Toren Atkinson’s Absolute Blog

Hey acolytes! Here are some more pages from our secret grimoire:

In this update:
1. Khan-Con Star Trek Mini-Convention http://tinyurl.com/khancon
2. Wizard Needs Food Badly
3. Your Mage’s Guild & You
4. From the Trapped Wizard’s Chest
5. Wizard Friendly – FREE COMIC BOOK DAY

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Cloudscape Comics Collective (of which I am part) is pleased to announce that Historyonics (the issue with the four page origin story of Rhinosferatu) was the winner of the Outstanding Design Award at the Stumptown 2009 Trophy Awards (in Portland Oregon0!

No joke!

Despite what the trophy looks like.

After you get out of the Saturday Morning Cartoon Party IV, be sure to go to your local comic shop for Free Comic Day.

Here’s Elfsar’s bulletin:

MAY 2ND (NEXT SATURDAY) IS FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!
This truly is the best day of the year. If you have never been to one at Elfsar, this is not to be missed.
Check out the event here: http://www.elfsar.com/FCBD/FCBD_2009.htm

SUMMARY:
1. May 2nd FCBD (Get 5 Free Comics at Elfsar)
(Donate to the food bank and get 5 more free comics,
plus a photo with costumed Heroes and Villains and an entry into a raffle of your choice.) The more you donate the better the free comics get and the more chances to win the raffles.
Celebrate our annual geek holiday and help us raise food and money for the Vancouver Food Bank!
Free Comic Book Day starts at 11am and going until 7:00pm.

We have 4 special guests who will be at Elfsar at various times (they will all be at Elfsar between 1-4pm)
1.) Artist, writer, film maker KAARY ANDREWS (Spider-man Reign)
2.) Artist, designer CAMILLA D’ERRICO (Nightmares & Fairy Tales)
3.) Writer, publisher SEAN O’REILLY (Kade from ARCANA STUDIOS)
4.) Digital Artist DARYL MANDRYK (Star Wars and one of the FCBD books from RADICAL PUBLISHING)

We will have our popular store-wide sale on as well.
BUY 2 GET 1 FREE on all reading material!
SAVE 20% OFF All non reading material!

NOW WE DESPERATELY NEED YOUR HELP.
Please help promote FCBD at ELFSAR at any relevant forums or groups you belong to, let people know that this is going on and help raise food and money for a charity that is suffering a lot this year due to the economy. Please suggest any ideas you have to us on how we can reach more people. Join the Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174148&id=753250202#/group.php?gid=5515647817
and count yourself among the attendees for our upcoming event and more importantly invite your friends and tell them to invite theirs.
Bring, drag and force those who don’t read to the store and get them some FREE COMICS!

Links:
OUR WEBSITE: http://www.elfsar.com
FCBD: http://www.freecomicbookday.com/
FCBD at ELFSAR: http://www.elfsar.com/FCBD/FCBD_2009.htm
EVENT on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=174148&id=753250202#/event.php?eid=33661639968
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The next few weeks are going to be fun, I hope you can make it,
-The Big Elf

p.s. And hey, if you are not in Vancouver, then seek out your local comic book store on May 2nd and get your FREE COMIC.

Yes I know the links don’t work.

DVDS:

Bottle Rocket
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Best in Show
Justice League the New Frontier
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
Battle of the Planets vol 1
Battle of the Planets vol 4
Wet Hot American Summer
Alligator People
Abbott & Costello Show Vol 2
Fong Sai Yuk
Open Water
The Best of Peabody & Sherman Vol 1
Greatest Fighting Heroes (Superman/Popeye)
Superman: The Arctic Giant

If you’ve got the Flixter application on Facebook, you can take my “Name the World Wildlife Federation of Justice Character” quiz I made. It’s here:

http://apps.facebook.com/flixster/quiz?q=1169692

Last night we played 1st edition D&D. I was a dwarf by the name of Flapgar Trundlebig. We made up characters, gathered rumours at the tavern, and entered the erstwhile dwarf ‘mine’ now overrun with goblins. It was pretty fun and we played until Kelly started falling asleep. Actually we played well past when Kelly started falling asleep. The 1st edition rules are by no means elegant ( THAC0), but they are simple, which is definitely refreshing.

Here’s Rhinosferatu as he will appear in the WWFJ supplement for Mutants & Masterminds, as published by Atomic Overmind Press as part of the Superlink dealio!

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Bill Nye… “The Science Guy,” managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun.  As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own. But don’t tell that to the good people of Waco, who were “visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence,” according to the Waco Tribune.

Nye…brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: “God made two great lights — the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.” The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.  At this point, several people in the audience stormed out in fury….

This story originally appeared in the Waco Tribune, but the newspaper has…pulled its story from the online version….