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The Couch: Troy, MI Needs to Work on it's Slogan

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:25:10 -0500

The Couch: Troy, MI Needs to Work on it's Slogan:

Most of you don’t know that I recently moved from Michigan, a state I’ve lived in for my entire life. The last city I lived in was Troy and I must say, Boulder has been an upgrade.

Boulder offers a wide variety of people, unlike Troy, MI which was located in Oakland County. Little known fact,…

I am really excited to finally be out of Troy, MI. I miss my friends, but not the area.

Top 5...

Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:13:00 -0500

Comic Artists as of Today:

John Romita, Jr.

Mark Bagley

Amanda Conner

Gary Frank

Darwyn Cooke

Who are your top 5 comic book artists?

iPhone vs. G1

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:47:30 -0500

So I’ve been using an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile for a couple weeks now. I figured I would take a moment and compare it with my G1 to show how I feel about switching.

I wrote a little while ago my feelings on using a G1 for a year. Oddly I kept mentioning how I wanted to find something other than an iPhone, but sadly the Apple fan in me won out. I wanted to start off by mentioning the Hardware.

Hardware:

The iPhone is thinner than the G1. For anyone who owns a G1, the iPhone comes to about where the screen slides up to reveal the qwerty keyboard on the G1. I love how much thinner this phone is. It doesn’t sound like that would be a huge difference, but when it’s in your pocket with the rounded edges you’ll notice it.

I still feel like the G1 is a brick of a phone. I originally loved the fact that it had a qwerty keyboard, but recently I found that I can type faster with the soft keyboard on the iPhone as its correction is much better. As far as comparing the soft keyboard on the iPhone to the G1, iPhone wins hands down. For those of you wondering my G1 is on 1.6 and I’ve heard the keyboard is better on 2.0 for Android.

Even though I can expand the storage space on my G1, app storage is resticted to the ROM space on the phone (if I have it wrong I’m sorry and yes I know there is a way to store them on my SD card). What matters is that I can’t store a large amount of apps on the G1. The iPhone allows me to store 16 gigs of apps of I feel like it. The one part where the G1 pulls ahead, I can use it as a thumb drive on any computer I feel like. This is something I’ve been missing from the iPhone. I know I can do it, but most solutions I’ve seen require me paying for something.

I can’t compare the cameras because I barely used either phone’s camera.

Call quality is about equivalent. I hear whomever I am talking to just fine. I’ve asked people that I was talking with if they noticed a difference with the new phone and the answer universally was no.

Speed goes to the iPhone. It wasn’t till I installed Cyanogen on my G1 that I really felt that it was worth a damn being able to function, but I still had lag and stability issues.

Battery also goes to the iPhone. The battery was one of the top reasons I decided to make the switch. With my G1 I needed to charge the phone by roughly noon when at work, maybe another hour on Edge. The iPhone can go the whole work day. I know that there are extended batteries for the G1, but I didn’t want to make it any thicker than what it was.

Notifications go to the G1. I sorely miss the little blinking LED that let me know when new mail, txts, twitter @s/DMs, and Facebook messages were there for me to check. The iPhone gives me a buzz or a single chirp.

Software:

This is a hard comparison. The reason I say this is that I know that I don’t want to make this argument an Android vs. iPhone OS fight. I’ve tried my best below to do so. The other factor playing into this is that I was using Cyanogen on my phone for quite some time before getting the iPhone, which makes a huge difference.

Customization to the home screens, G1 wins hands down. Yes I can have a bunch of screens on the iPhone, but the G1 lets me do a whole lot with three or five screens being on Cyanogen. Android has widgets, the iPhone does not. I used these quite a bit and not having them is a downer. Also, call me crazy, but when I pick a phone wallpaper I want to see it all the time. Not only when my phone is locked and I’m unlocking it.

Syncing and music goes to the iPhone. I use iTunes a lot so this was a loosing battle for my G1. It also doesn’t help that the Music app for Android looks like it was designed in the 90s. Seriously Google get someone on this because the music app is as Steve Jobs would say, “A bag of hurt.” I’ve used the alternatives and I didn’t see anything better either. Some will argue that I could use Doubletwist or Songbird for syncing with the G1. I tried and I did not find it intuitive. Also it meant converting a bunch of my music, which I wasn’t up for. When it comes to listening to music in both regards I plan on sticking to my iPod classic. The click wheel is the best thing ever created for going through my playlists.

Apps go to the G1 for one reason alone, it’s open. The iPhone may have some nice apps and more of them, but the only time I have to worry about Google being bitches about apps are when it comes to stuff like tethering. Honestly if they didn’t remove them all of the service providers would throw a fit and I could see Android having a small adoption rate. I may be able to get less apps from the Android app store, but at least I get quality and freedom of choice. I don’t feel in general that the quality of apps for the iPhone are all that better. This leads to the next point that I had at least two browsers on my G1. This would allow me to download something that I can’t at work and install it to my computer. I can no longer do this with the iPhone that I know of. The iPhone won’t let me download anything that may compete with their precious apps and that really annoys me.

Mail and Contacts also go to the G1. When I first started my G1 and put in my google account it was like some sort of black magic had happened. All of my mail was there along with all of my phone contacts. Yes the iPhone now allows you to sync with Google’s contacts, but the mail app on the iPhone in comparison to the G1 is no where near as good in my opinion. Google knows how to do search and mail, they got mail right on Android.

Browsing is slight edge to the iPhone. I like the multitouch, but I’ve lived without it for so long it’s not like I couldn’t continue living without it. Overall I do feel like the iPhone’s browser allows me to look at pages faster than the G1 did. I like the overall browsing experience for some reason on the iPhone better. I just wish I had more of a selection of browsers.

Notifications again go to the G1. Having the notification bar makes it easy to see ALL of my updates. I have to go through my home screens on the iPhone to check them all out.

Overall:

I’m happier with my iPhone. It’s a better product than my G1 ever was when it comes to hardware and stability of the software. However if this was a Android vs. iPhone OS fight, Android wins all the way. Android allows for you to do so much more with the phone and is constantly getting better, in the leaps and bounds way. In the long run I’m glad I got a iPhone 3G and I’m glad I did it instead of buying another shitty phone from T-Mobile. I can easily see myself going back to Android when the right hardware for it comes out. If I want to keep all of the games and apps from my iPhone at this point I would either keep mine unlocked or just buy an iPod Touch.

For those of you reading this on Facebook or murmur.com this was originally posted on jonstump.net

My mustache is starting to come in a little more. More like a...

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:30:05 -0500

My mustache is starting to come in a little more. More like a dirtstache at this point. Clearly if people would donate then it might have a chance of coming in better.

http://us.movember.com/mospace/57783/

Scott "Kurt" Kurtz's letter to Wizard

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:26:04 -0500

Scott "Kurt" Kurtz's letter to Wizard:

I think this sums up how I feel about Wizard and their cons.

G1 and Me - A year with Android

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:14:20 -0500

So it was roughly a year ago that I ditched my Motorola V360 for the G1. The reason I decided to upgrade was that I had the Motorola for some time and the speaker was going out. People would tell me, your phone has great signal and I would respond with WHAT?! I can’t hear you!

So I decided to jump into Android, why might one ask? Two reasons really:

1. I love Google and use it for pretty much everything.

2. AT&T thought that I needed to pay a $500 security deposit for an iPhone. Also their network blows.

I read a bunch of reviews online and the G1 was getting pretty decent reviews. The biggest complaint seemed to be the battery. I thought to myself, “can it really be that bad?” I of course would find out almost immediately the battery sucked on the phone which to this day is still my largest complaint. After reading these reviews I took the plunge by going to my local T-mo store and buying the last G1 there. In fact a guy walked in as they were getting the last one for myself trying to pick one up. I couldn’t wait to get this baby back to work and start playing with it. The problem was I had to wait roughly a half hour till they actually added a data plan to my service. Once added I entered my Gmail account and away I went.

Things that I immediately loved about Android was how everything synced without hassle. I really liked the fact that I never had to hook my phone up to a computer unless I wanted to drop music on it. I entered my Gmail account and all of my phone numbers and emails I needed were there, ready for use. It also went and got my google calendar, which I hadn’t used as much till getting the phone. I also was happy that this had a physical keyboard. I wasn’t a huge fan (at first) of a soft keyboard that was found on iPhones and other touchscreen phones.

In the first week of having the phone I started to notice what they meant by poor battery. I would learn quickly that I had to keep this baby plugged in all day at work, charge it around 11:00 am, or turn everything off so it would keep a decent charge.

For a good while my Android experience hit a wall. The phone would start to get laggy causing me to either have to delete a ton of stuff or reset the phone to factory defaults. Then it would start acting well again. The music player clearly showed me early on that it was poorly designed along with most of the others in the market. Although Last.FM made a decent player for playing random music, ultimately I found that my iPod works best.

Finally during the summer a nifty tool was released, the one click root, which of course took more than one click. Being able to root my phone allowed access to all sorts of new tools. The biggest was being able to tether my laptop. This wasn’t huge as I don’t need it often, but nice to have. After this soon came my other love for Google and Android, Google Talk. I was lucky enough to be included early into the beta and I’ve written my feelings about it here on Murmur.

After rooting my phone the next step was figuring out what other cool things I could do. Friends and associates had seen on my Facebook how my phones lagginess along with the battery was starting to really piss me off. They then suggested installing a modded version of Android, specifically Cyanogen. Shortly after I rooted came some really easy to install tools to make to move to Cyanogen a breeze. The instructions were about as hard as installing a custom firmware for my PSP, which is also pretty easy.

Cyanogen put a new lease on my G1’s life. It stopped being laggy and started doing what I wanted it to do. The battery wasn’t necessarily better, but at least the phone was opening programs and not hanging up all of the time. I was pretty happy with Cyanogen with the fact that it turned me around on the G1 when it did. The only issue I have with Cyanogen is that sometimes a program crashes. I half expected this since it’s not stock Android and have come to accept it over the alternative of hating my phone. Then Google stepped in and did something very unGoogle. A cease and desist went to the main man behind Cyanogen and like the classy guy that he is, he pulled the project until he could make it work. I then made a last ditch effort to get up to one of the more recent releases before they were lost to the internet ether.

Cyanogen very quickly figured out a way to make everyone happy with the next release. I recently decided to go up to 4.2.1 and have been pretty happy with it so far. It continues to keep a lackluster piece of hardware from being replaced.

Overall in my year with the G1 and Android I would put it simply, Android is awesome and the G1 should NEVER have been the first phone released for it. It’s clear to me that the phone is really something developers were using to develop on when T-Mo came along and decided to make it their flagship phone last year. I would say at this moment Android is still growing and it will continue to get better, the Motorola Droid is proof of that. In fact the Droid is what has me thinking of ditching T-Mobile.

Lately I’ve gone back to my dilemma of wanting to get rid of my phone. The hardware is terrible and I have no plans to get another HTC phone if I can help it. My phone is easily twice as thick as an iPhone, smaller screen, and less battery. Although I don’t know if I want to go to AT&T. Their customer service treated me terribly when I tried to get a phone with them, oh yeah and when I said FU to the guy behind the counter that waited till I almost swiped my card to let me know it was going to be an additional $500 they decided to send me a bill for canceled service along with informing me to send back my iPhone. I like Android enough I wouldn’t mind sticking to another phone with it. The problem now is, do I wait or go with another one that may have slightly better hardware?

Day 2 of Movember. Slight stubble, most likely not visible in...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:35:45 -0500

Day 2 of Movember. Slight stubble, most likely not visible in this picture.

Clearly if people donate my Stache will grow in faster. Click my photo to go to my donation page.

Aeropress Coffee Maker

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:20:38 -0400

I just received my new Aeropress Coffee Maker in the mail today. It’s a slick little gadget. Now I like coffee but too much can upset my stomach. I normally drink tea instead, I also have some single serving loose leaf tea steepers, the best being from Adagio.com. With the Aeropress I can have a single cup of coffee or espresso without having to make a whole pot. The one thing I like about the Aeropress over the tea steepers I have is that it’s easier to clean. The way the Aeropress is designed makes cleaning it take a few seconds. Tea Steepers aren’t terrible, but I could in theory clean the Aeropress without even using water. The only downside to the Aeropress over a tea steeper is that it take a little more preparation. Mostly because you need to do 10 seconds of stirring, I know it’s pretty rough.

Can’t wait to try this thing at my desk on Monday.

Check it out if you have the chance. http://www.aerobie.com/Products/aeropress.htm

Some people have too much time on their hands in the office....

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:17:59 -0400

Some people have too much time on their hands in the office. What I saw when I opened my cabinet at my desk.

This dog is awesome.

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 09:16:43 -0400

This dog is awesome.

Android Tumblr

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:54:36 -0400

I just got the Tumblr app for Android. So far it’s pretty snazy.

The Golden iPod

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:55:00 -0400

Everyone by now should have Jammie Thomas-Rasset Trial. If you haven’t the simple facts are:

- She was sharing 24 songs online.

- She was found of willful infringement.

- The penalty was for $1.92 million.

It’s fairly obvious news that she is appealing the verdict. Who wouldn’t? The funny thing is that recently someone mentioned that a copy of Guitar Hero 4 may cost you $7 million.

This of course got me thinking at work today. If it was possible that someone had filled an entire 120 gig Classic iPod with pirated music, you could be liable for $2.4 Billion dollars based off of Apple’s 30,000 songs to fit on a classic. I find that these numbers to mind boggling, especially with songs costing around the .99 margin. What does everyone else think? Are these numbers as insane as I think?

Geek Tax

Sat, 16 May 2009 11:28:02 -0400

I’ve been reminded recently of the dreaded Geek Tax. Many of you may not know that one existed, but it does.

The guys of Penny Arcade talked about the Geek Tax in one of their podcasts back in the day. Their example was when HD DVD was coming out all of the movies were 29.99 except Serenity which was 34.99. Why would it need to be 5 dollars more? The obvious, the people who were going to invest in HD DVD first are going to be Geeks who will most likely purchase Serenity as their first title.

Now there is the mother of all Geek Tax, Star Trek. Of course with the movie coming out I’ve been looking at the box sets. My roommate purchased the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Now I would expect that a TV show that’s been out on DVD for a few years would be 19.99 or 24.99 for the first season. My roommate paid around 70 dollars… 70 DOLLARS?! Why does this need to be so expensive. Geek Tax. It’s annoying that if it were reasonably priced I would buy this series in a heart beat. Of course all of the Star Trek series are outrageously priced like this. The Original Series all together is 200 dollars ON SALE at amazon.com.

Damn Geek Tax.

Wait... The rash is from WHAT?!?!

Sat, 09 May 2009 14:41:04 -0400

So I heard this story at work a little while ago and have been meaning to post it here for everyone to read. A friend overheard this from his girlfriend. Where she heard it I can’t exactly remember.

A girl was visiting Cancun recently for her spring break. She was down in the hotel bar the last night before having to fly back the next morning, when a cute guy starts buying her drinks. To be nice she went over and started talking to him. Of course since the guy was in Cancun talking to a cute girl he asked her if she wanted to go back to his room. She of course needing to leave early the next day turned down the invite. Instead she made out with the guy. Partly because he was attractive, partly because he bought her drinks.

Well she went home and after a little bit the girl developed a rash all over her face. So said girl and her mother go to the doctor. While there the doctor expresses concern that they need to know what the girl did in Cancun. Her mother even stresses not to worry about the fact that not to worry and tell them about what happened so they could take care of the problem together.

The girl of course mentions she made out with a guy and that it only went as far as that.

The doctor responds that the rash is something they see in Cannibalism…

YEAH CANNABILISM.

So said girl gives info to the Cancun local authorities on the guy. They then catch him in his hotel room with a couple bodies he had been eating.

Now like any self respectable person that is going to post a story like this coming third hand, I checked Snopes.com. The link can be found here. Also when looking I found no evidence that a rash associated with Cannibals existed.

If you read it on Snopes this is considered a Legend. I of course did not know this till I checked it out before posting and after passing the story to several people. I guess it’s a variation of one about Necrophilia. The other thing it reminded me of is the difference between word of mouth and email. If this had come to my email I would have went immediately to Snopes. Since it came from a friend I did not. Regardless it’s definitely a good story to tell someone before they go to Tijuana or Cancun to make sure they stay away from strangers. It’s also a reminder that in our world people are indeed deranged. I say this because if I hadn’t of done the research about rashes and cannibalism along with checking Snopes I would have and did completely believe this.

Why did I believe it? Simply put, in a world where John Jamelske, Ted Bundy, Victor Zsasz, Jefferey Dahmer, Patrik Kearney, John Wayne Gacy, Patrick Bateman, Aileen Wuornos, Ed Gein, Jonathan Kramer, The Zodiac Killer, Jack the Ripper, The Torso Killer, Josef Fritzl, and Dennis Rader exists or existed, this story moving around doesn’t seem to far fetched.

TWC Bandwith Structure Billing

Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:32:31 -0400

Recently Time Warner Cable tested in a few different cities some different bandwith capping plans. Suffice to say they didn’t work out, but it looks like the still plan on trying. They made a post on long reply that can be found here.

There is only one way I can see this working for TWC, if everyone does it. If my provider for cable did this, I’d be looking at the first available alternative and jump ship. The only people who will be okay with these are people who only use the internet for browsing purposes or light gaming. This seems to me as another play at trying to cash in on new technologies, the big one being streaming video, more specically Netflix (which if it did streaming a while back when a certain Tubes remark was made…). Of course the best part about our society is competition. Which is why I feel this will never work. As long as the competition can offer “unlimited” internet why go to TWC?

I could maybe see my parents using a lower tier so that they could pay less, but they only use the internet for surfing because they are on dialup. As soon as reasonable broadband is introduced into their area, my guess is that they will upgrade. I also forsee them getting into streaming video and purchasing video which would take them up a notch. I make this statement because after I took my Apple TV up north my Dad informed me that I was not allowed to take it back with me.

Is there anyone out there that thinks this is a good idea? I’m really curious to see what people think. You can email me, the link can be found to the left.

This article can also be found here on Murmur.

leo: 32 songs in 8 minutes (via Freddie25) Thanks Leo Laporte...

Wed, 08 Apr 2009 23:51:10 -0400

leo:

32 songs in 8 minutes (via Freddie25)

Thanks Leo Laporte for this video. It’s pretty fantastic.

Joss Whedon is my master now...

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:09:12 -0400

I have been mucking my way through the new Whedon show Dollhouse. Everyone has been talking about it, mostly bad. Well I love Joss Whedon’s work and even though the first 1-4 episodes were lackluster (some even terrible). I now am on the bandwagon.

I just finished Episode 6 of Dollhouse. It is the best episode that has come out thus far. Episodes 1-5 were pretty much filler, they felt more like 8-10 should in the future. We finally get into something other then a formula episodes where Eliza Dushku wears something hot and possibly has an attitude. We also see that the Dollhouse is an odd way can help people.

This episode showed that a man who uses the service helps him have closure with his dead wife. This was something I didn’t really see coming and it was a great change to the overall, I need someone to be my sex slave/kick ass chick/spy that the show has been formulating thus far.

My favorite part of the episode (and series) is Agent Ballard. He has been by far the best part of this show. Since the first episode, I would actually pay attention to scenes with him in it, unlike most of the show thus far. We got a full helping of Ballard and I want to see more. He’s one of two characters that I like that I feel actually have drive and are worth paying attention to. I really want to peg him for Alpha, but it doesn’t make sense unless Whedon pulls some super curve ball.

This episode was full of what this season should have been thus far. It had FORWARD MOVING plot worth following, awesome action (the fight with Echo and Ballard was brutal), romance, deception, rape, and death. Holy crap if every TV show had this much in an episode I don’t know how I’d find the time to do anything else.

Well done Mr. Whedon, you asked me to wait till episode 6 and I’m glad I did.

This post can also be found here

Wondercon 2009 Day 3

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 19:02:00 -0500

Day 3 was the last day. I of course started it off right by getting to the convention without my Badge. The reason this was so bad was that I wanted to make it back in time for a panel. In order to do so I had to grab a cab back to my brother’s apartment. I was able to make it back about 5 minutes before the panel I wanted to see started.

I waited most of the weekend to go my last panel so I was not about to miss it. The panel is question was titled, “25 Years of Usagi Yojimbo.” After meeting Stan Sakai in the first 10 minutes of the con I was super excited to watch him at his panel. Any creator that tells me I should buy one of his books off of Ebay because it will be cheaper is awesome. It obviously shows how much he cares about getting his work into people’s hands. For those of you who sadly don’t know who Usagi Yojimbo is check out his Wikipedia page.

Stan Sakai really put on a show for the panel. He talked about some of the history around publishing Usagi Yojimbo. Did you know that Croatia was one of the first places to have Usagi Yojimbo in other then English? When Sakai talked to the people in Croatia that wanted to localize it he asked them about the war going on. They assured him it was nothing to worry about since it was 50 miles away. The other fun tid bit was at one point Oliver Stone had the option to make a Usagi movie. It would have been interesting to see.

I was awesome to see the man at work as well. Seeing him sketch was fluid and fast, it’s obvious he has no plans of slowing down at any time. It was also interesting to see him go over his process a little bit. When someone asked him if he had an end to Usagi he responded that of course there would be an end, but not anytime soon. Sakai very much made it sound like he plans on doing Usagi Yojimbo as long as he can. I of course plan on reading it for as long as he can produce it.

The rest of the day was relegated to last minute shopping. I planned on going to another panel, but I just didn’t have it in me. I got a few last minute steals, such as Fell Vol 1 for five dollars and Blankets for twenty, so overall it was a good day.

As for the con as a whole, I really enjoyed myself. I can’t wait to go again next year when I have the chance.

Wondercon 2009 Day 2

Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:56:43 -0500

Day 2 of Wondercon continued with craziness. It involved more purchases and some signatures. I managed to get quite a few signatures and a couple sketched. One of my goals was to see Mike Mignola and Matt Wagner. Wagner did a couple sketches and was pretty cool to meet. Mignola cracked a joke about how he thought he had already signed all the copies of the books I brought him.

On day 2 I also hit up a couple panels. The first was the Spotlight on Alex Robinson that was moderated by Josh of iFanboy fame. I went to the panel because I had heard about Alex’s work several times, I also wanted to support iFanboy in anyway that I could. The panel went really well for everyone and involved candy, which it is pretty great. After the panel I went almost immediately to Alex’s booth and bought both Box Office Poison and Too Cool to Be Forgotten. He did sketches in both and signed them. Meeting creators such as Alex is great, he was really happy to meet someone who even wanted to be a fan. I can honestly now say that I am after reading Too Cool to Be Forgotten. The book is amazing and a real tear jerker.

The second panel I went to was about Podcasting and comics. The awesome thing about this was that they pulled people from the crowd to participate. So oddly enough you will hear my voice on a future podcast. I as usual brought some completely useless knowledge about comics to the table. I’m not going to say what it is now, you can find out when the show comes out. Also we talked about a couple of the things I bought. It quickly became apparent to Ron at least that I love the big hardcovers. Sometimes I don’t think I’ll be contempt until I can replace a coffee table with the ones I have.

The last thing I did that day was hit up the Isotope Comic Lounge for the 100 Bullets party. That place was crazy and it was cool to have a beer with some of the most prominent creators in comics today. Also it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to see Dave Johnson’s art in person. He has never displayed his art before and he’s never sold it. Obviously you can get him to do sketches when he’s at a con, but that’s different. To see some of the original covers of 100 Bullets hanging about was awesome. I ended the night by passing out, sadly at 12:00-12:30. With as little sleep as I had received the night before I was ready to get some sleep. I didn’t leave without some signatures and some glasses from the party.

Wondercon 2009 Day 1

Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:32:27 -0500

Well Wondercon 2009 is over with. I had a blast for the entire thing. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this sleep deprived. Well how did the weekend turn out for me? Let me start with Friday…

Friday was a little bit of shopping, when I hit the floor within 30 minutes my bag was full and killing my back. I have an affinity for giant Hardcovers and since I was able to snag six for anywhere from 60-65% off I went for it. A little ways in I decided to go to the “Everything You Wanted to know about Retailing in Comics” panel. On my way there I met up with the iFanboys. When Josh heard I was heading to that panel he asked me if I hated money. I informed him that obviously I did if I spent over 100 dollars in the first 30 minutes of the Con. I didn’t stay at the panel long since it seemed to be for older people as I was one of maybe half a dozen under the age of 35 in the room. It was also a little on the boring side since it was a discussion about business.

After that I hit up the DC Nation panel. I got to find out juicy details such as, Paul Dini getting two new books. One is going to bring back the Batman as more of a creature of the night that no one sees. It sounds like it’s more of a mythology book from the point of view of the streets of Gotham. The other book I’m super excited for, it’s titled “Gotham Sirens” and is a team book with Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, and Catwoman. My guess is that it will of course be tons of fun. I also asked a question for fellow iFanboy community member Luthor, and myself, about getting a Batman Beyond comic book. The best answer we could get was maybe.

The last thing I did at the con was go to the Wonder Woman premiere. You can find my review of it here on Murmur.

After the preview I went out for the iFanboy Tiki Tour. The night went way longer then it should have and was incredibly fun. The iFanboys are awesome dudes to hang out with, we all had a blast for sure. I think the two highlights were riding with two new awesome dudes I met, Chunk and Brandon, in a Taxi I thought we surely would die in. The other being a conversation with a few different people about how dreamy Ben Templesmith is. Here are a couple pictures.

Chunk, Brandon, and myself at the end of the night.