Sayid and Mattamus Prime played the heroes. 

So much fun was had in fact, that we’ll be most likely be playing it again this weekend.

But don’t worry Heroclix, we’re not abandoning you!

Ah, those comedians on HCRealms

I love reading through the conversation threads on HCRealms (I try to visit at least once a day).  I don’t post many comments (some might call this “trolling”, which seems so negative), I just rarely have anything to say that hasn’t been said already by someone else.

There are some funny clix players who post there though.

wickedjohn posted the following under the thread topic “line-of-fire device”:

“I have made a simple device to determine line of fire. I know most people just use a string or something but if you don’t have it centered properly in the squares it’s possible to get an innacurate reading. I cut 2 pieces of cardboard into squares the same size as the ones on the maps. Then I located the center of each and made a small hole through which I placed a string. On one square I taped the string so it wouldn’t move, the other I left it to move freely. It’s good to have the string a little longer than you need (never know when they might make a fig with a 20 shooting range).
To use, just place one square in the shooting figs square and the other in the targets (or vice versa) and pull the string taut. Voila! True center to center line of fire.”

To which songwriterz responded:

“Wow. That’s much easier than my method. I load the position of each figure into a Garmin GPS into which I’ve incorporated a piece of military software I downloaded off the web called: “Canishootthesumbeechfromhere?”

Yeah, string is gonna be alot easier…and stop all those calls from the government.”

It sounds just like something Akanthos would say!

Happy Birthday Jumpboot!