The Conjuring 2, giveaway for semi-haunted swag

We’re just joking about the semi-haunted swag. But after viewing The Conjuring 2 you might believe in a very large struggle of good and evil. The film portrays a family whose young teen girls were playing with a Ouiji Board and opened the door to a really evil spirit that takes over the house and one of the girls. This is one of the true tales from Ed and Lorraine Warren investigated during their decades of research.

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Did you see The Conjuring? If not, see it now. It’s a masterpiece of sublime scares that manages to grip viewers without engulfing them in blood and gore. Somewhere in the 80’s ‘horror’ became synonymous with blood and gore, which is unfortunate because those two do not have to go hand in hand with a scary movie. The Conjuring and The Conjuring 2 hit the nail on the horror head. The Conjuring 2 is rated R for terror and horror violence. There isn’t much blood in the film, but there are countless life and death moments, as well as a sense of tension that lasts for 75% of the movie.

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This giveaway is for four tickets to The Conjuring 2, two t-shirts (one gray and one black-both of which are large), a very spooky cup and a leather bound journal for you to capture your ghost scribbling. We’ll review The Conjuring 2 tomorrow in more detail. The movie tickets are Movie Money, so you can cash them in wherever the film is playing.

 

New all age comic books for June 8

It’s early June and a great week for humor all age comic books because there are more of them than the other categories combined. That’s not a bad thing, because on the whole there are so many all age books coming out this week there is bound to be at least two different books for every young reader. If you want the audio version of this where we highlight a couple of books in each category just check out our podcast. It’s only 15 minutes long and give me a great excuse to use my broadcasting degree.

In Superhero this week you can get the trade paperback for Actionverse where they celebrate their fifth anniversary or Marvel Universe Guardians of the Galaxy #8. While not in comic book stores you can also find new young reader origin stories from Capstone featuring Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman. These are easy reader books that are great for young readers and more book than comic book. But they’re great and give confidence to readers that they can conquer a chapter book.

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Science fiction and action has lots that we’re excited about this week including Invader Zim, a cross over comic book featuring Lumberjanes and Gotham Academy and Sonic the Hedgehog. Poppy! And the Lost Lagoon is a trade paperback that looks really good for ages 10 and up. It’s from Dark Horse, has fabulous art and is the story about a young girl who gets summoned on a worldwide quest to find out what happened to her grandfather. Kaijumax Season 2 is great, large monster wrecking fun for ages 9 and up due to the large monsters and such.

If humor based all age comic books are your jam then this week is for you. Adventure Time, Donald Duck, a trade paperback from Ghostbusters, Goldie Vance, Mickey Mouse, The Pink Panther, Spongebob Comics, Welcome to Showside and many others are out.

Where is your closest comic book store?  The links will take you to TFAW where you’ll save up to 20% on your order.

 

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Sugar Free Allstars, at the kindie intersection of parody and funk

A couple of months ago we previewed the new single from Sugar Free Allstars, Monster Truck. It’s a kindie ode to role play, monster trucks and over the top announcers set to tight music that channels Deep Purple and yacht rock. In our review of the song then we said that it puts the fun in funky. We’ve been listening to the entire disc for the past two months now and still stand by that. However, we’ll l add that the entire disc is more to the kid side of kindie, but still manages to reel in adults thanks to humor, pop culture references and more.

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Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar is your kid’s classic book

Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar meets and exceeds all of the requirements that we have for a great good-night book. This is the kind of good-night book that parents can read more than once (because it’s not too long), has a variety of colors on the background, different sized text and artwork that makes young readers and parents smile. Wanted! Ralfy Rabbit, Book Burglar feels like a classic book. The book doesn’t crib ideas from earlier sources, it’s entirely original, but after reading it you can feel its old soul.

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TMNT: Out of the Shadows, Shell up and enjoy the ride

Normally when you describe a movie as not bad it’s meant as a slight. However, with TMNT: Out of the Shadows it’s meant as a compliment. For us, we expected Out of the Shadows to be bad and were pleasantly surprised when we enjoyed it. When the cartoon first came out I was a casual fan, but with our kids watching those same episodes I’m back down with Turtle Power. Out of the Shadows is better than you think it is, if you go in with the right frame of mind and are 10 or older.

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New all age comic books for June 1

The first week of summer vacation and the new all age comic books for the week are a great chance to take the kids out to the store. This is just a reminder to try to not have them touch the trinkets, models or anything in the store. When we first started going weekly I could see the look of dread in the staff’s eyes, now they know the kids and are great with them.

In humor comic books you can dig into Penguins of Madagascar trade paperback that collects issues 1-4 of the mini-series and is quite good. Uncle Scrooge has two new offerings this week, issue #15 and a trade paperback called Eternal Knot. Television favorites and great comics in their own right, Bob’s Burgers and Regular Show are out too.

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It’s also a good week for all age superheroes with Teen Titans GO!, Power Rangers Pink, Marvel Universe Avengers Assemble Civil War and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Bebop & Rocksteady Destroy Everything  can get your young reader on the right path.

Science fiction has a $1 comic from IDW for Ghostbusters that you must pick up. Ghosbusters, The New Ghostbusters is a great all age comic book and one that the entire family can get behind. This is a reprint of earlier stories that’ll serve as an introduction for only a buck.  There are lots of other great science fiction titles in the post and podcast.

Also in the podcast we’ll touch on the changes that DC Comics are going through. They’ve lowered the price of their headline comics to $2.99, with each two issues of each title coming out monthly. The links will take you to TFAW where you’ll save 20% on any order and if you want to find your closest comic book store just pop your zip code into the comic book store locator.

 

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows #Giveaway

You can thank me for putting the TMNT song on your head, you’re welcome. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows hits theaters on Friday June 3. This is the continuing big screen story of our heroes in a half-shell, complete with Will Arnett as Fenwick, Stephen Amell as Casey Jones, Megan Fox as April O’Neil and Brian Tee as Shredder.

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6 documentaries on Netflix to ease into summer, #StreamTeam

Hey there, we’re part of the #StreamTeam for Netflix and were compensated for this post. All thoughts are our own. Summer! School is out and parents need something fun to watch that might be new, bring back memories or otherwise entertaining to be a fly on the wall in someone’s life. We found lots of great documentaries on Netflix and wanted to highlight these six that remind us of things, teach us the value of never giving up and the precious times of a boy and his imaginary pet tiger.

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