Coming Soon… Again!! (Or, We Rip Off the 12 Days of Clix-Mas Gimmick… Again!!)

DC Christmas

So, Christmas is sneaking up on us, and once again, Ninwashui and I are mixing our metaphors, flying high with our training wheels off and jumping into the deep end without a net.

Yup. We’re gonna try doing the whole “Twelve Nights of Clix-Mas” all over again this year. That means that one of us will post an article every day for twelve days straight, with the last one appearing on Christmas day.

This, of course, is assuming that our fingers don’t fall off as we keep typing for 12 straight days.

(To see how it all ended up, here’s the last entry from 2014. It contains links to every article we wrote during the first “Clix-Mas” last year.)

Some articles will be short little rants or observations; a few may be long continuations of some of our popular staple columns; many entries will fall somewhere in-between.

So we’ll see you right back here real soon for the 12 Nights of Clix-Mas!

God help us.

(Every one.)

Until then, Stay Safe, and Watch Where You Draw You lines of fire!

Trick or Treat!! (Or, Happy Halloween!!)

( LukeRadl via now defunct lifeisamovingslideshow1993.tumblr.com)

( LukeRadl via now defunct lifeisamovingslideshow1993.tumblr.com)

Hope everyone had a safe and happy Halloween!

Critical Missives will be back next week with a Top Ten review of Superman/Wonder Woman. We’ve also got a few other articles cooking in the fire; more on those when there a liiiiil’ bit closer to being done!

Until then,

Stay Safe! And Watch Where You Draw Your Lines of Fire!

All’s Well That Ends Well!! (Or, The Twelfth Night of Clix-Mas!!)

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is part of the 12 Nights of Clix-Mas, an ongoing Critical Missives Clix celebration wherein we’re trying to publish new content for 12 straight days. If you’ve missed anything, you can check out Night 1, Night 2, Night 3, Night 4Night 5Night 6Night 7Night 8Night 9Night 10 or Night 11 just by clicking the preceding links!]

12 Nights of Clixmas

 

Well, I think a hale and hearty “Merry Christmas” is due, wouldn’t you say? I also want to wish a Happy Holiday season to all our readers, whether Christmas is a holiday you celebrate or not.

In 2014, Critical Missives grew from a blog without much direction that averaged a few clicks a day to one that features lots of original content and several recurring features that draw thousands of views a month from all over the globe (we recorded views from 92 DIFFERENT COUNTRIES!!). And we have all of you folks to thank for that.

Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU.

No, we’re not HCrealms.com, nor are we trying to be–those fine folks already do a great job with their site. But we do feel that we have some original thoughts about gaming in general and Heroclix in particular every now and then, and we’re delighted every time one of you stops by to check us out. Hopefully you found something worth your time, whether it was a Build idea, a new way of looking at a character, venue information or–even better–just a cheap laugh or two.

So Night 12, the final night of Clix-mas, is devoted to you folks. We wanted to express our gratitude to you all for getting us to where we are, as well as tell you where we plan on going.

Before the end of the year, we have HypeFox’s Second Opinion on the Top Ten Figures in Flash, and once January hits we’ll have more Weekly Roundups, and end 0f year “Best Of” (not unlike this column that we ran last year) and we’ll dive deep into the Gotham Episode Guide!!

We hope to see you there! But until then, Stay Safe, and Watch Where You Draw Your Lines of Fire!

Avengers Thank You

Coming Soon!! (Or, We Rip Off the 12 Days of Clix-Mas Gimmick!!)

Cap Christmas

Hello again! Just a quick announcement today, and then you’ll see a whole lot more of us–for 12 Days Straight (hopefully!)!!

I hope this holiday season finds you well. And in celebration of all the, well, celebrations, we here at Critical Missives will be running 12 straight days of articles! Yep! Now, every one is not going to be a 4500-word Set Review (although there’ll be 1 or 2 of those, too!), but you’ll hear from us daily through December 25th!

Some of what we have planned includes:

–Flash 10 Top Ten Set Reviews

–A Local Tourney Report on WoL Month 6

–WoL Final Review

–Weekly Roundups!!

 

And much, much more!!

It all starts on December 14th!!

Until then, have a safe and happy holiday season!

Happy 4th of July!!

Once again, a big thank you to our service men and women for all you do to keep us safe!

Back Sunday or Monday night with a look at some of the important pieces that just got retired and which Modern Age figures you’ll want to use to replace them!

Until then, enjoy a shot of the new Rocket Raccoon Chase figure getting ready to launch some fireworks of his own from his really big gun!!

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