Happy One:12 Collective Day!!!

We are big Mezco Toyz fans here and One:12 Collective line is a big part of it.  So, it is great to celebrate it every year on January 12th (1/12...get it?).  The team at Mezco is going all out with a contest for fans!  12 lucky fans will get to win an impossible to find Gomez figure!  It's a beauty, you really need this guy in your collection.

The details are below, and you can enter right now!*  

This January 12th marks our second One:12 Collective Day! So celebrate with us on 1/12/20 for a chance to win some awesome prizes.

12 lucky winners will be chosen at random to win a hard-to-find One:12 Collective Gomez figure.

(IGH Editor's Note: No clue if it will be this Gomez or a different one.  I just love this picture so much!)

In case you don’t already know the drill, here's how to enter:

1. Take a picture of your favorite One:12 Collective figure.

2. Use the hashtag #One12Day and tag us @mezcotoyz on your posts.

3. Share your post on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook to be entered to win. You can enter as many times as you’d like!

Winners will be announced 1/21/20.*

Get posing, get posting!

*Contest is being run by Mezco Toyz.  IGH has no affiliation with this contest.  We just want you guys to have a chance to win.  Good luck!


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Con In A Bag! SDCC Edition!

I totally rock MS Paint.

Win our Con in a Bag!!! That's right, I slogged through the San Diego Comic Con floor just to get the best of the best freebies and give it away to our readers!  Four lucky readers will get bags stuffed full of anything that they might possibly get at SDCC. This includes comics, books, buttons, t-shirts, random autographs (Tom Morello anyone?) and tons of random pieces of paper.

Each bag is sponsored by an awesome company, with stuff that you can only find on eBay:

Review: Conan #1 plus a chance to Win!

Courtesy of Dark Horse Comics

Remember way back in October, when I got a chance to interview Brian Wood and Becky Cloonan about the Conan series?  Well, issue #1 is out this week, and it rocked my world!  This first issue follows Conan as he jumps on board of a ship while he is running from the law and falls in the path of Belit, the Queen of the Black Coast.

Never reading Conan before, this was an interesting intro in his world. The story provides only a little background, but you are engrossed from the start. Right away, Conan's charisma makes you root for him.  This character shows honor that a hero should have, especially when he helps the ship captain defend himself.  Still, we see Conan's flaws when he puts others in danger to save himself.  This looks like it will be an interesting source of character development in the future. 

Dark Horse Comics Wants to Kill You!

I'm really not kidding about that.  With the premiere of The Strain comic coming up, they are giving one fan the chance to get killed by a vampire in an upcoming issue.  How do you get the chance to get killed?  By writing the best survival plan of course!

A face only a mother can love....

I am actually a huge fan of The Strain Trilogy.  This series is flat out terrifying in how it begins, especially since it takes place in New York City.  At one point, I was reading a part of the story that took place in Penn Station and sitting in Penn Station.  It just made my imagination go into insane overdrive, and I began looking for vampires around every corner.  Despite my own crazy, it was a fantastic, engrossing set of books.  To be honest, after reading these books, I am not sure what a good survival plan would be!  This is such a dangerous world that Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan created.  


So now do you have a death wish?  Here are the official rules:

1. Post a comment of at least 200 words on the Dark Horse Blog by 11:59p.m. PT on Sunday Dec. 4th, 2011 and describe how you plan to survive the coming plague.

2. Come back next week as we post the top 5 Survival Tales, once per day through Dec. 9th. 

3. Starting Dec. 9th. come back to the blog and vote for the best Survival Plan through Dec. 13th. 

They will announce the winner the same day The Strain #1 hits stores, December 14th!

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Our Con In A Bag Winners!

We searched far and wide through the interwebs to randomly pick our three winners of an aching shoulder!
  

Congrats Lucas, Marsha, and Tony!  

You just won an aching shoulder, back and feet and of course, lots of cool stuff!!!!  I hope that you all enjoy the wonders that these bags hold.  


Just a quick thank you again to all of our awesome sponsors!  Please check out these sites because they hold a lot of amazing things, especially with the holidays coming up!

Hellvis

I Am A Stuffed Animal

MEGA BLOKS

Red Bubble

The Misadventures of Electrolyte and the Justice Purveyors

If you sadly didn't win, please don't despair.  We are constantly working to get more exciting and fun things to give away, so stay tuned!

  

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Sunday Links for November 6

It's November! Just another reminder to check your clocks for the right time.... But for me, November is the start of the holiday shopping season. My friends hate me but I do get all of the best deals! Other than my shopping addiction, here are some of the week's highlights:

In case you were having trouble with your holiday shopping, Diamond Comics has got you covered with Angry Birds Books.....Yeah, I said that.
(via Robot 6)

My childhood me got exciting news this week with the announcement of a Carmen Sandiego movie. Both Wysefyre and I are huge fans, so it's been a giddy week. This also serves as a warning to JLo that she cannot mess this up!
(via The Mary Sue)

Marvel joins the rest of the comics world with going same day and date digital. Feels like another nail in the local comic shop coffin but makes sense for Marvel.
(via iFanboy)

The White House came out and officially denied any contact with extraterrestrials. I totally believe them. I mean, any government agency that might deal with aliens is probably removed from White House completely for plausible deniability.
(via i09)

Finally, make sure that you enter our Con In A Bag contest! You could win bags full of geeky goodness!

Until next week.....

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Win an Aching Shoulder from NYCC!

That's right, we have a chance for three of you to win your very own aching shoulder, back and feet! Now, I know you are thinking, "How do you pack all that pain up and ship it to me?" That's a great question!

This is our second annual Con in a Bag giveaway! Since we spent so much time at NYCC, we saved some of the best giveaways for our readers and bagged them up. Three lucky readers will get bags stuffed full of anything that they might possibly get at NYCC. This includes comics, books, buttons, t-shirts and tons of random pieces of paper.

Each one of these is a New York Comic Con Exclusive Item!

Since this was our second year, we had to up the ante. Each bag will have a NYCC show exclusive that you can't get anywhere else! Plus, each bag has an autographed comic! Oooooh fancy!

I actually bruised my shoulder carrying all of this.  That's the mark of a good convention.

Each of our three winners will get two stuffed bags that they can throw on their shoulder, walk around and get the authentic con aching shoulder, back and feet.

We would like to thank some of the companies that made your physical pain possible by providing awesome stuff:

Hellvis

I Am A Stuffed Animal

MEGA BLOKS

Red Bubble

The Misadventures of Electrolyte and the Justice Purveyors

Just go to our Facebook Contest page to enter but hurry! The contest ends on November 11th! 

Your email address is only used to contact the winner.  We don't send you anything else and we don't sell it.  US residents only since it is really heavy.  We do not guarantee that you will actually get shoulder pain and we are also not responsible if you do get any pain or injury from these bags.  Contest ends November 11th.

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Holy Crap, it's our 1 Year Anniversary!

Wow, the past year has gone so fast. It's hard to believe that a year ago, we were sitting in Getsuyobi's living room writing our first post. Now, we have reached geeks on 6 continents (We still need Antarctica! Damn penguins!) and in 109 countries!


Looking back, it is amazing to see everything that has happened in the past year. I don't think that Wysefyre and I had any idea what we were getting into when we started IGH.  Really, I mean that.  Despite the craziness, I am so happy that we jumped in feet first.  IGH has been a fantastic ride with cool prizes.  This blog has brought more to me than I ever thought possible. Because of this, I have made friends in all corners of world, done things I never would have dreamed of, and got to share it with all of you.


Thank you all for taking part of this crazy journey that we are on. I hope that you have had as much fun as we have, and that you will stick with us. Make sure that you tell us what you want to see. We love to try new things, share our experiences and always hearing from fans.


Going forward, we have a lot in the works, especially about New York Comic Con. We hope that you will join us, which is why one lucky fan will win a 3-day pass for NYCC (thanks to those awesome peeps at NYCC)!  NYCC is the East Coast home for everything geeky and fun!  This year they will be featuring the minds behind the DC 52!  This fan will also get a chance to meet us (if they want, we aren't picky). Check out our facebook page for the entry form. 


Sorry but Travel and Lodging are not included.  Just the 3-day ticket.  US residents only so it gets to them on time.  Contest ends September 20th.




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Are You Ready for an Autograph Bonanza?

If you have been following [insertgeekhere] lately, you may have noticed that we have gone to a lot of events lately. Combine that with my secret stash, and do you know what I have? A BONANZA!


Not just any bonanza, but an autograph bonanza! And I'm not just calling it that because I like the word bonanza. We have a crazy amount of autographed items to give away!


We have in stock:

Supernatural: Origins #6 signed by artist Matthew Dow Smith

American Vampire #12 signed by writer and creator Scott Snyder

Comic Book Comics: All Lawsuit Issue #5 signed by writer Fred Van Lente and artist Ryan Dunlavey

The Fall signed by writers Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan


And for good measure, a sealed death bag of Fantastic Four #587, which has a chance of being signed by Jonathan Hickman.


Excited yet?!


To win, you gotta follow us at @ighinsider and tweet this or post it on our Facebook page. Do both for double entries!

"Come on down to [insertgeekhere]'s Autograph Bonanza!" 

Contest ends March 26th at midnight EST and is open to US and Canada only.