Comments Off | Posted: August 30th, 2010 | Filed under:Contests, Star Trek
Random.org provided the appropriately randomized integer and it turns out that Bart Jarmusch won Star Trek: The Original Series 365. In a pleasing coincidence, Bart chose “Arena” as his favorite episode of the original series, which is actually the first episode I remember seeing, for slightly unpleasant reasons; I had a fish bone stuck in my throat and I was sipping vinegar to make it bendy so it’d go one way or another and “Arena” was on so I distracted myself from the whole affair by watching Kirk make a fuck-off death cannon out of stone knives and bearskins.
Yes, this is what happens when you’re raised in the south.
ANYWAY, Congratulations to Bart! We’ll see if I can get back on track with these giveaways sometime soon, ok? In the meantime, you can always buy the book on Amazon.
The gang at Abrams figured I was an easy mark for some positive coverage of this book and sent me a copy of Star Trek: The Original Series 365, a nicely-designed look at the original series that covers each episode of the original Star Trek series while including behind-the-scenes information and a well-curated selection of photographs and stills, many of which I’d never seen before. It’s not nearly as gossipy as Inside Star Trek or as nitpicky as the many, many fan-written guides out there and is a better book for its choices. Block and Erdmann’s book is perfect for the casual fan that just wants a nice guide for the series and meaty enough for guys (read: losers) like me.
In order to help spread the good word, Abrams sent me a spare copy to give away. Want to get a chance to win it? From now until 11:59PM ET on Sunday, August 29, just leave a comment with your favorite episode that is not “City On The Edge Of Forever” or “The Trouble With Tribbles.” If you want, tell us why. I’ll use Random.org to pick a winner. Please note that you must use a valid email address when entering or I won’t be able to inform you of your winningness and because of the book’s weight, I won’t be shipping it outside of the United States.
Derek from Ottawa won the last contest, walking away with some Blade comics and the pride of knowing he’s the last winner of my quasi-weekly contests…for now. What was originally meant to have gone on for a year has been truncated by the fact that I need to get rid of stuff much, much more quickly than the weekly drip allows. Thank you to everyone who participated and I’m pretty sure I’ll come up with something similar in the near future.
Let’s give it up for Jordan Shiveley, who won last week’s contest! Jordan picked the Coatimundi, which is, let’s face it, a pretty darn cute mammal.
This week, I’m giving away something slightly stupid and gorgeous! Marc Guggenheim’s run on Blade with Howard Chaykin is big, over-the-top, and a close-to-perfect example of comics about a half-vampire that kills other vampires with swords and guns and whatever else he’s got handy. I’ve got the two trades collecting the entirety of the Guggenheim/Chaykin run: Undead Again and Sins of the Father and you can win them by naming your favorite vampire that is not Dracula in the comments to this post!
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, May 1, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest a few weeks ago who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are without actually answering the very basic question provided) will be deleted.
Terms And Conditions:? Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Of course we have three times as many entries for a blasted Avengers book than we do for the one where I give away my comic book babies to you people. Of course we do. I’m not bitter; I accept that more people are going to be interested in what’s up with Wonder Man than anything I might create with my own blood, sweat, and tears. Really.
All joking aside, last week’s winner was…Zak, who suggested that Captain America, Falcon, Black Panther, Songbird, Hawkeye and Scarlet Witch would make a good lineup for Earth’s Mightest Heroes.
This week, we’ve got a new-ish graphic novel published by Fantagraphics, The Squirrel Machine by Hans Reikheit. It’s one of those books I think works best if you know nothing about its contents, but I’d describe it as rural-horror-meets-Arthur-Miller through a distinctly European sensibility. It’s beautifully drawn, disturbing and sad and you can read more on the Fantagraphics site.
How do you win this? Leave a comment with, and I’m going to be exceedingly random here, your favorite mammal that’s not a primate or conventional pet. (In other words, it could be a squirrel or blue whale but not Chris Sims.)
ANYWAY. Leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, April 24, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest a few weeks ago who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are without actually answering the very basic question provided) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Hey, everyone, let’s give a polite round of applause for Hooper Triplett who either has the best name in the world or is just another guy on the internet trying to hide his identity so his boss doesn’t see that he really loves comic books! He won last week’s contest and will be getting scribbled-in Agreeable Comics pretty soon! If you were hedging your bets on getting freebies and lost out, visit Agreeablecomics.com/shop and give us money for goods.
After last week’s grab at attention, let’s give away another Marvel book, this time the very-much-enjoyed-by-die-hard-Avengers-fans Avengers Forever. It’s a big cross-dimensional, timeline-hopping paean to what makes the Avengers so special to people like writer Kurt Busiek. I think it’s a hoot, even if I can only take it in two-or-three issue doses and Carlos Pacheco’s work is just gorgeous.
How do you win this? Oh, let’s make it an Avengers-themed thing. Tell us what six people you’d have in “your” Avengers line up. Note that at least one of the original six – Iron Man, Hulk, Wasp, Ant-Man, Thor, and Captain America (yes I know he didn’t join until #4 shut up) – must be a part of your group. Winners are, as always, chosen by random selection.
ANYWAY. Leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, April 17, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest a couple of weeks ago who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
OK, yeah, I’m blatantly self-promoting, but seriously, I work with some amazing artists and I’m debuting some new books at the Boston Comic-Con this weekend and c’mon, how much longer am I supposed to gut my closet without expecting a little something-something back from you guys, huh?
(By the way, last week’s winner was…wow, Random.org spat out #1, Tim Callahan! Tim blogs and reviews just about everywhere, but I’m pretty sure that link there will show you around pretty well.)
OK, back to the something-something. You guys are going to have to work this time around. As you can see by the fairly-large graphic above, I’m giving away the first three Agreeable Comics print productions and, if I can find a copy of Agreeable Comics #0 around here somewhere, I’ll throw that in, too. I’ll scribble my name in the books and as both Ming Doyle and TJ Kirsch are planning to share the Agreeable Comics table with me at the aforementioned con, I’ll get them to do the same. (Sadly, Benjamin Birdie has “commitments” and will be missing the show, but I’ll write something especially hateful towards you in his absence.)
How do you get them? I’m going to need links from you people. You need to link to your favorite Agreeable Comic on your blog, in your Facebook profile , on Twitter, or even, god forbid, your MySpace page. Please note that blogroll links do not qualify. Nobody pays attention to them except for drunks and the mentally addled. Leave a comment with the URL for your link to qualify and that’s it. (As an aside: look, people. I know it’s not me giving away some old Marvel comics with junk you liked when you were nine, but these are really snazzy-looking books and I want to make sure everyone sees how great my collaborators are.)
ANYWAY. Leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, April 10, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest a couple of weeks ago who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
OK, we’re back on track with another giveaway, but let’s get the usual thing out of the way first and offer our congratulations to “hardtravelinghero,” who should really talk to his parents about their naming convention. They could have named him Oliver or Hal and not forced him to spend an hour arguing every time he showed his ID, and– oh, that’s a pseudonym. People still do that on the internet? Wow. I thought To Catch A Predator convinced everyone it was a bad idea.
Anyway, this week’s a three-fer to make up for last week’s lack of a giveaway. You can get your hands on two vintage reprints and a more modern collection of older stories, all from the house than Stan, Jack, and Steve built! Hercules: Prince Of Power collects the two Bob Layton miniseries; Fantastic Four Versus The X-Men does what it says on the tin with typical Claremontian dialogue covering up Jon Bogdanove’s pencils and The Dragon Seed Saga is an ambitiously named, if pretty pedestrian Iron-Man-Goes-To-Stereotypical-China story written by John Byrne with art by Paul Ryan and M.D. Bright.
How do you win these three paperbacks? Just leave a a comment with your favorite Marvel comics from the 80s or 90s that aren’t collected yet. For me, it’d be the Roger Stern/John Buscema Avengers run whose highlight was put into trade as Under Siege but the rest has been sadly left out of the reprint game (excluding the first part of the return of Jean Grey.)
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, April 3, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from the Harley Quinn contest who just babbled about how great the Dodsons are) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
We’re taking this week off, but next week will see the winner of the Harley Quinn hardcover announced and a heck of a prize package will be up for grabs; the biggest since our epic Spider-Man giveaway that kicked this whole thing off!
As usual, let’s get the blah blah blah involving last week’s contest out of the way and give a big round of applause for Troy Wilson. Troy, the cheeky fuck, just mentioned a guest appearance and not an actual Daredevil story, but what the hell, let’s let him have it because The Death Of Jean DeWolffe does have a pretty great moment featuring by ol’ hornhead Congratulations, Troy!
This week, we’ve got a hardcover collection of the first eight or so issues of Harley Quinn, a comic I enjoyed more than I should have but really don’t need to keep around the house. Preludes and Knock Knock Jokes features the Joker’s better (?!?) half on her own, getting a crew together, and committing crimes. The art by the Dodsons really is the highlight of the thing, but Karl Kesel’s scripting helped the title stood out in an era of not-very-good Bat-family stories.
How do you win a copy of it? Leave a comment with, I don’t know, your favorite Harley Quinn moment in comics or on the Batman Animated Series. Does that sound good? Yeah, let’s go with that. This has to be something that has happened, not your masturbatory fantasies involving Veronica Mars or whatever her name is in clown makeup.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 20, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants do, in fact qualify, because I’m such a nice fellow like that. Comments that don’t qualify (such as the person from last week who just said “I like Daredevil” without answering the question) will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
But first, let’s get to last week’s winner. The random number generator at Random.org has spoken and Mike Laughlin won Palestine: The Special Edition! Congratulations, Mike, and thanks for everyone’s thoughtful responses. I know it wasn’t as random or as goofy as previous contests, but the participation was impressive, to say the least.
This week, we’ve got a collection of stories from Ann Nocenti’s run on Daredevil, all of which feature art by John Romita, Jr. Here’s the official solicitation for Lone Stranger:
The Man Without Fear becomes the Man Without Hope as Manhattan falls beneath the fangs and claws of Inferno! Losing everything in more than one kind of fire, DD leaves Hell’s Kitchen to walk to and fro upon the Earth – but no matter where he goes, Mephisto’s waiting for him! Inhumane experimentation and Inhuman secrets abound! Guest-starring Spider-Man and Freedom Force! Collects Daredevil (1964) #265-273.
To qualify, just mention your favorite non-Miller/Bendis/Brubaker Daredevil comics story and say why, if you want to. Mine, for instance, is the Chichester-written arc Last Rites that was later dubbed The Fall Of The Kingpin for the trade. Matt Murdock takes on The Kingpin in a reversal of Born Again and systematically destroys his criminal empire with the help of Nick Fury and some other friends.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 13, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org’s random number generator. Previous entrants qualify, because I’m nice like that. Comments that don’t qualify will be deleted.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Who won Elephantmen: Wounded Animals? Sean Witzke did, and I’m eager to find out what he thinks! Congratulations, felicitations, etc, etc, etc to him.
This week, I’ve got a copy of the hardcover special edition of Joe Sacco’s acclaimed Palestine to offer up. Probably the best known piece of comics journalism, Palestine discusses the other side of the Israel situation with a frankness that’s refreshing. You can win your own copy by leaving a comment and telling everyone what underreported story you think would make a good comic. Heck, you can make up something if you want! One caveat: blatant moonbat or wingnut jerking-off will get you tossed in the penalty box and your entry will be deleted. Try to be civil, libtards and morans.
Just leave said comment before 12:01 AM on Saturday, March 6, 2010 to qualify and the winner will be chosen using Random.org. Previous entrants qualify, because I’m nice like that.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
Last week’s prize of the first three volumes of The Immortal Iron Fist was won by Scwonkey Dog creator Jonathan Switzer, so let’s all give him a polite round of applause even if we feel we should have won in our hearts. Thanks for entering, everyone, but there’s only one winner (unless some publisher/company wants to shell out for multiple prizes. Hint!)
This week, I’ve got a copy of the first Elephantmen trade paperback to give away, Wounded Animals. Elephantmen is a surprisingly nuanced, frequently thought-provoking look at genetic manipulation in the future. The reviews that compare it to Blade Runner are not far off and it’s one of my favorite recent comics discoveries. (I got a copy of the hardcover from creator Richard Starkings at San Diego, hence having a spare lying around.)
TO ENTER: comment with what animal you’d least like to wake up in the body of. Enter before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 27 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
The winner of last week’s copy of Dante’s Inferno for the XBox 360 was Morgan Johnson of PoorMojo.com! Congratulations, Morgan! When I get my copy from EA, I’ll zip it over to you tout suite.
This week, we’re back to comics but not leaving brutal violence and exotic locations behind! I’ve got volumes 1-3 of Matt Fraction and Ed Brubaker’s acclaimed The Immortal Iron Fist. To get a chance to win hardcover editions of The Last Iron Fist Story, The Seven Capital Cities Of Heaven and The Book Of The Iron Fist, all you have to do is name your favorite martial arts film in the comments. As always, I’ll use Random.org’s number generator to pick a winner and they’ll be able to curl up and enjoy some pulp-influenced Mighty Marvel Martial Artistry!
Enter before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 20 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and will probably mock you in public.
So, last week’s winner of Portable Grindhouse was BW Costello of PrettyFakes.com and I emailed them but haven’t heard back but you should all give them a big round of applause even if they are slacking on giving me their address so I can mail them this thing hint hint hint. Glad to see it going to a fellow VHS veteran!
This week, we have a sponsored prize from EA Games. You can win a copy of the brand-new (and apparently very controversial) Dante’s Inferno game for the XBox 360 gaming platform! While I personally wasn’t very crazy about the demo, Dante’s Inferno is hotly anticipated by a portion of the gaming populace that doesn’t get enough nudity and violence in other forms of entertainment, and you might be one of them! (I don’t know. Maybe your mom monitors your Netflix queue. Time to cut the cord!)
Enter by commenting and telling everyone what circle of hell you’d probably find yourself in (and why, if you want to divulge anything) before before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 13 to qualify for the draw. The winner is determined using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat. Also, you’re going to have to be over 18 years old for this prize, as it’s got a M rating.
Last week’s winner of the second Starman Omnibus was Jenny M, even though I disagree with her most vigorously concerning Terminator 2‘s status as a superior movie, as it’s bloated, has an entire middle act that could be cut out without any significant damage to the film’s plot, and makes me suffer through Edward Furlong’s attempts at acting. Still, random is random and fair is fair, so here we are, and I’ve got another book to offer up to you, the eager masses.
Portable Grindhouse: The Lost Art Of The VHS Box is a dose of heavy design nostalgia for those of us who haunted (or worked in) video stores in the 80s and 90s. So many gloriously awful titles are given their due here by Jacques Boyreau, who states “On par with the jukebox, disco, and neon, VHS reformatted the world’s product-intake and boosted a libertarian aesthetic that conquered TV in the same way TV conquered comic books in the 1950s, and allowed us to hold movies in our hands. Posters in the lobby could advertise, even fetishize a movie; credit sequences could identify the participants, but somehow, VHS box-art ‘became’ the iconic equivalent of the movie.”
You can win a copy by talking about your favorite VHS title from “the day,” the one that you saw and enjoyed and probably shouldn’t have. You know what I mean. The sort of thing that Andy Sidaris directed. Leave a comment before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, February 6 to qualify for the draw, which is performed using the Random.org number generator.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
Why am I giving away a Starman omnibus? Because I actually wasn’t that crazy about it, even though I liked the first volume pretty OK and I’m fine with not owning a book I didn’t enjoy very much. Why only the second volume? Because whatshername sold the first on Amazon a couple of months ago. So, here we are. Maybe you’ve got the first one already but didn’t buy the second one. Maybe you wanted to get it for a friend. Maybe you just like buying the second volumes of things and wanted to shelve it with Ripley Under Ground and The Two Towers. Anyway, leave a comment that details your favorite second volume of whatever (maybe you like New Coke better than Coke Classic, for instance,) before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, January 30 to qualify for the draw, which is performed using the Random.org number generator.
Before you do that, however, give big ups to Charles Schneeflock Snow, a local cartoonist who won Robert Crumb’s adaptation of the Bible’s book of Genesis.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
The winner of last week’s huge swath of Spider-Man books was Jonathan Miller, who picked Electro as his favorite Spider-Man villain. Electro’s pretty rad — and electric — and so is Jonathan, so I’m glad to send these off to him. (Tomorrow. Once this weather goes away.) Give him your congratulations in the comments while you’re entering for your chance to win Robert Crumb’s take on the Bible’s first (and some say best, really) book: Genesis! Here’s a picture of the cover and a video of someone flipping through it!
How do you win this acclaimed hardcover graphic presentation of some of the craziest shit man’s ever put to paper? Just leave a comment with your favorite character from the Bible who is not Jesus or his pops and a brief explanation of why before 12:01 AM EST on Saturday, January 23. That’s it! The staff here at Kevin Church Towers will use Random.org again to pick the winner.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America and Canada. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat.
First of all, we should get the winner of last week’s giveaway, Jacques Tardi’s West Coast Blues out of the way. Of the forty-seven comments I got on that post, the winner (according to Random.org) is Isaac from Satisfactory Comics! For once, I’m going to leave the Agreeable Comics/Satisfactory Comics rap feud behind me and offer Isaac a healthy congratulations!
Now, for this week’s giveaway, we’ve got a doozy. Many comic readers began to wail and gnash upon hearing about Joe Quesada’s idea for Spider-Man: get rid of the marriage and return Peter Parker to the status quo that the general public understands him to have and while One More Day’s execution left an awful lot to to be desired, I’ve actually very much enjoyed the Spider-Man comics that have been written in its week: brief storylines of one to six issues (and since it’s published three-times-a-month, that’s two months at most for readers to get an entire story) with attendant b-stories and background arcs that weave in and out of the main arcs remarkably well for something that’s the product of a large writing team. There’s a few clunkers, honestly, (I wasn’t crazy about American Son for instance,) but overall, it’s been a really decent run that’s made me realize how much I like Peter Parker all over again. The problem with having a dozen recent hardcover Spider-Man collections is that I’m not very likely to re-read a dozen recent hardcover Spider-Man collections anytime soon and I need to reclaim the shelf space for my bound volumes of Rescue Rangers fan fiction. That’s why I’m giving away the twelve Premiere Hardcovers issued so far for the post-Brand New Day Spider-Man. Here’s what they look like:
Now, how do you win these books? Just leave a comment with the name of your favorite Spider-Man villain from the comics before 12:01AM EST on Saturday, January 16 2010. (I know, someone’s just itching to write in “Joe Quesada” and ha-ha, we get it, but that person will be disqualified and their entry sent into the darkest pits of internet hell. In other words, they’ll show up on Perez Hilton’s site.) As before, I’ll randomly pick a winner using the Random.org number generator again and that’s it.
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Please note that because of shipping costs, this contest is for residents of the United States of America only. You must leave your email address with your comment to qualify, as I’m not going to spend any time hunting down someone who didn’t want to be contacted about their amazing prize. One comment per person and yes, I will know if you cheat and yes, I know they might undo the whole Peter-and-MJ-not-being-married shebang soon.
