Friday Six: Pacific Rim, Redshirts, 'Brick' Mug, and More

Friday Six: Pacific Rim, Build-On Brick Mug, Boba Fett Screentest, Redshirts, and More

by Daniel J. Hogan on July 5, 2013 at 12:01 am

[dc]T[/dc]oday on the Friday Six: Wedding invitations, Build-On Brick Mug, digital Image Comics, Redshirts, Pacific Rim, and an early Boba Fett screen test.

And seven is RIGHT OUT

[ ] Wedding invitations are in the mail! Which means my sanity will slowly regenerate (not that it was in much abundance at the start). I drew the invitations and complied all the elements in Photoshop. I’ll have a post, with pictures, soon. Related: Stephanie and I were engaged a year ago last month. Time flies!

[ ] ThinkGeek Geek Thing of the Week: This Build-On Brick Mug!

Yes, build some. Image via ThinkGeek.

Finally, a legitimate reason to have coffee stains on my LEGO. (…Which sounds painful). According to ThinkGeek, while this mug isn’t officially licensed by Big Brick, it is compatible with:

To paraphrase Logan’s Run: “Build, builders!” And bring me a coffee. Make it two. BONUS FRIES: ThinkGeek has a 4th of July Sale right now, until July 7th. Get 20% off $40 or more. That’s a lot of ~~LEGO~~ brick mugs.

[ ] Congrats to John Scalzi for his novel Redshirts winning the 2013 Locus Best Science Fiction Novel award. Redshirts was the first book I ever purchased on my Kindle (roughly a year ago) and it is a fun read—especially, as the title suggests, for Star Trek fans.

BONUS FRIES: You can download the first four chapters of Redshirts to your Kindle for free.

[ ] Image Comics opened up their own digital comics store, and the comics are DRM-free (always a plus). I don’t read too many digital comic books from the big publishers, and my experience so far hasn’t been the best (difficulty getting comic books to load, readability issues, and so on). I am not against digital comics by any means though, I just need to give them another chance.

Do you download any comic books?

[ ] Via BoingBoing, a screen test of the early stages of the
Boba Fett costume (one of my favorite Star Wars characters, after Metal Bikini).

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Boba Fett in white! He dares to wear white? Related: I’m still addicted to the Boba Fett pinball game I mentioned in last week’s Friday Six.

[ ] Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim opens next week (July 12th), and I am super-excited. /Film had the latest trailer, which focuses on the human cast, instead of the giant robots and monsters.

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