Denver Comic Con - Guest Spawns

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Denver Comic Con has announced yet more guests that have their spawn points set to the Denver Convention Center. And with this most recent one we actually have 1/2 the cast from The Guild. We present none other then the one, the only, Felicia Day! In addition to her work on The Guild and Buffy The Vampire Slayer she has started a mostly geek focused YouTube channel called Geek and Sundry. She is a true queen of geeks.

 Next up is Allen Bellman and Ramona Fradon. Allen has been in the business since the Golden Age of comics. While only a teenager he did backgrounds for Syd Shores' Captain America in 1942 and not slowed down since. He record includes titles such as The Patriot, The Destroyer, The Human Torch, Jap Buster Johnson and Jet Dixon fo the Space Squadron, Young Allies and much much more. Ramona has been in comics since 1950 and was a key individual in ushering in the Silver Age of comics with illustrations of Auquaman and Metamorpho for DC. Then in the 1970s she pencilled almost every issue of Super Friends and her strip Brenda Starr was seen for 15 years in newspapers everywhere until she retired in 1995. Just recently she released The Dinosaur That Got Tired of Being Extinct for all ages.

The First List - Reasons I did not Update

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Welcome to the end of the year. And with the end comes a number of lists to fill space instead of doing actual writing. Yay filler! So what is the first list we are going to do for the end of the year? Well the top 10 excuses for not updating this year.

10) Family Affairs took precedent
9) No clue what to write about
8) Knew what I wanted to write about, but could not articulate it
7) Did not play what I wanted to write about
6) Felt that it was too late to write about it (working on getting over this one)
5) Forgot
4) Good old procrastination
3) Went out with friends
2) Lazy
1) Wanted to play the game / watch the show instead of write about it. 

And there we have it. First (and possible last) list that for the year. I promise to have something real soon.

Denver Comic Con Guests Confirmed

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Have you already purchased your 3 Day pass to Denver Comic Con? Good, glad to hear it. Since you have your pass to the halls the geekdom built you will probably want to know whom you will see there. You already know about Stan Lee, but who else will you see?

The first guest, that will hopefully be able to show this year, is Wil Wheaton. Many of you know he was supposed to show up last year but due to some last minute schedule conflicts he had to cancel.

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Ohio State University Marching Band Games Tribute

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While looking around on the internets, I came across this video from a recent half-time performance from the Ohio State University Marching Band.  Being a former band geek and knowing that IrishPride is still a band geek, I thought that him and others would get a kick out of this video.  The band has some amazing timing and choreography along with classic video game tunes (except for one).  Good job guys!

 

The CDC Warns of Zombies

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So the Center of Disease Control (CDC) is all about saving lives. The best way to save a life is to prepare for a disaster. This can be difficult though. You publish an article about preparing for a tornado or hurricane and they will just gloss right over it. You start talking about preparing for zombies though, that gets peoples attention. To this end the CDC has created a Zombie blog, a graphic novel (attached) and some preparedness posters. You can check out the full thing at the CDC Zombie Apocalypse site.

CDC Zombie Graphic Novel

Call Me Maybe - Star Trek Parody

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So a week or so ago we posted a Star Wars Call Me Maybe Parody. Well we here at The Gameslave are equal opportunity geeks. As I felt that, to give the other side of the coin an equal chance, I needed to post this Start Trek: The Next Generation Call Me Maybe parody video that was done in the same fasion as the Star Wars paroday. Enjoy my friends.