Graduation Time

It's an exciting time of the year for all graduates to move on to the next phase in their lives. I graduated from college 5 years ago, and it feels like it was yesterday.  The best part of graduating is the commencement speaker, most schools have former graduates come back to the campus and give a motivational speech about the lessons they learned outside of the school.  The possibilities for who this speaker could be are endless and sometimes they can be really freaking cool.  My favorite videos this year come from Wesleyan University where 1987 graduate Joss Whedon spoke and Georgetown where writer/actress Brit Marling talks about meeting her filmmaking partners Mike Cahill (Another Earth) and Zal Batmanglij (Sound of My Voice, The East).  Whedon and Marling deliver tremendous speeches and I can't recommend enough to check these out.





While you're here, you might as well check out my favorite college commencement speech of all time, Conan O'Brien speaking in front of the 2011 Dartmouth College graduating class.

Over 700 Marvel Titles For FREEEEEEEE!!!!!

If you are a regular reader of comics or haven’t started yet, Marvel has announced an initiative to get new readers on board and it’s probably the greatest comic promotion of all time.  Free Comic Book Day has nothing on this. 

On the Marvel Comics App for your smartphone, they have over 700 #1 issues of darn near every digital comic Marvel has available.  It’s an astonishing selection and a great opportunity to either add a digital version of these comics to your collection or start reading some of the titles you’ve wanted to read.

They have some new releases from the Marvel Now era like All New X-Men #1, Deadpool #1, Superior Spider-Man #1, and Uncanny Avengers #1. They have classic titles that started it all like Avengers #1, Captain America Comics #1, Fantastic Four #1, and Amazing Fantasy #15 (first appearance of Spider-Man).  Plus a tremendous amount of Ultimate Comics and Annuals.  Like Joss Whedon? They even have the Astonishing X-Men #1 book that started Anthony and my recent love of comics plus his epic Giant-Size Astonishing X-Men Part 1 and 2 that concluded his run on the Astonishing X-Men series.  Wolverine: Old Man Logan Giant-Size?  Yep. Kevin Smith’s Daredevil #1? Totally. Over 40 books by Brian Michael Bendis?  Abso-freaking-lutely.

This promotion is running for free until Tuesday at midnight, so don’t delay.  Just be aware that due to server issues, purchases will work but it may take a while to download some of these books.

Much Ado About Nothing Trailer

Here’s the trailer for the new Joss Whedon movie “Much Ado About Nothing.”  Anthony is currently planning the rest of his life around this movie.