Around this time for the past few years, participating comic book shops have given away free promotional comics to capitalize on the potential for new customers generated by big budget superhero films like
Spiderman, and now
Iron Man.I always, always, always miss it, and I'm always, always, always pissed when I get home that Saturday and find out it was
Free Comic Book Day. Except for one or two times when I knew about it, and just had other concerns or things to do.
Well not this time.
Grand Theft Auto IV killed my
XBox 360, or maybe it was a co-inky-dink that the inevitable (for about 33% of 360 owners)
Red Rings Of Death just happened to follow an increasing number of freeze ups I experienced while playing that game. I then put in
San Andreas which froze up, and upon re-starting the machine, gazed in horror, upon the three flashing red lights.
It's going back to
Microsoft after talking to what sounded like a thirteen year old boy over at support. Now that I think about it, I better make damn sure it's actually going to Microsoft and not some teen-aged hacker who's somehow manage to redirect XBox calls to his house. If he had an Indian accent, I'd be less suspicious. I dunno what their child labor laws are like over there.
Anyway, the point was, I've nothing better to do* so I might as well get some free comics and maybe check out Iron Man, which I was
looking forward to seeing for a while now.*Okay, "nothing better to do", doesn't include a number of things I ought to be doing, but it's gonna be interesting to see how much more productive I become in the next 3 or 4 weeks without the 360. I still have a
PS2 and a bunch of unfinished/unplayed games, but I know I won't spend as much time on them. Then again....
Free Comic Book Day
Another casualty of GTA IV/RRODLabels: Anticipay-yay-shun..., comics, DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER, good deal, movies, PS2, video games, XBox 360
# posted by Edshugeo The GodMoor : 6:05 AM
