Mocha On the Shelf 2015

Look! It's Mocha Claus!

Our little pal, Mocha, really gets into the holiday spirit. You could say he becomes quite the helpful little elf ... on the shelf. Well, excepting the fact that he's a Gund monkey and not an actual elf.

For some cute holiday cheer, you can follow his adventures on Twitter or Tumblr (all photos are also posted to his Facebook page).

#NerdyThanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving, nerds!

A little while ago, @Crazy4ComicCon posted this question:

We decided to play along. Here is @Dangrdafne's Twitter reply:

And here is @Brainwise's reply:

How would you answer @Crazy4ComicCon? What Nerdy things are you grateful for? Tweet them at @Crazy4ComicCon, or reply to this post. (If you tweet 'em, make sure you tag it with #NerdyThanksgiving).

SDCC Pre-Registration!

I know we haven't posted in a while, but I thought it would be interesting to note a little something: In a little while, our group will attempt a team effort to purchase SDCC 2016 tickets. Our group consists of 13 women and 1 man.

Who says women don't like Comic Con?

#PreReg

Justice League: Gods & Monsters -- A Review

Finally, our long-awaited review of Justice League: Gods and Monsters, the 2015 direct-to-video animated superhero film ... also known as the reason we returned to SDCC 2015. You know, because the film was having its world premiere there!

Now, we already posted a pre-review on July 11. This is the "more complete review" that was promised. And we deliver on our promises ... no matter how long it takes us to do so. If you want to get our take on the flick, it starts just after the break. Oh, and there will be spoilers.

Black Widow cosplay

So for this year's San Diego Comic Con, we originally had decided we were not going to cosplay. As SDCC drew closer I realized that I really wanted to do something. So I recalled a scene or two with Black Widow where she had clothing just like I had in my closet. So I decided to research Black Widow in the movies and see what I could find. The pictures below show you what I found. Please note I did not buy anything at all to make these outfits. Well except the arrow necklace that I decided I wanted to purchase as special piece for the outfits - I actually had an arrow pin that I could have mocked up but I decided to splurge a little. Everything else is my own and from my closet.

You can’t see it in her photo but she does have purple shoelaces in her shoes.

Who has purple shoelaces laying around??

It appears that I may actually be Black Widow in my secret life.

Fan Mail

No, we don't have any fan mail. This Fan Mail is a new box subscription service that I joined during SDCC this year. It is geared towards the woman nerd/geek/fan and run by two amazing women, Rose and Jenny. You can learn all about them and their box here.

I received my first box during SDCC and I just recently received my second box from them in August. Brainwise and I already subscribe to LootCrate and we love them but I keep asking them to do a Female Superhero box but nothing yet. Then Fan Mail came along and not only is it geared to female characters, it is geared to females overall (jewelry, clothing items for females, etc). I couldn't pass it up.

So without further ado, here are the contents of the two boxes I have received from Fan Mail after the break.

The July 2015 Comic Block is Here!

About two weeks ago, we mentioned that we had added another subscription box to our list. We have a three-month subscription to @NerdBlock's Comic Block. Each Comic Block is supposed to come with three cool comics and some other cool stuff. Well, our first box -- the July 2015 Comic Block -- arrived on Friday, so it's time to start talking about it.

Why? Because we opened it!

Let's see what's what in here, shall we?