Comics Are Awesome - Preacher

CAA - Awesome Off The Presses: Venom #1

Awesome Off the Presses, a new feature of Comics Are Awesome, is going to be a way for me to look solely at stuff that has been released more recently. Leave a comment and let me know what you guys think!

Gallifrey One - Catch 22 The Live Footage

I'll have a vlog up later on, but I can bore you with that later. Instead enjoy this little video I made with some of the footage I got at the con.



Please feel free to comment!

*whew* Back from Gallifrey

This is just a short post to say I'm back from Gallifrey. I took a lot of video, both filming what was going on and vlogs. So I'll update that soon.

I did want to update something real quick in that I met a really nice lady from Seattle who co-runs a comic and gaming store with her husband. She was my line buddy for the Maskerade and unfortunately never got any contact information for her, and I'm absolutely awful with names, but I did bring up my website and she did write it down. So if you are that person and you're reading this please get a hold of me, you seemed very cool and I want to keep in touch, if nothing else so that we can arrange time to hang out next year.

You can e-mail me at comicsareawesome@gmail.com

Comics Are Awesome - Deaths and Resurrections

Upcoming Convention Schedule

A quick (for me anyways) video talking about a couple of cons I'm going to be at in the not-to-distant future:



Gallifrey One
Planet Comicon

Hope to see you guys there and keep getting the word out!

~Jd

A quick note

Hey folks.

Just a quick update on the Captain Britain & MI13 review. I realized a couple days after I posted it that I had segment that was missing a page of art, resulting in me talking over a black screen for a bit (shame on all of you for not pointing it out... awww I can't stay mad at you!). I have since re-rendered and re-uploaded a corrected version.

Also because I have hollow, Hollywood-like pretension, I did a commentary on this episode. I won't embed it here on the site just to avoid anyone getting it confused with the actual review, but if you want to waste another 20 minutes you can find it here!

Comics Are Awesome: Captain Britain & MI13

This is the longest review (not counting the vlogs) that I've done yet, as well as the biggest bear trying to get video to render properly, but it's also one of the ones I'm most happy with as a whole. Please comment!!



Now with commentary!

VLOG 2: "The Cape" & "Young Justice"

Well I get chatty again folks. This was another 45 vlog, and just as rambling as the last one. Oh well. Enjoy if you like!

Amazon referrals

Hi folks.

I kind of want to address a small change I made to this blog. I've added links from Amazon to my reviews. I'm kind of two minds on this.

This show is first and foremost a hobby. I have no plans of getting rich off this, or even becoming even significantly less poor. But I would like to improve Comics Are Awesome as much as I can. And this is a theoretical way to supplement the costs involved in doing that, lights, newer software, props, etc. While I do get revenue from Blip from the ads that run before the videos, it's pretty small and requires a lot more views before I'll see anything from them.

And since I partially started this show as a way to encourage people to read more and better comics. So this could be viewed as simply providing a reminder for that, to help encourage people who are interested possibly giving the comic a shot. So it's win/win right?

But it could also be viewed in a negative light. First off I don't want to come off as begging. This isn't me asking for a handout. I don't want anyone to buy any book I link to from this site out of pity. I also don't want to undermine local comic shops. Amazon, online comic retailers like DCBS, digital comics, etc they're all great resources, but local comic shops are currently the major venue for comics. If they all disappear the comic industry, as it stands right now, will be left hurting in a bad way. So not only do I not want pity purchases but I want to encourage you to go to your local comic store if you have one available to you.

Right now the plan is to leave the links there. I've tried to make them small and relatively unobtrusive as much as Amazon allows. If I get a lot of complaints about them, I will take them off, simple as that.

I hope this all makes sense. I feel borderline uncomfortable discussing money, especially at this time when the economy is maybe just starting to get itself out of the dumps. So again, do not feel compelled to click on anything you don't want to. If you do, that's great, but just don't put yourself out to do so.

Thanks all, and I hope this new year sees CAA reach bigger and better heights, and I wouldn't have made it past that first episode without your help, support and constructive comments!