Friday Night Clix - Batman Vs.

Hello peoples!! This Friday at 730 pm we will be busting our weekly Heroclix pop-up event at my LCS Comics Conspiracy : Batman Vs.  Along with The Dark Knight theme being in full effect, we will have some craft, dark beers on hand for the 21 +up to try.

For those of you not well scripted on the dark beer tip, Beer Advocate has one of the best lists and is a regular resource for when I wanna drank outside of my go to brews (IPA of course).

Here are some of the finer deets to our dope-ass clix thang:  Come equipped with a 600 pt team that is only constructed of the new Batman set and another team that is put together with just about anything you damn want (but can only run 150 pts from BM).

Prior to the start of every game, you will roll-off to select what you run (Batman or not) and what your opponent plays, including who receives map choice.  No guantlet, no dupes, no BFCs/feats.

Winner and fellowship pull from available prize support and please pre-reg at the Wizkids Event System and of course you can join in on all the shit-talking at our FB event page.


If you don't know what Heroclix is or have never played tabletop, turn-based strategy games, no worries!!  We gotta great mix of new and longtime clix regulars that can get you started and of course playing with a beer in hand always helps.  Tell a friend, come through and as always BYOB! Look forward to seeing you out to get your clix on !  

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Click, Push, Click, Push- A Noob No More!!

It has been a mere 4 months since I got totally consumed by heroclix and I can say with over 40 games under my belt --over half of em being in tournaments-- the honeymoon is officially over.  Luckily, I am located in a locale that is a hotbed for tabletop gaming with several shops to play, compete, trade and just post with other clixers.

I went from casually stopping by a few spots every other week to now having a fairly regimented schedule where I hit-up 3 to 4 different venues a week to compete and play this damn thing.

So many layers to the strategies in playing this game that I can now recognize, being equipped with a basic understanding of positioning and the PAC. 

Sure, you can simply pick from pieces that you connect to or are familiar with but a lot more of the fun comes in the game when you make use of theme (or generic) teams that give you a bonus to your map roll based on how many players you have in your build and of course the almighty probability control (allows you to re-roll a dice roll or you can make an opponent do such).

My homies Trey and Henry have also gotten deeper into the game which is great being that they can act as a tether in making sure I don't go all rainman and gamma geek to the point that my GF breaks up with me...ha, playing yo.

Along the way I have actually even won a few of the tournaments which have been for me at least, was based less on skill and more on crazy, lucky rolls. 

Through the process of learning the game which you can only really do by playing-- HCRealms has been an incredibly, vast resource be it for the various forums on team building, strategy, trading and anything else you can think of really.

Trading on the Realms has definitely been one of the more fun, addictive and interesting experiences that I never would have thought I would find myself investing time in.  When you buy clix, having dupes is guaranteed so when you can't bust physical trades in shops with the peeps you play with-- realms is a great alternative, unless you just need the skrill and you sell it on Ebay.

Like the saying goes, ones trash is anothers treasure.  This adage has worked wonders

for me as I have been able to pull trades on some real, fly pieces that I would have otherwise had to buy on Ebay for say $50 and up.  Some of the choice pieces that I have scored on realms thru itrader were Cosmic Spiderman, 75th Anniversary Hal Jordan, Barry Allen (pictured right), the Arkham Clown Prince of Crime, and White Lantern Sinestro.

And now things have come full circle as I recently proposed to have a regular heroclix night at my LCS and he agreed!!  How sick is it that I was just pulled into clixin by some regulars at our shop and now we are busting Friday Night Fights at Comics Conspiracy on the regular?!

Dope indeed!!!



 
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WTF moment of the week- Free Comic Book Day!

"It's a celebration b*tches!!!!!"  - Rick James

First Saturday in May brings the celebration of the wild, world of comics nationwide in the form of exclusive comicbooks at a price of free ninety-nine from the publishers, writers/artists/ creators making appearances to support their local shops, creative events/sales to make some extra skrill from the crazy traffic and of course the ever-loving fans that bring their undying passion to make every shop feel like a mini-con for a day.

As I was cruising the El Camino to make way to my first stop, I couldn't help but smile and honk at the cosplayers in front of Illusive Comics that were helping to create buzz and

awareness of FCBD to otherwise unknowing, non-book buying peeps.  Pulled up to my regular Wednesday stomping grounds of Comics Conspiracy and was happy to see a bunch of families and new faces that were obviously there to pickup some free books, swag and everything else FCBD. 

Ryan, my homie and owner of the shop was all smiles (a rare sight cos he is emo).  But seeing firsthand all the energy and hustle of readers pummeling through the stands, shelves, bins and throwing their hard-earned dough into his register-- well how can you not be all happy?!  Good stuff.  If you are a back-ish hunter and budget conscious, you will love Ryan's shop.  Hands down da best one stop in da Bay for everything comics

& da staff rawk.  After picking up some indie books that I normally don't pull-- Locke & Key, Super Dinosaur, Criminal Macabre and a Green Lantern wave 2 classic 3- pack that I got mainly for B'dg,  said laters and made way to my O.G. shop from High School days-- The Comic Collector Shop (previously R&K Comics).

Phil and Danger were on-hand answering a bunch of questions to kids and other non-regulars along with even pulling down some of their fab wall books (means you are throwing down some cha-ching!!)
I was able to score the rare, obscure FCBD special- The Misadventures of Adam West, Boom Studio's Elric, Mouseguard and a sweet silver-age Wein/Rogers' Detective Comics 477.  Score!!

Getting everything I was hoping to find of all the FCBD books-- I saved my stop to Illusive Comics for last being it is close to home and I knew it would be a bit of a zoo thanks to a special guest appearance of SF's own James Robinson.

Entered and said whaddup to Tim and Anna and was floored by the crowd...that , yes I knew would be there and all..this is James Robinson we are talking about right?!  I went straight to James, who was very gracious and looked to have a genuinely good time with his fans-- said congrats on his recent marriage and then went straight over to some 501st and talked story on everything Imperial.  Yeah, how we do!!!

How did you celebrate FCBD?! 




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