My Geek Wedding
0As you may have noticed, posting has been really light around here for the past couple of months as I have been in the final stages of planning my wedding.
We officially became Mr. and Mrs. Lin Workman on October 29. While we had a traditional ceremony, we couldn’t resist throwing in geek touches, especially since we met thanks to a Star Wars message board and a bad Wampa joke.
Mr. & Mrs. Workman
Lin designed and sculpted our “wedding cake” topper. We opted for cupcakes instead of the traditional wedding cake, but the cupcakes were arranged in tiers similar to a cake. Our baker even provided us with a 6″ cake for the topper to rest on. Early in the wedding planning, Lin joked that we should have Batman and Batgirl as our cake topper. I don’t like the idea of Bruce and Barbara paired romantically, and as much as I love Barbara Gordon, my first and truest superhero love is Wonder Woman. I told Lin that the topper had to be Wonder Woman carrying Batman over the threshold. At first he thought I was joking, but he became really excited when he realized that I was serious.
Sculpted & Designed by Lin Workman; Photo by S Fogle Photography
The line art that Lin created for the cake topper was also used on our programs and our invitations. Lin has posted a series of pictures showing how a few strands of wire became our cake topper on his website.
Our Wedding Cake Topper - Designed & sculpted by Lin Workman
Lin really wanted me to walk down the aisle to a harp version of the Imperial March from The Empire Strikes Back, but I thought that wouldn’t fit with the traditional ceremony (and I didn’t want to be murdered at the altar by my mother). As a compromise, we played the Throne Room music from Star Wars immediately after we walked back down the aisle as Mr. and Mrs. Workman.
The grooms cake couldn’t have anything else but the Bat Symbol.
The Groom's Bat-Cake
Hunger Games Trailer
0Dear Hunger Games movie,
Everything I’ve seen so far looks promising. Please don’t suck.
Love,
Me
DC Comics Nielsen Survey
0News hit the internet this morning that DC Comics has contracted Nielsen NRG to conduct a survey among readers and retailers on The New 52.
Click here to take the survey. This is your chance to tell DC Comics what you think. It’s also a chance to show DC just how many female comics fans are reading their product.
Help get the word out. The survey closes Friday, October 7.
(Via Bleeding Cool)
Marketing Fail, DC
0I’ve already had a mini-rant on this issue on Twitter today, but I’m still fired up.
Brigid Alverson at Robot 6 wrote that Justice League #1 was available online illegally almost an hour before the print edition went on sale on the east coast. However, you cannot purchase a digital copy of the same comic until 2pm EST today.
Imagine my surprise when I received the following email at 3:01 AM CST this morning from DC Comics:
A little Marketing 101, DC. You do NOT send an email with a clear call to action such as “Buy Now” if your customers cannot buy it immediately!
The digital version of Justice League #1 should have been available at midnight. If you wanted to give the midnight launch to the brick-and-mortar retailers, then I’m ok with that, but the digital copy should have been available this morning. DC has spent considerable time and money to build awareness of the The New 52 outside the comics community. They are squandering those efforts by delaying the digital release. Is a non-comics person more likely to walk into a comic shop to pick up Justice League #1 or purchase it through their iPad this morning before they head to work?
As Brigid said so succintly,
If you’re going to do digital, dammit, do it right.
DC tired of turning the other cheek?
05 months ago
DC’s official blog posted a letter this morning from John Rood, VP of Marketing, as a precursor to the New 52 launch this week. In it, he takes a rare shot at Marvel:
Many in the industry are under the wrong impression that we want to “win the month” at all costs with sales of DC Comics – The New 52. Sure, we’d love to get our books into more hands than ever before, profitably. But it’s most important that any industry growth comes in an additive manner, so that all publishers may succeed. To be clear – DC is not a market-share-chaser. If we were, we would not be creating a quality lasting direction across a controlled number of titles. We would instead be flooding the market with over 200 titles a month, changing your prices with abandon, killing off a character every quarter or so, and/or randomly announcing decimal-pointed event-ish thingies. We haven’t.
Ouch.
