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Happy New Year’s Day 2017!

Breakfast at Morins
Photo-A-Day #4282

A new year and a new start. I made sure that my first day of the new year started with the family so I took last night off. We enjoyed a nice family dinner of appetizers and watching the Netflix countdowns. This morning we slept in and then I took everyone to Morin’s for a big breakfast. We never get a chance to do big breakfast together because of my work schedule. While at breakfast we talked to the kids about what they wanted to do for the year ahead. Both kids want to learn to ice skate. Andrew also wants to use a skateboard (there was a skateboard on his place mat) He also said that he wants to throw a New Year’s Party, well we have 364 days to plan.

We came home and I started my latest project. I organized my Transformers comic book collection because I am starting a whole new YouTube project. I am reviewing my Transformers comic book collection, one book at a time. This is being done on my second YouTube Channel called Big Damn Kid. I actually started the channel a year or so ago but only have 13 videos on it. I’m anxious to see how this one grows in the coming year. You can access it via my new YouTube Channel.

Today I also opened up my new Modarri car, this was the Modarri Kickstarter car. Sadly, Brian and I did not win the most number of votes for our Modarri video. We still may find out that we were the video that Modarri enjoyed the most and so we are crossing our fingers to get SteamDads some funding.

More to be found in today’s video.

Comic Book, Photo-A-Day, Transformers, Vlog

Time to Organize the Comic Book Collection

My Comics
Photo-A-Day #4279

I hate to admit this but I don’t read comics. Okay, that is slightly untrue. I read comics, all the time, on my iPad. I buy comics all the time at my local comic book store, Wild Time Comics. But I don’t ready my physical comic books. I haven’t in almost 2 years. For some reason I missed a week of reading them and never went back to it. So, I’ve been collecting a bunch of comics, mostly Transformers. However, I haven’t read them. One of my resolutions for 2017, one I can keep, is to read all the comic books that I have amassed over the past couple years. Before that though, I have to organize them and put them in proper reading order and that means some major prep work.

My main issue, no pun intended, is that I am not sure the order in which to read each of the books because there are two series of Transformers books that have been running simultaneously. I’m pretty tempted to go all the way back to my original G1 books and start reading from there. Then through Devil’s Due, when they had Transformers, to the current lines from IDW. This may be a new video series that I will do in the new year. Transformers comics from G1 to current day.

Transformers aren’t the only comics that I collect. I collected a bunch of titles from Image comics way back in college. Two friends of mine from college are now celebrating running comic book shops for the past 10 years. They really did a great job of revitalizing the comic book experience in New Hampshire that even included a New Hampshire based Comic-con, the Granite State Comicon. And to think, I used to go down to Storytellers each week with them to pick up comics.

Another thing I’d like to do this coming year is actually attend Granite State Comicon. They are celebrating their 15th year this year and I haven’t made it to a single one. Scratch that I think I went to one of the very early ones way, way back when they started. But recently, no.

Back to my comics… I have started collecting more from IDW that have to do with Hasbro’s collected universe. I am now collecting M.A.S.K. I have the original run of comics from the 80’s, a 4-issue mini series and now am looking forward to this new ongoing title. We’ll see how my progress goes in the coming days.