FCBD

Free Comic Books!

I'm glad I have your attention. This Saturday, May 5th, 2012 is Free Comic Book Day! That's right. Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) has been around since 2002, and is always the first Saturday of May, where participating comic shop retailers have comics for free!

No, not all comics in the stores are free. Retailers will have special issues of books specifically for FCBD.

The free comics are separated into two different groups, Gold and Silver. Now, depending on the policies of your local retailers determining how many you can have, virtually any and everyone who walks into a participating comic shop can get a free book.

But are the books any good? This year we are gonna see books of the Avengers, DC's New 52, Spiderman, Transformers, Sonic the Hedgehog, Megaman, and more.

If you would like a full list of the books then you can visit their website where you will also find a locator for all comic retailers participating in Free Comic Book Day.

www.freecomicbookday.com

I hope everyone has an exciting day tomorrow at Free Comic Book Day! Remember, support your local retailers and while your at it, if you haven't yet, go see the Avengers. The movie is fantastic and I'll be here tomorrow to talk about it.

I hope your FCBD is filled with heroes and wonder.

-"Nurd" Pat!

Marvel AR

Marvel has found a way to change the face of their comics in a big way with their Marvel AR app.

Marvel AR stands for Marvel Augmented Reality. Its an application that works with most camera enabled Apple ios and Android devices. The App is available at Marvel.com/ARapp and its absolutely free. The app boasts action packed trailers, visual character bios, creator video commentaries and more.

The way that the app works is that once activated you hold the device to view the particular page or panel with the "AR" icon in the lower right hand corner.

This sounds fantastic and couldn't wait to use it and beef up the value of my "AR" compatible books. Unfortunately I have an LG Prime android phone and it would not work with my particular device. So since I cannot provide you with my exact opinion on the app I thought I would share a video from YouTube and let you see it for yourself.






Enjoy your comics everyone. Now is the dawn of a new age!

-"Nurd" Pat!

May the Fourth...

Happy May the fourth everyone. As you may (or may not) know May forth is renowned as Star Wars day because... saying May the fourth sounds a lot like the preceding to "May the force be with you."

If you really wanna know where the phrase started from it dates back to 1979 when Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain's first woman prime minister. Her party published an article in the London Evening News that said "May the Fourth be with you Maggie, Congratulations". So there you have it. Now so Star Warsy is it?

However you decide to celebrate today, be it watching the Star Wars Saga from start to finish, the original Trilogy for purists, digging through your Star Wars memorabilia for nostalgia, or lightsaber dueling to the wee hours of the morning just remember, May the Fourth be with you!

And in honor of today, time for a little Star Wars sexy time!




You're welcome!

-"Nurd" Pat!