WE SURE ARE SNEAKY TO HIDE FROM THESE STORMTROOPERS!

(Photo by Jenny Elwick)

Speaking of geeking out, I realized something watching The Empire Strikes Back and Return Of The Jedi this weekend.

Chewbacca screams everything he says.

I mean not just in force, but in volume. Alright sure there are a few low purrs here and there, but ever notable line of “dialog” he speaks is shouted at the top of his lungs.

By the end of the night I was screaming Chewie’s lines for him just to get a sense of what it would have been like to be there with him.

“I FOUND C-3PO IN THE TRASHEAP!”

There was a lot of times where the heroes were either trying to be sneaky, or at least run away without a bunch of Stormtroopers following and there was Chewie screaming to Han.

How did they not get shot?

Eh, who are we kidding. Even if every Stormtrooper in the place found them not a single one of them would be able to hit them.

Plus props to anybody who rocked the messenger bag way before it’s time.

Mysteries Of The New York Comic Con

So the New York Comic Con is coming around this weekend, and since Dave and I had a cool time last year (we met Claudio), I figured I’d go again this year.

Rather then stand in line forever at the door, I went by the website today to get my tickets today. Now I didn’t go for anything special (just normal Sunday tickets), but one of the options was a $400 VIP package. For that money you got in before everyone else, priority seating at events, an Iron Man bust, a Marvel Lithograph signed by Joe Quesada, a Marvel Secret Invasion tee and, kinda anti-climatically, a NY Comic Con sweatshirt. It is a ticket for the most die hard fan.

If you select this option, you can also select on the order page what size shirts you would like. It wasn’t really surprising to see what size sold out first.

As a comic fan (and a skinny one at that), I always hate when people make gross generalizations about comic fans, and I also realize that that was the one size they probably had the least amount of, but come on. That’s funny.

Way to break the stereotype guys.

Oh well, I’ll be right there with everyone else on Sunday geeking out over new comics and buying things for no other reason but then they would look cool on my desk.

See you there!

Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City

Blockbuster Offers to Buy Circuit City

“You got your failing rental business in my failing retail electronic stores!”

“You got your failing electronic stores in my failing rental business!”

I was going to ask if Blockbuster even had $1 billion, but it says right there in the second paragraph that they do not.

Wow, I know I would be pleased if I was a Blockbuster stock holder.