Even though New York Comic Con was mostly made up of good times, I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention some of the bad. These are some of my least favorite moments of the con in no particular order.
The Podcast is dead, LONG LIVE THE PODCAST!!
NOTICE: We’re changing stuff around and the Nerd-Base Podcast has been down for a bit, so I apologize for all the broken links. I’m fixing it as fast as I can among all the other processes we’ve got going here. The new home (hopefully permanent) of the Nerd-Base Podcast is at http://www.podcasts.com/nerd-base-podcast-deaacdb0c and the new RSS feed is: http://www.podcasts.com/rss_feed/637e792e31fc5a514ff82f7a002282c4 until I figure out how to set up something more permanent and easily changeable should another move be necessary. I’m learning, always learning. *sigh*
Also, since iTunes cannot seem to find it within themselves to make it easy for podcasters to change their feeds within the system, we’re very likely going to be taking it off iTunes and resubmitting in the near future.
ALSO ALSO….expect some new Podcasts VERY soon!! Along with our NYCC coverage, we’re going to have a nice sit-down and talk about this year’s experience with a few new guests!!
Keep checking back!
My Top Five for NYCC 2013
I’m in full on New York Comic Con recovery mode. Thank God that today is Columbus Day and I don’t have to go to work because my body wouldn’t be able to take it. My pedometer tells me I walked about 38 miles over the previous 4 days, and I can feel it, but damn it was worth it! For those that couldn’t make it to comic con, I’ve put together a list of the best things that happened at NYCC for me this year, in no particular order.
NYCC 2013: Marvel Comics Exclusives
The Marvel Shop has some pretty great exclusives coming in for NYCC 2013. They’ll be located at Booth # 1354 Here’s the list thus far with (not final) images of the products:
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Play Games, Save Lives
The Extra-Life charity event is a gamer-centric event (though any and all are more than welcome to participate/donate/contribute) where individuals or teams gather and promise to game for 24 hours straight through while blogging/vlogging the experience in a sort of crowd-sourced “telethon” of sorts to raise money and awareness for children who have fallen ill with any variety of terrible, sometimes terminal diseases. Thousands of gamers and hundreds of websites have been created for this event and together have raised MILLIONS of dollars to help treat and even cure these kids. To give them an “Extra Life”. ALL PROCEEDS GO DIRECTLY TO HELPING THE CHILDREN IN THEIR RESPECTIVE HOSPITALS. That’s so important to mention, it had to be capped, bolded, and italicized. A more honorable task, you’ll be hard-pressed to find.
We sometimes forget that as cynical and sarcastic as we, the “nerd/geek/gamer/fanboy” community can be, we also have some of the biggest hearts in the world and I’m constantly in awe of what we can do when our powers combined are given a focused target.
Extra-Life was formed in 2008 by a gentleman known as “Doc” who, during his time as a radio DJ, came to know a young girl named Victoria “Tori” Enmon that had been diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia. At the time, Doc had belonged to a group called the Sarcastic Gamer Community and during one of her hospital stays where she really couldn’t get out, he asked the community to help out by sending her games to raise spirits. They responded better than any could have hoped. Sadly, Tori soon after passed away, but her spirit lit a flame in Doc and the community at large and he dedicated himself to honor her memory by continuing to help children who had become innocent victims to horrible illnesses via the Chlidren’s Miracle Network. Doc has since quit the radio biz and gone on to work full-time for the CMN as their Radio-thon Director.
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