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After getting shut down, resurrected by new owners, moved to a new venue and taking place two month earlier than normal, the Mid-Ohio-Con (aka MOC) was this past weekend (October 4-5, 2008) at the Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH (USA). The convention is typically a showcase for Ohio area comic book artists and stores with a smattering of additional celebrity guests and other goodies.

There were two videogame booths a the MOC, one for Ninja Gaiden and the other was promoting Soul Calibur IV. At the Ninja Gaiden booth, there were three nice monitors and two ladies sanding around who I guess were supposed to engage passers-by, but really talked to one guy for about three hours and didn’t seem to hand out any of the T-shirts or wrist bands they were holding. One kid did manage to play at one station for the entire first day which seemed OK to others since no one else was really stopping. At least he scored a T-shirt (he eventually stopped playing to put it on). Read More

The WAGON Webcomic Battle is a trading card game that revolves around many different webcomic characters and plot devices. At present, there are 11 different webcomics that have contributed to the game’s cards. Plus the Jenny Everywhere winners of the “Draw” to Win Contest posted on The Geek Media a few weeks back (first place shown at left).

The preliminary deck, Deck Zero, includes characters from Chooken, Prepare to Die, Roomies, Sarah Zero, Stridsparters, and War of Winds; had been out for several weeks. The games official launch decks, Alpha and Beta, are currently available for presale and will ship in October. Webcomics in these decks include NSTA, Ardra, P.S.I., The Best of What’s Left, Unamused Comics, and the 2nd and 3rd place Jenny Everywhere contest winners.

People who pre-order BOTH the Alpha and Beta decks, will get a bonus card, The Kitten of Chaos!

In addition to this news, the newly added Geek Media Affiliate, The Jenny Everywhere Shifter Archive, will be having a drawing to give away FIVE (5) of the promotional, Ultra Rare Jenny Everywhere card. The card, drawn by Benj Christensen, will never be available in any deck, nor any booster pack. To enter the drawing, Just send an e-mail to TheShifterArchive@gmail.com with “WAGON DRAWING” in the subject. Include only your first name and mailing city within the e-mail. (Used only for this drawing, no hidden mailing list signup.) Winners, chosen at complete random, will be mailed the rare card when the Alpha and Beta decks are mailed.

This is a specific call out to creators of new media. That means blogs, podcasts, video casts, comics…the whole nine yards. If you’re looking for a place where you can be a part of a growing community, have the ability to network with others and, get your media promoted then we’re looking for you.

Here are the categories we are looking to fill out;
- Music; We’re looking for two more music related Affiliates. You could be an independent musician or composer, have a music related blog or podcast or video cast.
- Comics; We’re looking for web comics or, media about web comics. If you have your own comic or, you have some media dealing with comics we’d be happy to talk about affiliation. We’re looking for 3 Affiliates in that category.
- Culture; That’s our “general geek” category. If your media is about everything under the geeky sun then that’s a place for you! We’re looking for 3 new Affiliates in that category.
- Tech; We’re looking for 2 new tech related Affiliates. Everything super tech, super geeky and web 2.0-centric!
- Charities; TGM is always on the look out to support a charity that we can back. Currently, we heavily support Trade ins for Troops and, Child’s Play Charity. If you’d like to talk to us about your charity and, see what we can do to help please e-mail us.

At this time, we are accepting no new gaming related media. Keep an eye on TGM’s site and we’ll let all you gamers know when new gaming related media is going to come in.

If you want to talk to us about Affiliation, write us at TheGeekMedia@gmail.com !

Awhile ago, we gave some information on Affiliated and original media TGM is looking for. Some of those have been filled but, we are still looking for some more media affiliated with these categories.

Tech
Web Comic
Music

Just a small note. All music related Affiliates need to be either independent artists that distribute their content on their own. Or, a podcast/media that contains only royalty-free or independent music.

If you’ve got something for us then send us an e-mail TheGeekMedia@gmail.com

WOOT!  Marval knows how to market AND cross-market their properties now that they are running their own film studios.