Marvel Collector Corps Unboxing December 2015: Guardians of the Galaxy

Hey Merry Christmas everyone! Just in time for the holidays is this month's Collector Corps featuring a holiday themed GOTG! Notice also my lovely assistant for this unboxing! Enjoy!

A long time ago, in a Target far, far away

This BB-8 was gifted to me at +Undercity Comics (Uptown Whittier) staff Christmas party! Just in time for the holidays and the new Star Wars release, this radio controlled BB-8 comes exclusive from Target! Thanks again to my bosses who take great care of us and provide us with jobs. Now check it out!

Box art

Lego Nerd: Star Wars Poes X-Wing Fighter

Hey everyone~! A very Merry Christmas to y'all! And in time for the Christmas season and Star Wars season, we have for you today the Lego Poe Dameron X-Wing! The iconic X-wing has a new iteration for the new trilogy (and a sick new paint job) and I am excited to present it to you. So let's get started!

The box art for the awesome new X-Wing

Star Wars Smuggler's Bounty Unboxing November 2015: The Force Awakens

Hey everyone! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving with food and family! As I mentioned in previous posts, there will now be a monthly unboxing video, a Collector Corps, and starting today a Smuggler's Bounty video! Enjoy!




Blessings~!

Marvel Collector Corps Unboxing October 2015: Villains

Hey everyone~! Busy with school, but I got my new Marvel Collector Corps box in the mail TODAY~! Here's the unboxing video! Enjoy!

Blessings~!

Video Cred: Rene Bravo

Alpha and Omega Con

So this past Saturday, the store had the chance to participate in its first Con! We were so honored to be the only comic book shop invited to participate at Alpha and Omega Con at Redeemer Church. Thanks to Pastor Ralph Miley (who is the biggest Walking Dead fan) and the members of the CCAS (Christian Comic Arts Society) for inviting us. It was an awesome experience being able to see Christians who are also into comics. There were many different kinds of exhibitions from Christian comic book creators like Clint from Faithwalker,  as well as Christians who are in Hollywood and voice acting (the man who plays Abe Sapien and the dude who voice acts Edward Elric in Full Metal Alchemist). 

DC Collectibles Wonder Woman Cover Girls Statue

Hey everyone~! 

Hope everyone has been well and that the Lord has been blessing you. Hey it occurs to me that I spend a lot of time featuring nerd type stuff, but besides my "About Me" page, there isn't much mentioned regarding faith. If you need prayer about anything, let me know~! You can PM me on Facebook or if you have my email address you can email me, or if you have my number you can text me. Basically, I am willing to pray for you. I know everyone has problems and issues so I'm willing to pray if you're willing to tell me. 

Today, I want to feature a statue that I got as a gift from my best friend +James Kim for my birthday. This stunning Wonder Woman statue comes from DC Collectibles. Below I have featured all of the box art and pictures of the statue itself. This is the only Wonder Woman statue that I feel like tastefully depicts Diana without being over sexualized as they have been in the past. Also, all of the other Wonder Woman statues for some reason come out with super pale complexion, which I do not believe to be faithful to who Wonder Woman is; an Amazon with now ties to the Greek pantheon, which would mean she is of Mediterranean origin. All that to say, not every superhero is white! Certainly not Wonder Woman, so it's good to see her with a tan that's more becoming of her background lol. BTW this is not a serious commentary about race and ethnicity in comic books, just a half serious one with some unqualified observations made by yours truly. Anyways, take a look and comment below what you think of the statue!

Podcast: Spoiling M. Night Shyamalan Movies and Lays Taste Test Results

Hi everyone~! Thanks for giving the blog's podcast a listen the last couple episodes. This week, we invite back our friends Young and Elise as well as my dear wife Charlene~! We talk about M. Night Shyamalan movies as well as taste test the Lays create a flavor contest chips, and WE declare a winner! CLICK the picture below to give this episode a listen.

Blessings~!

Podcast: What Christians Can Expect From A Con

Hey everyone~! Here's another podcast this week featuring members from the Christian Comic Arts Society. This week Ralph, Eric, and Clint from the CCAS join me to talk about things that Christians who are novices at comic conventions can expect. We also talk about the beginnings of the CCAS as well as their own convention (Alpha and Omega Con) coming up on the 19th in La Mirada (look below for details~! Also support Clint and his comic book (which was named #1 Christian Super Hero) Faithwalker!

Marvel Collector Corps Unboxing: August 2015 Secret Wars

Hey everyone~! Hope everyone is having a great start to the new school year/semester. If you didn't know already, Marvel in alliance with Funko, who comes out with all of our favorite collectable POP figures, have released with an every other month subscription box ala loot crate! For more information, hit up collectorcorps.com. This month's theme was "Secret Wars", which is Marvel's summer event comic that is currently going on. Let's see what's inside!

Podcast: Diets, and Chips with Young and Elise

Hey everyone~! It's been quite awhile since I last posted with work and such being so time consuming, but over the summer a couple friends and I did a podcast just to see if it would be something we could do consistently for the blog. Comment below and let me know if this is something you'd like to hear more of!

Lego Nerd: Star Wars: Jedi Interceptor

This week, we'll look at the 223 piece Jedi Interceptor from the Star Wars prequels. I mostly bought this because it came with an Anakin and R2-D2 figure. The build was fun, but after building the Milano in the last Lego Nerd post, it was very brief. Nonetheless, Lego does a great job of making it look in the likeness of the actual Jedi Interceptor.

Box art for the Jedi Interceptor

Getaway to Oakland!

It was a long awaited vacation with me being out of school for the summer and my work schedule syncing up with Charlene's. Put that together with a visit to my bro in law who was leaving to China for a month long work trip, and it turned out to be a much appreciated getaway!

We stopped by my cousin's in Valencia for lunch (and for this selfie).

Lego Nerd: The Milano Spaceship Rescue

Today I am featuring Starlord's spaceship, the Milano, from Guardians of the Galaxy Movie. The likeness to the movie is pretty incredible, and Lego really goes all out to make the pieces that fit to really drive home the point that... this is a beautiful ship. It even comes with some stickers. The and the build was an absolute blast. It took a few attempts as you can see it is almost 700 pieces, so I built it a bag at a time. but it comes with great figures (Starboard, Gamora, Drax, Ronan and a minion. A little pricier than the last set coming in at $62.99 on Amazon, but worth every brick. If you have the cash definitely nab this one!

A great set

Lego Nerd: Hulkbuster Smash

I hope that everyone has had a chance to watch Avengers: Age of Ultron by now. One of my favorite scenes was when the Iron Man takes on the Hulk in the Hulkbuster. So when I saw that there was a Lego set based off the epic battle, I just had to build it (thanks again to my cousin James for picking this up for me. The Hulkbuster when completed is so legit. And any Lego set that comes with a Hulk figure is automatically awesome. Also for the price point of $30, I would say that this is the best Lego set of the Age of Ultron line. Would definitely recommend this one as a pick up. Have fun!

The Hulk is pissed at Scarlet Witch.

WonderCon 2015!

This was our third year at WonderCon and as usual it was so much fun! How can Easter weekend get better than the resurrection of our Lord? Well it can't, but Charlene and I still had a good time nonetheless. 

the view outside before WonderCon opened

Who Leonard Nimoy Was To Me

"I have and always will be...your friend."

This is Leonard Nimoy. Many may know him as Spock from the old Star Trek TV show or the old Star Trek movies (though he's made a few cameos in the JJ Abrams Star Treks). He passed away the other day at the age of 83. I was blessed to see him play Science Officer Spock in many episodes and movies as a kid. I remember watching the movies on video cassette tapes that my uncle had recorded from Showtime over and over again. As a young kid who had just immigrated to the states and was learning how to be just human much less American and most of the time feeling like a fish out of water,  Mister Spock served as a wise sage as he also learned how to be human. As I would grew and continued to watch the Star Trek's over and over Mister Spock and I would grow in our humanity together, and through this I found comfort whenever I felt like the alien.

Fibromyalgia: A spouse's perspective

So life has been interesting since the last time I was able to post on the blog. Every time I thought about the blog I felt bad for not posting, but life just got so crazy, and instead of expressing on the blog what was going on, I just kinda bottled it up. Call it suppressing, call it fear, I dunno something just kept me from sharing. Maybe because other blogs sound so happy and I didn't want mine to be the opposite. But after some time to think and pray and reflect, God brought a central passage for a retreat I spoke at this winter to the fore front of my heart:

18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love. (1Jn 4)

So writing in the face of fear, I wanted to write about a condition that my wife was diagnosed with recently and how it has affected both of our lives.

So cute <3

Personality Tests and Why They're Important

So lately I've been seeing a lot of these lately....

Which one are you? Comment below!

My 33rd Birthday Vacation

Hey everyone thanks for tuning back in. Took me awhile to post about this, and it took me awhile to post in general. I've just been so busy with school, church, work, and also just figuring myself out. All that to say, I sorely needed a break. Luckily, for my birthday we were finally able to get out of town to 1) celebrate and 2) really reset my brain and my heart. So Charlene and I decided to getaway in San Diego! Shoutout to +DoubleTree by Hilton in Del Mar for making our vacation super relaxing. Their rooms are super comfy and we took full advantage of their resort style pool area~! Anyways here are some pics: