Thursday, December 3, 2020

The Newest Rant Turns 10 Years Old Today and I Have a Giveaway to Celebrate

10 years ago on this very day, I launched my blog. If you don't believe it has been that long, click this link to my original short post. Whether you've been reading my blog from the start, joined some years ago, or just started recently, I thank you and I appreciate you. Even if I changed the design a smidgen now a lot has stayed the same--although I'd argue my writing has gotten better just from the sheer amount of it over this decade. My focus at the start was to share my opinions on popular culture with a slight focus on comics, and so it has been since then. It is wild that some sites I linked to years ago don't even exist anymore and other sites that didn't even exist yet are now quite popular. The whole time I've been here, plugging away and growing to a surprisingly solid readership.

I want to celebrate my blog turning 10. Therefore, I have a comic I am going to give away to you--my beloved readers--for free! It is a copy of, "Spider-Man Unlimited," #1 which has been graded as a 9.6 by CGC and is notable as the first appearance of the symbiote known as Shriek. I actually won this comic in a contest that was run by my good friends at Comics Heating Up. I won it a year or two ago, sent it to get graded, and now am going to give it to someone--so it is kind of a giveaway from both them and myself! They are helping to promote my free contest on their awesome website too, which I would recommend you read regularly if you don't already. Now then, as for the rules...

Giveaway Rules

1. Between now and when it has been a full week from this post--December 8th at 11:00 AM you can comment on this post with your name/preferred nickname, etc. That's all you have to do!

2. You can only comment/enter the giveaway once. Anyone who does it multiple times be disqualified from winning.

3. I will use a randomizer website where I will enter everyone's name and then, "Run," the program so it randomly selects a winner. I can record this too if folk would like.

4. The winner will be announced on December 9th in a post and have 48 hours from that time to email me and claim their prize--it will be shipped to them for free if they live in America. If the winner lives outside the United States they will be asked to help cover some of the shipping. 

5. If the winner doesn't respond within 48 hours then the randomizer will be run again with a new winner being selected who will then have 48 hours themselves to reach out to me.

That's it! Go ahead and comment if you'd like to be entered to win!

UPDATE: Entries are closed and a winner will be announced in a post!

33 comments:

  1. James Doe here! Congrats on ten years.
    My preferred nickname is probably also James

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  2. Eduardo Vittori here! 10 years... that's quite the milestone! Congrats!
    My preferred nickname is Eddie V and I go by @spidaholic on Instagram!

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  3. Georges signing in.
    GAP is my nickname.
    Congrats on the decade!!!!

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  4. Josh Muskat here
    Djrat is my preferred nom de guerre

    Congrats!

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  5. Joe here, but I'm loverjw over at CHU. Either works. Congrats on the longevity of the blog. Lots of good info here!

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  6. Congratulations on the 10 years! Tyler Schuber/Schoob

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  7. Good Luck and many years to come...The Disco Jedi has spoken!

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  8. Congrats on your first decade, here's to a few more. Randy Hicks....nickname teeme73

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  9. Congrats on your anniversary! My preferred nickname is Detour.

    Thanks!

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  10. Congrats on your first ten years!!!! Garry Hall-Gman

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  11. Michael B
    Preferred nickname is Mike

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  12. DrunkWooky here! Long time CHU interacter, first time visitor. I'll be back! Here's to another 10 years!

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  13. Look forward to reading your articles. Thanks to CHU name Daniel Coapstick nickname DC

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  14. Craig Tompkins
    I'm glad CHU posted your site to their page. Bookmarked and saved my friend..

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  15. Congrats for the anniversary. From Dendy

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  16. Congrats for the anniversary. From Dendy

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  17. Congrats, that is a great achievement!
    Ryan
    Ryno

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  18. Congrats, that is a great achievement!
    Ryan
    Ryno

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  19. Congrats, that is a great achievement!
    Ryan
    Ryno

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  20. Always enjoy your writing, thanks and congrats!

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  21. Todd Wilson
    User name is Profhaley
    Congratulations!

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  22. Johnny V.
    Congratulations for the ten years.

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  23. Congratulations on your 10 year anniversary!

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  24. Peace and Universal Greetings ! Congratulations on your MILESTONE! Hopefully one of many to come ahead!

    Gabriel Cruz is my name,
    CRUZZER is my username that I normally go online by..

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  25. Andrew Berke (ein) here to add my congratulations.

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  26. Congrats to 10 great years!

    37wolf

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