Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions... May 5th of 2012 is Free Comic Book Day! As Found In North America!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3638 -  In less than two weeks from now, it will be FCBD!   (Free Comic Book Day.)

Here is the link to my review blog on how the 2011 FCBD was in the San Diego Metro Area, Part 1 & 2.

Here is the link to the 2012 FCBD Facebook Fan Page.

And... Here is the link to the 'Find Participating LCBS' in YOUR area.  Just type in your zip code and see what Local Comic Book Shop(s) are in your area!

My youngest son and I will be checking out the North San Diego County LCBS this year, and then taking in the Avengers movie along with Tina afterwards.

So there will be at least one follow-up blog to this one...!

~Michael D Hamersky

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,638 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,731 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Presents His Take On... Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4 of 6!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3637 -  I recently received a box of relatively new TPBs and graphic novels from Archaia Entertainment for possible review.  My youngest son, Vinnie, already review blogged one of them.  This comic book would have been one that he would have review blogged also, but I decided to read and review blog it instead.

This comic book is  'Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #4 of 6'.

What is it about?   Here's the publisher's promo on that:

"Mouse Guard returns for its third volume: the Black Axe. This prequel set in 1115, fulfils the promise the wise oldfur Celanawe made to tell Lieam of the day his paw first touched the Black Axe. The arrival of distant kin takes Celanawe on an adventure that will carry him across the sea to uncharted waters and lands all while unraveling the legend of Farrer, the blacksmith who forged the mythic axe. Issues of the series start Dec. 2010 running bi-monthly for 6 issues."

Issue #4:  "Leaving the fate of Em in the weasel king of Ilder’s paws, Celanawe trudges into the briar lair of a murderous fox. The Black Axe, a weapon forged by Farrer and now wielded by his youngest heir, is put to the test so that one lone mouse can slay the red-furred villain which has claimed enough ferret lives to have the king of Ildur afraid to send his own kin after it. The uneven brutal battle has an only more brutal end."

So what's 'My Take' on this book?

The front cover to this publication, which is square in format, is presented as a comic book cover, with the front cover extending to the back cover.  (Not shown above.)

The inside front cover has the credits & other info necessary to present the publication to its possible readership.

The 'splash page' is not used... The first page goes right into the story.

I found the use of the 'fog' scenes to be interesting.  The fog hid a lot of the surrounding scenery and added suspense to the storyline.

When the fox arrived to the storyline, the 'fog' cleared up.  No dialogue for about four pages!

What follows is kind of hard to take,  but it is a tale worth telling.  And it is in twenty-three pages, with the twenty-fourth page being a pin-up page.

The inside back cover is a full page ad for Issue Five.

The back cover is a continuation of the front cover, as stated above.

This fourth issue of the six issues of 'The Black Axe' is almost a 'done-in-one' story.

It was presented very well, and captured what I believed David Petersen wanted to portray in this issue.

I believe that this issue is a hi-light of the series thus far.

My comic book grade for this comic book presentation is a VERY FINE / NEAR MINT (VF/NM) 9.0 out of a possible 10.0 comic book grading scale.

You can see more of this comic book direct from Archaia via this link.  I don't see it for sale directly from Archaia, so please check your LCBS, (Local Comic Book Shop).

My thanks to Archaia Entertainment for bringing this six issue series to my attention!

~Michael

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,637 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,731 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions... The Villainous Lair Comics Shop! As Found In Normal Heights, California!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3636 -  In the past two days of blogs I mentioned that I attended an organizational meetup on the upcoming San Diego Comic Fest 2012 in blog #3634, and then went to the April 2012 Semantink's Comic Savvy at 5PM, as seen at blog #3635!

In between those two meetings, I found time to check out a 'new' comic book shop in the Normal Heights neighborhood of San Diego at 3371 Adams Ave., San Diego, CA 92116.

The shop's manager, Chris Mitchell, welcomed me to the shop, and showed me the sections and aisles of comics / graphic novels / TPBs in the shop.  You can see those those other pics I took that aren't pictured at the above right at my Facebook Fan Page special photo album:  Villainous Lair Comics.

The owner, Alison Flynn, came by while I was still there, and introduced herself to me. She has started another venture down the street which is called Villainous Lair Gaming, which I did not go to.

This LCBS has a lot of the newest comic books that are published, and a decent amount of back issues that are filed away in easy to handle storage boxes.  There is a minimal amount of older (more collectible) back issues under glass near the check out register.  The only 'con' that I could find would be the lack of parking near this LCBS.  I had to drive around the blocks to find a nearby parking space on the street.

If you are in San Diego on business, or even live near the Normal Heights area, I suggest you check this new LCBS out. 

The Facebooks Pages for the two ventures are at:

Villainous Comics Shop 

and Villainous Lair Gaming.

~Michael D Hamersky

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,636 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,730 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions... The April 2012 Meetup of Semantink's Comic Savvy! Which Ran April 15th of 2012!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3635 -  In yesterday's blog I mentioned that I attended an organizational meetup on the upcoming San Diego Comic Fest 2012.

While down in San Diego, I stayed and went to a new Local Comic Book Shop, (which I will blog about later), and then went to the April 2012 Semantink's Comic Savvy at 5PM!

The meetup page for the April 2012 Comic Savvy is shown here.

It was held at the newest location for this meetup, at the Media Arts Center of San Diego which is found at 2921 El Cajon Blvd., San Diego, CA 92104.

Matt Dunford chaired the meetup, and did a fine job doing so!

Attendance was a little light at this Sunday early evening meetup, but there was a couple with a child who were from Encinitas, while I was down from Carlsbad, which is even further North.

The room at the Media Arts Center of San Diego was a good sized one, as seen by the two photos at the top right of this blog post.

Fun was had by all who attended.  Here is the link to the rest of the photos that I snapped during the meetup. 

If you are in the San Diego Metro Area, the Semantink's Comic Savvy is held the third Sunday of each month.  You can find out more about the next one when it is posted by those doing so at the Semantink Publishing Facebook Fan Page!

~Michael D Hamersky

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,635 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,730 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

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In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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Michael D Hamersky On Comics Mentions... News On The Upcoming   San Diego Comic Fest! Which Runs October 19th - 21st of 2012!

TODAY'S FEATURE IS BLOG #3634 -  On Sunday I attended a meeting sponsored by Mike Towry, who is running the upcoming San Diego Comic Fest 2012, (SDCF).  (Two photos from that meeting are shown above, and the SDCF's logo by Scott Shaw! is pictured by this Blog's logo.)

The SDCF has a web site already, and also a Facebook Fan Page.

The Facebook Fan Page can be found here: San Diego Comic Fest 2012. I volunteered to be a co-admin of the fan page, and will be adding more info / links / news/ etc., later on today.

If you’ve been missing the early, intimate comic con experience or never got to experience it but wished you had, then we hope to see you in San Diego over the October 19-21, 2012 weekend.

I personally am suggesting that with the total number of attendees / volunteers / honored guests / etc. being held to a maximum of 1,000, that you take a look at the Facebook fan page, look to see who are the special guests, what the programming will be, and make up your mind to first 'Like' the Facebook Fan Page for easy reference, and then click on the 'San Diego Comic Fest Memberships Now Available Online!' link to purchase your membership today!

(Please note:  This has no affiliation with the big Comic-Con International that is being held in San Diego in July with over 130,000 attendees.) 

The San Diego Comic Fest is "an old school comic con".

For more info on this upcoming San Diego Comic Fest 2012, please see the Facebook Fan Page link!

Hope to see you there also!

~Michael D Hamersky

NOTE FROM Michael D Hamersky On Comics:  My thanks again to all of YOU reading this blog and our archived blog posts, now at 3,634 total posts in number!   I do appreciate your continued reading and support of this Blog!

BTW, You can 'follow' this blog by clicking the 'Follow' Button at this NetworkedBlogs app link!  We currently have over 2,730 'Followers'!  Thanks to ALL of YOU that have already clicked that button!  And for those of YOU that haven't yet... I would appreciate it if YOU would!!!

Note:  My online 'Loca8' Comic Book Shop (LCBS), carries many different genres of comics, magazines, graphic novels, and comic con promotional items. Possibly even copies of the item(s) that was mentioned here today...!  If I have it, you'll find under the BIG TOP of Comics, at Comic Books Circus.com, including the book 'Gotham City 14 Miles' that I am shown holding to the left. I'm 1 of 14 essayists in that book! !     

Web Page Note:  This blog post is written per the IE Browser standards.  Chrome, Safari, Netscape, Firefox and the other browsers serve the page up slightly differently, sorry about that!  The screen display resolution is best seen at the setting of 1024 x 768 on your laptop or desktop computer.  Note:  Your computer's resoulution may be set differently, but the above resolution is the most commonly used resolution at the time of this blog post. 

NOTE: All images and characters within this blog post are copyright and trademark their respective owners.

Comics Creators: If you are breaking into, or already work in the comic book industry or other pop culture productions, you are welcome to email or mail us press releases, news items, and updates that you feel would be of interest to our blog readers. Including YOUR own works! To mail printed items to us for possible review, send to:  Make It So Marketing Inc., PO Box 130653, Carlsbad, CA 92013

 Also, if you are a Facebook member, I would have liked you to send me a 'Friend Request'. However, I have reached the maximum limit of 5,000 Facebook Friends and Fan pages already, so I've added a New 'Facebook Fan Page' so that even more of YOU can 'Like' what I am doing, and be interactive with me and others there.  Here is the link to that 'Facebook Fan Page': Michael D Hamersky On Comics! Please click the 'Like' button on that page!

---------------            

      

In Addition, I started a YouTube Channel just before the 2011 Comic-Con International, where I am slowly uploading videos from conventions or other events that we attend that are also pop culture related.  You are invited to 'subscribe' to that channel also!  As found at 'HamerskyOnComics'!

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