Hooray! We have winners for our American Vampire giveaway, courtesy of the amazing Scott Snyder! I corresponded with our winners yesterday to find out how they'd like to be identified and here they are:
- The signed issue #5 of American Vampire goes to a Pink Kryptonite reader who is herself a writer of horror fiction: Carrie Clevenger of Texas, who noted that American Vampire got her permanently back into reading comics.
- The signed American Vampire promotional poster featuring portraits of Pearl and Skinner Sweet goes to Pascal, a Pink Kryptonite reader from Germany.
- The complete, autographed set of American Vampire issues #1 through #5 goes to Pink Kryptonite reader S. Thalmann from Michigan.
That is some sweet prize-related action, and many thanks to everyone who entered our drawing. It was great getting to swap an email or two with everyone who entered and talking about how much we all love American Vampire and especially the incredibly generous Scott Snyder. Thank you, Scott!
Reaction to the giveaway was great, so hopefully we will be able to line up something else like this with some of our other favorite books in the future. Thanks again!
Just a quick reminder that if you want in on the Great Pink Kryptonite American Vampire Giveaway then you should enter soon as I'm drawing the winners on Sunday afternoon. Haven't entered yet? That's easy: send me an email at klarion at pink kryptonite dot net. All you need to send me is a note that you're entering. We can work out mailing addresses and the like once you win. If you don't hear back from me within 24 hours that your entry was received, send it again.
See the original post for full details!
Just a quick reminder that if you're interested in one of the various goodie packages from American Vampire's Scott Snyder to readers of Pink Kryptonite, you need to send me an email at klarion at pink kryptonite dot net. In that entry you simply need to make it clear that you're entering this drawing; no other information is necessary at this time. I will reply to let you know your email was received; if you email me and receive no reply within 24 hours, email me again to be sure.
You've got until Sunday 29 August to get in on this sweet drawing, but why wait? You know you want this stuff!
Folks, I have no idea how to even begin to describe this to you. Scott Snyder, reader and commenter here at Pink Kryptonite, co-author with Stephen Freakin' King on the fantastic American Vampire, newly-named writer of Detective Comics, has sent us - you! - some serious goodies. It is difficult for me to describe this without expletive because I am So! Excited! about this!
Rather than tease this out I'm just going to list what I have to give away:
- One signed copy of the latest issue of American Vampire
- One signed promotional poster for American Vampire that features portraits of both Skinner and Pearl. This is a poster that I have only seen on the wall of my comics shop. This poster is gorgeous. You have no idea how gorgeous this poster is. It's at home and I'm at work so I'm going to half-ass an estimate that it's maybe 18"x30" or something in that neighborhood. I don't think those are "Internet inches" but we'll see.
- One complete set of signed issues of American Vampire. Yes, issues 1 through 5, all signed by Scott Snyder. A complete set. I am getting goosebumps just writing that.
(For purposes of full disclosure, yes, he sent a second signed poster that says "For Pink Kryptonite!" at the top, so yes, I am hell of* keeping that.)
When I opened the package I literally set everything down, paced back and forth in my kitchen and just said, over and over, "Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god." I couldn't believe it. It was all I could talk about this weekend and I am so stoked to give these away to you folks that I have struggled with how to do it. I considered having some entry mechanism like a trivia question, where all the right answers would go into a pool, but everything like that feels like it excludes people and I want all our readers to get a chance at this. So, here's how you enter:
Just send me an email at klarion at pink kryptonite dot net. Your email does not need to include anything other than a quick line identifying it as an entry in the Great Pink Kryptonite American Vampire Giveaway.
I'll post again about this every couple of days for the next two weeks and then at the end of that time I'll put all the messages in one folder, ask my boyfriend to pick a number between 1 & X, repeat twice, and those will be the winners. It's completely random and open to anyone. I suppose one has to love American Vampire to really enjoy winning, but that isn't exactly a high bar to get across.
Once I have the winners I'll contact them individually to get shipping information (so no, you do not need to include any sort of real-life identifying information in your initial email) and find out how they'd like to be identified as winners after the fact. I will throw in a little congratulatory note from us here at Pink Kryptonite and you, my lucky friends, will have a really special gift straight from one of our favorite writers. Everybody wins. Nice.
Platinum Studio's Comic Book Challenge has narrowed down the list of candidates to 50. You can view their names and hometowns at this site, and expect art previews to be up soon.
Expect the panel of this year's judges to be announced soon as well, leading up to the big finale that has the public voting on the winner.
You can read more about the Comic Book Challenge here.
Oh, if only Paula was revealed to be a celebrity judge...
As reported last week, Midway is releasing Mortal Kombat Vs. DC Universe this fall. So far, only four characters have been announced, including: Superman, Batman, Scorpion, and Sub-zero. According to an interview with MK creator Ed Boon, the characters to be included in the game will be selected according to popularity. The selections will also be made in pairings; that is, the characters selected from the DC universe will have an MK counterpart (such as Batman/Sub-zero and Superman/Scorpion). With this in mind, the folks over at Gamesradar have gone and created a wish list of sorts that features the likely pairing of Sonya Blade and Wonder Woman.
Check out the full list for yourself by following the link.
Mortal Kombat vs DC: full roster? [Gamesradar]
While you're out hitting the interwebs, check out these hilarious videos from Destructoid that were created using MK: Armageddon's create-a-character mode. See that Superman fatality towards the end of the article? That's the way MK vs DC should look like: too bad fatalities will be going the way of the x-gene...
What about you folks? Any DC superheroes you'd love to see?
This is the last call for entries in our second official contest!
Behold! The gates have been opened, the curtains have been pulled and we are proud to announce that contest #2 will be...a caption contest! The winner is the reader that the PK staff finds most entertaining (and that is pretty difficult in itself, as we are not easily entertained). You can view an undoctored version of the contest pic after the jump.
He or she will receive the Serenity action figures seen in our earlier post from Dark Horse Comics in celebration of the just released Serenity: Better Days comic book.
Here are the rules: You can either write out your captions in the comments here or take this picture and work some Photoshop magic for your captions and email it to us.
Remember you may only use the picture in this post.
You may enter as many times as you like. The contest ends next Wednesday (March 26) at 11:59 PST.
Aim to misbehave and entertain!
Please click on the link above to enter by submitting your captions in the comments section. Or you can photoshop the pic and email it to us.
You know you want 'em!
Don't forget to enter our caption contest in order to win exclusive Serenity figures!
You can enter by commenting on this linked post or shooting us an email with your best captions.
You can touch Jayne as much as you want, and he won't do anything about it!
Oh, and there's also River and Captain Malcolm if they're more your thing.
Don't forget to enter our caption contest to win this exclusive set of Serenity collectible figures! The official contest pic waits after the break! Don't forget to email your entries or leave a comment on the original post.
Behold! The gates have been opened, the curtains have been pulled and we are proud to announce that contest #2 will be...a caption contest! The winner is the reader that the PK staff finds most entertaining (and that is pretty difficult in itself, as we are not easily entertained). You can view an undoctored version of the contest pic after the jump.
He or she will receive the Serenity action figures seen in our earlier post from Dark Horse Comics in celebration of the just released Serenity: Better Days comic book.
Here are the rules: You can either write out your captions in the comments section below or take this picture and work some Photoshop magic for your captions and email it to us.
Remember you may only use the picture in this post.
You may enter as many times as you like. The contest ends next Wednesday (March 26) at 11:59 PST.
Aim to misbehave and entertain!
Behold! The gates have been opened, the curtains have been pulled and we are proud to announce that contest #2 will be...a caption contest! The winner is the reader that the PK staff finds most entertaining (and that is pretty difficult in itself, as we are not easily entertained). You can view an undoctored version of the contest pic after the jump.
He or she will receive the Serenity action figures seen in our earlier post from Dark Horse Comics in celebration of the just released Serenity: Better Days comic book.
Here are the rules: You can either write out your captions in the comments section below or take this picture and work some Photoshop magic for your captions and email it to us.
Remember you may only use the picture in this post.
You may enter as many times as you like. The contest ends next Wednesday (March 26) at 11:59 PST.
Aim to misbehave and entertain!
Whedon fans, this one's for you!
In celebration of the latest Serenity mini-series: Serenity: Better Days, we are giving away these exclusive official Serenity figures, courtesy of Dark Horse.
What do you have to do? Well, stay tuned, as details will be coming later in the day!
Oh we're such teases!
