Renew!  Renew!  It looks like The Walking Dead will keep on a-shamblin’ over at AMC for another year!  I find this to be excellent news, but I do have my gripes about the show.  I have the unfortunate perspective of being a fan and avid reader of the comic since 2004, so for the last 7 years (oh man, I’ve been reading this for 7 years!) I’ve built these characters up in my head and grown to like them.  Unfortunately for me, I don’t particularly like many of the actors they’ve chosen to play their comic book equivalents.  I know what they’re supposed to be like in my head and they just don’t match up for me.  I don’t want to be like a typical fanboy, though.  I don’t want to hate.  Hating is bad.

I’ll just keep watching and scratching my head at their choices for Laurie, Shane, and Rick, and hope that they just need to find their groove.  Shows normally take a season or two to heat up anyway.  I was pretty underwhelmed by the first episode of the new season, but hey, maybe with another season coming, they’ll have more incentive to make more toys!  WOO!

Thanks to everybody who came and had fun at our last meeting. Also a big thank you to Marquis and Game Summit for bringing some sweet prizes for our attendees. I guess I will be seeing most of you at game summit this coming weekend at the Sportsplex. It looks like Steve might even bring his Warhammer army and get jiggy with the 40k tournament.

Below are the details for our next meeting!

Next Meeting: Monday July 5th 6:30PM – 10:00PM. (If attendance keeps on increasing we will be switching to bi-weekly soon!)

Last Meeting we got to play: Railways of Mexico, Last Night on Earth, Small World, Space Dealer, Zombie Dice, Coliseum, Catacombs, and a whole lot of Neuroshima Hex!

The Setup: Again we will have 4 large tables setup with potential seating for 16-20 people indoors. As the warm summer nights are on the horizon, we are considering a partially outdoor setup involving gazebos/lights for some more tables at a future meeting to accommodate larger numbers of people.

Food / Drink: We have cold cans of pop and water bottles available for $1.00 each and microwave popcorn available for $2.00 and assorted candy/gum for those who don’t want to bring their own. (Please refrain from snacks that could be damaging to the board games like cheetos etc.) Crackers, chips, cookies, veggies etc are fine.

One final note: While we want as many people to play the games they want to play as possible, it does mean we may not have either enough interest or players to play certain games. If you come with the intention of playing a specific game, please do not be discouraged if we do not play it this time. We want everyone to have an open mind about trying new games they haven’t played before.

Hope to see you all There!

Please RSVP and let us know any questions/suggestions you might have in this thread.

Some Pics from last week!