Welcome back everyone to the ZAK Entertainment Comic Book
Week! What was a spur of the moment idea due to my Free Comic Book Trip
recordings being too long for one vlog and blog has been quite an interesting
idea that I intend on keeping. Maybe I should do other special themed weeks
such as a Pokemon week or a Yarn week. I also wish to film more videos for you
guys, I know I’ve been severely inactive on my Youtube but this FCBD Vlog has
given me some more confidence in doing vlogs and as vlogs are easy to record I
could possibly be doing more of them. I also found out that some stores do
allow you to record so I may be exploring some more stores and locations for
you guys. Anyway before I continue be sure to check out Monday’s blog for Part 1 of my Free Comic Book Day (Which was last Saturday.) trip to Excalibur Comics! Now let’s dive into part 2!
After leaving the awesome Excalibur Comics me and Dad
decided to extend our trip to 2nd & Charles, a book store
primarily and was originally a Books-a-Million (Still owned by the same
people.) they’ve added a whole load of new stuff to the store such as Music
Instruments, Vinyls, Record Players, Comic Books Movies and even Video Games.
While the Free Comic Book Day section was a bit small compared to Excalibur
Comics I explored around most of the store for your viewing pleasure… Meaning I
got distracted and carried away because of all the awesome stuff in the store.
So let’s dive into 2nd & Charles in a sort of off topic from
FCBD Vlog!
See what I mean? Sometimes getting distracted isn’t a bad
thing however as this store is worth exploring. I’m not sure how widespread 2nd
& Charles is, they’re owned by Books-a-Million and I’ve been seeing them
replace BAM stores here and there so you probably have one in your local area
somewhere. Definitely go and check them out, they still have the wide book
selection that BAM always has but man have they got some variety, it’s almost
like this blog in a sense of being so varied. (I didn’t take any photos of the
store sadly so sorry if about the lack of eye candy, go watch the video for
that if you want to.)
Music seems to be a big part of this store now as they have
a massive collection of Vinyl Records new and old and even some not bad priced
Record Players to go with them. ($69.99 for a record player is not bad at all.)
Towards the front left side of the store they have guitars, acoustic and
electric lined up and I believe I even saw a drum set of some kind and an
electric piano. I know music is a rare
discussion here on ZAK Entertainment but I really am a lover of those beats.
The actual Free Comic Book Day section was a bit small,
limited to one stand with not many books available but they actually had comics
that I wasn’t able to grab at Excalibur Comics so it was worth it. The Comic
Book part of this store however is not so small and a massive comic book
selection awaits you, mostly hard book volumes I believe but they had standard
issues. Pop Funko figures are absolutely everywhere lately and this store has a
plethora of them. As well as the Pop figures this place had some awesome statue
figures of some very familiar comic book characters and even Japanese Anime and
Manga characters such as Luffy and Goku. (That’s the limitation of my anime
knowledge, thanks for reading… Ha-ha just kidding but seriously I saw some
characters that drew a blank on me, please feel free to let me know what shows
these characters are from.) Japanese Manga itself was at no short of supply and
the DVD section, as well as having all the new movies on Blu-Ray and DVD had a
nice Anime selection.
One thing that surprised me was the appearance of RWBY
merchandise. Now I know I’ve not discussed RWBY yet which means some of you
don’t even know what that is (There may or may not be a blog coming up on it, I
was supposed to actually write one last year when Volume 4 released but I’ve
actually not watched Volume 4 yet… Oops.) but it’s this awesome 3D CGI animated
Web Show about a group of students in a fantasy world who fight grimm monsters
and have scythes that are also sniper rifles… Yeah that was a bad description
but I’ll write a blog on RWBY soon enough for you guys. Anyway! Yeah I was
surprised to find RWBY Merchandise in the store, which is cool if you guys are
unable to buy it from the Roosterteeth store. Also they had a sweet poster of a
certain man named Roman Torchwick (For those who watched the video I actually
did know his name, okay, I was just making a really awkward bad joke.) so that
was awesome.
Oh yeah! Pokemon was at no short supply either, they had
plushies, the manga, books, even that Pikachu onesie pajamas, which I was
almost tempted to buy but I think I might be a bit tall for that. Nintendo
itself had its own section as well and apparently… Harry Potter. Yeah I’m a
Harry Potter fan but I never realized how much Merchandise it has…
Now lastly there’s one part of the store that blew my mind,
the Video Game section. When they renovated Books-a-Million into 2nd
& Charles I was excited to hear they would be incorporating Video Games,
used and new. Now when I heard used I figured “Oh it’ll just be used games of
the DS/3DS/Wii/Wii u lineup.” But boy was I mistaken; this place has hundreds
of games spanning Nintendo, Playstation, Xbox and even Atari and Sega’s
history. My jaw dropped when I saw the huge amount retro and classic games
available. They had NES Games, SNES, Game Gear, Genesis, PSX, Gamecube and even
a huge amount of N64 games available, most I have never owned in my life. Sadly
I didn’t come home with any but man I’ve never seen so many retro games in one
place before. While they didn’t have any retro consoles (Aside from a sweet n64
in it’s ORIGINAL BOX!) they did have some of these 3rd party custom
consoles that allow you to play NES games and SNES Games and even Sega Genesis
games all on the same console. 2nd & Charles also had this
SupaBoy available which apparently allows you to play SNES games on mobile,
didn’t even know that sort of machine existed… I’ve never owned a NES or SNES
so I may come back and grab one of these babies and some games at some point in
the future, doesn’t seem like they’ll be running short of supply.
Before I left the store I also noticed they had a lot of
Japanese snacks, which is cool I don’t usually see Japanese foods around
besides Pocky but I have absolutely no idea what any of this is. Maybe I should
grab a whole bunch and do a Japanese Snacks video… Oh god that’s such a good
idea but I’m not sure if I want to go through with it, haha.
Anyway if you live near a 2nd & Charles store
I recommend you go check it out! I’m going to have to go back there with some
actual money and buy some stuff… Then review it for you guys, wouldn’t that be
cool? So me and my Dad left the store after getting a little lost (I didn’t
actually get to explore the whole store, missed a bunch of stuff.) and we
headed on home. Sadly that’s it for my Free Comic Book Day trip, you guys will
be getting a third Video on Friday showcasing my full haul but for now let’s
discuss my 2nd and Charles haul here on the blog! Visit http://2ndandcharles.com/ to see if you have a store near you.
I didn’t grab as many as I did at Excalibur Comics, mostly I
got stuff for my little brother and sister but I grabbed some extras that I
wasn’t able to grab before. (I still missed like 50% of the free comics
available… Damn.)
I picked up 5 comics from 2nd and Charles starting off with this pretty cool Doctor Who comic.
I picked up 5 comics from 2nd and Charles starting off with this pretty cool Doctor Who comic.
Doctor Who has been around since 1963 and the Doctor himself
has gone through quite a few faces, 13 to be exact. This comic brings back the
4 modern Doctors (Not counting John Hurt.) and while they don’t end up meeting
face to face it shows how the Doctor’s many faces are not so disconnected. It’s
a great read and I’m kinda curious to try reading some more Doctor Who comics.
I don’t really watch the show much anymore but these comics might bring my love
for the series back.
Next up I got this Star Trek Comic. It’s called Star Trek
The Next Generation: Mirror Broken. Immediately you’ll notice this isn’t the
normal timeline, as I’ve never seen Jean-Luc Picard (Or Patrick Stewart for
that matter) with muscles. As the name may suggest this takes place in the
Mirror Universe, which has been a running thing since the original 1960s Star
Trek series when Captain James T. Kirk, Lieutenant Uhura, Lieutenant Commander
Scotty and Doctor Leonard McCoy were accidentally transported to the Mirror
Universe’s ISS Enterprise. I’m not really a fan of the Mirror Universe but I
thought I would give this a chance regardless. It was interesting to see how
the mirror universe depicted Captain Picard and Crew. This comic also features
short preview stories from Star Trek Boldly Go, which is a comic that takes
place after Star Trek Beyond (Which I review in this blog: http://zakentertainment.blogspot.com/2016/11/celebrating-30-blog-posts-startrek-pokemon-knitting.html.) The Enterprise
Crew have been reassigned to different positions and Kirk finds himself with
new faces under his command.
Star Trek Waypoint which seems to take place some years
after Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager in a celebration of sorts of
these shows. Each issue of Waypoint takes place in different time periods
featuring stories of crews commanded by Janeway, Kirk, Picard and in this issue…
Geordi La Forge. Also Data is integrated into the computer now.. That’s
interesting.
Finally my favorite part of this comic preview… the Star
Trek and Green Lantern Stranger Worlds crossover. I’ve been a fan of Star Trek
and Green Lantern for a long time now and seeing these two come together might
seem bizarre but on the other hand seem to go, well, hand in hand with each
other.
Moving on to my next comic I got this Rick and Morty comic.
I have not watched Rick and Morty yet, it’s an adult animated sitcom mixed with
crazy comic science fiction and a million drunken Ricks. I’ve been interested
in checking this out for a while now as it, for some reason, reminded me of
Futurama. Basically it’s about a cynical Mad Scientist Rick and his Grandson
Morty as they travel through dimensions while still spending time with their
domestic family. That’s as far as my knowledge goes on them and I’ve yet to
read this comic just yet so I’m not sure what happens but it seems like a wild
ride.
I got myself an Avatar comic, which is based on James
Cameron’s blue cat people not Avatar: The Last Airbender. This new Avatar
series first released… Well on Free Comic Book Day. This is the official first
release of this new series. Apparently the comic takes place during the first
movie and might set up some things for the upcoming Avatar 2 which is set to
release in 2020.
Finally I got this BOOM! Studios 2017 Summer Blast comic. I
had no idea what this was and I only really got it because I loved the look of
the cover art and the fact it was made by BOOM! Studios but it holds three
pretty cool looking stories, these three stories being Mouse Guard, Brave Chef
Briana, and Coady and the Creepies. Haven’t read into these much either yet.
That’s it for my 2nd and Charles haul making my
total haul 14 comics. That’s quite a lot of reading I have to do as well as the
comics I’m going to bug my dad to read from his comic haul. I’ll discuss Dad’s
haul more on Friday in the final part of this ZAK Comic Week so be sure to come
back then! While it might seem unnecessary I’m going to be uploading a video
showcasing my entire haul (Which I recorded last Saturday, it was supposed to
be in with the first two parts but I’ve had to split the entire trip into a
three part series… Thus ZAK Comic Week was born.) on Friday so that’ll be
something to look forward too as well.
Before I leave you guys though debuting during the MTV Movie
Awards was the final trailer of Wonder Woman releasing on June 2nd
next month!
We get to see more of Wonder Woman as a child as well as her
first steps off the island of the Amazons. This movie looks incredible and Gal
Gadot seems to be a perfect fit for Wonder Woman. Only thing that’ll make this
more perfect is if they give her the Invisible Jet… Or is that too silly for a
movie like this? And how is she going to fight in those normal clothes anyway?
Guess we’ll have to find out. Hopefully they didn’t give too much away in this
trailer they did seem to show a lot of the action.
Another trailer was released and it has more to do with the
TV side of DC… I’ve been avidly watching CW’s DC TV since the 2017 seasons
began and while I dropped Supergirl sadly (I really got bored and tired of it I’m
sorry.) I’ve been keeping up with Legends of Tomorrow (Which is over now.) but
mostly the Flash. After last night’s kind off odd, silly but good regardless
Episode we got two more Episodes remaining! Savitar… or should I say –redacted-
has spilled his guts about his plan (Or has he? I’m not so convinced.) and
while his origins aren’t as dramatic as I imagined they would be he’s looking
to be Barry’s greatest enemy yet. (Okay no Reverse Flash is still the best.) CW
has released this Sizzle Reel trailer with clippings of the last two episodes
so lets take a look!
Okay the blogs getting long so I won’t talk that much about
the trailer… But why is Barry looking at Reverse Flash’s outfit? What on earth
is going on, Leonard Snart is back… King Shark is back and ARGUS looks like its
getting involved. These last two Episodes are going to be a ride and a half. I’m
sorry for not discussing the CW DC shows much but I wasn’t sure about letting
spoilers out the bag, I’ll actually be reviewing Flash and Legends (Supergirl
if I bother to pick the show back up.) once The Flash ends so stay tuned for
that! No exact date though as I got other blogs planned such as some upcoming
Piratey blogs… Maybe next week should be ZAK Pirate Week, Arrggg!
So as its Comic week I’ve been trying to find Comic Book
related Knitting Patterns for you guys. Monday I found this awesome comic book
cover and I’m not sure if I could top that pattern but I think I just did… What
happens when it gets cold and Wonder Woman is still wearing her usual outfit?
Does she get cold? If she does I bet she’ll love to wear this, or anyone
wanting to be a Wonder Woman. This is the… Well it’s called “Wonder Woman” by
Natalie Bursztyn and it’s a pullover sweater.
This is a crazy awesome sweater and while I’ve never knitted
a sweater yet this looks like a standard sweater only with Wonder Woman themed
colorworks! It’s all done with charts and can be done in three different sizes
so it fits snug on your body. You’ll need some Aran weight yarn, the amount you’ll
need depending on the size you’re knitting will range from 1456 yards (1331 m)
to 1872 yards but the pattern does well on explaining everything so no panic if
I’ve just confused you. You’ll need US 10 and US 10 1/2 needles as well. Check
this awesome pattern out on Ravelry and Natalie Burztyn’s Ravelry page! You’re
a pretty awesome (Perhaps… Wonderful. FORGIVE ME.) designer.
I’ll leave you guys now… See you guys this Friday for the
ZAK Comic Week finale! It might be getting a little… Nostalgic.
That’s a wrap folks!
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