Sunday, March 18, 2012

The Uncanny X-Men # 161


My Comic Collection leaves alot to be desired, that said I'm going to show you it anyway. Not all of it mind you just the stuff that I don't catogorize as crap. What better place to start than the Xmen. My book aint perfect, a slight crease is visible in the lower left corner and a there's a couple of marks on the spine as you can see in the photo above.
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September 1982
Title: The Gold Rush
Writer: Chris Claremont
Penciler: Dave Cockrun
Inker: Bob Wiacek
Colorist: Glynis Wien
Last Researched Value: $32.00

Dungeons & Dragons - Castle Ravenoft

OK, after last weeks Convention I finally broke down. I've seen this game a number of times and always been able to fight the urge to fork out the cash, but not this time. Seventy bucks later plus tax, Ouch!!, it's mine. Ah well it just money right...No idea how to pay it, I'll start readin the instructions tonight. Surprisingly they aint very long. As an 80's nerd, I used to play alot of the real D&D back in the day. Nowadays as a nerd with a full time job and the occasional girlfreind (if you can belive it) there just no time for those ten hour long terniments. Hopefully this board game version of the classic roleplayer will fill that D&D void thats been needed filling for such a longass time. If not, if the game sucks, I'll write Wizards of the Coast a very strongly worded letter. Anyway, we gonna play it for the first time next week, I'll ley ya know how it goes.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

2011 Zombie Walk

Last fall we had the 2011 Zombie walk in Toronto. Your truly went down for the day and while I was there I took a few shots. Nearly 6000 corpses writhed, weaved and lurched their way through the streets of Toronto feasting on those unlucky enough to be living. Me with my trusty Nikon found a nice perch on the top steps of a church along Queen St. West and managed to fire off a few shots. The walk lasted hours, Ive never seen so many zombies in my in my life...incidental the Zombie march started in Toronto and is now held in most major cities in the world. Chile had their annual Zombie walk (Saturday Oct. 15, 2011) and thousands show up to eat the flesh of the living that live in Santiago....It's cool to be dead...

Monday, March 12, 2012

Toronto Comicon - March 10 - 11

What better place to start than the Toronto Comicon held this weekend at the Toronto Convention Center. This has traditionally been one of the smaller events of the year, but no less cool than some of the bigger ones. This Con is put on by the same organizers that do the Toronto Fan Expo, and this year it started resembling the Fan Expo in many respects. Alot more vendors, bigger hall, more celebratees, and a marked increase in the crowd. It kicked off Friday night with a bash at the Tattoo Rock Parlour, a traditional hang for really cool people in Toronto. Tia Carrere (The Relic Hunter) and Kristanna Loken (Terminator 3, Blood Rayne) were there to help get things going...