The Pint Invades Brass City Comic Con 2018

April 29, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  In this edition of “The Pint Invades” we had the pleasure of attending Brass City Comic Con on April 22nd, now on it’s 8th year, it once again took place on the campus of Naugatuck Valley Community Collage, it was a fun little show, with plenty of time to look through the good ol’ Read More

GAMING POINT OF LOU – MAY 2018 NEW VIDEO GAMES

April 27, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  Ahhhh the summer doldrums, where the anticipation for E3 builds, and the new game releases slow to a crawl. After an April with one notable release (God Of War) May rolls in with a somewhat larger list of offerings, albeit many of them are remasters. Towards the end of the month though, we get Read More

! UPDATE ! THE EDGE OFF ****A Kickstarter Comic Preview by Manster****

April 18, 2018 Author: Lloyd Green

  *UPDATE*   I’ll put the update right up front here…The Edge Off was fully funded within 4 hours of going live.  There are some great offerings including variant covers by Garry Brown and Frank Quitely as well as commissions and original pages of art from Iain Laurie.  The commission offerings were sold out almost immediately Read More

Tags: Art, Campbell, Comics, Laurie, Scotland

GAMING POINT OF LOU – FAMILY STYLE DINING FUN

April 15, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  I have little idea where the intersection point of the Venn diagram that is “Takeout” came from. Perhaps the designers were sitting in their living room with friends and dozens of takeout containers of their favorite Asian style food strewn about the coffee table, watching the latest episode of Orange is the New Black Read More

GAMING POINT OF LOU – THE CT GAMER CON WRAP UP

April 12, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  I grew up a gamer, I got my original NES back in 1986 and never looked back. Video games have always been in my life and I love them dearly, but there was a time when the idea of a “Gamer Con” was a pipe dream. Many of the younger readers may not know Read More

G.I. Gary’s Toy Tales: Raise The Khetanna!

April 11, 2018 Author: Gary Viola

As of midnight, April 4, 2018, Haslab’s first project, Jabba’s Sail Barge, a.k.a. the Khetanna, had succeeded reaching 8,810 orders of 5,000 needed to begin production.  This is Hasbro’s first foray into the crowdsourcing environment, and being that the IP represented was Star Wars, the most well known project of this type so far. At Read More

Tags: Jabba, Khetanna, Sail Barge, Star Wars, the Hutt, The Last Jedi

GAMING POINT OF LOU – AN ENTERTAINING HYBRID

March 29, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  Welcome back everyone, I had a bit of a hiatus due to personal reasons, but I’m back with a vengeance and ready to tear into my latest game review. Designed by Michael and Lisa Eskue, and published by Red Rook Games, (www.redrookgames.blogspot.com) “Trash Pandas” is a clever hybrid of dice rolling, card hoarding, and Read More

Mansters’ Journey Into the World of Comics (Part 2)

March 17, 2018 Author: Lloyd Green

  I admit it – I tend to procrastinate.  I’ll set out to do something important and then think of something much less important that needs doing and what happens ? I’ll spend ridiculous amounts of time on that less important thing until – you guessed it – something even more insignificant pops into my Read More

An Arguing With Myself Review: Coco

March 14, 2018 Author: Chris Frodel

Despite his family’s generations-old ban on music, Miguel Rivera dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector, and together, they set off on an extraordinary Read More

Tags: Coco, Disney, Family, Pixar

GAMING POINT OF LOU – THE DIVISION 1.8

March 1, 2018 Author: Lou Federico

  This article isn’t about Destiny 2, there has been enough hate thrown at that game to fill the Library of Congress. But, the complete lack of endgame grind has left many, myself included, longing for something to fill the void. Many have moved on to Fortnite Battle Royale, others to Monster Hunter World (which Read More